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.