一、 Teaching Content
Unit 18 Words and phrases; Warming up; Listening; Speaking;
二、 Teaching Goals
1. Improve the students’ speaking ability by practising saying location.
2. Learn and master the new words and phrases
3. Improve the students’ listening ability.
4. Improve the students’ speaking ability by questioning and answering (interviewing).
三、 Teaching Important Points:
1. Master the new words and make the student use these words.
2. Train the students’ speaking ability, competing ability and self-studying ability.
3. Train the students’ listening ability, and catch important information ability.
四、 Teaching Difficult Points
1. How to develop the students’ competing ability, imitating ability and self-studying ability.
2. How to finish the task of speaking.
3. How to master the words.
4. How to develop the students’ catching important information ability in the part of Listening.
五、 Teaching Methods:
1. Individual, pair or group competition before showing their own achievements.
2. Explanation and inductive methods to make the students master the new words.
六、 Teaching Aids
1. A projector
2. The blackboard
3. A computer for multimedia use
七、 Teaching procedures
Step 1 Words study (see Page165-166)
Step2 Greetings and lead- in
T: Good morning! My boys and girls!
1unit18.1-2.(2)
T: Sit down, please!
T: Do you know something about our country?
T: OK. Let’s fill the table together.
Background to China:
Full country name______________________________
Location _________________________________
Area___________________________
□The largest country □ the 2nd largest country □ the 3rd largest country
Population ____________________
Capital city__________________
Languages___________________
Religions_________________
Minorities _______________________
Major products/industries_____________________
Answers: The People’s Republic of China
East Asia
9,600,000 square kilometers
1,286,975,468 (July 2003 est.)
Peking/Beijing
Standard Chinese
Buddhism
56 nations
Silk , iron, oil, coal, clothing, etc.
Step3. Warming up
T: Very good. Look at the map of China and the names of countries, islands and seas beyond China. What are the positions of the different places and waters in relation to China?
(Ask the Ss to list the names of countries neighboring China in four directions according to the map of Asia printed in the book. Then let the Ss say the positions of the different places and waters in relation to China like the examples on page 36.)
1.Look at the map of China and the names of countries, islands and seas beyond China. What are the positions of the different places and waters in relation to China?
beyond China 除中国外 beyond 的用法如下：
1)除了；除…以外
1unit18.1-2.(3)
I didn’t notice anything beyond his rather strange accents.
除了他那颇为古怪的口音以外，我没注意到别的。
2)越出…范围；超越；为…所不能及
The bicycle is beyond repair.
这辆自行车已不能修理了。
After 25 years the town center has changed beyond recognition.
25年后，市中心已变得认不出来了。
The news is beyond belief.
这一消息令人难以置信。
Her skill as a musician is beyond praise.
这位音乐家的技巧令人赞叹不已。
The result is beyond his hopes.
这一结果令他始料未及。
3)迟于、超过（某一时间）
It won’t go on beyond the midnight.
这不会持续到午夜以后。
4)在…的远处，向…的远处
The house is beyond the bridge.
房屋在桥的那一边。
相关短语：be beyond sb.使某人难以想象、理解、估计
It’s beyond me why she wants to marry Jim.
How people design computer games is beyond me.
in (with )relation to China 关于中国
relation 的用法如下：
1)(抽象)关系（=relationship）（不可数）
the relation between cause and effect因果关系
in(with)relation to that affair关于那件事
an answer with no relation to the question与问题无关的答复
bear no relation to something同某事无关
2）(具体)关系（常用复数）；利害关系；国际关系
1unit18.1-2.(4)
the foreign relations of a country国家的对外关系
have business relations with a person同某人有商业来往
3）亲属；亲戚（可数）（=relative）
a poor relation 穷亲戚
a close/near/distant relation of mine我的一个近亲、远亲
2 The East China Sea lies to the east of Zhejiang Province.
China lies/is in the east of Asia.（在范围之内）
Canada lies/is on the north of America.（接壤）
Japan lies /is to the east of China.（不接壤、在范围之外）
East /south/west/north of A lies/is B A的东南西北有一个B
North of the school lie/are two shops.
South of the toilet lies/is a post office.
N---Adj N---Adj
East-eastern west-western-westerner(N)
north-northern south-southern
northeast-northeastern southwest-southwestern
northwest-northwestern southeast-southeasternStep4. Listening
T: OK, I am sure you have known how to express the location.
T: Next, let’s listening to a passage about Dolphin Island. For the first time draw the cities with correct name and position on the map in the book. Listen again and check the answers. Then, listen again and do exercise 2 in the book. At last, listen again to check the answers.
T: Original artwork by Jeff Wilkie.
Features a scene of an ocean sunset. An island with palm trees appears on the left side. Four dolphins cavort in the water, surrounded by several species of tropical fish.T: I think some students will find it is difficult to them.
T: Ok. Let’s fill the table. And then go on doing the exercise
Location: 1500 kilometers off the coast olf Japan, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.Length: Less than a hundred kilometers long.
Width: More than 80 kilometers wide.
1unit18.1-2.(5)
Made up of: Seven small islands.Capital: Winfield
Cities: Ashton Creek / Winfield /Turnpike / Epsom/ T: You all did very well
Step5 Speaking
T: Now let’s talk about the birthplaces of our grandparents, parents and ourselves. First, read and practise the dialogue in the book with your partner.
T: I think you can imitate to make a similar dialogue according to the useful expressions in the book.
(A few minutes later ask the Ss to act out the dialogue.)
Step6 Summary and Homework
1.Review the new words and phrases in Unit 18.
2.Do the Listening and Speaking on Page101-102.
八．黑板板书设计Blackboard:
Words and phrases explaining
Unit18New Zealand
九、Evaluation