山东省寿光市实验中学九年级英语上册 Module 1 Wonders of the world Unit 2 I was on the edge of the Grand Canyon.教案 外研版.doc

Module 1 Wonders of the world Unit 2 I was on the edge of the Grand Canyon.教案
教 学 设 计
课型 Reading and writing
教材
分析 By example this unit presents a good way to describe what one sees and feels after a journey. It can help students to know more about the Grand Canyon, and inspire Ss to love and explore the natural wonders.
教学
目标 To get information from the reading material about the Grand Canyon;
To learn the way of writing about what you see and your feelings when traveling;
知识与能力 1. Vocabulary and expressions: waterfall, stranger, rock, ground, canyon, reply, rise, face, get out of look over, disappear into, look (across) to…light-dark, clear, huge, beside, below, at the bottom of, reach the top. …too…to…
2. To enable the Ss to express in different tenses according to the set situations.
3. To love the wonders of the natural world and give facts and opinions.
过程方法 1. Interactive approach.
2. To improve Ss reading skills and get them to talk and practise writing by imitating.
情感、态度与价值观 To help students enlarge their vision on wonders of the world and help to write a description of a wonder that they have seen or visited.

教学过程
教学步骤 教师活动 学生活动 活动目的

Step 1

Lead-in Ask Ss to show information about the seven natural wonders. (The teacher can get the related pictures ready beforehand)
Present words in Activity 1. Talk and give facts about the wonders. Encourage Ss to describe with
the words given. Check up Ss’ homework and start the new topic.
(Wonders)
Step 2.
Ask and
answer Ask Ss to make questions about facts of the natural wonders.
Demonstrate and get Ss to follow. Ask and
answer.
How tall/deep…
is it?
It’s…meters tall/deep. Practise asking about detailed information and learn the sentence pattern.
Step 3.
Read
(Skimming)

Tell Ss to read the passage in Activity 2. Find out the name of the wonder and its facts.
T: Where did the writer visit?
How deep/wide/long is it? Read the
passage and
answer the
questions. Find out the facts and write them down in Activity 5. Practise reading skills and get specific information.
Step 4
Read
and match Play the tape and get Ss to follow silently. Find out the main idea of each paragraph. Present the five topic sentences on the screen (Bb).
A. The writer arrived there on the rainy
morning;
B. The first impression/sight of the
Grand Canyon.
C. The Grand Canyon is the greatest
wonder in his opinion.
D. Details about the Grand Canyon.
E. After minutes’ walk, he came to it. Ss follow the lines and match the
topic sentences to
the paragraphs.
(or they can
conclude the main idea by themselves if possible) Read for the main idea of each paragraph. Learn to sum up and help to understand the whole passage.
Step 5
Read aloud
Get Ss to read aloud after the tape and find the details about the trip.
① When did he get to the Grand
Canyon?
② Why was there nothing to see?
③ Where was he facing on the edge of
the Grand Canyon?
④ How did he feel about the Canyon? Read aloud and answer questions in Activity 3. Ask for help if they have any problems. Practise reading and learn about the details, check their understanding.
Step 6.
Focus Now get Ss’ attention to those phrasal verbs and prepositional phrases. Try to check by a gap-filling exercise.
(get out of, go through, look over, fall away, on the edge of, look down/across to, at the bottom of, disappear into, ask oneself ) Learn the verbs and phrases. Practising using
them with the
help of the
gap-filling. Focus on the phrasal verbs and prepositions.
Step 7.
Match Activity 4
Ask Ss to find these words in the passage and guess their meaning within the sentence. Underline the
words and match the English
meaning. Practise guessing the meaning of words in the context.
Step 8.
Writing Tell Ss to imagine they have seen (some of them did see) one of the wonders of the world. Write sentences describing how they felt. Remind them of the four keywords: saw, size, happened, felt.
First get them to work in pairs and then report the sentences or passage if possible. Write sentences according to the given beginning. Report their
answers and try
to make them
into a passage. Practise writing and using the language on the basis of imaging and personal experience.
作业
布置 Finish writing the description of one of the wonders of the world, trying to collect some details and take the text as a model.
板书
设计 Unit 2 I was on the edge of the Grand Canyon
The seven natural wonders of the world
How tall/wide/deep is it? It’s…tall/wide/tall.
get out of on the edge of ask oneself
go through look down/across to huge=very very big
look over at the bottom of the greatest wonder
fall away disappear into