【新教材】必修第一册Unit 2 Travelling around 教学设计（人教版）Period 2 Reading and Thinking本板块包括阅读部分Explore Peru和在阅读基础上完成相关的词汇和收集信息练习。
Reading部分介绍的是南美洲国家秘鲁的基本情况。
Reading部分共分两部分，一是关于秘鲁的地理和历史；二是关于介绍秘鲁旅行小册子。
通过学习两个text，学生可以简单了解秘鲁的历史和地理位置，并且掌握主要的旅游信息。
通过回答和课文有关的问题和相关的拓展问题，帮助学生培养捕捉关键信息的阅读能力。
为了顺利完成Reading and Thinking 的任务，学生还要提前做好相关词汇准备。
1. Let students master useful words and phrases related to the text;2. Let students understand the basic information about Peru in geography, history and famous travel destinations;3. Get students to know how to choose travelling destinations according to one’s interest and need.Importance:1.Help the students to master key words and phrases in the text.2.Guide students to grasp important details in the texts.3. Guide the students to grasp methods of reading a travel brochures and an encyclopedic.Difficulty:Guide the students collect useful information form a text.1.Ask the students to prepare new words and phrases related to the contents of the text.2.Mark the new words in the textbook, understand the meaning in context, or consult the dictionary to understand the meaning.Step 1 Preparation1.the Pacific coast ___________2. South America__________3. the Andes mountains___________4. the Amazon rain forest___________5.the Inca Empire__________6. the famous site_________7. an official language___________8. accommodation___________ 9. destination __________ 10. local Indian culture___________ 11. the architecture___________ 12.local markets___________ Step 2 Warming upGive the students some information about a country and encourage them to guess which country it is. Choose which of the countries is being discussed according to the following information.1)There used to be a famous empire here.2)The country has long coast and famous for its unique scenery3)Part of the country is covered with rainforests.4) It is one of the South American Countries.A. ChinaB. CanadaC. PeruD. Russia ( C)Step 3 Explore PeruBefore carrying out the task, remind the students to pay attention to the tip.Before you read look through the text quickly for titles, headers, pictures, charts and any other information that might tell you what type type of text it is.Task 1 : Encyclopedia or Brochure?Get the students to look through the two passages about Pero while listening carefully.Encourage the students to judge what types of texts they are: encyclopedia or brochure.The first text:It is an encyclopedia because it focuses on basic geographic and historical information.The second text:It is a travel brochure because it mainly introduces local travel information. Besides, there is contacting information at the end of the text.Task 2 : Reading and observingGet the students to read the first text in detail and pay attention to details in its history and then observe the map of Peru to know about its location and geography features.Information from the first text:on the Pacific coast of south Americathree main areasIn the 1400s and 1500s, the center of the powerful ancient Incan empire.Spain took control in the seventeen sixteen century.the official language—SpanishInformation from the second text:Amazon Rainforest Tour:rain foresttraveling by boatexploring the rain forest with a local guideenjoying the plants and animalsMachu Picchu Tour：a four- day walking tour on amazing paths.enjoy the unique Spanish and local Indian cultureCusco Tour:the unique square and local Indian culturethe capital of the Inca Empirestay in local hotelvisit the museumsadmire the architectureenjoy excellent local foodgo shopping at the Local markets.Lake Titicaca Tour:the beautiful countrysidethe new highwaystay with a local Uros familyAn island and the Uros homes made of water plantsTask 4 Complete the passage with the correct forms of the new words from the texts.Get the students to read the passage and fill in the blacks. Remind the students pay attention to the first letters of each words.Cusco is a popular _destination __ for tourists. Because of its ___ unique __place in the history of South America. Cusco was the capital city of the Inca__Empire__ which was the most powerful in South America until the 1500s. There are two especially interesting things to__ admire __ about the Inca civilization. The first is the roads and __paths__, they built to connect their important cities. These Inca roads were made up of two north- south highways and many small roads crossing the mountains east to west. The roads were for Inca soldiers and their ___officials__. Second, the Inca built wonderful cities full of amazingarchitecture, but there were no markets in these cities. One of the interesting questions of history is how the Incas lived without shopping!Task 5 Information collectionGet the students to read the text and fill in the table.Encourage the students to discuss the question below with a partner.Guide the students to use the information in the text to give reasons.Which tour(s) would you recommend for people who enjoy history and culture. Why ?1、通过本节的阅读和思考活动，希望逐渐能够培养学生阅读实用文体，如旅游手册的时候，关注关键信息的能力。
