1、The Fourth Period Using Language 【课标解读】本节主要介绍曼哈顿的五个艺术馆的具体位置、收藏品和它们的艺术品所展现的历史等情况。中心内容侧重教会学生借助文章结构来把握文章的信息，借助副标题在地图上标注每个艺术馆的具体位置，借助寻找句子的主语、谓语来帮助把握难句的关键信息。 【教学目标】 1. To read about the best of Manhattans art galleries and develop the students interest in art.2. To help the students improve listening ski
2、lls.3. To enable the students to talk about art galleries and write a letter giving suggestions.【重难点分析】Instruct students to learn how to find the key ideas in sentences.【教学过程】【巧设导语 激发兴趣】 （5 分钟）Step I Lead-in1. Show pictures of some famous art galleries around the world: Chinese Art Gallery, The Fric
3、k Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, British Museum, Louvre Museum in France and so on. 2. Free talk: Have you ever been to any art galleries? What can you see there? Step II Reading （15 分钟）1. Pre reading:Ask Ss to read the passage about art galleries on page 5, and answer th
4、e question: What is the title of the text? What does the map show? What do you think the numbers on the map are for?2. Fast reading: Read the text quickly and answer the questions.How many galleries are featured in this text?What do you think the purpose of this text is?Suggested answers:Five. To gi
5、ve people information about various art galleries in New York and to show them where they are.3. Careful reading: Detailed reading to match the numbers on the map with the names of the museums.Number Museum2 Metropolitan Museum of Art3 Whitney Museum of American Art4 The Frick Collection5 Museum of
6、Modern Art1 Guggenheim Museum4. Post-reading: （1）. Answer the following questions:Who do you think the text was written for?Tourists, art gallery visitors.Where might you see such a text?Possibly in guide book.（2）. Useful phrases1. at the same time 2. all the time 3. every two years 4. admission pri
7、ce5. be well worth a visit 6. appeal to 7. would rather than 8. have a preference for9. lie inStep III Discussing and listening (P7) （7 分钟）.Suppose you were staying in a hotel in Manhattan with Gao Yan, Susan and John. Now if you have a chance to visit art galleries, which galleries do you prefer? W
8、hy?Ask the students to tell the group members which galleries introduced they prefer in groups of 4.Ask the Ss to do some listening practice on page7At first, ask them to listen to the tape for the first time and number the galleries.Next, listen again and answer the questions.At last, check the ans
9、wers with the whole class.Step IV Writing （11 分钟）First, ask the Ss to discuss the questions in Exercise 1 on page 8 in groups of 4, giving their own suggestions and reasons and then write a letter to give their opinions.A business letter is a letter that is written to conduct some kind of business.
10、The business may be an application for a job, a complaint about a product or service, an inquiry, or a letter requesting some kind of action. It is different from a friendly letter in both its format and content. A letter of suggestion usually includes:1. reasons for writing the letter;2. suggestion
11、s;3. conclusion;4. formal end to the letter. Sample writing:Dear Committee Members,I wish to make a suggestion about the kind of art we can put into our new art gallery. Our district is well-known for paper-cutting and the people are very skilled at it. At the moment these people do not have anythin
12、g to display the variety and skill of their craftsmanship. If the skill is lost there may be no record of it. The gallery would Provide them with an opportunity to preserve this skill. If you were to allow them to display their expertise here I believe we could make our district famous and encourage
13、 more tourists to come here. I hope you will consider my suggestion favorably.Yours faithfully,Liu XiaoyeYou hope that there should be some body-building apparatus in your community. Write a letter to the person in charge.Step Homework: （2 分钟）1. Finish the writing task.2. Prepare for the Reading task on page 45.
