高中英语Module 4 Period 1 Introduction and Reading外研版必修1

Module Four A Social Survey --- My Neighbourhood
Part One Teaching design
第一部分教学设计
Aims and requirements
•To develop the students’ reading ability
•To listen and speak using the vocabulary and everyday English in this unit
•To learn and use grammars correctly
•To write a report about recent changes in your neighbourhood
Teaching procedures
Period 1: Production and Reading
Step 1: Warming up
1.Warming up by showing some pictures and discussing some questions.
1. Which one do you like best? Why?
2. Warming up by showing some pictures about buildings to lead in some new words.
Apartment:a set of rooms in Apartment block
A building, usually on one floor High-rise building
skyscrapers
five-storey
brick
second-floor
1. Read about the homes of the two students on page 31. Which one is more similar to yours?
2. Think about three or four sentences describing your home
3. Work in pairs and compare your homes
3. Warming up by studying vocabulary
Turn to page 114, and study the vocabulary list for Unit Four, paying attention to the relationship between the spelling and the pronunciation.
Step 2: Pre-reading
1. Imagining
Now, imagine you are living in one of the most interesting cities on the coast, and there are very beautiful sceneries around it and it is a good place for visiting, and then tell me how your feeling is.
2. Introduce some new words
Show the following new words from the text and ask the students to read them all together twice while
Ok, we are to have a spelling quiz. Read every sentence and write out a word in the box above, using a proper form of the words.
1) As you ______ the town the first building you see is the church.
2) Don ’t ______ your father now ; he is very tired.
3) London is full of _____ in the summer.
4) She is ____ enough to enjoy good health.
5) They got lost in the desert and ____ to death.
6) The noise was so loud that it was a ____ to the neighbours.
7) That music ____ beautiful.
(Keys : approach, bother, tourists, fortunate, starved, nuisance, sounds )
Step 3: Reading
1. Leading-in
After discussing something about our homes, our neighbourhood , we restudied some new words in this
unit ,maybe I think everyone is eager to live in a city with beautiful sceneries around it .Now ,today let’s come to one city in the northwest of Xiamen. The passage will introduce something about the city. I guess most of you must hope to visit it after reading it.
2. Fast reading
Now, let’s read the text together and then answer the following questions:
1) Is this John Martin’s first time to visit Xiao Li’s hometown?
2) What’s the climate like in Xiamen?
3) Do the tourists bother Xiao Li ?
4) Where is the most interesting part of the city ?
5) From the dialogue, can you tell me something about Gulangyu Island?
Group work:
Put the sentences in the right order according to this dialogue.
( ) There are a lot of high-rise buildings recently in the business district;
( ) The climate in Xiamen is pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in winter ;
( ) There are a lot of tourists in summer;
( ) Gulangyu Island is a gorgeous island with really interesting architecture. It lies in the western of this city; ( ) Xiamen is a city on the coast.
( Key: 4. 2. 3. 5. 1 )
3. Listening to the tape of the text and try to find the following new words appearing in the passage and then use some of them to complete these sentences.
1) A lot of ____ visit Xiamen in the summer.
2) The parks in the ____ district are very pretty.
3) I can’t listen because of the noise. What a _______!
4) The ____ for a modern apartment in Xiamen is usually very expensive.
5) Which ____ of the city does Xiao Li live in?
6) If we _____ the car over there , we can go for a walk along the harbour.
( Keys: tourists, coast, nuisance, rent , district, park )
4. Detailed reading for information
A. Read the passage and choose the correct answers.
1)John Martin is visiting _____ .
a. Xiao Li’s hometown
b. a town near where Xiao Li lives
c. a shopping mall
2) Xiao Li lives _____.
a. on the island of Gulangyu
b. in Xiamen
c. in a town to the northwest of Xiamen
3) John and Xiao Li are _____ .
a. at Xiao Li’s home
b. driving around the city in a car
c. on a train
( Keys: 1.a 2. c 3.b )
B. Read the passage again and decide whether the following statements are True or False.
1). John and Xiao Li haven’t seen each other for six years.
2) John has never been to China before.
3) Xiao Li enjoys living on the coast.
4) There are very few tourists in the northwest of Xiamen.
5) There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu Island.
( Keys: 1. T 2. F 3. T 4.F 5.F 6. T )
Step 4: Reading practice
Read the following passage within 5 minutes and make a better choice to each problem.
If you walk slowly through downtown Helsinki(赫尔辛基) during the day, taking in the splendid 19th century buildings, white boats and noise of passing trams (有轨电车) ,you will start to understand why it is called a city of two colors : white and blue.
The sea is always present in Helsinki. When you take a walk over the great open space of the central square, you will hear seabirds screaming. When you take the tram, suddenly and unexpectedly, you are faced with a calm, shining blue sea. You may notice that people in Helsinki do not rush about as in other cities. Instead, they walk along the roads, politely letting other people by.
A usual way to see Helsinki for the first time is to start out by the boats .You will walk by the elderly women selling fish and vegetables in the market square and find yourself in front of a beautiful park .You may enjoy a pleasant walk in the park for a few hours and then take the tram. Trams are the perfect way to get around in Helsinki. Watching the old houses, parks, theatres, churches, shops, restaurants and people in the streets, you may have a slightly sad feeling to it.
The pale summer nights are another wonder in the city. Following the waterfront (滨水区) of the city after sunset, you couldn’t help stopping and listening to the sweet silence ,interrupted only by the screaming seabirds and leaving fishing boats.
However, in some way, Helsinki is also the most modern city in northern Europe. You will surely want to visit the white Glass Palace, the modern art museum, and all those extremely popular cafes and design stores.
1.Helsinki is called a city of two colors mainly because of the colors of its _____.
A.19th century buildings, boats and parks
B.19th century buildings, boats and seabird
C.old houses, parks and trams
D.old buildings, boats and the sea
2.The best way to see most of Helsinki is to go ____.
A. by boat
B. by bus
C. by tram
D. on foot
3.The 19th century buildings, the white Glass Palace, popular cafes and design shops in Helsinki all show that
Helsinki is _____.
A. both splendid and traditional
B. both quiet and noisy
C. both historical and modern
D. both old and new
4.This passage is most likely to be found in ____.
A. a story-book
B. a geography textbook
C. a research report
D. a travel magazine
(Keys: 1.D 2.C 3.C. 4.D )
Step 5: Homework
1.Retell the text in your own words.
2.Learn the new words again using the dictionary if necessary.
3.Preview the Grammar part of this unit。