普通高中课程标准实验教科书—英语必修一[外研版]
Teaching plan Module Four
A Social Survey-My Neighbourhood Teaching Aims:
1. Knowledge and Skill
a. Through introducing some places, develop the students’ ability to take part in different activities. b. Train the ability of collecting and dealing with information, and develop their abilities of getting
new information, communication and cooperation. c. Learn to describe some buildings and places.
d. Discussing some sentences and getting the students to know the grammar: present perfect tense.
2.Emotion and Values
a. Make the students know the society, care for the people around them and the society. b. To help them know their hometown well and prepare to make contributions in future
3. Cross-cultural awareness:
a. To help them know the differences and similarities of the problems in villages between Europe and
China.
4. Character-building:
a. To help them describe the city they live in and cultivate the emotion of loving and care b. To let them know the importance of cooperating with others in a group
Difficulties and Importance:
a. Enable the students to understand the passage clearly and learn to describe their city. b. Enable the students to grasp the Present perfect tense. c. Learn the ways of introducing one place.
Teaching Method:
a. Task-based methodology b. Communicative Approach
Teaching Procedures: Period 1
Teaching Content: Vocabulary and writing and Function and Speaking Step 1 Warming-up(brainstorming)
a. Before opening the books, think about the neighborhood you live in. Try to think out as many words as possible about buildings.
stone, bricks, high-rise building, apartment, floor, flat, storey… b. Turn to page 31. Read the words in Activity 1.
Now tell me which words do you use to describe buildings?
apartment, apartment block, five-story,
high-rise building, floor, stone.
c Write three or four sentences describing your home. Use the words given above.
Step 2 Read about the homes of the two students. Tell us which one is more similar to yours. What kind of home do you like? Why? Step 3 Showing position and direction
a. Answer the questions. Use the words in the brackets. 1. Where is Tian’anmen Square? (middle, Beijing) 2. Where are the British Isles? (continental Europe)
3. Is Guangzhou in the east of China? (south)
4. What part of China is the city Urumqi in? (northwest)
5. Do you know where the Summer Palace is? (suburb, Beijing)
6. Can you see the high-rise buildings of Pudong from the Bund? (across the water) b. work in pairs.
Student A: You have just moved to Student B’s neighbourhood. Ask him or her questions about it and ask for direction.
Example: Where are the local shops? Are people friendly round here?
Student B: Answer student A’s questions. Give him or her as much useful information as you can about your neighborhood and give directions. Homework:
Preview the article: A Lively City
Additional resources How to give direction
1. —Excuse me, could you tell me the way to the cinema? 对不起，请问到电影院怎么走？
—Go down the street and turn right at the first crossing. 沿着这条街往前走，在第一个十字路口右拐。
2. —Excuse me, would you mind telling me where the nearest bank is? 对不起,您介意告诉我最近的银行在哪儿吗？
—Not at all. Follow this road until you come to a book-store. 一点儿也不介意。顺着这条路一直走到书店处。
3. —Excuse me, how can I get to the post office? 对不起, 请问去邮局怎么走？ —Go this way about ten minutes. When you see a bank, turn left.
It’s opposite the bank. 往这条路走约十分钟。当你看到银行时左转弯。它就在银行对面。 4. —Excuse me, is this the right way to the park? 对不起,去公园是不是走这条路？ —I’m afraid you’re going in the opposite direction. 恐怕你方向走反了。
5. —Excuse me, which way is to the Bank of China? 对不起, 请问去中国银行走哪条路？ —Take bus No. 92, and get off at the next stop. 坐92路公共汽车，到下一站下车。 6. —I’m a stranger here. Would you please tell me how to get to this address?
我对这儿人生地疏。请问到这个地址怎么走？
—I’m sorry; I’m new around here, too. I saw a policeman standing under the traffic lights. He will be
able to help you.
对不起，这儿我也不熟悉。我刚才看到交通灯下有个警察，他会帮助你的。 7. —Excuse me, which bus goes to the World Park?
对不起，请问哪一班公共汽车到世界公园？
—Take No. 4 bus to Peace Road and change there to No. 8 bus. 坐4路公共汽车到和平路，然后在那儿换乘8路车。
8. —Could you direct me to the post office? 你能指给我去邮局的路吗？
—It’s about two stoplights from here. The best way to get there is to take a bus. 距离这里大约有两个交通灯的路程。去那儿最佳的方式是坐公共汽车。 9. —How far is it from here to your school? 从这儿到你的学校有多远？ —It’s about two miles away. 大约两英里远。
10.—Which direction is the nearest bank? 最近的银行在哪个方向？ —It’s in the direction of south. It’s about five minutes’ walk from here.
在南面。从这儿步行约五分钟。
Period 2
Teaching Content:R eading and Vocabulary
Step 1 Pre-reading
a. Ask the students some questions. Then ask some pairs to report their answers in the class. 1. How big is your house?
2. Where is your house located? 3. Is it close to your school?
4. Is it close to your parents’ places of work? 5. Do you like the neighborhood? 6. Do you have good neighbors?
7. Are there parks or other public facilities nearby? 8. Is there good public transportation? 9. Are their markets and shops nearby?
b. Show Students a picture of a city. And ask them to answer the following questions? 1. Do you know where this place is? 2. Have you ever been to Xiamen or
have you heard Xiam en? 3. What do you know about it?
4. Suppose I want to know something about a city.
What should you tell me about it? Step 2 Detail Reading
a. Listen to the tape and choose the correct answers. 1.John Martin is visiting ___________.
(a) Xiao Li’s hometown (b) a town near where Xiao Li lives (c) a shopping mall
2. Xiao Li lives _________. (a) on the island of Gulangyu (b) in
Xiamen (c) in a town to the northwest of Xiamen
3. John and Xiao Li are_____
(a) at Xiao Li’s home (b) driving around the city in a car (c) on a train
suggested answers : a b b
b. Read the passage and answer the following questions: 1. Who is visiting whose hometown? 2. Where does Xiao Li live?
3. What’s the climate/weather like there?
4. Which district is the most interesting part of Xiamen? 5. What is Gulangyu Island like? Step 3 Post-reading
a. Read a lively city again. And judge the following sentences True or False. 1. John and Xiao Li haven’t seen each other for six years. 2. John has never been to China before. 3.xiao Li enjoys living on the coast.
普通高中课程标准实验教科书英语必修一[外研版]
