1 Lesson 4 City and Country教案

Unit 1 LifestylesLesson 4 City and CountryI. Teaching Aims:a. Knowledge Goals:1) To practise using prediction reading strategy.2) To practise reading for specific information.b. Ability Goals:1) To express opinions orally and give reasons for them.2) To compare one lifestyle with another.3) Learn to guess the new words meanings according to the context.c. Moral Goals:1) Help the students to form the correct life value.2) Train the students to cooperate with each other.II. Key and Difficult Points:a. Teaching Important Points:1) Develop the ability of scanning.2) Learn to use pictures、title etc to get the idea of the passage.b. Teaching Difficult Points:1) How to find the contextual connections using reading strategies.2) How to predict by using some background information.3) Form the correct life value and encourage the students to devote themselves to the countryside.III. Teaching Methods:1) Brain-storm method to make the students involved in the topic2) Scanning method to make the students get the general idea of the passage.3) Asking-and-answering method to practise the students oral English.4) Group work to make the students exchange their ideas.IV. Teaching Aids: the Bb and a tape-recorderV. Teaching Time: One Period (45)VI. Teaching Procedures:Pre-task (5) Step 1.Greetings and self-introduction Introduce myself to create the lively atmosphere.Step 2.Lead-in and pridictToday well discuss a new topic-City and Country. Before we start, lets think out as many adjectives as we can to describe them, ok? crowded noisy quiet peaceful City Country colorful stressful boring relaxingTask-cycle (18-22) Task1. Scanning (12) Now open your books to page 14, look at the two pictures and the sentences below them. Can you guess what the text is going to be about? (Ask some students to answer.) Then, play the tape and ask them to fill the table with information about Debbie and Pauls lives. Add information about your own life and compare.DebbiePaulYouLive(s) ina big citya small villageWake-up time7 am4 amJobAccountantfarmerstudent Working hours8all dayWork(s) incentre of Londonnorth of England Evening activitiesdance classes; go to the gym; have French classes.play with children; study Chinese by distance learningSpecial activitiesgo to the cinema; drive to the country and go walking.go to London for a weekend breakTask 2. Vocabulary (10)There are many new words in the passage, find them out and try to guess their meanings according to the 4 strategies: context; background; context+background; form+context. Then do Ex 5. (work in pairs)ItemStrategyHintsaccountantcontextcompany; check numberstubebackgroundundergroundcrowdedcontexton the tube; I cant find anywhere to sitnearbycontext+backgroundsimple lunchlungcontext+backgroundfresh air is good forforecastcontext+backgroundif the weather forecast is goodDistance learningform+contextstudying Chinese; live in the north of englandPost-taskStep 1. Fast-reading and free-talk (18-20)Read the passage silently:Now lets compare the differences between living in a city and living in a village.Living in a village seems to be more difficult than living in a city. Transport is a big problem for villagers. There are places where the buses pass through only two or three times a day. People also have few opportunities to take part in the cultural life. There are also many good things. For example, villages are less noisy. They have little pollution and rubbish. People can go to the forest or meadow. They can easily find places to be alone. In the city, it is impossible because streets are crowded with people. Also the parks arent quiet. There are many children and people with their dogs.People in the city have to breathe the air polluted by factories, cars and people. But in the country, there is fresh air and nature full of beautiful trees, flowers and animals. People living in the village know one another. It can be a little unpleasant because people know everything you did wrong. In a city you can feel lonely.In cities, there are also many shops. There is no problem if you need to buy something. If it isnt in one shop, you can go to another one. In the village, there are only few shops and even the only one with the necessary foods. However, cities arent only centers of shopping. There are also many offices. Of course all good schools are in cities.For people living in the country, there can be a big problem with employment. People in the cities can find a new job more easily than people in the country. After all, the job opportunity is one of the most important reasons why people want to move to the city. But many people from cities say they would love living in the country. It is really strange.After reading the passage, you must have got some details of living in the city and living in the country. Now, think about yourself, which one do you prefer, city or country? Give me your reasons. (Work in groups of 4, say your reasons to the others.) You can use the sentences above to help you.We know in lesson 3, Wang Shu decided to be a volunteer teacher in Inner Mongolia because she wanted to challenge herself. I have to say that she is quite brave. Will you go to the poor area when you graduate from school and challenge yourself? Why ?(If time permits, continue to ask the question: what will you do in the poor area, work as a volunteer teacher, policeman, doctor, nurse, engineer etc? why?)Th