Module 2 My home town and my country
Unit 1 It’s taller than many other buildings.
Name _____ Class_____ Grade_______
【学习目标】
1.熟悉本课所学新词汇与短语。
2.通过准确地比较方位和正确运用形容词的比较级描述家乡和国家。
【课前预习】
一．利用单词表，并按照词性归类，写出本单元新词（仿照示例），并在组内齐读。
名词1___________ ____________ _________
2_____________ ____________ _________
动词： ___________ ____________ ________
形容词： _____________ ___________ _________
副词：_____________ ____________ _________
数词（num）：____________ ____________ _________
介词（prep）：____________ ____________ _________
二．利用课时精练P10中的重点词组或根据课文中P10的活动2内容，并结合上下文意思写出中/英文。
1.我的家乡__________________ 2.相当好________________________
3.在…的海岸边_____________________ 4.三十年前_________________________
5. a newer city____________________ 6.事实上_________________________
7.变得重要_____________________ 8.in the 1980s____________ ___________
9.become / get bigger and busier______________________
10.某一天__________________________
11.as busy as_______________ 12. the population of …_________________________
13.ten million________________ 14.much wider_______________________
15.many other cities _____________________ 16.想要做某事 __________________
17. remember to visit the Diwang Tower______________________
三、通读P10活动2文章，并试着回答问题。
1. Where is Shenzhen? _____________________________
2.What is the population of Shenzhen? _____________________________
【课中合作与交流】
一、Listen and complete.(书本P10活动1)
1. Show some pictures of Shanghai and Hongkong. Look at the pictures and talk about them. Use the words in the box to help you.
We can see _________behind the buildings in Hongkong and it’s not high.
There is ________________ in Hongkong.
The population of Shanghai is ______________ than that of Hongkong.
2. Listen and complete the table.
Picture a
Picture b
Place
(1)__________
(4)_________
Population
(2)_____ million
(5) _______ million
Famous place
Jin Mao Tower
(3)______ metres high
Victoria Peak (6)______ metres high
二、Listening. Tony and Daming are talking about Shenzhen. Read the dialogue and finish the following tasks.
1) Listen and do T/F
( )1.Shenzhen became important in the 1980s
( )2.Shenzhen is an older city than Hong Kong.
( )3.The population of Hong Kong is ten million
( )4.Diwang Tower is taller than many other buildings in Shenzhen
2) Read the passage and complete the passage about Shenzhen.
Shenzhen is on the coast near Hong Kong. It became important in the (1)_____. Before that it was a (2)___________. Today the population of Shenzhen is more than (3)____ million. There are many tall buildings in Shenzhen. A famous one is the (4)_____________. It is (5)_____ than many other buildings in Shenzhen.
3) Read again and complete the table
Shenzhen
Population
(1)________________________
streets
(2)________________________
Famous place
(3)________________________
4) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.
big busy clean large new small wide
1.About thirty years ago, Shenzhen was a ___ village, but today it is a very ______ city.
2.Shenzhen is a ______ city than Hongkong.
3.Shenzhen is getting ______ and _______.The streets are _______ and ________.
4.Shenzhen will become as _____ as Hongkong.
5.The population of Shenzhen is ______ than that of many other cities in China.
三、 Work in pairs and try to retell and talk about Shenzhen.
Shenzhen is …near …. It was…… ……ago, but today ……. It’s a …… than …. In fact, it …… in ….
It’s getting … and …. Some day …… . The … of Shenzhen is over …….
That’s ……than …... in China. Its streets…
If you go to Shenzhen, remember to ….. It’s … than…… in Shenzhen.
四、Pairwork.
Compare Shenzhen with your home town. Make notes in the table.
You can describe them from size, population, ways of life, famous place, history(历史).
You can Use big, small, busy, hot, cold, tall, clean, wide, or new.
Shenzhen
Yongkang
a big city
Make sentences like this:
Shenzhen is ___________than Yongkang.
Shenzhen is___________than Yongkang.
Yongkang is __________ __than Shenzhen.
The________of Shenzhen is_______________than Yongkang.
The population of _____________ __________________________.
Ask and answer like this:
Is your home town bigger than Shenzhen?
— No, it isn’t. It’s smaller than Shenzhen.
【课后拓展与练习】
Saying______________ teachers for their____________
CHINESE students celebrate their teachers on Sept 10, Teacher’s Day. How do US students appreciate (感谢) their beloved teachers? There’s the idea that they would give their teacher an apple in thanks.
But students typically leave apples in the fruit bowl and do something a little different.
First of all, US schools appreciate their teachers the whole first week in May. Their special Teacher Appreciation Day falls on the Tuesday of that week.
During teacher appreciation week, the school will host special parties and give teachers gifts and snacks throughout the week. There are “Thank you” signs (标语) everywhere to honor teachers.
US students give small gifts to their teachers to let them know how great they are. It could be a simple gift like a thank-you note with a personal (个人) message. US teachers love these because it’s heartfelt and meaningful. They like it even more when students say “thank you” directly (直接地) to them.
US teachers enjoy receiving arts and crafts (手工品) from children. Small treats like cookies are always good too. Little items to decorate (装饰) their classroom are also common gifts in the US. This could be a ‘Best Teacher Award’ or a small plant.
It doesn’t take much to make a teacher’s day. But students shouldn’t just wait until Teacher Appreciation Day. Thank your teachers all the time!
1. 通读全文，然后试着完成标题。
2. 根据上下文，将划线单词或词组翻译成中文。
3. 请划出文中的好句。
4. 利用文中的信息，并结合自己的想法，提一些“向老师表达感谢”的建议。
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【我的疑惑与收获】
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Module 2 My home town and my country
Unit 1 It's taller than many other buildings.
课型
Listening and speaking
教学目标
Knowledge:
To understand the conversation about the comparison of two cities
To talk about and compare two different cities or places
Key vocabulary: hill, population, wide, million, than, get
Key structures: so it’s a newer city than Hong Kong?
… it will become as busy as Hong Kong.
What’s the population of Shenzhen?
Its streets are much wider and cleaner too.
It’s taller than many other buildings …
教学重点
(1) 通过对话谈论比较两个城市
(2) 掌握形容词比较级规则，形式及其使用
教学难点
学会运用形容词的比较级谈论和比较两个城市的不同点
教学方法
PWP Communicative
教学用具
Multi-Media (or Tape recorder, OHP)
教学过程
Preparation
? Show the students pictures of a city and a village. Elicit some words to describe them and write the words on the board.
? Repeat the words on the board with the class chorally.
? Ask some questions about the city and the village. Tell the students to use the words on the board to help them answer the questions. Elicit more words if necessary.
? Put the students in pairs to describe the city and the village.
l. Look at the pictures and talk about them. Use the words in the box to help you.
? Tell the students to look at the two pictures and say what the similarities and differences are.
? Ask them to look at and repeat the words in the box together.
? Ask them to describe the cities in the pictures in pairs, using the words in the box.
? Draw a table on the board. Ask the students to copy it and fill it in with adjectives to describe the cities (see below).
City
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Description
? Elicit their adjectives and write them on the board.
Now listen and complete.
? Play the recording. Tell the students to listen and check the words they hear describing each city.
? Play the recording again and ask them to complete the notes.
? Elicit answers from the class.
? Put the students into groups to describe one of the cities. Tell them to use their own words.
2. Listen and read.
? Introduce the comparative by asking if Hong Kong and Shanghai are the same or different and how.
? Write the sentences on the board and then list the adjectives and their comparatives as they come up (e.g. small---smaller; quiet ---quieter; old---older).
? Ask the students to repeat the sentences, the adjectives and their comparatives chorally and individually.
? Ask them to look at the spelling of the comparatives and summarise how comparative adjectives are formed.
? Ask the class questions to compare two places.
? Put the students in pairs to ask and answer. Tell them to use the information in Activity I to ask questions about Shanghai and Hong Kong.
? Elicit some examples in pairs.
? Write some comprehension questions on the board and tell the students to find out the answers while listening and reading.
? Play the recording and ask the students to read the conversation as they listen.
? Elicit answers to the questions around the class.
? Ask the students to practise the conversation in different roles.
Now complete the passage about Shenzhen.
? Ask the students what information about Shenzhen they've got from the conversation.
? Ask them to complete the passage with the information.
? Tell them to check their answers with a partner.
? Elicit answers from the whole class.
3. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words In the box. You need to use some of the words more than once.
? Tell the students to read the sentences and think about which word should be chosen for each sentence, whether the word should be changed and how.
? Ask them to complete the sentences individually. Remind them to be careful of the spelling.
? Ask them to check answers with their partners.
? Elicit answers from me whole class in full sentences.
Key words and expressions
1. in the 1980s
in the 1980s 表示“20世纪80年代”。“ in + the + 时间s” 表示 “在某年代或特定世纪某年代”。如：
Cars of this kind were made in the 1930s.
这种汽生产于二十世纪三十年代。
Great changes have taken place in China in the 1980s.
二十世纪八十年代中国发生了巨大变化。
( ) My uncle moved to London ____
A. in the fifties B. in the 1980s
C. in his fifty D. in 1980s
2. population
population n. 人口
是一个集体名词,当其用作主语时, 谓语动词常用第三人称单数形式。如:
The population of Paris is 7 million.
巴黎的人口有七百万。
注意: 表示人口的“多”或“少”, 要用large或small, 不能用much或little。如:
China has a large population.
中国人口多。
[拓展]
表达“某地有多少人口”通常有两种方法:
●"The population of + 某地+ be + 数词"。如:
The population of Shanghai is 13 million.
上海的人口有一千三百万。
●"某地+ has a population of +数词"。如:
Shanghai has a population of 13 million.
上海有一千三百万人。
[Practice]
请根据上句改写下句，使上下两句意思相
同或相近。
1. What’s the population of Japan?
___________ people __________ in Japan?
What’s the ____________ the people in Japan?
2. The number of the people in our city is five million.
___________________ our city is five million.
Our city has ________________ five million.
___________ five million people in our city.
（1. How many, are there, number of 2. The population of, a population of, There are）
Pronunciation and speaking
4. Listen and notice how the speaker stresses the underlined words.
? Ask the students to read through the four conversations on their own.
? Play the recording. Ask the students to pay attention to the underlined words and think about why they are underlined.
? Elicit that the underlined words are stressed to correct wrong information.
? Play the recording again and have the students repeat the conversations chorally and individually. Tell them to pay attention to the underlined words and exaggerate the stressed syllables for the meaning.
Now work In pairs. Listen again and repeat.
? Put the students in pairs to practise the conversations. Tell them to stress the underlined words to show that their partners are wrong.
? Ask them to conduct Ping-Pong practice.
Learning to learn
? Read through the information with the students.
? Write an example sentence on the board and underline the stressed word to tell the students what we mean by key words, e.g. This is an English lesson. (The word "English" is the key word which gives the main information.)
? Point out that the key words are usually the nouns, verbs, and adjectives, not the "grammar words" such as articles and auxiliary verbs.
? Give an example by asking something that is clearly wrong to produce a strong response in which the correct information is stressed. For example:
--- You're ten years old, aren't you?
--- No, I'm not. I'm thirteen.
? Ask the students to work in pairs to ask and answer similar questions that will produce a strong corrected response.
5. Compare Shenzhen with your home town. Make notes in the table.
? Ask the students to read the table and think about what information can be included in it.
Ask them to fill in the table with .information about Shenzhen and their home town, with notes to describe size, population, ways of life, etc.
6. Work in pairs. Talk about the differences between Shenzhen and your home town. Use big, small, hot, cold, tall or new.
? Write the adjectives on the board: big, small, hot, cold, tall, new.
? Identify the name of the students' home town and elicit questions according to the information in the table. For example:
Is (name of town) smaller than Shenzhen?
Is (name of town) bigger than Shenzhen?
Is (name of town) hotter than Shenzhen?
Is (name of town) colder than Shenzhen?
Are the buildings in (name of town) taller than those in Shenzhen?
Are the buildings in (name of town) newer than those in Shenzhen?
? Elicit answers from the whole class.
? Put the students in pairs to model and practise the conversations. Tell them they can also use other adjectives.
