外研版英语九年级上册 Module1 Wonders of the world Unit2.doc

MODULE 1 Wonders of the world
Part 1: Teaching design
第一部分 教学设计
Function
Describing places and experiences
Structure

Review of tenses; present, past and future simple; present and past continuous; present perfect
Listening/Speaking
● Listening for specific information
● Having a conversation about a school magazine
Reading/Writing
● Identifying the writer’s purposes
● Describing a wonder of the world
Around the world
Stonehenge: a manmade wonder of the world
Task
Making a poster of a wonder of the world
Unit 2 I was on the edge of the Grand Canyon．
■Warm up by learning about the types of sentences
Sentences are grouped into types. There are five types of English sentences. They are:
1. He is my younger brother. He looks like my older brother. 主语+系动词+表语
2. He sings. 主语+不及物动词
3. He takes photos. 主语+及物动词+宾语
4. He showed me his photos. 主语+及物动词+间接宾语+直接宾语
5. He let us go at once. 主语+及物动词+宾语+宾语补足语
6. There is a natural wonder in my hometown. 谓语（there be）+主语+状语
■ Read the passage
On page 4 is a passage entitled The greatest wonder of the natural world. Now let’s go on to read it. While reading, try to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. (阅读过程中，断开/意群，观察谓语构成，圈出连词，摘录短语搭配。)
Useful expressions (有用的短语搭配)
the greatest wonder of the natural world, early morning, get out of…, go through…, walk along…, in the east, become light, beside the path, still very dark, after about a kilometre, appear in front of…, go the right way, get there in five minutes, come to …, look carefully over…, too dark to see…, rise behind…, beyond the rocks, fall away and down to…, far below…, look down to…, about 2 kilometres below…, put… at the bottom of…, reach the top, look across to…, the other side of…, look to one’s left and to one’s right, on both sides, disappear into the distance, over 400 kilometres long, on the edge of …, ask…a question
■Draw a diagram of the article
A diagram is a simplified and structured visual representation of concepts, ideas, constructions, relations, statistical data, anatomy etc used in all aspects of human activities to visualize and clarify the topic.
Now we shall read the text once more to draw a diagram of it.

The greatest wonder of the natural world
Nothing to see
Para. 1
Too dark to see anything
Para 2
On the edge of the Grand Canyon
Para. 3
The Grand Canyon: big and huge
Para. 4
The greatest wonder in the natural world
Para. 5

■Write as they do. (仿写)
We are to do something interesting. We shall write as they do. That is to say: We shall try to write an article similar to the one we read just now.
The greatest wonder of the natural world
When we arrived, it was later afternoon and it was snowing. We got out of the train, went through a village and walked along a country road. In the west, the sky was becoming dark, but beside the road, it was still very bright. I knew it was there, but there was nothing to find.
After about two kilometres, a villager appeared in front of us. “Are we going the right way?” we asked. He knew where we were going. “Yes,” he replied, “you'll get there in ten minutes.” Finally, we came to some trees, and stopped. We looked carefully through them, but there was still nothing to see.
Suddenly, the clouds cleared and the snow stopped. The sun set behind us and beyond the trees. We saw that the ground fell away and down to a river, far below us. The Yellow River, one of the wonders of the natural world.
We looked down to the Yellow River about 2 kilometres below us. If you put the three tallest buildings in the world at the bottom of the river, they still won't reach the top. Then we looked across to the other side of the river. How wide is it? It's 500 meters, maybe more. Finally, we looked to our left and to our right, and on both sides the river disappeared into the distance ... over 5464 kilometres long. The Yellow River is not just long. It’s great!
That evening on the edge of the river, I asked myself a question. It's not “How deep is it?” or “How wide is it?” or “How long is it?” but “Is the Yellow River the greatest wonder anywhere in the natural world?” I know the answer. But what do you think?
■Close down by reading about the Yellow River
The Yellow River rises on the northern side of the Bayankela Mountains of Qinghai and flows through nine provinces or autonomous regions including Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong. The river falls 4,450 m over a length of 5,465 km, covering an area of 795,000 km2. In its upper parts it flows through swamps and grasslands of Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. The river runs to the south before leaving Inner Mongolia to form the part between Shaanxi and Shanxi and, after a sharp turn to the east, it flows across the North China Plain to the Bohai Sea.