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《恒谦教育教学资源库》教师备课、备考伴侣专注中国基础教育资源建设 《恒谦教育教学资源库》 教师备课、备考伴侣 专注中国基础教育资源建设 适用于新课程各种版本教材的教学 全国统一客服电话：400-715-6688第 PAGE 53页 适用于新课程各种版本教材的教学 全国统一客服电话：400-715-6688 英语必修3外研module2探究学习新教案（3） Module 2 Developing and Developed Countries Writing ■Goals To lean to compare two places in writing ■Procedures Step 1: Reading questions to get started Imagine for a minute that you are a newspaper reporter. An important discovery of a lost land has been made, and you have the chance to be the first person to interview the returning explorers. Make a list of the questions that you might ask. Remember, the five themes and ask the most important questions from each. Here are some questions to get you started: Where is it? Where exactly is that? What does it look like? How many people live there and where? What settlements (cities, villages) does it have? What sort of climate does it have? Does it have any extremes of weather? Is it prone to any type of natural disaster? What are the natural resources and how are they used? What type of agriculture is there? What are the main types of transportation and communication? What makes the people there different to people in other places? What sort of government does it have? Is it associated with any other place? That is just the short list. It will give some basic facts about the place. Each of the topics can be expanded on to give a much more detailed description. Step 2: Writing a description comparing two places Hong Kong is one of the greatest maritime cities there has ever been—noisy, boisterous, cluttered, and vibrant. I left Hong Kong in the royal yacht Britannia in the early hours of the morning on July 1, 1997. It was quite a way to go! But then, the British Empire can only end once. —Christopher Patten, former governor of Hong Kong Paris is not only a place but a state of mind. Whoever goes there takes away the greatest meal he has ever had in his life, a romance that will linger forever, and a dream that wil