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高三英语人教版选修9 Unit 3 Australia reading 教案

教学目标

（一）Teaching Aims: To cultivate students' interest of knowing about a country and improve their reading skills. （二）Ability aim: Enable the Ss to talk about the history and geography and other aspects of Australia 教学重难点

How to help the students to grasp the related information of the reading material. 教学方法

Skimming and Scanning ;individual, pair or group work; discussion. 教学过程

Step 1 Warming up The teacher shows some pictures about Australia’s cities and animals and get the students to become interested in the passage, and have a general impression about Australia. Step 2 pre-reading Scan the passage and answer the following questions. 1. What topic is common to all five texts?

2. What aspect of the topic is discussed in each text? 3. Match each reading passage with a description below. Step 3 Skimming Read the following five texts and finish the two tasks. 1.Read the text by yourself again and answer the following questions. 1) Where do most Australians live? 2)

In what city do federal politicians work? 3) How many people live in Australia? 4) When is Australia Day? 5) How far is it from Perth to Sydney? 6) How many World Heritage Sites are there in Australia? 2. Now read the five texts again more carefully and fill in

the detailed information about Australia in the forms. Step4 Discussion 1. What do you think of Australia? 2.

What kind of people do you think make Australia their home? 3. Each year large numbers of people become Australian citizens. Why do you think they choose to become citizens? 4. When do you think travelling by train across Australia would be appropriate and when do you think travelling by plane would be most suitable? 5. In what part of Australia do you think most agriculture takes place? Give reasons. Step4.Anwser more questions related to the whole passage.

Step5.Homework-writing Write an article about the reasons why people want to travel in Australia.