Book 4 Unit 4 阅读 教案 (2)

Period 1

Contents:

1. V ocabulary

disorder, pack, cab, relative, arouse, admiration, admire, neighbourhood, neighbour, blindness, technically, technical, skyscraper, symbolize, symbol, mobile, suitable, suit, kingdom, Indonesian, advanced

2. Structure

arrive in, packs of, struggle for, worry about, become friends with, be blessed for, not at all, translate…into…,dig into, make a decision

3. Dialogue or Reading: China in my eyes

Objectives:

1. Instructional objectives (language knowledge and language skills)

1) To talk about countries and regions

2) To practise skimming and scanning.

2. Educational objectives (affect, learning strategy and cultural awareness)

1) To know China in foreigners’ eyes

2) To know the communication between language and culture.

3. Personal objectives

Learn to introduce your country to foreigners and love your country.

Focal points:

How to introduce a country or region.

Difficult points:

1)How to improve students’ reading ability

2)How to improve students’ spoken English.

Procedures and Time Allotment

Stage 1 Getting students ready for learning ( … mins)

Step 1. Greetings

Greet everyone as usual.

Stage 2 Pre-stage (… mins)

Step 1 V ocabulary presentation and practice

disorder, pack, cab, relative, arouse, admiration, admire, neighbourhood, neighbour, blindness, technically, technical, skyscraper, symbolize, symbol, mobile, suitable, suit, kingdom, Indonesian, advanced

Step 2 Structure presentation and practice (not always)

arrive in, packs of, struggle for, worry about, become friends with, be blessed for, not at all, translate…into…,dig into, make a decision

Stage 3 While-stage

Step 1 lead in

Nowadays more and more foreigners come to visit china. If you are a guide and you want to introduce your country to foreigners, what aspects will you say?

Task:1. How much do you know about china? Match the information in both columns.

(on the screen)

Task 2. make up a dialogue between a Chinese and a foreigner who is visiting China for the first time. You may use the information above.

You may begin your conversation like this:

A: Would you please tell me something a bout …

B: Too much to say. China has a long and amazing history and culture…

But I was most impressed by …

A: Is that so? Tell me more about it. I can’t wait!

B: …

Step 2. fast reading

1.What are mainly mentioned in the passage? Tick the words below.

people√ history and culture√ population land

places of interest natural resources construction √ food

2. What’s China like in his eyes?

In my eyes, China is a very big developing country…

Step 3 careful reading

Read the passage again and finish the exercises.

1.Read the article carefully and fill in the missing information.

In the eyes of the writer,

China is than other places.

Chinese people are and .

China is a country, with and in every corner of the streets; skyscrapers , vehicles of all sorts are

Is the best decision he’s made.

2.Read the article again and answer the following questions.

1)Where do you think the writer comes from?

2)How do you understand the sentence “everyone around me was just like

myself, an ordinary Chinese” in Para. 1?

3)What does “this” in line 5, Para 2 refer to?

4)What does the underlined sentence in Para. 3 mean? Give your

understanding by completing the following sentence.

I simply told them that

5)What does the underlined part in Para. 4 mean? Choose one answer from the

following.

A.I never have the interest in reading.

B.I have always had the interest in reading.

C.I never read because of lack of interest.

6)What does “others” in Line 4, Para. 4 refer to?

Stage 4 Post-stage (… mins)

Step 1. Oral work

Suppose the writer is back to his own country, and he is now talking with one of his friends about China. Role-play the following dialogue with your partner.

Tina: Hi! I thought you were in china!

Writer: Yes, but I came back the day before yesterday.

Tina: how do you like china?

Writer: oh, marvelous! …

Stage 5 Assigning homework

Write a letter to a foreigner to tell sth about China.

1. When I arrived in Guangzhou, I was surprised by the restlessness and disorder of the people rushing in and out, carrying packs of luggage and struggling for a taxi.

= Arriving at Guangzhou, I was shocked by the restlessness and disorder of the people rushing in and out, carrying packs of luggage and struggling for a taxi.

1)restlessness n.

less: careless homeless fearless hopeless

ness: carelessness illness happiness greatness

2) struggle vi

努力，奋斗，同……斗争（against; with; for）

We must struggle against/with all sorts of difficulties.

King has been struggling for the equal rights for the blacks all his life.

挣扎，奋力前进，艰难或者奋力的进行（along; through; in; on; up）

The old man was struggling along the path towards the cave.

The troops were struggling through the snowstorm.

He struggled up and wanted to say something.

n. 斗争；战斗；奋斗；拼搏；战争；费劲的事

this book was about the struggle for existence.

The struggle for independence was long and hard.

2. …:fear, doubt, and worry about being a stranger here all at once disappeared.

1) being a stranger here

I’m thinking of spending my holiday abroad.

Don’t worry about living in the remote country, the people there are very friendly.

2)all at once=suddenly=all of a sudden

all at once he had an idea in his mind.

3. I have known many Chinese here and become best friends with some.

Become friends with sb.

As a good teacher, he should become friends with his students.

I became the best friends with some of the local people while living in Australia.

1) be friends with

Make friends with

Keep friends with

Make friends of

Kiss and be friends with

Make friends again

Close friends

Fair-weather friend

Next friend

3)谚语

A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.

Between friends all is common.

False friends are worse than open enemies.

Old friends and old wine are best.

The best friends must part.

Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.

4. Once I was invited to stay at a friend’s house in her hometown, and I was amazed by the friendliness of every relative and friend of hers. I was treated as if I were one

of the family.

1) be amazed by/at

I was amazed by/at his great knowledge.

All of us were greatly amazed by/at the sight.

Be amazed to do…

We were amazed to get the news that many people were terribly injured in the storm.

I was amazed to find most of the forest destroyed.

Amaze, astonish, surprise

都有“使……惊异”的意思，而且都是一般以事物或他人做主语，以本人做宾语；以本人做主语是用被动形式。

Amaze 强调“使惊异”还有“惊叹；佩服”的意思，是意义很强的词

We were amazed at the ingenuity with which they solved their difficulties.

Astonish “大吃一惊、几乎无法相信”

I was astonished at his rudeness.

Surprise 语气较上述两词弱，表示“出乎意料地惊异”

We were surprised at finding the house empty.

2) as if 引导虚拟语气，表示与事实不符。

The old man took good care of the orphan as if he were his grandson.

Our English teacher speaks so fluently as if he were a foreigner.

5. This aroused my admiration toward the friendliness of Chinese people and I c an’t stop comparing this with the reserved and cold neighborhood in my hometown.

1) arouse one’s admiration toward

The movie aroused our admiration toward the hero.

Arouse one’s curiosity toward

This aroused the child’s curiosity toward nature.

Gain one’s admiration

His good deeds gained our admiration

2) can’t stop doing (can’t wait to do)

I can’t stop missing my wife when I was reading the love story.

All of us couldn’t stop laughing shortly after he finished the joke.

compare … with …

be compared with

do n’t always compare yourself with others, everyone has his own strong points.

The patients are often compared with normal people.

Compare… to …

Be compared to

In his poems, the poet often compared his lover to a rose.

Usually teachers are compared to candles.

(As ) compared with/to..

(As) Compared with/to Vietnam and India, China is a rich country, but compared with/to Japan and U.S.A, she is a poor country.

6. What right do they have in saying that, since they have not seen the facts themselves?

1) have the right in doing/to do

Have no right in doing/to do

In our country every body has the right in voting/ to vote or to be voted after he is 18. You have no right to beat the criminals.

2) since

Since you have begun, you must carry on.

Since many of the customers work during the day, Billy has to collect the money at night.

7. My only reply to them was that I was blessed for having come to china and that I dindn’t regret at all my decision.

Reply

1)n. 答复；回答；答辩

I asked him again and again, but he made no reply.

2) vi. 对……做出反应、回答（常与to连用）

A lot of people replied to our advertisement.

3) 回答；

The little girl replied in a low voice, “I really don’t know”.

4)vt. 回答

I replied that I was unable to help them.

8. In my eyes, china is a very big developing country; technically designed buildings and suspension bridges are constructed on every street corner; skyscrapers seem to touch the sky, symbolizing the trading center of the city; vehicles of all sorts, including bicycles of all types, are seen everywhere; people wearing fashionable clothes are holding mobile phones and walking into offices.

(1) develop vt&vi.

发展；壮大；完善；生长

In the past few years, china has been rapidly developing.

规划出

We must develop a complete plan before we start.

彰显；冲洗

All the photographs were developed just now.

开发；利用

This piece of land will be developed soon.

developing adj. developed adj.

As we know, china is a developing country, while Japan is a developed country.

2) vehicles of all sorts = all sorts of vehicles; bicycles of all types = all types of bicycles

people of this kind = this kind of people

books of these kinds= these kinds of books

animals of different kinds= different kinds of animals

plants of the same kind = the same kind of plants

9. There is no word more suitable than amazing to describe the history and culture of china.

Describe vt.

描述；描写；记述；形容

No word can be used to describe the beauty of our hometown.

作图；画

It is easy to describe a circle if you have a pair of compasses.

把……说成是，把……描述成（与as）连用

He is described as a liar.

description n.

He gave a description of what he had seen.

10. Never have I lacked interest in reading A Dream of Red Mansions, A Journey to the West, Three Kingdoms, and many others which have been translated into many languages all over the world, including my mother tongue, Indonesian.

1) Never have I heard such a funny story.

Seldom does he think about himself.

2)lack the interest in

Nowadays some children lack the interest in communicating with others.

The writer lacks the interest in singing and dancing.

3)have/show/take/feel/find (an) interest in

have/show/take/feel/find no interest in

have/show/take/feel/find not much interest in

while he was young, he had/showed/took/felt/found great interest in physics.

4)translate… (from) into…

He translated the speech from Spanish into English.

11. For me, learning about the history of china is like digging into the vast earth; even if you reach the bottom, you are still forced to dig deeper and deeper until you reach the deepest foundation.

1) even if = even though

He did well in t he examination, even if he didn’t get a prize.

引导让步状语从句的词：though, although, wherever, whenever, however, whether…or not,not matter whether… or not

Though/although he tried hard, he was not successful.

No matter whether you agree or not, we’ll carry on ou r plan.

2) be forced to do

He was forced to leave his homeland for some political reasons.

After his father died, he was forced to leave school to make a living.

Have/has to do sth.

Force sb. to do sth. = make sb. do sth. yy force.

No body can force us to do something against our motherland.

Force a smile

Use force on sb.

Come into force

By force

Force one’s opinion upon sb

In fore

Put … in force

Join force with

辨析：force, strength, power, energy

Notes for further reading

1. When the summer vacation was drawing near, I asked my American friends what was the best way to travel within the United States.

draw near/closer

Christmas is drawing near.

The deadline is drawing near; we can’t delay any more.

Approach; be around the corner

Draw:

a. 画，绘制，描写

Draw pictures/a line/a house

b. 吸引；找来

The movie is drawing large audiences.

Draw somebody’s attention

c. 推断出；作出；形成

They drew the same conclusion.

ask:

ask sb./sth

The kid asked strange questions.

ask sb. sth.

We’ll have to ask someone the way to the station.

ask sb. about sth.

Visitors usually ask about the history of the city.

ask sb. to do sth.

Ask john to mail those letters tomorrow.

Period 3

Contents:

1. V ocabulary

recommend, flight, convenient, convenience, moreover, inquiry, delighted, air-conditioned, limit, uniform, state, per, zone, adjust, greyhound,

2. Structure

as a result, arrive at, make inquiries, be delighted to, on condition that, in advance, day and night, in the daytime from time to time, at night, in a low voice

3. Dialogue or Reading: Traveling America by Greyhound

Objectives:

1. Instructional objectives (language knowledge and language skills)

1) To talk about means of transportation

2) To talk about traveling

2) To practise skimming and scanning.

2. Educational objectives (affect, learning strategy and cultural awareness)

1) To know ways of traveling in America.

2) To know what is Greyhound

3. Personal objectives

Learn to choose right means of transportation for your traveling..

Focal points:

To learn what is means of transportation and how to choose it for your traveling.

Difficult points:

3)How to improve students’ reading ability

4)How to improve students’ spoken English.

Procedures and Time Allotment

Stage 1 Getting stude nts ready for learning ( … mins)

Step 1. Greetings

Greet everyone as usual.

Stage 2 Pre-stage (… mins)

Step 1 V ocabulary presentation and practice

recommend, flight, convenient, convenience, moreover, inquiry, delighted, air-conditioned, limit, uniform, state, per, zone, adjust, greyhound,

Step 2 Structure presentation and practice (not always)

as a result, arrive at, make inquiries, be delighted to, on condition that, in advance, day and night, in the daytime from time to time, at night, in a low voice

Stage 3 While-stage

Step 1 lead in

Show some pictures of means of transportation on the screen and ask: do you know them?

Then tell students about them.

When you travel in your own country or around the world, What means of transportation do you prefer? Why?

I prefer… because…

Have you ever seen this kind of bus? (On the screen) Greyhound

Step 2. Fast reading

1. read the article and list the advantages and disadvantages of those means of

Step 3 careful reading

Read the passage again and finish the exercises.

2. Answer the following questions according to your understanding of the article.

1) What is greyhound?

2) Where did the writer live?

3) How much did the writer pay for the ticket?

4) How long did the writer spend on his journey?

3. Read the article again and decide whether the following statements are true or false.

1) The writer traveled America when Christmas was coming.

2) The railroad system in the US is so developed that you can stop at any city.

3) The writer bought a ticket one month before he started the trip.

4) During the trip, the writer couldn’t get off the bus.

5) All the states in America have the same speed limit.

6) The local time of Eastern America and western America is different.

4. Complete the following sentences with the proper forms of the words given.

1) inquire/inquiry

A. I didn’t the reason for his lateness.

B. Make your at the office if you want to get further information.

2) adjust/ adjustment

A. the company made an in my salary.

B. she must learn to herself to English life.

3) recommend/recommendation

A. I the book to all my students.

B. here’s a list of my top CD .

4) announce/ announcement

A. students are required to wear their school when attending the meeting.

B. because of the climate, growth has not been across the country.

Stage 4 Post-stage (… mins)

Step 1. Oral work

read the map of the US and plan a trip across the country within a month by greyhound. In which cities do you wish to stop? And why? You may surf the internet

to get more information.

Step 2. Writing work

Work in groups to discuss your favorite city. Then write a short passage to describe it

Stage 5 Assigning homework

Write a short passage to describe it and explain the reasons for your preference.