高中英语Module 3 My First Ride on a Train教案

Period 1: Introduction and Reading Step 1: Warming up 1. Warming up by Questions

Ask the students to look at the pictures on page 21, and then answer the following questions:

1) Which of the vehicles travel on roads?

2) Which of them travel on rails?

3) Which of them travel in the air?

4) Which of them can you use to travel a long distance?

5) If you travel on a train, what will you do and how is your feeling?

2. Warming up by making a conversation describing one of your travel experiences.

Include: Where did you go and who did you go with?

How did you travel a long distance?

How old were you?

What did you see and hear of all the way?

What do you think of it?

3. Warming up by studying vocabulary

Turn to page 114, and study the vocabulary list for Unit three, paying more attention to the

spelling and pronunciation of the words.

Step 2: Pre-reading

1. Asking and answering

Look at the following pictures :

What you see from the pictures are beautiful sceneries in Australia. Then do you know: Q1: How many people live there?

Q2: What is the name of the capital city?

Q3: Where do you think most of the people live in the central part or on the coast?

Q4: What kind of Australian animals do you know?

Suggested answers:

1). It is the 6th large country in the world, but has a relatively small population. There are

19,731,984 people living there.

2). The capital city---Canberra. Canberra is a young capital. After the federation of Australia in

1901, Melbourne and Sydney tried to claim national capital status. In 1908, a solution was

found by selecting a location somewhere in-between.

3). On the east/southeast coast. Because much of the central and western part of the country is

uninhabitable.

4). koalar bear. kangaroo

2. Introduce some new words

Show the following new words from the text and ask them to read all together twice each word

while correcting their pronunciation. Kangaroo Pinnacles Opera house Greet barrier

Ok , now let’s have a spelling quiz. Read every sentence and write out a word in the box above,

using a proper form of the words.

1) Vast areas of land have become _____ .

2) The group of people are all ____ in psychology.

3) His ____ visit surprised me very much.

4) A good cyclist can cover ____ of over a hundred miles a day.

5) Let’s stop and admire the _____ of the mountain.

6) The company is known for its high-quality ____.

(Keys: desert, experts, midnight, distances, scenery, product)

Step 3: Reading

1. Leading-in

After talking about some information about Australia, we restudied some new words in this text,

maybe every one of us is eager to pay a visit to Australia and appreciate the beautiful sceneries

there, right? Ok, now let’s learn the passage “My first ride on a train〞. After reading, answering

the following questions:

1〕Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago?

2〕Was her destination on the coast of Australia?

3〕Was the scenery the same during the whole journey?

4〕Did she study while she was on the train?

5〕Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country?

6〕Do they still use camels to deliver goods?

Answers:

1) No. She travelled on the train recently.

2) No, it was Alice Springs in the central part of Australia.

3) No, at first there were fields, then it was desert.

4) Yes, she studied Chinese.

5) Yes, at first, but the horses didn’t like the hot weather.

6) No, they use the train now.

2. Fast reading to get the general idea of each paragraph.

Para.1: I had my first ride on a long distance train.

Para.2: The scenery along the railway.

Para.3: How I spent the time on the train.

Para.4: Why is the train called Ghan?

Para.5: Things about the camels.

Para.6: The fate of the camels nowadays.

3. Listening to the tape of the text and try to find which of the following words appear in the

story.

distance abandoned camel cassette desert

diamond expert midnight product scenery recent distance expect scenery desert abandon

comfortable passenger camera produce get on shoot

in the middle of more than try to do be short for

( Keys: distance , scenery ,desert ,comfortable ,passenger, get on ,shoot ,in the middle of ,more

than ,be short for )

4. Detailed reading for information.

i. Read the following sentences and decide whether they are true (T) or false (F) according

to the text.

1) The author and his friends spent three days and nights on the train.

2) At night, it was windy and cold.

3) They went back with wool and other products.

4) The camels were needed in Afghan till 1925.