高中英语Unit 5 Canada—The true north 教案 人教必修3
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Unit 5 Canada---The true north
教学重点:Get the students to learn different reading skills, especially the abilities of
understanding the implied meaning.
教学难点:Learn different reading skills for different reading purposes.
教具准备:Multi-media and other normal teaching tools.
Knowledge aims:
1. Learn some new words and their pronunciations.
2. Get to know about Canada.
Ability aims:
1. Learn to get information through the Internet.
2. Grasp some reading skills.
Emotional aim:
Students the students’ interest and live for learning about foreigh countries.
Period one
Step one :Warming up
(Put a Canada map on the blackboard)
T: Who can tell me which country it is?
S:……
T: Ask some questions about Canada.
T: Do you know which country uses this national flag?
Ss: Canada.
T: What continent is Canada in?
Ss: In North America.
T: How large is it?
Ss: It is the second largest country in the world.
T: Yes. It occupies an area of 9,984,670 square kilometers. It is a bit bigger than China. Which
country is its neighbor?
Ss: The United States.
(Show a map of Canada to the students) T. Right. The United States is . Canada is a beautiful country.
Step two: Pre-reading
T: Now I want to ask you a question: Do you like travelling?
Ss: Yes.
T: I know most of you do. So have you ever been abroad?
Ss: Yes/No.
T: What’s the longest trip you have ever taken?
…
T: Very good. If we want to make our motherland more beautiful and more developed, we should
know more about other countries. Here are two questions, you may ask your partner for answers
and give your answers to him/her.
a. If you take a trip to Canada, what do you expect to see?
b. What three words would you use to describe Canada?
(Ask some pairs to tell their ideas to their classmates.)
Step Ⅳ Fast reading
Get the students to read the passage quickly and accurately and meanwhile help the students
to form a good habit of reading.
T: Do you feel puzzled when you read the title? What is the true north? Now read the passage
and get the general idea of the passage. Underline the main places mentioned in the text.
Give the Ss 5 minutes for reading.
a. What the passage is mainly about?
b. What are the main places mentioned in the text?
c. Draw the traveling route of the two girls on the map.
T: Do you have any difficulty in reading? Now let’s discuss some difficult points together.
Step Ⅴ Homework
1. Remember the underlined sentence.
2. Write a short passage to report what Li Daiyu and Liu Qian saw in Canada.
Period two
Step Ⅰ Revision
1. Have a dictation.
2. Ask two students to write on the blackboard.
3. Ask one student to make a short report.
Step Ⅱ Lead-in
T: Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were on the train yesterday. The train rushed across the top of the
Lake Superior. Which is the next city it runs towards?
Ss: Toronto.
T: Toronto is an important city. It is the finance center of Canada. It has rich popular arts
and culture. How much do you know about Toronto?
Ss: There are Chinatowns where you can buy Chinese medicine.
T: Quite right. Do you want to know more about Toronto?
Ss: Yes.
Step Ⅲ Reading
T: Read the passage on 38. In this passage, you can learn a lot about Toronto, and Montreal,
which is Canada’s second largest city. I will give you four minutes to read the passage, then
answer the questions on 37—38.
Four minutes later, check the answers with the class.
Step Ⅳ Intensive reading(reading task)
T: Read the passage and fill in the chart using the information of the text.
Points in the passage What Beth thought Information in passage
The temperature
How to travel
Holidays
How people live
What the Inuit do
Daylight hours
T: You can have a discussion with your partner.
Step Ⅴ Discussion
T: We have known a lot about Canada. Now let’s compare China with Canada.
Same as China Different from China
Large land Six time area
Weather is different from area to
area, long and hard winter No places as hot as south china
Different people speak different
languages Canada has two official
languages, smaller population
Many rivers and lakes World famous rivers and lakes
Much coal, oil gas and other
natural resources Much fresh water, a lot of forest
Step Ⅵ Homework
1. Read the two passages again and find the main characters of Toronto, Montreal and Iqaluit.
2. Read fun reading by yourself.