高二英语下学期教案 Unit 16 The United States of America.docVIP

Unit16 The United States of America Teaching Aims: 1. Learn and master the new words and expressions. 2. Learn about the American plain and the bison 3. Write a short passage about your home town 4. Review Non-finite Verbs Teaching Important Points: 1. Talking about the USA 2. Practice describing places to train the speaking ability Teaching Difficult Points: 1. Help the students to improve their speaking ability. 2. Help the students to express their own opinions and ideas. Teaching Methods: Pair work or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching Aids: the blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Lead-in Guess game : It is a very young country in the world, which has only a history of 200~300 years. There is a Statue of Liberty in the east coast. It is about 46 meters high. The head office of the UN was set up there. Two World Wars didn’t take place there. Now it is the strongest country of the world. (The USA.) Step 2 Warming up 1. Show the map of the U.S.A and help the Ss to get a general idea of her. Full name Location Capital city The largest city When was founded population 2. The U.S.A is a beautiful country. There are many beautiful cities and also great people. pictures. George Washington: . The first president Martin Luther King : the leader of non-demonstration was killed in 1968 New York : the largest city nick name Atlanta : in the south the host of the Olympic Game in 1996 Ellis Island: Island of Tears Step 3 Speaking 1.Learn the useful expression. Make a sentence with each pattern. How long /wide/high/tall is ….? It’s …metres/feet long/wide/high/tall. There is …in the north/south/east/west. It looks like…. 2.Write a short passage to describe a place. 3.Play the Guess game. One student read his short article , the others guess where it is. Step 4 Pre-reading. 1.Play the video of the film “gone with the wind, let the Ss know the hard past of the south 2.Play another video about the city of Atla