[名校联盟]云南省弥勒县庆来中学高中英语必修五教案：Unit2　TheUnitedKingdomPeriod3.doc

金太阳新课标资源网  HYPERLINK  第  PAGE 11 页 共  NUMPAGES 11 页 金太阳新课标资源网 HYPERLINK  Period 3　Reading and Writing The General Idea of This Period This period lays emphasis on extensive reading and writing.At first the teacher will check the students’ homework, by asking some individual students to read out their summaries of the reading passage “Puzzles in Geography”.Then the teacher will ask the students some detailed questions based on the reading passage.This step has two goals.One is to help the students to consolidate what they have learnt during the last period.The other goal is to lead the topic to“Sightseeing in London”. In the next step the students are asked to read the passage fast and write down the places that Zhang Pingyu visited.After reading the passage again, the students will write down the comments on these places.This will be done by filling in a chart.Since it is an extensive reading passage, there is no need to understand it in detail.But the students should pay special attention to how the writer described these places, because they will undertake a similar task next. As is well known, language can only be mastered by being used.So, the students will next undertake a rather challenging task, that is, to introduce one of the famous buildings or attractions in their hometown or home village to a tourist.They should practice in pairs by asking and answering questions. Then the students will organize the information from the dialogue into an introduction to the attractions in their local guide book.While doing this, the students should pay special attention to wording, especially verbs and adjectives. Teaching Important Points The important words, phrases and sentence patterns in this period. Improve the students’ extensive reading ability. Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others. Teaching Difficulties Train the students’ speaking ability, especially the ability to deal with some problems in u