Teaching Goals:
1. Talk about the UK and Ireland.
2. Practise expressing agreement and disagreement.
3. Learn about Noun Clauses (1).
4. Write a description of a town and the countryside.
5. Improve students’ ability in listening, speaking, reading and writing
Teaching Key and difficult points:
1. Master the expressions for agreement and disagreement.
2. Learn and master the following words and expressions:
words: form, influence, basis, inland, mountainous, narrow, diversity, republic, Wales, mild, union,
strength, Welsh, Scofish
phrases: stand for, be made up of, be unknown to, make the most of, hold together, lie off, be
separated from, at one point, in general, as much as, run over, end up with
3. Learn and master noun clauses as the subject, the object, the predicative and the appositive
introduced by “that”.
4. Master the differences between the appositive clause and the attributive clause.
Teaching Approach: Task-base; student-centered; equipment-aided
Learning Approach: Exploration Study; Co-operation
Teaching Aids: a computer, a courseware , a projector, a tape recorder
Teaching Procedures:
Pre-Unit Task:
Task 1: Exploring The British Isles
Before class, present students the following subjects about Britain :geography (including important
cities/rivers/names of countries),history, language, culture, sports and arts , architecture, literature,
film food, famous people and life .Divide them into several groups and each choose one to do some
exploring study. Ask them to do as follows: First , surf the internet to find out as much information
as you can and then sort out the information collected. Finally, make CAIS and get a leader to report
the results.
Task 2: Investigate Your Hometown
Get the same groups to investigate their hometown, by interviewing experts, going to visit some p
laces of interest and government offices related (eg. The weather station), and colleting information.
Then fill in the chart:
Name of my hometown Location Weather Places of interest The life of residents Population or
history
The First Period
Teaching Aims:
1. Refresh the students’ memory about ‘New Zealand’ which they learned last term.
2. Remind them useful ways of expressing direction
3. Develop the ability at doing exploration study .
Teaching Procedures:
Step1 Lead-In
Show the class the maps of China and New Zealand. Have them talk about these two countries.
Teacher says ‘ As a Chinese, there’s no doubt that everyone here knows China very well. Besides, in last term, we have learnt a lot
about New Zealand. Can you tell me something about them.
Step 2. Warming Up
After talking about China and New Zealand, shows them the national flag of the UK while playing the
national anthem ‘God save the Queen’
T: You have really known much about China and New Zealand .Listen !what’s the song? Look! Which country’ national flag is it? Do you also know a lot about The UK and
Ireland? Today we’ll learn a new unit--the British Isles. In the last period, I told you to search for as much information as possible about
the UK and Ireland through the Internet. I’m sure you’ve got a lot. Now can the leaders report your exploring study?
Get the leaders to report and add extra information
References for teachers:
Food and dishes: roasted beef, steak kidney pie, English fish chip, chicken ala king, sandwich and
so on.
Sports. walking, swimming, playing football, playing tennis, bicycling, skating, hiking and so on.
Way of life: DIY. They often fix up a house, plant their gardens, and make furniture by themselves.
Even they build their houses themselves.
Important cities are: London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Dublin, Cardiff,
Belfast and so on. London is the biggest city and the capital of England. It lies on the River Thames.
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