Unit 18 New Zealand （Reading 2）

1、Unit 18 New Zealand The 3rd Period ReadingTeaching Aims:1. To enable the students to get to know New Zealand including geography, climate, people, etc.2. To cultivate students ability to search information and build up cultural consciousness.Teaching Important Points:1. Improve the students reading

2、ability.2. Learn about New Zealands geography, climate, natural beauty and history.Teaching Difficult Point:How to help the students understand the text better.Teaching Methods:1. Listening to get the main idea of each paragraph. 2. True or false questions to get the general idea of the text.3. Ques

3、tion-and-answer activity to help the students to understand the detailed information in the text.4. Individual or pair work to make every student work in class.Teaching Aids: 1. a tape recorder 2.multimedia tools Teaching proceduresStep 1. Greetings and revision.Step 2. Appreciate pictures and Leadi

4、ng-in.(task 1-guessing)Traveling is really very interesting .Now I will show you some beautiful pictures Try to guess where these pictures are from(New Zealand). Q1: Which country is it?Q2: If you are the writer of this passage, what will you write to introduce the countryNew Zealand? Step 3. Listen

5、ing to get the main idea of each paragraph.(Match each paragraph with the best heading) Para1: Geography. Para2: Climate Para3: Landscapes/Natural beauty. Para4: History.Step 4. Fast reading and true or false questions.(task 2)Q1.Queenstown lies to the south of Christchurch.( T )Q2.The warmest month

6、s of New Zealand are June to August.( F )Q3. The most famous animal is Kiwi and it is New Zealands national bird.( T )Q4.The Maori came to New Zealand by air about 1000 years ago.( F )Q5.People in New Zealand celebrate their national holiday on the sixth of February .( T )Step 5. Questions to unders

7、tand the details and the language points of the text.Q1. Where is New Zealand?Q2.Whats the location of the Pacific ocean, the Tasman sea and cities in relation to New Zealand?Q3.What is it made up of ?Q4. Whats the weather like in New Zealand?Q5.What is the North Island famous for?Q6.What happened i

8、n 1769?Q7. How to translate the last sentence of this passage?Step 6.Ask the students to read the text together and pay attention to the bold words in the text.(task 3)1.It -New Zealand 2.which-hot springs 3. this heat-the heat near the earths surface. 4.these settles-European or British settlers 5.

9、 it-EnglandStep 7. consolidation- Error correcting. (task4)1. New Zealand , which is made of two large islands, lies off the eastern coast of Australia.( )2. Some of this heat near the earths surface is used to making electricity.( )3. They settled mainly in the North Island on where the weather is

10、warmer.( )4. New Zealand , with Welling as its capital, is about the same size like Japan.( )Step 8. (Task 5-Role playing.) Have a travel conference in Beijing to introduce New Zealand.Three people who came from New Zealand are to hold a travel conference in Beijing to introduce their own country. O

11、ne 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)Q: Is it enough just to know our ow

12、n country and ourselves? Why?A: We should learn not only about our own culture, but also others.Step 9. Summary &Homework.In this class, we have read a passage about New Zealand .From the passage, we have learnt something about New Zealand ,such as : geography, climate , natural beauty and histo

13、ry. At the same time , we have learnt some useful expressions. After class, you must remember and use them correctly.Your homework today: 1.Do Exe. 2 on P103& preview the Grammar part 2.Write a passage to introduce China by imitating the textReflection after Teaching:1. Teaching effects and class atmosphere are very good as their interests and enthusiasm have been great