New Zealand (Reading)

发布时间：2016-9-9编辑：互联网

-The First Period

（浙江永康明珠学校高一外语组金建良）

Analysis of the Text:

This text is a piece of expositive passage. It is typical of the way countries or regions are described. Students should study the structure of the passage and learn to write similar passages, as nearly all descriptions of countries will follow this pattern. The passage is about New Zealand including geography, climate, natural landscapes and history. Students ought to improve their cultural awareness and promote exchange of different cultures by have a good knowledge of New Zealand. What’s more, students should also develop their reading ability ,increase their awareness of cooperation, improve their tactics in learning and so on.

Teaching Aims:

1. To learn the important and useful words and expressions and have a good knowledge of New Zealand (knowledge object)

2. To cultivate students’ ability of reading comprehension : skimming, scanning , generalization, inference and so on

and enable them learn to read and write descriptive passages (ability object)

3. To strengthen and develop their awareness of foreign cultures

or western cultures and promote exchange of different cultures

(object of cultural awareness)

4. To stimulate their interests and foster their self-confidence, the spirit of cooperation (object of emotion and attitude)

5. To improve their tactics in learning such as taking notes, seizing the chance of speaking, searching the internet for further information

(object of tactics )

Important Points :

1. To learn the important and useful words and expressions

2. To have a good knowledge of New Zealand including geography, climate, natural landscapes and history

3. To encourage students to get to know more about New Zealand by discussion and communication on the base of comprehension of the text.

Difficult Points:

1. To pronounce some difficult words ( place names, names for persons and so on ) correctly and understand some difficult sentences

2. To have a deep understanding of the passage

3 To arose students’ interests in learning the passage (lead in )and evoke their enthusiasm in discussion and communication (travel conference)

Teaching Methods: Task-based Language Teaching

Teaching Aids: multimedia tools

Teaching Procedures:

Task 1 Talk About Traveling

Activity1: Warming up

Look at the picture: Three people are traveling in the mountains. The picture is really beautiful. You can see the beautiful flowers, green grass, and you can even hear the wonderful sound of the running water. So, do you like traveling? Are you happy and excited when traveling?

Activity 2: Experiences sharing

Since you love traveling so much, would you like to share your travel experiences with us?(Where have you been? what about it?)

Task 2 Appreciate Pictures and Lead in

Traveling is really interesting .Now I will show you some beautiful pictures Try to guess where these pictures are from(New Zealand). Learn some difficult words while showing the pictures of volcanoes, harbors, sand beaches, bay and so on

Task 3 Generally Understand the Passage

Activity1: Guessing

If you are the writer of this passage, what will you write to introduce the country-New Zealand? (They may have various answers such as population, geography, history, natural beauty, climate, agriculture, culture, life and so on. Show them on the screen)

Activity2: Listen and answer

Listen to the tape and answer the following question: What are talked about in this passage?(Answer: geography, history, natural beauty, climate)

Activity3: Match each paragraph with the best heading

Paragraph1 geography. Paragraph2 climate. Paragraph3 natural beauty . Paragraph4 history

This is also a typical way to introduce a country

Task 4 Further Understand the Passage

Now we have a general idea of the text. However, we still do not understand why the country is so attractive, charming and beautiful. So, let’s go on to learn more about it. O.K?

Activity1 : Filling in the following form

Read the passage again and read it carefully .Then fill in the following form and try to further understand the text

Items

Detailed Information

Geography

Location: lies off ,be made up of ,surrounded,

Cities: Wellington , Auckland , Christchurch, Queenstown

Climate

Type : mild sea climate, subtropical(north ) Seasons :warmest months (12-2) coldest (6-8)

Natural

Beauty

The coastline: deep blue, bay, harbor, sand beaches

Natural landscape: green hills and mountains, dead volcanoes

the North Island: hot springs, heat make electricity

Animals & plants: kiwi, national bird

History

1000 years ago: the Maori , Aotearoa, Polynesia .3,5ookm, settled

Around 1421: Chinese sailors, one of their voyages

In 1642 : the Dutchman Abel Tasman, named , New Zealand

In 1769: Captain James Cook , took possession of ,

By 1840 2,000 Europeans , mainly British,

On Feb 6: Signed an agreement, celebrated, national holiday

Notes: The underlined parts are the new words or phrases .when filling in the form show the pictures of New Zealand Map, bays, harbors, hills and mountains, Kiwis, location of Polynesia in the Map of 0ceania, Maori village and their celebration of National Holiday

Activity2: Sentence understanding

Para1 Sentence1 (lie off) Sentence2(be made up of).

Para3 Sentence5(non-restrictive attributive clause).

Para4 Sentence4(non-restrictive attributive clause, ”which” means the distance from Polynesia to New Zealand)

Para5 the last Sentence(restrictive--attributive clause. who)

Task 5 Have a travel conference in Beijing to introduce New Zealand

Activity1: Reading

We have learned a lot about New Zealand. Perhaps you can not retell it in English. So I want you to read the passage aloud and then we will have an interesting activity.

Activity2: Travel Conference

First, I need three students to help me. Suppose they are from New Zealand. Now they are to hold a travel conference in Beijing to introduce their own country. One person is a geographer. One is the Heading of the Travel Conference and the third one is a historian.

The rest students will be the reporters or travel lovers from China or other countries. They can ask any questions about New Zealand

Task 6 Think and Reflect

Ask students to think: Is it enough just to know our own country and ourselves? Why?

Answer: We should learn not only about our own culture, but also others

Summary:

We’ve known much about New Zealand(geography, history, natural beauty, climate)and we’ve learned some difficult words and sentences(above).Besides, we should also learn to absorb the rich culture from other counties. In addition, we must learn to cooperate and seize every opportunity to improve our English .

Homework:

1. Search the internet to look for more information about New Zealand

2. Plan a picture exhibition by downloading the pictures from the internet or copying the pictures from books

3. Write a passage to introduce China by imitating the text

Blackboard Designing

New Zealand

Paragraph1 geography

Paragraph2 climate This is a typical way to introduce

Paragraph3 natural beauty a country or a region

Paragraph4 history