Important points重难点突破预设方案22

Reading

Important points:

To help students master the words, phrases and sentence patterns;

To improve the students’ reading skills;

To arise students’interest in the colorful world and encourage them to explore the world and work hard.

Difficult points:

To improve the students’ reading skills;

To arise students’interest in the colorful world and encourage them to explore the world and work hard.

Teaching/learning steps:

Introduction

The video of the introduction of Australia and the pictures to show the other information of the country.

Skimming

Task 1. To get general ideas

What’s the passage about?

A. a train ride to Sydney

B. taking the train to Australia

C. travelling to the central part of Australia

D. a child visiting her grandmother

Task 2. Match the paragraphs with the main idea. Paragraph 1 A. the origin and the development of the Ghan

train-- the means of transport

Paragraph 2 B. when and where their travel took place Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Paragraph 5 C. the scenery and activities all the journey Paragraph 6

Scanning

Listening

Alice, an __________ girl, ___________ Sydney, Australia. Recently, ___________ a friend she had her first ____ on a ____________ train. They spent two days and nights on the _______ Ghan train.

The meals ______ by experts were great and the _______ was very ________.

They first saw fields ____ dark red soil, and then the _____. There were even some _________ farms ____ more than a hundred years ago.

During the day, she ___ by the window, ____________ it, reading books or _______ to some cassettes. _______, she watched the stars ______ like diamonds.

To travel to the _______ of the country, they brought some _______ from Afganistan 150 years ago. Ghan is____________ Afganistan.

Camels were_______better than horses for travelling a long ________. For many years, ________ camels carried food and other ________, and returned with ______ and other ________

___________, a new railway line was built and the camels _______needed _________.

It is allowed by law to shoot them, if they are a ________.

In 1935, the ________ in a town shot _____ camels in _____day. Retelling

Retell the text according to the picture and the phrases given. Homework

1. Write a passage to describe one of your journeys using the words, phrases and sentences learned.

2. Explore more about the country and the world.