陕西省榆林育才中学高中英语 Unit 1 A land of diversity写作导学案 新人教版选修8(1).doc

陕西省榆林育才中学高中英语 unit 1 a land of diversity写作导学案 新人教版选修8学习目标：通过阅读下列英文材料，学习了解旧金山的有关知识，然后通过概况总结，亲自练笔，用英语来完成话题作文。学习重点：材料作文如何获取信息，要点如何概况。自主学习：同学们在阅读过程中要抓住注意信息，大胆猜测生词的意思，不懂的地方用笔划出来在小组或老师的帮助下解决。背景材料：san franciscosan francisco, open your golden gate, sang the girl in the theatre. she never finished her song. the date was 18th april, 1906. the earth shook and the roof suddenly divided, buildings crashed to the ground and people rushed out into the streets. the dreadful earthquake destroyed the city that had grown up when men discovered gold in the deserts of california. but today the streets of san francisco stretch over more than forty steep hills, rising like huge cliffs above the blue waters of the pacific ocean.the best way to see this splendid city, where spanish people were the first to make their homes, is to take one of the old cable cars which run along the nine main avenues. fares are cheap; they have not risen, im told, for almost a hundred years.you leave the palm trees in union square - the heart of san francisco - and from the shop signs and the faces around you, you will notice that in the city live people from many nations - austrians, italians, chinese and others - giving each part a special character. more chinese live in china town than in any other part of the world outside china. here, with chinese restaurants, chinese post-boxes, and even odd telephone-boxes that look like pagodas, it is easy to feel you are in china itself.fishermans wharf, a place all foreigners want to see, is at the end of the ride. you get out, pause perhaps to help the other travellers to swing the cable car on its turntable (a city custom), and then set out to find a table in one of the gay little restaurants beside the harbour. as you enjoy the fresh pacific sea food you can admire the bright red paint of the golden gate bridge in the harbour and watch the traffic crossing beneath the tall towers on its way to the pretty village of tiberon. when youve finished your meal, you may decide to take aboat-trip around the bay to look at the sights. you can stare, for example, at the famous, now empty, prison of alcatraz. then why not go to the fishing village of sansalito - a little like londons chelsea or new yorks greenwich village - to see people painting and to look at their pictures. you will be able to enjoy a view of the city from the sea and take pleasure in the soft red and blue spanish-type houses shining in the bright pacific light. if you have time you might like to go by bus to carmel, a hundred miles south of san francisco, where you will discover a wild and wonderful coast with high cliffs.写作训练 假如你是李红。今年你作为交换生到美国学习一年。你利用假期去加利福尼亚的旧金山(san francisco)旅游，请你根据以下表格内的提示给你的英国笔友helen写一封信，告诉她你的行程及感受。旧金山简介地处加利福尼亚州西北部，是美国西部最重要的海港城市之一，是金融、贸易和文化中心。3天的行程安排第一天：参观旧金山最有标志性的建筑金门大桥第二天：参观有“电子工业和计算机业王国”之称的硅谷。第三天：去旧金山的唐人街。它是美国最大的唐人街。感受了解了当地的风土人情，开阔了眼界。注意：1词数：120150;2可适当增加细节：3参考词汇：金门大桥the golden gate bridge;硅谷scion valley；唐人街chinatown【写作内容】旧金山简介，行程安排及感受文章的开头、结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。【写作要求】只能用5个句子表达全部内容。dear helen,how are you?this year i got a chance to stu