1、Period 2: Reading学习目标：1.知识和技能：了解交通工具的词汇，并能描述旅行2.情感态度：感受旅行的美3.培养快速和准确获取文本信息的能力学习重点：了解交通工具的词汇，并能描述旅行学习难点：良好阅读习惯和阅读能力的培养课前预习使用说明与学法指导：1. 了解背景知识加深对文章的理解2. 15 分钟之内完成教材助读：高考满分作文欣赏On May Day, Li Yue and Zhang Hua, students from Class Three, Grade Two, went to Sunshine Nursing Home and did some voluntary wo
2、rk.Upon their arrival, Li Yue and Zhang Hua were warmly welcomed, and respectfully, they presented the elderly with flowers and fruit. Then, they started working at once, cleaning the windows and sweeping the floor.Everything done, they sat in the yard chatting with the elderly people. When it was t
3、ime for the volunteers to leave, the elderly people thanked them for their kindness They said it was such a beautiful day that they would remember it forever.Li Yue and Zhang Hua were very happy. What they did has brought joy to others and enriched their own lives.预习自测：1do you think 在句中作插入语(你认为怎么样)t
4、he central part of the country is like?2what 引导的感叹句And (一次多么美妙的乘车经历啊)!3Would you mind 你介意吗？doing sth？if I did sth？ )Would_you_mindshowing me your ticket？if I saw your ticket？ （ 请 出 示 ） )我的疑问：_课内探究质 疑探究：I. Read the passage and answer the following questions:1）Did Alice travel on the train a long time
5、 ago?2）Was her destination on the coast of Australia?3）Was the scenery the same during the whole journey?4）Did she study while she was on the train?5）Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country?6）Do they still use camels to deliver goods?II. Read the passage and get t
6、he general idea of each paragraph.Para.1: _Para.2: _Para.3: _Para.4:_Para.5: _Para.6: _当堂检测：Fill in the blanks with proper wordsAlice, a_ girl, _ Sydney, Australia. Recently, _ a friend she had her first _ on a _ train. They spent two days and nights on the Ghan train. The meals _ by experts were gr
7、eat and the _ was very _.They first saw fields _ dark red soil, and then the _. There were even some _farms _ more than a hundred years ago. During the day, she _ of the window. _, she reading books or _ to some cassettes. _, she watched the stars _ like diamonds. The reason _the train is called the
8、 Ghan is that _ camels from Afghanistan _ once _ carry food and other supplies. _, a new railway line was built and the camels _needed _.课后反思：_课后训练阅读理解I have a rule for travel： Never carry a map. I prefer to ask for directions. Foreign visitors are often puzzled (迷惑的)in Japan because most streets th
9、ere dont have names. In Japan, people use landmarks in their directions instead of street names. For example，the Japanese will say to travelers， “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.”In the countryside of
10、the American Midwest, usually there are not many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat (平坦的). In many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distance. In Kansas or Iowa，for example，people will say， “Go nort
11、h two miles. Turn east，and then go another mile. ”People in Los Angeles, California，have no idea of distance on the map. They measure (测量 ) distance by means of time, not miles. “How far away is the post office？” you ask. “Oh， ” they answer, “its about five minutes from here.” You say, “Yes, but how
12、 many miles away is it？” They dont know.People in Greece sometimes do not even try to give directions because very few visitors understand the Greek language. Instead of giving you the direction, a Greek will often say， “Follow me.” Then hell lead you through the streets of the city to the post offi
13、ce. Sometimes a person doesnt know the answer to your question. What happens in this situation? A New Yorker might say， “Sorry，I have no idea.” But in Yucatan，Mexico，no one answers， “I dont know.” People in Yucatan think that “I dont know” is impolite. They usually give an answer，often a wrong one.
14、A visitor can get very，very lost in Yucatan!1. Why dont Greeks sometimes tell the visitors directions?A. Because most of their streets have no names.B. Because Greek is difficult for most visitors to understand.C. Because they have no landmarks.D. Because they have no idea of distance.2. The text ma
15、inly tells us that _.A. there are different ways to give directions in different parts of the worldB. ways of giving directions show whether a person is clever or notC. there are few landmarks in the American MidwestD. we should never carry a map for travel3The underlined word “landmarks” ( Paragrap
16、h 1) means _.A. hotels，markets and bus stopsB. a piece of land used as a marketC. a piece of land marked on the mapD. buildings or places which are easily recognized4. What can we infer from the text?A. Travelers can learn about peoples customs by asking questions about directions.B. Usually people share one way of giving directions in the same country.C. Nobody will give you wrong directions when you ask them the way.D. People of Los Angeles are best at showing ways.
