unit 5 Teaching plan(浙江省丽水地区青田县)

The teaching plan for unit 5
--- Reading (A trip on “The True North”)
Time：Apr. 1, 2008 Class: Class12, Senior1 Teacher: Chen xiaoping
Teaching aims:
1. Talk about Canada and enlarge their knowledge;
2. Improve Ss’ reading skills better.
Important and difficult points:
1. Know more information about Canada and train their reading ability.
2. How to catch the key information in the text.
Teaching methods: fast and careful reading; discussion
Teaching aids: multimedia
Teaching procedure:
Step I: Lead-in
Show a map and ask : Which country is this (Canada) And how much do you know about it
Then enjoy the video and answer: What can you hear and see about Canada
After that, ask some Ss to answer.
Step II: Warming up
Have a quiz about Canada.
1. Which is the national flag of Canada
2. Which is the national flower of Canada
3. What language(s) do Canadians speak

4. What is the capital of Canada
5. What is the national animal of Canada
6. What is the Canadian leader called
7. How many Great Lakes are
there in Canada
8. It has _____ of the world’s supply of fresh water
9.In area Canada is the _______ largest country in the world.
Step III Reading
1. Fast reading
a. What is “The True North”
b. Find out what these number is about
5500; a few hundred; thirty million; one third
2. Careful reading
a. What are the main places mentioned in the reading passage
(In time order) ①the Rocky Mountains ②Vancouver ③Toronto ④Calgary Thunder Bay ⑤Lake Superior
b. Find information from the reading passage about the following places:
Vancouver Rocky Mountains Calgary Thunder Bay
3. Retell the story and fill in the blanks.
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian took the train in Canada from ____ to ____. Their cousins’ friend, Danny Lin, took them to the train station to catch “___ ____ _____”. Canada is the ______ biggest country in the world. It is 5,500 Km from _____ to _____. As they go ________, they saw beautiful scenery as well as cities. Vancouver is __________ by mountains on the north and east. When the cousins ______ ____ in the seats, they looked out of the window. They saw mountain goats and even a _____ bear. Calgary is famous for its competition. Many of the cowboys from all over North America ____ __ ___ ___ working with animals. Then they ____ _______ a wheat-growing province. After dinner, they went to an _____ area, the busy port city Thunder Bay.
Step IV Discussion
Design a route for traveling. Which cities would you like to visit in China
What can you see in these cities
Step V Homework
1.Read the text again and find out the language points in the text.
2. Exercise 1 on Page 35.
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