人教版高中英语必修三Unit 5 Canada---The true north 教学设计

Unit 5 Canada--The true north 教学设计 Teaching aims: 1. Talk about the basic information about Canada. 2. Learn how to read a traveling report and use maps. 3. Learn to express locations and directions. 4. Master the noun clauses-- appositive clause 5. Vocabulary: minister, continent, surround, dawn, booth, slightly, settle down, have a gift for, figure out, as far as, all the way, rather than Warming up and reading Step Ⅰ Revision 1. Check the students’ homework 2. Check the assignment. Step Ⅱ Lead-in and warming up Show the students the maple flag and ask them some questions. T: Do you know which country uses this national flag? Ss: Canada. T: What continent is Canada in? Ss: In North America. T: How large is it? Ss: It is the second largest country in the world. T: Yes. It occupies an area of 9,984,670 square kilometers. It is a bit bigger than China. Which country is its neighbor? Ss: The United States. (Show a map of Canada to the students) T. Right. The United States is . Canada is a beautiful country. First let’s have a quiz and see how much do you know about Canada. ( Give the Ss one minute to finish the quiz.) T: OK. Time is up. Let’s check the answers. 1.C 2.D 3.A 4.B 5.A Step Ⅲ Pre-reading T: Now I want to ask you a question: Do you like travelling? Ss: Yes. T: I know most of you do. So have you ever been abroad? Ss: Yes/No. T: What’s the longest trip you have ever taken? … T: Very good. If we want to make our motherland more beautiful and more developed, we should know more about other countries. Here are two questions, you may ask your partner for answers and give your answers to him/her. a. If you take a trip to Canada, what do you expect to see? b. What three words would you use to describe Canada? (Ask some pairs to tell their ideas to their classmates.) Step Ⅳ Fast reading Get the students to read the passage quickly and accurately and meanwhile help the students to form a good habit of reading. T: Do you feel puzzled when you read the title? What is the true north? Now read the passage and get the general idea of the passage. Underline the main places mentioned in the text. Give the Ss 5 minutes for reading. a. What the passage is mainly about? b. What are the main places mentioned in the text? c. Draw the traveling route of the two girls on the map. T: Do you have any difficulty in reading? Now let’s discuss some difficult points together. Step Ⅴ Homework 1. Remember the underlined sentence. 2. Write a short passage to report what Li Daiyu and Liu Qian saw in Canada. Using language Step Ⅰ Revision 1. Have a dictation. 2. Ask two students to write on the blackboard. 3. Ask one student to make a short report. Step Ⅱ Lead-in T: Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were on the train yesterday. The train rushed across the top of the Lake Superior. Which is the next city it runs towards? Ss: Toronto. T: Toronto is an important city. It is the finance center of Canada. It has rich popular arts and culture. How much do you know about To ... ...