高中英语 Unit 1 Living well Period 4 Reading，Speaking and Writing精品教案 新人教版选修7.docVIP

Period 4　Reading，Speaking and Writing Teaching aims　　　 1．Enable students to learn some useful words and phrases. adequate，access，accessible，handy，row，basement，outwards，exit，meet with sb.s approval，dignity，profit，community 2．Enable students to express their ideas in a polite way. 3．Enable students to write a letter of suggestion. Step 1　Lead－in Show pictures of a cinema，including inside and outside facilities and ask students to discuss what problems that people with disabilities sometimes have in a cinema. (Divide students into different groups. Each member is encouraged to think actively and participate in the discussion. Make sure all students have their own opinions.) Step 2　Reading 1．Introduce Alice to the students. Alice is a warm－hearted girl. She cares for the disabled very much. When she learned a new cinema is going to be built，she wrote a letter to make suggestions. Here is the letter that gives suggestions to the architect who is to design the new Bankstown cinema.(See Students Book Page 8) 2．Skim the reading passage A Letter to an Architect to find out what suggestions Alice gives in the letter. (1)There should be adequate access for wheelchairs. (2)It would help to fit sets of earphones to all seats，not just to some of them. (3)The seats at the back should be placed higher than those at the front. (4)For disabled customers，it would be more convenient to place the toilets near the entrance to the cinema. (5)There are usually spaces specially reserved for disabled and elderly drivers. 3．Careful reading—Help students to analyze the letter so that they will learn how to write a letter of suggestion. Ask students to read the text carefully and discuss the questions in groups in Exercise 3 on Page 8. 1．What is the purpose of the first paragraph of the letter? 2．Why do you think the writer numbered her suggestions and used italics? 3．What is the purpose of the last paragraph of the letter? Suggested answers： 1．To tell the reader the purpose of the letter. 2