Warming Up ,Pre-reading, Reading

Unit 1 A land of diversity

Warming Up,Pre-reading and Reading

Teaching goals

1. Enable the students to talk about things about the USA.

2. Help the students learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in America, especially in

California.

Teaching important and difficult points

Learn the huge diversity of races and cultures in California.

Teaching methods

Fast and careful reading; asking and answering activity; individual, pair or group work.

Teaching aids

A map, a blackboard and a computer

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Lead-in

show a map of the USA and ask two questions.

1).What will come to your mind when you hear USA?

2).What do you know about USA?

Step 2 Warming up.

1. Show some pictures on the screen and ask the students to describe what they learn about the

USA.

2. Group work: look at the map of the USA with your group. Write on the map the names of as

Unit 3 Under the Sea

Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading

Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

anecdote, annual, witness, accommodation, shore, yell, pack, flee, drag, depth, lip, tongue,

abandon, relationship, ahead of, in the meantime, help out

b. 重点句子

We ran down to the shore in time to see an enormous animal opposite us throwing itself out of the

water and then crashing down again. P20

Without pausing we jumped into the boat with the other whalers and headed out into the bay. P20

As we drew closer, I could see a whale being attacked by a pack of about six other killers. P20

And those others are stopping it diving or fleeing out to sea. P20

It took over half an hour to get the boat back to James ... P21

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the Ss to talk about plants and animals under the sea. Let the Ss know that sea plants and

Many Olympians failed drug tests at the 2004 games

in Athens. Taking drugs in sports is a global problem. Some

people ask， “What's wrong with Olympians using drugs to

help them compete better？” They say， “Even if drugs are

dangerous， the athletes choose to take the risk.” In other

words， athletes should have complete control over their own

bodies.,There are several problems with this argument. The most

important one is that doping 服用兴奋剂 creates an unfair

environment. Imagine that you and I are runners. I take drugs to

help me run faster and I win. You think that you must also take

drugs to have a fair chance.,One can easily see how doping

would soon get out of control. If you start doping， I have to

find a way to keep up. Perhaps， I will decide to take more

drugs. Maybe I will look for different， stronger drugs to give

狂刷07 Unit 4 Earhtquakes Warming Up Pre-reading Reading

Comprehending

Ⅰ. 单词拼写

1. A large number of churches fell into __________（毁坏）after the revolution.

2. He knew it was __________（无用）to protest.

3. Thousands of people died in the __________（灾难）.

4. Many people were ___________（困）in the building after the fire.

5. Hearing the joke, the students __________（爆发）into laughter.

【答案】

1. ruins 2. useless

3. disaster 4. trapped

5. burst

Ⅱ. 选词填空

dig out by the end of shake instead of smell a number of shelter

extreme shocking shocked electricity

1. How many English words had you learned __________ last term?

2. Please throw the __________ fish away.

3. Without __________ our life would be quite different today.

4. When an earthquake comes, people can feel the house __________.