北师大必修2Unit4Lesson4Virtual Tourism课件.ppt

Virtual Tourism Preparation for the Class [ Teaching Aims ] To practise intensive and extensive reading skills (anticipating meaning, scanning). To develop strategies to match topics with paragraphs. To identify important words in a text. [ Teaching Difficulty ] Some students might know less than others about New Zealand and so feel at a disadvantage, thus requiring more attention and time to understand. [ Teaching Prcedure ] Step 1, Introduce Virtual Tourism by recalling the changes brought to our lives by cyberspace through the years. Step 2, Using PPT project to take a tour to Auckland, New Zealand, explaining words and expressions through the text. (pictures being shown and entensive introduction being narrated.) Step 3, Ask students what the have known about this city after finishing reading. Step 4, Tell students understanding by doing some True or False questions. [ Summary Homework ] Summarize students response in the class. Leave Exercise 5 and 6 as homework for the day. Location of New Zealand in the world Whats Special about New Zleand? New Zealand is known as the land of the long white cloud. 新西兰被称为“长白云之乡” New Zealand is famous for its special existance, such as... Auckland Although Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, Auckland remains the largest city of this country. Auckland New Zealand Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand. It has a population of just under a million people and is located on North Island. This seaside city is an important centre for business and industry. It is also the most exciting city in New Zealand with people of many different cultures living there. 奥克兰是新西兰最大的城市，人口接近一百万，位于北岛。这个海滨城市是新西兰重要的商业和工业中心，也是新西兰最具活力的多元文化城市。 Auckland New Zealand The history of the city goes back 650 years when the Maoris settled in the area. European settlement began in 1840 when the British arrived. Auckland was the capital of New Zealand for some time. Later, the capital moved to Wellington, because it was more central. Since 1945