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Teaching plan

Module Six

Old and New

Teaching Aims:

1. Knowledge and Skill

a.Talk about the great building projects in world history.

b.Write a news bulletin about changes that have taken place in your region.

c.Grasp the usage of some adjectives to express their strong feelings.

d.To get them familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the Three Gorges Dam

e.Understand and grasp the usage of Non-defining relative clauses and contraction of relative clauses. and Values

a.To get them familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the Three Gorges Dam and believe that it

will make a great contribution to our society and next generation.

b.To make them know something about their hometown and cultivate their feelings of loving the place

where they were born

3. Cross-cultural awareness:

a.Know something about Chinese and foreign tallest buildings or projects and take famous construction

projects as a topic to communicate with the foreign friends orally

b.Understand the development and changes of our times, broaden their outlook, and strengthen the

consciousness of the world and responsibilities of era.

4. Character-building:

a.To help them know more about the Three Gorges Dam and know the importance of the western

development of their motherland.

b.To let them know the importance of cooperating with others in a group.

Difficulties and Importance:

a. Use the adjectives to express strong feelings freely.

b. Help the students understand the text exactly and retell the text in students’ own words.

c.Master the usage of Non-defining relative clauses and contraction of relative clauses.

Teaching Method:

a.Task-based methodology

municative Approach

Teaching Time:

Five periods:

Period 1 vocabulary and speaking

Speaking

Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary

Period 3 Grammar 1 Non-defining relative clauses

Pronunciation

Period 4 Grammar 2 contraction of relative clauses.

Listening and Vocabulary

Period 5 Cultural corner

Function and Everyday English

Writing

Teaching Procedures:

Period 1

Step 1. Warming up

a.Brainstorming

you think of some famous big projects in China？

should be taken into consideration when a big project is planned？

Some possible answers：

Q1.（1）the Great Wall

（2）the Grand Canal

（3）Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors

（4）the Summer Palace

（5）the Three Gorges Dam

Q2.（1）aim

（2）environment

（3）pollution

（4）how it will affect local people

（5）advantages and disadvantages

b.Lead-in

Work in pairs. Discuss these questions with you partner.

Q1. How far is the Great Wall of China from where you live?

Q2. Which is the biggest airport in the country?

Q3. Is there a dam near your town?

Q4. Do you know the name of the reservoir that provides water for your town?

Step 2. Reading

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

Q1. How long was the original Great Wall of China?

Q2. Where does the wall start and end now?

Q3. How many passengers is the Chek Lap Kok Airport designed to accommodate a year?

Q4. What’s the length of the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam?

Q5. Have you ever visited any of the places in the passage?

Q6. Which one is the nearest to your town or city?

Q7. What other things do you know about them?

Suggested answers:

1.6300 kilometres long.

2.the easteren end of the wall is at Shanhaiguan. In the west, it ends near the town of Jaiyuguan.

3.80 million passengers a year.

4.more than 500 kilometres long.

5.Open.

6.Open.

7.Open.

Step 3 Speaking

Work in groups of four. Discuss the following questions.

1.The Three Gorges Dam has caused the disappearance of many towns and villages. What do you

think about this?