一、教学目的:
1. Talk about New Zealand
2. Talk about location and directions
3. Learn to use “it” as subject
4. Write a description of a country or region.
二、教学重点:
1. Learn to talk about location and direction.
2. Improve the students’ listening and speaking abilities.
三、教学难点:
1. Improve the students’ listening and speaking abilities and the useful eXPressions about location.
四、教学时数: 6 学时,其中实践性教学 学时。
五、习题:
Finish the excises in the workbook.
六、教学后记:
七.教学步骤
PartI.Warming up & speaking & listening
. Greetings and lead-in.
Talk about “What’s the world made up of and Where’s New Zealand? ”
Warming up.
1. Look at a map of China and be familiar with the words about directions and locations.
2. Go on looking at the map and lead the students to use the useful eXPressions to say different places’ locations.
In the north/ south/east/west of …
to the north/south/east/west of …
in the northern/southern/eastern /western part of…
3.Ask each student to use the eXPression to make up sentences and the other students try to guess the name of the place.
Listening
Listen to the example dialogue and answer questions.
1). Did A’s great-grand father and mother come from the same place? Where are they from?
2). Where’s Weihai and where’s Shentong?
2. Teacher uses the useful eXPressions to talk about her parents or herself.
3. Ss make similar dialogues then make performance.
Look at the map and talk about it.
1). What can you learn about Dolphin Island from the map?
2). What was it made up of?
Listen to the tape and find the answers.
Part II.Reading
1. Reading
Pre-reading.
Discuss the question: “If you would like to introduce a country or a place, what will you talk about?”
Fast-reading.
Read the text quickly and find the main idea of each part, if the students can’t teacher can show the following key word on the blackboard and ask the students to find the right paragraphs.
A- Natural beauty B-Climate C-history D- geography
Careful reading.
1. listen to paragraph one and then ask the students to look at the map and describe the location of some places.
2.About Para. ,answer questions.
What kind of climate does the New Zealand have?
Which month is the warmest season and which is the coldest season?
3. Ask the students to find some details of the paragraph and then retell it.
What natural beauties are talked about? Please find out the words used to describe them?
4.Find the people who have visited or settled here, then put them into right order.. Post-reading.
Finish the other exercises in this part.
2. Learn the new words and grammar in the text.
1. 表示方位的词汇:
(n) east west north south
southeast northeast southwest northwest
(adj) eastern western northern southern
northeastern northwestern
southeastern southwestern central
2.表示方位的句子:
Japan is to the east of China.
Japan lies to the east of China.
Japan lies east of China.
人教版高一SB1 Unit18 New Zealand