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姓名：高一英语教案设计张晓英
Unit 5Cananda-------“The True North”
Period 1Warming up and reading
教学重点
1.Let studends read the paage and learn about the geography, populationg, main cities, natural beauty and natural resources of Canada.
2.Get students to learn different skills.
教学难点
1.Develop students` reading ability.
2.Enable students to learn about some basic information and talk about Canada.
三维目标
知识目标
1.Get students to learn the useful new words and expreions in this part.
2.Let students learn the knowledge of Canada.
能力目标
1.Develop students` reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.
2.Let students learn how to read a travelling report and how to use a map.
3.Enable students to learn about some basic information and talk about Canada.
情感目标
1.Stimulate students` interest in learning about foreign countries.
2.Develop students` sense of cooperative learning.
教学过程
设计方案
Step 1 Leading-in and warming up
1.Show a map of Canada to students and talk about Canada.Then ask them the
following questions:
1) What kind of country is Canada?
2) How large is it?
3) What else do you know about Canada?
Suggested answers:
1) Canada is a multicultural country.
2) It`s the second largest country in the world.It covers an area of 9984670 square
kilometers.It is a bit bigger than China.
3) (Students` answer may vary.Encurage them to tell more information.)
2.Make a quiz
Show the following on the screen.
How much do you know about Canada?
1.What language(s) do Canadians speak?
A.English B.English and German C.English and French D.English and Spanish
2.What is the capital of Canada?
A.VancouverB.TorontoC.CalgaryD.Ottawa
3.What is the national animal of Canada?
A.BeaverB.Grizzly bearC.Polar bearD.Penguin
4.What is the Canadian leader called?
A.PresidentB.Prime MinesterC.GovernorD.King
5.How many Great Lakes are there in Canada?
A.4B.3C.5D.6
Let students work in pairs and answer this quiz.Then have them compare their answers with another pair.Give them the correct answers and see how many students got 80﹪or better.
Step 2 Pre-reading
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2.Let students discu the following questions: What is the longer trip you have ever taken? If you take a trip to Canada, what dou you think you might see there? What three words would you use to describe Canada? Have students turn to Page 34 of the text book, look at the title of the reading paage
and the pictures and predict what the paage is about.Then have them read the paage quickly to see if they are right.
Step 3 Reading
1.Fast reading
Ask students to skim the reading paage and then answer the following questions:
1) What is the paage mainly about?
2) What is “The True North”?
3) How many cities are mentioned in the text? What are they?
Three minutes later,check the answers with the whole cla.
Suggested answers:
1) The paage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about
Canada.
2) “The True North”is the train that goes acro Canada.
3) Five.They are Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Thunder Bay and Toronto.
2.Intensive reading
Allow students to read the paage carefully this to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and get the important details, and then finish the following:
1) Choose the best answer to each question according to the text.
(1) As you go eastward, you can see the following things except
A.mountainsB.thousands of lakesC.forests and wide rivers D.cows
(2)Who will take part in the Calgary Stampede?
A.CowboysB, People from Canada
C.Anyone who has a gift for ridingD.Cowboys from all over the world
(3)Which of the following ststements is true?
A.One can cro Canada in le than five days by train.
B.Many people think Calgary is the most beautiful city in Canada.
C.In fact, the population of Canada is more than thirty million.
D.Ocean ships cannot reach Thunder Bay.
(4)Which of the following shows the right route of the cousin`s travel?
A.Toronto→Calgary→Vancouver→Thunder Bay
B.Vancouver→Calgary→Thunder Bay→Toronto
C.Vancouver→Thunder Bay→Calgary→Toronto
D.Toronto→Thunder Bay→Calgary→Vancouver
Suggested answers: (1)D(2)D(3)C(4)B
2) Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
(1) Which continent were the cousins croing?
(2) Why were they not flying directly to the Atlantic coast?
(3) Why is the population of Vancouver growing so rapidly?
(4) What happens at the Calgary Stampede?
(5) How are ocean ships able to reach the center of Canada?
(6) What are some of Canada`s greatest natural resources?
3.Reading and discuing
Read the paage a third time and then work in pairs to discu these questions.
1) Which part of the reading paage interests you most?
2) If someday you go to Canada, where will you go?Why?
(Let students have enough time to read the paage carefully and discu the questions with their partners.Encourage them to expand their answers according to their own experiences.)
4.Dealing with language points
Help students analyze some difficult ,long and complex sentences and gue the mianings of some new words and expreions.Encourage them to try to deal with the language points in the context.Give tehm explanations if neceary.
5 Listening and reading aloud
Ask students to read the paage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciaton of each new word and the pauses within each sentence.Tell them to pick out all the useful expreions or collocations from the paage while reading and copy them to the notebook after cla as homework.Read them aloud and try to learn them by heart.
Collocations: be on a trip to , rather than, take the aeroplane, all the way, take the train, at the airport, on the way to , chat about, as well as, le than, aboard the train, settle down, manage to do, catch sight of, be famous for, have a gift for, thousands of, in prizes, be amazed to do, at the top of, be surprised at, because of, fresh water.Step 4.Consolidation
Give students 10 minutes or so and let them do the following:
1.Work in pairs and fill in the table about the type of writing and summary of the idea.
A TRIP O “THE TRUE NORTH”
Type of writingThis is a piece of narrative writing.
Main idea of the paage Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went on a trip to Canada, visiting their cousins and enjoying the beautiful scenery acro the whole continent of Canada from west to east.
Main idea of Paragraph1 Li Daiyu and her cousin LiuQian were on a trip to Canada.
Main idea of Paragraph2 Having arrived in Vancouver ,the most beautiful city in Canada, they were to be taken to catch”The True North”, the cro-Canada train.
Main idea of Paragraph3 Settling down in their seats in the train, they enjoued the wild scenery while croing the Rockey Mountains to Calgary.
Main idea of Paragraph4 While arriving at Thunder Bay, they learn more about Canada, its population,resources,etc.
Main idea of Paragraph5 The train rushed towards Toronto while they were sleeping.
2..Complete the summary of the story with one word in each blank and then retell the whole story.
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were on aacro Canada.Instead of taking the aeroplanethe way, they would cro the whole continent of Canada in aafter arriving Vancouver by air.
Danny Lin waitedthem at the airport and gave them a briefabout Canada, the secondcountry in the world and Vancouver, the most beautiful city of the country, while taking them tothe train,”The True North”
Having settledin the seats, they looked out of windowthe wild scenery, the mountain goats, and grizzly bear.They went by the city of Calgary andin Thundet Bay, a city at theof the Great Lakes, learning more about Canada of its population resources and so.Their last stop is Toronto, one of the southernmost cities in Canada.
Keys: trip; all; train; for; intoduction; biggest; catch; down; at; arrived; top; on.
Step 5 Homework
1.Learn the useful new words and expreions in this part by heart.
2.Read the reading paage again and try to retell the paage.
板书设计
Unit 5 Canada—“The True North”
Warming up and reading
A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”
Type of writingThis is a piece of narrative writing.
Main idea of PaageLi Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went on a trip to Canada, visiting their cousins and enjoying the beautiful scenery acro the whole continent of Canada from west to east.
Main idea of Paragraph1 Li Daiyu and her cousin LiuQian
trip to Canada.were on a
Main idea of Paragraph2 Having arrived in Vancouver ,the most beautiful city in Canada, they were to be taken to catch”The True North”, the cro-Canada train.Main idea of Paragraph3 Settling down in their seats in the train, they enjoued the wild scenery while croing the Rockey Mountains to Calgary.Main idea of Paragraph4 While arriving at Thunder Bay, they learn more about Canada, its population,resources,etc.
Main idea of Paragraph5 The train rushed towards Toronto while they were sleeping.
