Module 4 A Social Survey -- My Neighbourhood Period 1 Introduction and Reading学案

Module4 A Social Survey- My Neighbourhood教学设计
Period 1 Introduction and Reading
Teaching Aims and Demands:
语 言 知 识 目 标：
词汇：survey neighborh ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ood local suburb attractive fortunate pretty sound tourist bother nuisance rent district approach harbor gorgeous architecture starve
句型：1. The house is two storeys high.
2. It’s been six years since we last saw each other.
3. This / It is the first time I’ve visited your hometown .
4. It can be quite cold in winter here.
语言技能目标：
1.Enable to read the text fluently.
2.Enable to comprehen ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )d the text and finish some exercise about the text.
Step 1: Learning Introduction
1.Read about the home ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )s of the two students on page 31. Students think and discuss：
Which one is more similar to yours
2.Think about three or four sentences describing your home
3.Work in pairs and compare your homes
4.Study vocabulary
Turn to page ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )114, and study the vocabulary list for Module Four, paying attention to the relationship between the spelling and the pronunciation.
Step 2: Pre-reading
Introduce some new words
Show the following ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )new words from the text and ask the students to read them all together twice while correcting their pronunciation.
Ok, we are to h ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ave a spelling quiz. Read every sentence and write out a word in the box above, using a proper form of the words.
As you ______ the town the first building you see is the church.
Don’t ______ your father now ; he is very tired.
London is full of _____ in the summer.
She is ____ enough to enjoy good health.
They got lost in the desert and ____ to death.
The noise was so loud that it was a ____ to the neighbours.
That music ____ beautiful.
(Keys: approach, ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) bother, tourists, fortunate, starved, nuisance, sounds )
Step 3: Reading
Leading-in
Listening and guessing ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )(Students listen to the teacher’s reading and guessing where it is.)
It is a pictu ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )resque island in the city of Xiamen, China. with beautiful mountains, winding coastline, clear water, and shining beaches. Here it is always spring, with birds singing and flowers blooming. This enchanting island is well known nationally and abroad, being acclaimed as "the garden on the sea" and distinguished as a National Scenic District. It is the home of many renowned scholars, artists, and especially musicians. The sweet sound of music lingers in the air as you stroll along the narrow lanes of this charming island. The buildings have a variety of local and exotic styles and shapes. The accommodations are good, and many different forms of entertainment can be enjoyed. Where is it
After guessi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ng the place--Xiamen ,maybe I think everyone is eager to visit the city with beautiful sceneries around it .Today let’s come to the city of Xiamen by reading the passage to learn more about the city.
2. Fast reading
Now, let’s read the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) text together and then answer the following questions:
1) Is this John Martin’s first time to visit Xiao Li’s hometown
2) What’s the climate like in Xiamen
3) Do the tourists bother Xiao Li
4) Where is the most interesting part of the city
5) From the dialogu ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e, can you tell me something about Gulangyu Island
Group work:
Put the sentences in the right order according to this dialogue.
( ) There are ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )a lot of high-rise buildings recently in the business district;
( ) The climate i ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )n Xiamen is pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in winter ;
( ) There are a lot of tourists in summer;
( ) Gulangyu Is ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )land is a gorgeous island with really interesting architecture. It lies in the western of this city;
( ) Xiamen is a city on the coast.
( Key: 4. 2. 3. 5. 1 )
3. Listening to the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) tape of the text and try to find the following new words appearing in the passage and then use some of them to complete these sentences.
1) A lot of ____ visit Xiamen in the summer.
2) The parks in the ____ district are very pretty.
3) I can’t listen because of the noise. What a _______!
4) The ____ for ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) a modern apartment in Xiamen is usually very expensive.
5) Which ____ of the city does Xiao Li live in
6) If we _____ the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )car over there , we can go for a walk along the harbour.
( Keys: tourists, coast, nuisance, rent , district, park )
4. Detailed reading for information
A. Read the passage and choose the correct answers.
John Martin is visiting _____ .
a. Xiao Li’s hometown ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) b. a town near where Xiao Li lives c. a shopping mall
2) Xiao Li lives _____.
a. on the isla ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )nd of Gulangyu b. in Xiamen c. in a town to the northwest of Xiamen
3) John and Xiao Li are _____ .
a. at Xiao Li’s hom ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e b. driving around the city in a car c. on a train
( Keys: 1.a 2. c 3.b )
B. Read the passag ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e again and decide whether the following statements are True or False.
1). John and Xiao Li haven’t seen each other for six years.
2) John has never been to China before.
3) Xiao Li enjoys living on the coast.
4) There are very few tourists in the northwest of Xiamen.
5) There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu Island.
( Keys: 1. T 2. F 3. T 4.F 5.F 6. T )
Step 4:Analyze the structure of the text.
1.Type of writing and summary of the text
Type of writing This is a piece of descriptive passage.
Main idea of the passage Xiao Li has a description of her hometown to John Martin.
Main idea of the 1st part Simple introduction as a beginning
Main idea of the 2nd part A pleasant visit and introduction about the city
Main idea of the 3rd part Some information about Gulangyu
2. A box graph of the text
3. A retold passage of the text
A possible version:
It is the first t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ime that John Martin has visited Xiao Li’s hometown. Though he has visited quite a lot of beautiful places in China, he thinks this is one of the most attractive and interesting places he has been to. Then Xiao Li introduces something about the city while leading John to visit it.
The city lies in th ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e northwest of Xiamen. It is pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in winter. It is very beautiful, therefore, there are so many tourists around that Xiao Li thinks they can be a nuisance in the summer . But there are few tourists where Xiao Li lives.
And it is very mod ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ern. We can see the huge apartment block or the business district where a lot of high-rise buildings have been put up and there are some great shopping malls.
Then they are ap ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )proaching the harbour, the most interesting part of the city in the western district. It has got some really pretty parks and some islands …
The famous Gulangyu ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) Island is just across the water. It is a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture. Then, they stop and walk around for a while.
Step 5: Homework
Retell the text in your own words.
Learn the new words again using the dictionary if necessary.
Preview the Grammar part of this unit
hometown attractive pretty starve bother nuisance
fortunate sound tourist district approach rent
harbour
architecture area climate coast district nuisance
hometown island park rent tourist gorgeous
Gulangyu island
the buildings and business district
the weather
the position