Pujiang Middle School Li Ran

Teaching goals：

1.Get the students to talk about pictures.

2.Encourage the students to talk out what they know about the UK and Ireland.

3.Help the students learn to get information by listening.

4.Attention to listening and speaking.

Teaching Important Points:

1.Improve the students’ listening ability.

2.How to express agreement and disagreement. Teaching goals

3.Get the students to talk about pictures.

4.Encourage the students to talk out what they know about the UK and Ireland.

5.Help the students learn to get information by listening.

Teaching Aids:

1.a tape recorder

2.a projector

3.a map and some slides

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Greeting: greet the whole students as usual.

Step 2 revision: review the homework with students following correcting the students’ mistakes

Step 3 Warming up

1． Lead-in

(1) What do you think of Pujiang County? Which place impresses you most?

S1: SEL, a pretty place of interest, is attracting lots of tourists every year.

(2) A. There are not many visiting places in Pujiang County as it is a newly developed city. But what about our country? Think what words you will need to describe a country and then give a brief description of China.

S2: Pretty, beautiful, classical, fantastic, more than words, etc

B. There are many famous places in China. Think out one and describe it, letting others guess which place is it?

S3: the Great Wall, Kunming, the Temple of Heaven.

2. Show pictures of some famous places of China.

Ask: Where are they taken?

3. Show pictures of some places of the British Isles

Ask: where are they taken? Then ask the students to say something they know about these places.

S4: 1.Ancien stone cross,it is only can be found in Ireland

S5: 2.old castle,the flag on top is the national flag of Wales:a red dragon with wings, on the flag that is half white and green.

S6: 3.:Scotish soldiers dressed in skilts, they are playing an instrument Bagpipe

S7 4::London bridge

4. (1) Ask the following questions:

Do you know how many parts the UK is made up of?

S8: Scotland/ England/ Wales/Britain + Northern Ireland---the UK + the Republic of Ireland--- the British Isles)

(2) Show the map of the British Isles to help the students to get a clear idea of some important cities in the UK and the names and the locations of different parts and counties and rivers.

Then ask the students to look at some cities in the UK and to name them.

5. Group work:

(1) What is the UK famous for? Think about sport, art, architecture, literature, film, food and life. (Show some famous examples.)

S9: Beer, Fish&Chips, London bridge, Williams Shakespeare, Charle Dikens, James Bond, Big Ben, , The Beatles, Speakers’ corner, GMT, etc

(2) Talk about the geography, history, languages, culture, famous people, buildings and other things in the UK and Ireland.

(3)What words will you need to describe cities and countries?

History

Geography

Arts

Climate

Keys:

Geography: mountains, hills, rivers, seas, coast, miles, distance, Landscape, etc

History: castles, war, battles, independence, king, queen, etc

Arts: theatre, literature, poetry, folk, customs, etc

Climate: mild, names of months, temperature, rainy, cloudy, fog, windy, etc

Step 4 Listening

Listen to the listening materials and try to finish the listening practice within the limited time.

A. The teacher talks more about the languages in the UK and Ireland. then ask How are classes arranged in schools in the UK?

S10 Four classes in the morning and 3 classes in the afternoon.

B. (1) Listen to the tape and tick the sentences which are true.

1.the conversation workshop is taught on Wednesday afternoon? ( )

2.classes in the computer lab are taught during the third lesson every day? ( )

3.reading is taught in two classes on Friday morning. ( )

4.the library is open on Saturday from 8:30am-10am ( )

5.Dave teaches classes in the computer lab. ( )

Keys: 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. F

(2) Listen to the tape and fill in the timetable below.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

8:30am10:20 am LanguageStudy LanguageStudy LanguageStudy LanguageStudy LanguageStudy

10:30am11:20am Conversation Workshop Computer Lab Computer Lab Reading Workshop

11:30am12:20am Reading Workshop

12:30pm Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

1:00pm2:50pm Skills Practice Skills Practice Skills Practice Skills Practice

3:00pm3:50pm LanguageLab LanguageLab

Language Study----DAVE Reading Workshop----ANDREW

Language Lab----JULIA Skills Practice----FLORA&SARAH

(3) Listen to the tape and answer the following questions.

1. What do you have to do if you cannot come to school on Tuesday?

----phone Dave half an hour before the class.

2. What do you do in the classes of skills practice?

----practice speaking and listening

3. What are the opening hours of the language lab?

----from8:30am to 8:00pm from Mondays to Fridays.

Step5 Extension

1. Talk about our own timetable.

2. Have a discussion about the similarities of the timetables in our country and the UK and also tell the differences between them.

Step 6 Speaking

Now let’s move to the next part, speaking. Get the Ss to know how to express their agreement and disagreement, giving some Tips:

Don’t you think that…?

I don’t think that’s right…

I don’t think so.

You must be mistaken…

No, you are wrong thinking that…

I’m afraid you’re wrong…

Aren’t you confusing…?

I’m not so sure about that…

Surely it must be….

Yes, you are right, but…

Yes, I agree with you.

I believe that you’ve got it right.

Step7 Summary and Homework

Preview the reading passage “The British Isles”

Language points:

1. The conversation workshop(研討會(huì)，研習(xí)班) is taught on Wednesday afternoon.

2. Try to reach agreement on the main points.

① reach agreement on sth .“在某方面取得一致意見(jiàn)，達(dá)成協(xié)議”

E.g. The two countries didn’t reach agreement on disarmament of nuclear weapons.

② reach an agreement on sth. 在某方面達(dá)成協(xié)議

E.g. China reaches an agreement on anti-terrorism with the fire countries in the Middle Asia.

3. They think it’s just a matter of looking…

E.g. It’s just a matter of time before Taiwan and mainland unite.

⒋ The Group of Eight consists of the eight richest countries in the world.

Consist of(不用進(jìn)行時(shí)態(tài))，由…組成/構(gòu)成，同義詞為：be made up of, be composed of

E g. The class consists of 48 students =The class is made up of /is composed of 54 students.

Consist in存在，存在于，在于

E g. Happiness consists in contentment. (知足常樂(lè))

Consist with一致，符合

E.g. Theory should consist with practice.

⒌ …island countries have better chances of becoming powerful.

Chance（可能性）+of sth./doing sth; to do sth; that clause

E.g. ① Do we have any chances of winning the game?

③ There’s a faint chance that you’ll find him at home.

⒍ Do island nations have advantages over other countries?

① A have an advantage over B A優(yōu)于或勝于B, A比B有優(yōu)勢(shì)

E g. In ancient movie, Jackie Chan has an obvious advantage over others.

② have the advantage of sth. 有某種優(yōu)勢(shì)（優(yōu)點(diǎn)）

eg. I have the advantage of a first-class education.

③ take advantage of 乘機(jī)利用某事物

eg. You ought to take advantage of English programs on TV.

October 17,2004