Using LanguageⅡ课堂实录

Unit 5 Canada—“The True North”

A Trip on “The True North”

Teaching key points: 1. Let students read the passage and learn about the geography, population, main cities, natural beauty and natural resources of Canada. 2. Get students to learn different reading skills. Teaching difficult points:

1. Develop students’ reading ability. 2. Enable students to learn about some basic information and talk about Canada. Knowledge aims: 1. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part. 2. Let students learn the knowledge of Canada. Ability aims: 1. Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills. 2. Let students learn how to read a traveling report and how to use a map. 3.Enable students to learn about some basic information and talk about Canada.

Emotional aims: 1. Stimulate students’ interest in learning about foreign countries. 2. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Leading-in and warming up Show pictures of Justine Bieber to lead in the topic--Canada and then make a quiz. Show the following on the screen. How much do you know about Canada? 1. What language(s) do Canadians speak? A. English. B. English and German. C. English and French. D. English and Spanish. 2. What is the capital of Canada? A. Vancouver. B. Toronto. C. Calgary. D. Ottawa. 3. What is the national animal of Canada? A. Beaver. B. Grizzly bear. C. Polar bear. D. Penguin. 4. What is the Canadian leader called? A. President. B. Prime Minister. C. Governor. D. King. 5. How many Great Lakes are there in Canada? A. 4. B. 3. C. 5. D. 6. Let students work in pairs and answer this quiz. Then have them compare their answers with another pair. Give them the correct

answers and see how many students got 80% or better. Step 2 Pre-reading 1. Let students discuss the following questions: 1)What is the longest trip you have ever taken? 2)If you take a trip to Canada, what do you think you might see there? 3)What three words would you use to describe Canada? 3. Have students turn to Page 34 of the text book, look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures and predict what the passage is about. Then have them read the passage quickly to see if they are right. Step 3 Reading 1. Fast reading Ask students to skim the reading passage and then answer the following questions: 1)What is the passage mainly about? 2)What is “The True North”? 3)How many cities are mentioned in the text? What are they? Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Suggested answers: 1)The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada.

2)The True North is the train that goes across Canada/the cross-Canada train. 3)Five. They are Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Thunder Bay and 4)Toronto. 2. Intensive reading Listening and reading aloud Ask students to read the passage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each new word and the pauses within each sentence. Tell them to pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and copy them to the notebook after class as homework. Read them aloud and try to learn them by heart. Then ask the students to deal with the passage one by one. Step 4 Consolidation Give students 10 minutes or so and let them do the following: 1. Work in pairs and fill in the table about the type of writing and summary of the idea. A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”. 2. Complete the summary of the story with one word in each blank and then retell the whole story. 3. Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were on a ______________ across Canada. Instead of taking the aeroplane ______________ the way, they would cross the whole continent of Canada in a ______________ af

ter arriving Vancouver by air. 4. Danny Lin waited ______________ them at the airport and gave them a brief 5.______________ about Canada, the second ______________ country in the world and Vancouver, the most beautiful city of the country, while taking them to ______________ the train, “The True North”. 6. Having settled ______________ in the seats, they looked out of the window 7.______________ the wild scenery, the mountain goats, and grizzly bears. They went by the city of Calgary and ______________ in Thunder Bay, a city at the ______________ of the Great Lakes, learning more about Canada of its population resources and so 8.______________. Their last stop is Toronto, one of the southernmost cities in Canada. Keys: trip; all; train; for; introduction; biggest; catch; down; at; arrived; top; on Step 5. Post-reading If you are a tour guide in China, you will try your best to ask more tourists to join you. Try to introduce the features（特色

）of your trip.

Eg.

Hello, everyone! This is our schedule for the trip to…

We will

travel by …

On the first day, we will visit …

It is…

We will spend the second day looking around ….On the last day, we will go to …I hope you can enjoy our group’s plan. Thank you! Step 6: Homework -Writing: Write down a passage on your unforgettable trip. Pay attention to the following items: a title a short paragraph to give a brief introduction of your trip (who/when/where/why) a paragraph for 2 or 3 impressive things you are presenting (location/attraction/story/ feelings/ reasons) Your general impression.