Unit 2 Capital Cities
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课程名称：新世纪高职高专英语授课教师：
Unit 2 Capital Cities
授课内容：
1. Understand the Text：Capital Cities
2. Explain the key words and structures in the text.
目的要求：
1.Learn the noticeable characteristics of the capital
cities of some countries.
2. Master the key words and structures in the text
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Unit 2 Capital Cities
Can you say something about some capital cities:
Beijing
London
Washington D. C.
Paris
Tokyo
Athens
Ottawa
Vienna
………………………………
I. Lead in( 15 minutes)
Task 1: Ask the students to talk about noticeable characteristics of some capital cities
Task 2: List the name of their favorite capital cities, give their reasons.
Teacher should give some related words and expressions.
II. Read in (65 minutes)
1. Background Information (5 minutes)
city center: the main shopping or business area in a city, called “downtown” in American English
city fathers:the group of people who govern a city
city planning: the study of the way cities work, so that the roads, houses, services, etc. can be provided effectively. City planning is getting more and more important with the development of economy and society. Now the government of almost any big city has a department of city planning.
2. Developing vocabulary (30 minutes)
1) advantage: n. a favorable circumstance 优势
e.g. As we all know, computers have both advantages and disadvantages.
These are the advantages of radios over TV.
2) characteristic: n. a special and easily recognized quality of someone or something
特征,特性
e.g. A useful characteristic of the cat is its ability to catch and kill mice.
The newly invented device has the following characteristics.