A Lively City

A Lively City(XL—Xiao Lli JM--John Martin)XL: It’s great to see you again,john.JM: It’s great to see you! It’s been six years since we last saw each other,you know.And this is the first time I’ve visited your hometown.XL: Yes ,I’m so glad you could come .JM:You know ,I have seen quite a lot of china and I’ve visited some beautiful cities ,but this is one of the most attractive places I’ve been to.It’s so lively, and everyone seems so friendly.XL:Yes ,it’s one of the most intreresting cities on the coast,everyone says so.I feel very fortunate living here.And I love living by the seaside.JM: You live in the northwest of Xiamen ,is that right?XL:Yes ,that’s right.JM:What’s the climate like?XL:Pretty hot and wet in the summer,but it can be quite cold in the winter.JM:Sounds Ok to me.There are a lot of tourists around.Don’t they bother you?XL:Yes, they can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them.JM: Oh, look at that huge apartement block!XL:Yes, they’re just completed it.The rent for an apartment there is very high.JM:I believe you!This area’s so modern !XL:Yes, this is the business district.They’ve put up a lot high-rise buildings recently.And there are some great shopping malls.See,we’re just passing one now .My wife’s just bought a beautiful dress from one of the shops there.JM:Maybe I could buy a few presents there.XL:I’ll take you there tomorrow. Now we’re leaving the business district and approaching the harbour. We’re ehtering the western district, the most intererting part of the city .It’s got some really pretty parks…..JM:It seems lovely. Is that Gulangyu Island,just across the water?XL:Yes, it is .It’s a gorgeous island with some really intereting architecture.JM:So they tell me.Do you think we could stop and walk aroud for a while ?XL:Yes, I was just going to do that.We can park over there .A friend’s told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here. Shall we go there for lunch ?JM:That sounds great.I’m starving!注：:A Lively City一文属于对话课文Ⅰ. Teaching goals:a. Foster the Ss’ability of self-learning.b. Ss learn how to introduce a place, using some of the new words from the text. The new words and expressions in the text:hometown, attractive, fortunate, pretty, sound, tourist, bother, nuisance, rent, district, approach, harbour,gorgeous, architecture, starve, park, put up.c. Cultivate Ss’s love for their hometown and motherland.Ⅱ. Important and difficult points:How to introduce a place.Ⅲ. Teaching aids:CAI facilities, a tape-recorder, and small flagsⅣ. Teaching procedure:(Before class, teacher tells the Ss to learn the text by themselves. They will be checked in class.)Step 1. Check the students on the new words.T: Good morning, boys and girls! Nice to see you again. How are you today?A lively city. (show the topic.)T: Yesterday evening, I told you to learn the text by yourselves, right? Now, I want to know how much you have learnt from the text.What’s the name of the city? Now let’s have a word competition. If you know the word, raise your hand quickly.l Xiamen is an _______ city. (attractive)l One of the nicest things about Xiamen is that it is on the ______.(coast)l A lot of _______visit Xiamen in the summer. (tourists)This is the most famous place in Xiamen, in Chinese, it is called “鼓浪屿”, and in English, it is called “Gulangyu Island”.l Gulangyu Island is a _________ (lovely and beautiful) island with some really interesting __________ (buildings). (gorgeous, architecture)l The _______ (weather) in Xiamen is _____ (very) hot and wet in summer, but it can be quite cold in winter. (climate, pretty)l The business _______ is modern in Xiamen. You can buy all kinds of things in the ______________ (shopping centre).(district, shopping mall)Have you seen the photos before? Xiamen University. Xiamen University is a very famous university in China. Many students want to go to study there. This is the entrance, the main teaching building, the library, and the students’dormitory.l My sister said that she was ________ (lucky) studying in Xiamen University. (fortunate)Step 2. Check the students to see if they know the right order of the text.A. apartment blockB. business districtC. climateD. Gulangyu IslandE. western districtF. location of Xiamen(key: F-C-A-B-E-D)Way of conducting:The first student who gets the right order gets 2 marks for his/her groupStep 3. Check the Ss to see if they know the detailed information in the text.1. John Martin is visiting Xiao Li’s hometown. ( )2. Xiao Li lives in a town to the northwest of Xiamen. ( )3. John and Xiao Li haven’t seen each other for six years. ( )4. John has never been to China before. ( )5. Xiao Li enjoys living on the coast. ( )6. There are very few tourists in the northwest of Xiamen.( )7. There are a lot of new high-rise buildings in Gulangyu Island. ( )8. There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu Island. ( )9. They’re walking around the city. ( )(keys: TFTF TFFT F)Way of conducting:Divided the Ss into 4 groups. The four groups answer the questions in turn –-they have a competition and get marks.Step 4. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.This is the first time John has visited Xiao Li’s _________--- Xiamen. It ____ _____six years ____ they last saw each other.It’s _____ hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. There are so many _____ in the summer that sometimes they can be a _______.In the business district, a lot of high-rise buildings have been _____ recently. They can see some great shopping malls. In the western______, there are some really pretty parks. Gulangyu Island is a gorgeous island with some really interesting __________.Xiamen is an attractive place and it’s a _____ city. Xiao Li feels ________living there.(keys: hometown, has, been, since, pretty, tourists, nuisance, put up, district, architecture, lively, fortunate.) Way of conducting:Each group fill in one paragraph ---Students have a competition and get marks.Step 5. A task:Students Act as tourist guides and introduce places to the tourists.They can introduce Xiamen or another place. Their presentation should include most of the following: location (位置), climate, places of interest, buildings, business districts, special food, etc …Students use as many new words below as possible.attractive, fortunate, pretty, tourist, bother, nuisance, rent, district, gorgeous, architecture, lively…Way of conducting:Students discuss among the groups and present their work. Teacher gives them marks according to how well they perform.Step 6. Homework:1. Surf the internet to know more about Xiamen.2. Write a composition about your favorite place.Ⅴ. Teaching contents on the blackboard.Module 4 A Lively CityGroup 4 Group 3 Group 2 Group 1Topic: A Lively City (Module 4, Reading and Vocabulary) Teaching objectives:★Language objectives:☆To get a general understanding of the reading material☆To be able to say a few words about a similar topic★Skill objectives:☆To be able to summarize the reading material☆To be able to retell the main points in the text★Emotional objectives:☆To build up the love for one’s own cityTeaching focus:To get the gist of the reading material and express oneself on a topic Teaching difficulties:To find out the main points that make a city livelyTeaching aids:Power Point; tape-recorder; handouts;Teaching procedures:A lively cityReading and vocabulary澄迈中学徐小恋Teaching Aims:1.knowledge and skills(1)Develop the student’s reading ability(2) Learn the following words:hometown ,attractive ,fortunate ,pretty ,sound ,touristbother, nuisance ,rent ,district ,approach ,harbor ,gorgeouspark architecture starveLearn the following phases and sentence patternsphases :be made of on the coastput up shopping mallsDrills :It’s been six years since…This is the first time I’ve…You live in the northwest of xiamen,is that right?Pretty hot and wet in the summer but it can be quite cold in winter. It’ a gorgeous island with some…2.Process and Strategies :Train the Ss’ reading skills by dealing with some reading activities.3. Emotion and values:<1>try to raise the Ss’ cooperation awareness<2>request the S s’ to love their homeland and their hometown . Teaching important points;1.Encourage the Ss to talk about buildings.2.Help the make sense of the whole passage.3.Help the Ss to improve their reading ability.Teaching difficult points:1.Lead the Ss to talk in class activity.2.Deal with some difficult language points.Teaching mat.Some pictures the multimedia ﹠a black boardTeaching processStep 1 lead-in通过欣赏歌曲《鼓浪屿之波》引入这节课，同时展示优美的图片谈论鼓浪屿岛。