高中英语人教版（新课程标准）必修三 Unit 5 Canada--“The True North”--Reading教案 word版

Unit 5 Canada---“The True North”
Reading:
A Trip on “The True North”
Teaching aims
1. Knowledge aim：
Get the students to know information about Canada.
2. Ability：
（1）Help the students to talk out what they know about Canada.
(2) Improve the students’ reading ability.
3. Emotion：
Develop the students’ sense of the basic information about Canada.
Teaching important & difficult points
Learn to read the traveling report according to the traveling route.
Teaching methods
Task-based activities
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector.
Teaching procedures
Step I. Leading-in
Do you like trvaelling? If you have a chance to go abroad, which country would you like to go? Why?
2. Show a short video to the students.
3. Canada is a multicultural country. It is the second largest country in the world. Ask the students to have a quiz and find out how much they know about Canada.
Step II. Reading
Task 1. Fast reading
The passage can be divided into three parts. Please read it in two minutes and then try to match the main idea of each part after reading.
Part1 Para(s)_1__ What they really saw and felt after boarding the train
Part2 Para(s)__2_ Brief introduction of their trip
Part3 Para(s)_3-5___ Their chat on their way to the station
Task 2. Listening
Listen to the passage and do the following exercises.
1) What is the passage mainly about?
It is about ____of two girls and it tells us some information about Canada.
2) What is “The True North”?
3) Try to find out characters, places , their travelling route what these numbers refer to in the text.
5500:
Thirty million:
One third:
Characters:
Places:
Route:
Task 3. Careful reading:
1. Part I ( paras.1):
Brief introduction about the trip
who Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian
why to visit their cousins
how first by plane, then by train
where Montreal, Canada
2. Part II ( para.2):
distance 5,500 kilometres (from coast to coast)
Going eastward, you’ll pass
1. mountains
Scenery 2. lakes & forests
Canada 3. wide rivers & large cities
1. the warmest part population
2. the most beautiful city increasing
3. one of Canada’s most rapdily
Vancouver popular cities
4. oldest & most trees
beautiful forests extremely tall
5. wet climate measuring 90 metres
3. Part III (paras.3-5)
1) What mountains did they cross ealier that day?
2) Which city did they go after crossing the mountains?
3) What did the girls think about Canada after 2 days’ travel?
4) Where did they go after dinner?
5) Which lake did the train rush across that night, and what’s their next destination(目的地)?
Task 4. Speaking
Suppose you have a chance to introduce something about Canada to your friends, how can you talk to them? You may do like this:
Canada is _____ than the United States. It is the _______largest country in the world.It is _____ kilometers from coast to coast in Canada.The population of Canada is only slightly over_____________. Canada has _________ of the world’s fresh water, much of which is in the ___________.On the coast north of Vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful _______ in the world still remain. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely ______.
Step III. Homework
Read the passage carefully and try to find out more information about Canada after class.
板书设计：
A Trip on “The True North”
Part 1(1) Brief introduction of their trip
Time Part2 (2) Their chat on their way to the station
Part3 (3-5) What they really saw and felt after boarding the train
Teaching Plan
Unit 5 Canada ------The True North
Reading: A Trip on “The True North”