8A Unit 3 A day out (reading)
Around the world in a day
华士实验学校国际部 赵明
Teaching aims and demands:
Ⅰ. Knowledge and skills
To help the students get the general ideas of the passage after reading it.
To help the students organize some information about the World Park.
To help the students organize a day out to a place.
To cultivate the Ss’ abilities of obtaining and processing information in practice
Ⅱ.Teaching difficulties:
To learn the new words and expressions;
To improve the Ss’ reading skills;
To help the students report the day out to the World Park.
Ⅲ. Emotion:
It can arouse the students’ special attention and inspire them to describe feelings and experiences in a very informal day; At the same time, it is a link to the world outside China; It’s also heplful for the students to love the nature, protect our nature and get on well with it.
Ⅳ. Teaching methods:
Task-based approach
Ⅴ.Teaching aids:
Tape recorder; tapes; powerpoint
Teaching Procedures:
Ⅰ.Warm-up & lead-in (3 minuites)
Ask some questions: What’s the weather like today
What can we do in such pleasant weather
T: We went to Shanjuan Scienic Spot last month.
Did you have a good time
Do you want to go to foreign countries to visit the places of the interest there
Then go over the places of interest they learnt in last class.
Show four pictures and ask: What are they
In which countries can we see them
Do you want to travel around the World
Can you travel around the World in a day
T: Linda went to the World Park with Class 1 students yesterday. Let’s learn the letter written by her after the trip.
Ⅱ. Pre-reading(2 minutes)
Mini dictionary: Learn some new words. Get the Ss to match the new words with their English meanings. Explain the words simply.
Mini dictionary:
( e ) 1. coach a sb or sth attracts your attention
( f ) 2. boring b a main road between cities
( d ) 3. traffic c not well, uncomfortable
( b) 4. highway d cars, buses, and trucks on roads
( c ) 5. sick e a bus for taking people on long trips
( g ) 6. beginning f not interesting
( a ) 7. interest g the start, not the end
Ⅲ. While-reading
1. Listening (2 minutes)
Listen to the tape and answer a question:
How did Linda feel during the trip to the World Park
2. Scanning: (2 minutes)
Go through the test quickly and answer two questions:
1. Who met Kitty and Linda at the school gate
(Mr. Wu and the other students met her at the school gate.)
2. Which was the best part of the day
(The song and dance parade was the best part of the day.)
3. Reading for Details
(1) Read the letter together followed by the tape. (3 minutes)
Put the pictures in the correct order and then check the answers.
(2) Students read the tetter by themselves carefully.
Have a competition between two groups, tell whether the following sentences are true or false. (7 minutes)
1. Linda and Kitty met Mr. Wu and other studentsat the school gate. (T)
2. It took half an hour to get to the World Park from school. (F)
3. We went to the World Park by coach from Sunshine town. (F)
4. Linda saw a lot of traffic on the city roads (T)
5. The model pyramids looked just like the real ones in the USA. (F)
6. We became bored when we saw the model Eiffel Tower from the coach. (F)
7.There are models of over a hundred places of interest there. (T)
8. The model Eiffel Tower is a tall stone building. (F)
9. Kitty wanted to join the dancing. (T)
10.Daniel made a special home page for the trip. (F)
(3) Ask the Ss to Fill in the form. (3 minutes)
Places The things Linda saw Linda’s feeling
at the school gate Mr. Wu, the students, a coach
On the way to the park a lot of traffic on thecity roads, it got betteron the highway bored; sick
at the gate of the World Park blue sky,the Eiffel Tower excited; didn’t feel sick any more
inside the park over 100 places ofinterest, the pyramids,the Golden Gate Bridge,the song and danceparade couldn’t believe her eyes;wonderful; amazed
3. Role-play (7 minutes)
Retell the day out to the World Park according to the key words and the route. Work in pairs and check the answers in pairs. Get some Ss to retell it.
Ⅳ. Post-reading (7 minutes)
Discussion (Group work)
T: Today, we have so many honoured guests here, if you have a chance, which place do you want to show them around
Get the students to organize a day out to Huaxi Village. In their plan should be included in :
1) where to go 2) when to go 3) how to go
4) why to go 5) what to see 6) how to feel
Chooses some students to report their plans.
Ⅴ. Outside Reading ( 8 minutes)
T: In the World Park , Linda saw the introductions of the Pyramids. Read it , and then answer the questions.
The Pyramids
Thousands of years ago, the kings of Egypt built strong tombs
for themselves. Over those tombs they built pyramids. They thought
their bodies would be kept in these tombs until they could
come back to life. They also hope the world would look on the
pyramid as monuments to them and would remember them for ever.
There are around 80 pyramids in Egypt. But the Great pyramid is the biggest of all. It is nearly 5,000years old. It is about 137 metres high today, but it was once higher. It is made of 2,300,000 huge stones. Most of them are higher than a man and weigh as much as fiteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build the Great pyramid.
When you look at the pyramids, you can’t help wondering how the Egypians were able to build them thousands of years ago. How did they cut, carry and lift such huge stones Each stone fits so well, yet they didn’t have our modern machines! Scientists have studied the pyramids, but nobody can tell just how the Egypians built them so long ago.
Inside the pyramids are the rooms for the bodies of the kings and queens. There are lots of wonderful treasures(珍宝) in the pyramids, too. Thieves have broken into some of the pyramids and taken away many of treasures to foreign countries. They have even stolen the mummies(木乃伊). Today some of the mummies and treasures are on show in museums in different countries. When the kings built the pyramids for themselves, they perhaps never thought this would happen.
Questions:
1. In what country can you find the pyramids
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2. How many pyramids are there in the country
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3. What are under the pyramids
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4. How long and how many people did it take them to build the Grear pyramid
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5. What’s the Chinese for “come back to life” in the first paragraph
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Ⅵ. Sum-up
T: We learnt many places of interest around the world, all of us want to travel around the world and enjoy our life, so from now on we should love our nature and try our best to protect our world, and then, the world will become more and more beautiful.
Homework
Write an e-mail to your close friend to tell him/her your pleasant trip to a place of interest.
Reflections:
In this class, the students learnt the letter written by Linda, they could take an active part in the class activities, the students’ abilities of reading were improved more or less by practising reading a lot ; most of them could organize a day out in English, but some of them couldn’t use the expressions correctly, so, in next period, I will explain the languages in class.
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