1、 名称： 高一英语教案设计姓名： 张晓英Unit 5 Cananda-“The True North”Period 1 Warming up and reading教学重点1. Let studends read the passage and learn about the geography, populationg, main cities, natural beauty and natural resources of Canada.2. Get students to learn different skills.教学难点1. Develop students reading abi
2、lity.2. Enable students to learn about some basic information and talk about Canada.三维目标知识目标1. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part.2. Let students learn the knowledge of Canada.能力目标1. Develop students reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.2.
3、Let students learn how to read a travelling report and how to use a map.3. Enable students to learn about some basic information and talk about Canada.情感目标1. Stimulate students interest in learning about foreign countries.2. Develop students sense of cooperative learning.教学过程设计方案Step 1 Leading-in an
4、d warming up1. Show a map of Canada to students and talk about Canada. Then ask them the following questions:1) What kind of country is Canada?2) How large is it?3) What else do you know about Canada?Suggested answers:1) Canada is a multicultural country.2) Its the second largest country in the worl
5、d. It covers an area of 9984670 square kilometers. It is a bit bigger than China.3) (Students answer may vary. Encurage them to tell more information.)2. Make a quizShow the following on the screen.How much do you know about Canada?1. What language(s) do Canadians speak?A. English B. English and Ger
6、man C. English and French D. English and Spanish2. What is the capital of Canada?A. Vancouver B. Toronto C. Calgary D. Ottawa3. What is the national animal of Canada?A. Beaver B. Grizzly bear C. Polar bear D. Penguin4. What is the Canadian leader called?A. President B. Prime Minester C. Governor D.
7、King5. How many Great Lakes are there in Canada?A. 4 B. 3 C. 5 D. 6Let students work in pairs and answer this quiz. Then have them compare their answers with another pair. Give them the correct answers and see how many students got 80or better. Step 2 Pre-reading1. Let students discuss the following
8、 questions:1) What is the longer trip you have ever taken?2) If you take a trip to Canada, what dou you think you might see there?3) What three words would you use to describe Canada?2. Have students turn to Page 34 of the text book, look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures and pred
9、ict what the passage is about. Then have them read the passage quickly to see if they are right.Step 3 Reading1. Fast readingAsk students to skim the reading passage and then answer the following questions:1) What is the passage mainly about?2) What is “The True North”?3) How many cities are mention
10、ed in the text? What are they?Three minutes later,check the answers with the whole class.Suggested answers:1) The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada.2) “The True North”is the train that goes across Canada.3) Five. They are Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary
11、, Thunder Bay and Toronto.2. Intensive readingAllow students to read the passage carefully this to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and get the important details, and then finish the following:1) Choose the best answer to each question according to the text.(1) As you go eastward, you can
12、 see the following things except A. mountains B. thousands of lakes C. forests and wide rivers D. cows(2)Who will take part in the Calgary Stampede?A. Cowboys B, People from Canada C. Anyone who has a gift for riding D. Cowboys from all over the world(3)Which of the following ststements is true?A. O
13、ne can cross Canada in less than five days by train.B. Many people think Calgary is the most beautiful city in Canada.C. In fact, the population of Canada is more than thirty million.D. Ocean ships cannot reach Thunder Bay.(4)Which of the following shows the right route of the cousins travel?A. Toro
14、ntoCalgaryVancouverThunder BayB. Vancouver CalgaryThunder BayTorontoC. Vancouver Thunder BayCalgary TorontoD. TorontoThunder BayCalgaryVancouverSuggested answers: (1)D (2)D (3)C (4)B2) Answer the following questions in complete sentences.(1) Which continent were the cousins crossing?(2) Why were the
15、y not flying directly to the Atlantic coast?(3) Why is the population of Vancouver growing so rapidly?(4) What happens at the Calgary Stampede?(5) How are ocean ships able to reach the center of Canada?(6) What are some of Canadas greatest natural resources?3. Reading and discussingRead the passage
16、a third time and then work in pairs to discuss these questions.1) Which part of the reading passage interests you most?2) If someday you go to Canada, where will you go?Why?(Let students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the questions with their partners. Encourage them to e
17、xpand their answers according to their own experiences.)4. Dealing with language pointsHelp students analyze some difficult ,long and complex sentences and guess the mianings of some new words and expressions. Encourage them to try to deal with the language points in the context. Give tehm explanati
18、ons if necessary.5 Listening and reading aloudAsk students to read the passage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciaton of each new word and the pauses within each sentence. Tell them to pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and co
19、py them to the notebook after class as homework. Read them aloud and try to learn them by heart.Collocations: be on a trip to , rather than, take the aeroplane, all the way, take the train, at the airport, on the way to , chat about, as well as, less than, aboard the train, settle down, manage to do
20、, catch sight of, be famous for, have a gift for, thousands of, in prizes, be amazed to do, at the top of, be surprised at, because of, fresh water.Step 4. ConsolidationGive students 10 minutes or so and let them do the following:1.Work in pairs and fill in the table about the type of writing and su
21、mmary of the idea.A TRIP O “THE TRUE NORTH”Type of writing This is a piece of narrative writing.Main idea of the passage Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went on a trip to Canada, visiting their cousins and enjoying the beautiful scenery across the whole continent of Canada from west to east.Main id
22、ea of Paragraph1 Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada.Main idea of Paragraph2 Having arrived in Vancouver ,the most beautiful city in Canada, they were to be taken to catch”The True North”, the cross-Canada train.Main idea of Paragraph3 Settling down in their seats in the train,
23、 they enjoued the wild scenery while crossing the Rockey Mountains to Calgary.Main idea of Paragraph4 While arriving at Thunder Bay, they learn more about Canada, its population,resources,etc.Main idea of Paragraph5 The train rushed towards Toronto while they were sleeping.2.Complete the summary of
24、the story with one word in each blank and then retell the whole story.Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were on a across Canada. Instead of taking the aeroplane the way, they would cross the whole continent of Canada in a after arriving Vancouver by air.Danny Lin waited them at the airport and gave them a brief
25、 about Canada, the second country in the world and Vancouver, the most beautiful city of the country, while taking them to the train,”The True North” Having settled in the seats, they looked out of window the wild scenery, the mountain goats, and grizzly bear. They went by the city of Calgary and in
26、 Thundet Bay, a city at the of the Great Lakes, learning more about Canada of its population resources and so . Their last stop is Toronto, one of the southernmost cities in Canada.Keys: trip; all; train; for; intoduction; biggest; catch; down; at; arrived; top; on.Step 5 Homework1. Learn the useful
27、 new words and expressions in this part by heart.2. Read the reading passage again and try to retell the passage.板书设计Unit 5 Canada“The True North”Warming up and readingA TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”Type of writing This is a piece of narrative writing.Main idea of Passage Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian
28、 went on a trip to Canada, visiting their cousins and enjoying the beautiful scenery across the whole continent of Canada from west to east.Main idea of Paragraph1 Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada.Main idea of Paragraph2 Having arrived in Vancouver ,the most beautiful city i
29、n Canada, they were to be taken to catch”The True North”, the cross-Canada train.Main idea of Paragraph3 Settling down in their seats in the train, they enjoued the wild scenery while crossing the Rockey Mountains to Calgary.Main idea of Paragraph4 While arriving at Thunder Bay, they learn more about Canada, its population,resources,etc.Main idea of Paragraph5 The train rushed towards Toronto while they were sleeping.
