1、Period 5 Extensive ReadingTeaching goals1. Target Language目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语sightseeing, available, delight, tower, royal, uniform, splendid, statue, communism, thrillb. 重点句式Worried about the time available, Zhang Pingyu had . P14But she was thrilled by . P142. Ability goals能力目标Enable the students to pl
2、an a tour around certain places.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Help the students know more about the historical sites in London.Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点Help the students identify different kinds of tour and talk about the most interesting place for the tour.Teaching methods教学方法Task-
3、based activities. Teaching aids教具准备A computer and a projector.Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式Step I Revision and Lead-inTalk about London with the students. T: London has been a capital city for nearly 1,000 years, and many of its ancient buildings still stand. Have you found any information about
4、 London?S1: The most famous sites in London are the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey and St. Pauls Cathedral. But most visitors also want to see the House of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, which is the Queens London home. S2: Once, London was a small Roman town on the north bank of the Thames, but
5、 slowly it grew into one of the worlds major cities with more than 7 million people. Different areas of London seem to be like different cities. And it also has many big parks, full of trees, flowers and grass. Sitting on the grass in the middle of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens, you are in the cou
6、ntry, miles away.S3: Many people think that London is all gray, but in fact red is Londons favorite color. London is at its best when people are celebrating. Then the flags, the cheering crowds and the carriages and horses all sparkle in the sunshine if its not raining, of course! However, it is oft
7、en foggy. Thats why its called “fog city”.Ask the students to read the passage and do the exercises after the passage. T: “Sightseeing in London” is about a Chinese girls first visit to London. It tells us how it would feel to visit London for the first time. Now read and find the answers to the que
8、stions after the text. Step ReadingTask 1: Ask the students to read the text to get the main idea. T: Now please read the text and find the answers to the following questions. Show the questions on the screen.1. How did Zhang Pingyu plan her tour?2. What were the buildings mentioned in the text? Wha
9、t were they famous for? Who built them? What happened to them?Sample answers:1. First, she made a list of the sites she wanted to see. Then she planed her four-day trip. 2. The buildings mentioned in the text were: Tower, built by Norman invaders of AD 1066, it is a solid, stone, square tower which
10、remained standing for one thousand years; St Pauls Cathedral, built after the terrible fire of London in 1666, looked splendid; Westminster Abbey, contains statues in memory of dead poets and writers; Greenwich, the longitude line; Big Ben; Highgate Cemetery; Windsor Castle. Task 2: Ask the students
11、 to study the structure of the text “Sightseeing in London”.Show the following. The firstday1. The Tower of London2. St Pauls Cathedral3. Westminster Abbey4. Big Ben5. Buckingham PalaceThe second dayThe thirdday1. High gate Cemetery2. The Library of the British Museum3. Windsor CastleGreenwichTask 3
12、: Deal with reading task: A particular British celebrationAsk the students to read the passage quickly for the first time to find out the main idea of the text. Then ask them to read the text again carefully to obtain some details and do the exercises after the text. T: Guy Fawkes Night is celebrate
13、d in Britain annually on November 5th. The event is accompanied by firework displays, the lighting of bonfires and the ceremonial effigy-burning of one Guy Fawkes. The origin of this celebration comes from the event which took place in 1605 and was a conspiracy known as “The Gunpowder Plot”, intende
14、d to take place on November 5th of that year (the day set for the opening of Parliament). Now read the text and then find the answers to the exercises. Sample answers to Exercise 1:Oct. 10: one of Fawkes Catholic friends, named Catesby, asked him if he would support a plan to change the government a
15、nd replace it with another.Oct. 27: Fawkes and Catesby arranged to buy a house close to the Houses of Parliament. Oct. 28-31: Catesby and Fawkes bought large containers of gunpowder and stored them in the cellar. Nov. 6: the king and all his advisers would be in the parliament for the meeting. Sampl
16、e answers to Exercise 2:S1: I would not like to be King James, because he kept changing his mind. He would say, “I could not be tolerant of their religion.” And he took actions to stop people believing in Catholic. S2: I would like to be Robert Catesby. He would say like this: The king is never so t
17、olerant of the Catholics. So I decided that a violent action is the only answer. The thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, we would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics. And to carry
18、out the plan, Catesby and his men got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder and stored them in a cellar, just under the House of Lords. S3: I would be an eyewitness: As the group worked on the plot, it became clear that innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack, including some people who even
19、fought for more rights for Catholics. Some of the plotters started having second thoughts. One of the group members even sent an anonymous letter warning his friend, Lord Monteagle, to stay away from the Parliament on November 5th. S4: I would not like to be Guy Fawkes. Because he would say, “some o
20、f us have betrayed, so we should start the plan in advance.” So he tried to start the fire. But the soldiers found him before he could do anything and he was taken to the Tower of London to be killed. S5: If King James had kept his promise, nothing would have happened. Step HomeworkAsk the students to review the words learnt in this unit.
