努爾斯曼古?艾孜木

Textbook Analysis：

This unit is introduces some basic information about Canada to the students， its geography， its cultures and its population. There is an opportunity to compare China to Canada， and to ask further questions about Canadian life and the multicultural nature of the country. The climate and the geography of China and Canada are compared.

Teaching aims：

1.Knowledge and skills：

（1）Learn the use of the following words and phrases： Canadian，minister， rather than， continent， baggage， chat， scenery，eastward， westward，surround，manage to， catch sight of， have a gift for.

（2）Learn about some sentence patterns and be able to use them freely.

2.Process and method：

（1）Learn about Canada.

（2）Let the students grasp some important words and expressions.

（3）Get the students to imagine their own trips to some interesting places and arouse their interest in traveling.

（4）Improve the students reading ability.

3.Emotion， attitude and values：

（1）Encourage students to learn more about foreign customs.

（2）Cultivate students patriotic consciousness.

（3）Cultivate students cooperative inquiry ability.

Important points：

1.?? Make students know the basic information about Canada.

2.Let the students grasp some important words and expressions.

Difficult points：

1.Get the students to imagine their own trips to some interesting 2.places and arouse their interest in traveling.

Improve students reading ability.

Teaching method： Communicative approach， Activity method， Task-Based Teaching.

Learning strategy： Individual Learning ， Cooperative Learning.

Teaching tools： PPT， text book， The world map

Patriotism education： Being Chinese we have an obligation to understand our traditional culture as well as the world in a right way.

Teaching procedures：

Step1. Warming up

Warming up by playing video and talking about travel.

T：Hello，everyone . It is my great honor to be here as your English teacher， now I would like to give you guys a brief self-introduction .After playing travel video， teacher ask some questions about travel to arouse their interest to the lesson . Then let students find the location of Canada in the map.

Step2.Pre-reading（Group competition）

Play the video of Canada and ask students to answer the following six questions.

Step3.Reading（Group competition）

1.Fast reading

Give students 5 minutes to read the passage and write down the the answers to the following questions in complete sentences.

（1）What does “The True North”mean？

（2）In which direction were the two girls traveling？

（3）How many cities are mentioned in the text？What are they？

2.Careful Reading

Give students 10minutes to finish the exercises

Step4. Summary：

Give students 5minutes to sum up the text by using the structure.

提示：兩名中國女孩，李黛予和劉倩，乘火車橫跨加拿大，在旅行途中她們看到了美麗的風(fēng)景以及野生動物，也參觀了許多有趣的地方，同時了解了加拿大。

（two Chinese girls; take a trip; Canada; scenery; wild animal ）

Homework：

1.Read the text after class.

2. Read and circle all the useful expressions in the passage and recite them.

3.Write a short passage to report what Li Daiyu and Liu Qian saw in Canada.