高中英语选修8 Unit1 Using Language教案

Unit 1 A land of diversity

Period 6 Using Language: Reading and writing Teaching aims:

1.Improve the students’ reading ability (skimming and scanning).

2.Enable the students to grasp the useful words and expressions.

3.Practise the students’ writing.

Teaching important and difficult points:

1.Improve the students’ reading ability (skimming and scanning).

2.Enable the students to grasp the useful words and expressions. Teaching methods:

Reading, discussion, enjoying.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Quickly read George’s diary, write the day he saw these things under the photos.

Step2 Read George’s carefully and answer the questions.

1. Why did Andrew Hallidie invent the cable car system?

2. Where did George eat lunch on his first day in San Francisco?

3. Why did George hire a car? Why do you think he joined up with Terri and Peter?

4. Name three things that visitors can do in Chinatown.

5. What is Alcatraz Island famous for?

Answers: 1.Because he saw a terrible accident in which a tram

slipped down the hill dragging the horses with it.

2. He ate at Fisherman’s Wharf.

3. It was cheaper to hire a car with other people because they could share the cost. Also he probably enjoyed being in the company of other tourists.

4. Eat in Chinese restaurants, go to markets, visit temples and museums.

5. The island was a famous immigration station where many Chinese people applied for right to live in USA.

Step3 Rewrite the diary entry for Tuesday inserting all the missing words.

Step4 Writing

Imagine you are on holiday somewhere. Write an email or a postcard to a friend telling him/her about your trip.

Step 5 Language points

1.Apparently he’d been shocked when he saw a terrible accident in

which a tram slipped down the hill dragging the horses with it.

Apparently ad.

1. 显然地

He was________ much surprised at the news.

他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

2. 表面上,似乎_________ she did not succeed.

看样子她没有成功。

2. Teamed up with a couple from my hotel and hired a car. team up with 与…合作或一起工作,与…结成一队

I __________ Jane to do the job.

我和简合作做这项工作。

Step 6 Homework

1.Read the passage again.

2. Finish the Slimming up table on P9 in your textbooks.