Module 9 Population
Unit 2 Arnwick was a city with 200,000 people.
教材分析
本课为Module9的第二单元，课文介绍了未来的城市生活。课文以Jo为主人公，介绍了Parkville和Arnwick的概况，并通过Jo的经历反映了城市及其周边地区的发展变化。
教学目标
Knowledge objective
1. To get information from the reading passage in relation to city problem.
2. To write about city problems.
Ability objective
To write about city problems.
Moral objective
To make Ss do something for the environment protection.
教学重难点
教学重点：1. To get information from the reading material about city problems.
2. To learn the grammar: article.
教学难点：To understand the main idea of each paragraph of the article.
课前准备
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures.
教学过程
Step1 Ask and answer the questions.
1. Work in pairs. First read the words in the box. Then use the words to answer the questions.
2. Elicit ideas from the whole class with the students asking and answering the questions in pairs.
3. Write their ideas up on the board.
【设计意图】
本活动为读前预热部分，目的是激活学生已有的背景知识，增强学生的话题意识，使学生能够围绕主题发表自己的看法。
Step2 Read the passage and check your answers to Activity 1.
Put the students in pairs to describe the pictures and talk about the title.
Elicit ideas and add them to those from Activity1 on the board for a prediction task.
Read the passage carefully and check their predictions and see if they were right.
Go through the points on the board with the students and check their answers.
【设计意图】
本活动的主要目的是培养学生对课文大意的理解能力。
Step3 Check the true sentences.
Let the Ss read the passage carefully and then check the answers according to the passage.
Elicit answers in full sentences from the whole class.
【设计意图】
本活动要求学生根据课文内容判断句子正误，考查学生的细节理解与判断能力。
Step4 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.
Read the passage carefully.
Get the main idea and choose the words from the box.
Then use the correct form to fill in the blanks.
Nominate the students to read out the whole passage.
【设计意图】
本活动属于词汇操练活动，要求学生将所给单词以正确的形式填入短文中。
Step5 Read and check the problems that exist in your home town.
Ask the students to have a whole class discussion about whether these are problems that exist in every town in China and in other countries as well.
Ask them to check whether the problems exist in their home town.
Nominate some students to share their ideas.
【设计意图】
本活动要求学生对自己的家乡所存在的一些问题作出判断。目的是培养学生观察及发现问题的能力。
Step6 Write down your suggestions to solve the problems in Activity 5.
Write down the first three most important problems and write down your suggestions to improve the situation.
【设计意图】
本活动是上一活动的延续，要求学生就其家乡存在的问题提出改进建议。
Step7 Homework
Finish the writing task.
教学反思
本单元的教学中，在学生阅读课文之前，教师可以先让学生自己写一段关于所在城市、城镇的发展情况的文章，然后让学生比较自己所写文章的结构与课文的结构。看看是否有较大的差异，最后再进行总结，告诉学生在阅读这类文章时，可以通过把握文章结构帮助自己理解。
课件25张PPT。Warming up1. Do you like cities or countryside?
2. What are the major differences between them?CountrysideCountrysideCityCity1 Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions. Use the words in the box to help you. countryside field flat hospital
job office rubbish village 1 Why do people move to cities?
2 What are the problems of big cities?2 Read the passage and check your answers to Activity 1. 1 Parkville was a quite will age.
2 Arnwick was a city with 200,000 people.
3 Parkville now has a population of more
than one million.
4 The local school in Parkville has 2,000 pupils.
5 Big cities need more money for public services.3 Check (√) the true sentences. √√√4 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box. Many towns and cities have the same problems as Arnwick. People need places to live, so the (1)_________ government has to build more (2) ___________ . flat local pollution
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countryside because they want to find jobs
in the city.
( ) There are not enough schools and hospitals
in big cities.√√( ) Too much traffic brings air pollution.
( ) There is too much rubbish in the streets.
( ) There are not enough police in the city.
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