Teaching Material: A Trip on “The True North” on page 34 in Unit 5
Teaching aids:
Maps, postcards, work sheets (Canadian map), Bb(blackboard), PPT, OHP(overhead projector)
Lesson Type: Reading
二、教学分析
1.教学内容分析
本节课的内容是新课标高中英语必修三,Unit5, Canada- “The True North”的阅读(Reading)部分。本文是一篇游记,记述了李黛雨和刘倩这两个女孩乘坐火车横穿加拿大的旅途见闻。通过两位女孩的旅途经历来介绍加拿大的自然风光、主要城市、人口情况、动物、淡水资源等人文地理情况。这种介绍国家的方式十分生动,能引发学生的学习兴趣;但是相对应的,对学生来说,难度也有所加大。
(1) Teach students new words and phrases in this passage
(2) Teach students how to use location words and sentences to describe things in daily life
(3) Make students communicate with classmates in English by using the knowledge they learned in class
2. Educational objectives
(1) To train students’ reading skills (such as guessing the meaning of new words in the context, the speed of reading and how to skim and scan by tasks).
(2) To train students’ reading comprehension ability (such as getting messages from what they read)
(3) To raise students’ motivation of reading and make them learn how to evaluate their class performance
(4) To make students learn some geographical knowledge and multicultural background of Canada, broaden students’ international horizons and make them feel more pride of their mother land- China
3. Personal objectives
(1) To practice TBLT(task-based language teaching)method by using work sheet to make student understand the passage
(2) To accumulate the experience of controlling different tasks’ times
四、教学重难点
New Words and Phrases:
Eastward: moving toward the east;
baggage: luggage
chat: talk in a friendly way to sb
scenery: the natural feature of an area
surround: be around sb/sth
harbour: an area of water on the coast protected from the open sea
Learn how to read a journal
Learn location words and sentences to describe journeys
五、教学方法与过程
Teaching Method: Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Language Teaching
Show some pictures in PPT and let students guess which country these pictures related to. Then show students the answer and play the national song of Canada to arouse students’ motivation of Canada and lead out Unit 5.
Dealing with questions (6’)
Divide students into 15 groups which contains 3 students (1’) and let them deal with questions in warm-up sheet at the page of 33(3’).
Then show them the correct answer and explain the word “Canadian”, “minister” and write them on blackboard (2’).
Step 2: Skimming (7’)
Instructions (2.5)
Use OHP to list those new words:
continent: one of the large land masses of the earth such as Europe, Asia or Africa
baggage : luggage
chat: talk in a friendly way to sb
scenery: the natural feature of an area
surround: be around sb/sth
harbour: an area of water on the coast protected from the open sea by strong walls
slightly: a little
urban: connected with a city or town
T: Please read the passage, and for the first time you should only find the answer to the question. You have only three minutes to read. So don't read word for word. Read quickly. Just try to find the answer.
Reading (3)
Use OHP to list questions.
Checking (1’30’’)
Q: Who were on the trip to Canada?
A: LiDaiyu and LiuQian.
Q: What is “the true north” ?
A: The cross-Canada train.
Q: How much population does Canada has?
A: Slightly over thirty million
Step 3: Scanning (9')
Instructions (1’)
T: This time I give you five minutes to read the passage. When you are reading, find the answers of questions in page 35, Ex 1.
2. Reading (5’30’’)
3. Checking
1) Pair work (1’)
2) Class checking (1’30’’)
Use OHP to project the questions
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Step 4: Full reading (14’)
Instructions(2’)
T: Now I give you a work sheet, a paper map which includes the broader of Canada and the main cities in Canada.
Please read the whole passage and finish 3 orders:
draw the travel route
write on the line what kind of transportation they choose from one city to another
write the specific sceneries of each place below the map (every place no more than 20 words)
Reading and drawing (10’)
Group work: Checking the routes in a group of 3 students.
Sharing (2’)
T: Share your route with other groups which sat next to your group.
Step 5: Talking (5’)
Suppose Li Daiyu and LiuQian has a friend Li Ming and he shows much interest towards their travel in Canada and he wants to know something about this travel or Canada. Now prepare questions and answers in groups of 3. One acts as Li Daiyu , one plays the role of LiuQian and one plays the part of Li Ming.
Step 6: Assignment (1’)
1. Reread the passage after class, finish Ex2, Ex3 on P35, Ex1, Ex2, Ex3 on P36.
2. Write a composition about a trip to… (at least 100 words ) and hand in it on Friday morning.
六、教学板书设计
七、教学反思
Reflection(to be written immediately after the lesson)
A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”原文
Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins in Montreal on the Atlantic coast. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train from west to east across Canada. The thought that they could cross the whole continent was exciting.
Their friend, Danny Lin, was waiting at the airport. He was going to take them and their baggage to catch “The True North”, the cross-Canada train. On the way to the station, he chatted about their trip. “You’re going to see some great scenery. Going eastward, you’ll pass mountains and thousands of lakes and forests, as well as wide rivers and large cities.
Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and sailing in the harbour make Vancouver one of Canada’s most popular cities to live in. Its population is increasing rapidly. The coast north of Vancouver has some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measuring over 90 metres. ”
That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their seats. Earlier that day, when they crossed the Rocky Mountains, they managed to catch sight of some mountain goats and even a grizzly bear and an eagle. Their next stop was Calgary, which is famous for the Calgary Stampede.
Cowboys from all over the world come to compete in the Stampede. Many of them have a gift for riding wild horses and can win thousands of dollars in prizes.
They went through a wheat-growing province and saw farms that covered thousands of acres. After dinner, they were back in an urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. The girls were surprised at the fact that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes.
Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water than any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’s total fresh water, and much of it is in the Great Lakes.
That night as they slept, the train rushed across the top of Lake Superior, through the great forests and southward towards Toronto.