Listening and vocabulary教学目标设计

Module Three

My First Ride on a Train

Part One

Teaching design

第一部分

教学设计

Aims and requirements ● To develop the students’ reading ability

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To listen and speak using the vocabulary and everyday English in this unit ●

To learn and use grammars correctly ●

To write a passage about your first experience Teaching procedures

Period 1: Introduction and Reading

Step 1: Warming up

1.

Warming up by Questions Ask the students to look at the pictures on page 21, and then answer the following questions: 1)

Which of the vehicles travel on roads? 2)

Which of them travel on rails? 3)

Which of them travel in the air? 4)

Which of them can you use to travel a long distance? 5)

If you travel on a train, what will you do and how is your feeling? 2. Warming up by making a conversation describing one of your travel experiences. Include: Where did you go and who did you go with?

How did you travel a long distance? How old were you? What did you see and hear of all the way? What do you think of it? 3. Warming up by studying vocabulary Turn to page 114, and study the vocabulary list for Unit three, paying more attention to the spelling and pronunciation of the words. Step 2: Pre-reading

1.

Asking and answering

Look at the following pictures : Kangaroo

Pinnacles Operahous

What you see from the pictures are beautiful sceneries in Australia. Then do you know: Q1: How many people live there? Q2: What is the name of the capital city? Q3: Where do you think most of the people live in the central part or on the coast? Q4: What kind of Australian animals do you know? Suggested answers: 1). It is the 6th large country in the world, but has a relatively small population. There are 19,731,984 people living there. 2). The capital city---Canberra.

Canberra is a young capital. After the federation of Australia in 1901, Melbourne and Sydney tried to claim national capital status. In 1908, a solution was found by selecting a location somewhere in-between. 3). On the east/southeast coast.

Because

much of the central and western part of the country is uninhabitable. 4). koala bear.

kangaroo 2. Introduce some new words

Show the following new words from the text and ask them to read all together twice each word while correcting their pronunciation.

distance

abandoned

camel

cassette

desert

diamond

expert

midnight

product

scenery

Ok , now let’s have a spelling quiz. Read every sentence and write out a word in the box above, using a proper form of the words. 1)

Vast areas of land have become _____ . 2)

The group of people are all ____ in psychology. 3)

His ____ visit surprised me very much. 4)

A good cyclist can cover ____ of over a hundred miles a day. 5)

Let’s stop and admire the _____ of the mountain.

6)

The company is known for its high-quality ____. (Keys: desert, experts, midnight, distances, scenery, product) Step 3: Reading

1.

Leading-in

After talking about some information about Australia, we restudied some new words in this text, maybe every one of us is eager to pay a visit to Australia and appreciate the beautiful sceneries there, right? Ok, now let’s learn

the passage “My first ride on a Greet barrier

train”. After reading, answering the following questions:

1）Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago? 2）Was her destination on the coast of Australia? 3）Was the scenery the same during the whole journey? 4）Did she study while she was on the train? 5）Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country? 6）Do they still use camels to deliver goods? Answers: 1) No. She travelled on the train recently. 2) No, it was Alice Springs in the central part of Australia. 3) No, at first there were fields, then it was desert. 4) Yes, she studied Chinese. 5) Yes, at first, but the horses didn’t like the hot weather.

6) No, they use the train now. 2. Fast reading to get the general idea of each paragraph. Para.1: I had my first ride on a long distance train. Para.2: The scenery along the railway. Para.3: How I spent the time on the train. Para.4: Why is the train called Ghan? Para.5: Things about the camels. Para.6: The fate of the camels nowadays. 3.

Listening to the tape of the text and try to find which of the following words appear in the story.

recent

distance

expect

scenery

desert

abandon

comfortable

passenger

camera

produce

get on

shoot in the middle of

more than

try to do

be short for

( Keys: distance , scenery ,desert ,comfortable ,passenger, get on ,shoot ,in the middle of ,more than ,be short for ) 4. Detailed reading for information.

i. Read the following sentences and decide whether they are true (T) or false (F) according to the text. 1)

The author and his friends spent three days and nights on the train. 2)

At night, it was windy and cold. 3)

They went back with wool and other products. 4)

The camels were needed in Afghan till 1925. 5)

They didn’t need the camels any more because the camels couldn’t help them for traveling a long distance.

(Keys: 1.F

2.F

3.T

4.F

5.F ) ii. Put the sentences in the right order according to the text 

1）Camels were trained to carry supplies back form the central part.

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2）Camels were shot because of the new railway line built by the government.

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3）They bought camels from Afghanistan.

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4）Australians needed a way to the central country.

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5）They tried riding horses, but failed.

(Keys :

4.5.3.1.2 )

Step 4: Reading practice

Read the following passage within 5 minutes and make a better choice to each question.

The first person to reach the South Pole was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer. Amundsen was born in Borge, near Oslo, Norway. He attended the University of Christiania and then joined the Norwegian navy.

Amundesen made a three-year expedition in the Arctic(北极) beginning in 1903.He was the first to navigate(航行) Northwest Passage, a northern water route from the Atlantic(大西洋) to the Pacific (太平洋).But Amundsen’s greatest voyage began in 1910,at the end of the earth. He planed to go to the North Pole, but he heard that Robert Peary had already reached it. So instead Amundsen headed to the South Pole in his ship. He learned that a British expedition, led by Robert F.Scott, was also on its way there. Amundsen reached Antarctic(南极) in January,1911.He and his men had to wait out the bitter cold, windy winter on the edge of the ice before they could head for the South Pole.

In October, they set out, with 52 well-trained dogs to pull their sledges. On the way to the Pole ,they climbed glaciers(冰川),went around huge cracks(裂口) in the ice, and survived freezing blizzards(暴风雪).Finally, on December 14, 1911, Amundsen placed the Norwegian flag at the South Pole. Scott and his men found the flag there when they reached the Pole a month later.

Amundsen died in the Arctic 17 years later. He disappeared while making an air search for another explorer, Umber. 1.

The best title for the passage would be ____ . A.

Amundsen , the first explorer to reach the South B.

Amundsen’s adventure

C.

A brave person D.

Never stop searching

2.

Why did Amundsen and his men set out for the South Pole in October while they reached Antarctic in January? A.

It is a long way from Antarctic to the South Pole. B.

The road was too icy to walk on. C.

They didn’t have enough dogs for their sledges.

D.

They had to wait until the winter had gone. 3.

Why did Amundsen go to the South Pole instead of the North Pole? A.

He found it impossible to reach the North Pole. B.

It was easier to get to the South Pole than to the North Pole. C.

He just wanted to be the first one to reach either of the Poles. D.

He learned someone was on his way to the South Pole. 4.

From the passage we can infer that _____. A.

at the beginning of the 20th century ,many explorers had been to or were trying to reach the South and the North Pole.

B.

people can’t reach the South Pole until winter. C.

the purpose of those who want to reach the South Pole is only to place their national flag there. D.

Scott and his men might feel excited and happy when they finally got to the South Pole and found someone had already been there. (Keys:1.A

2.D

3.C

4.A) Step 5:Homework

1. Retell the text in your own words. 2. Learn the new words again using the dictionary if necessary. 3. Preview the Grammar ahead of time.