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1、Unit3What are you doing for vacation?Contentsl Background informationl Teaching objectivesl Teaching approachl Teaching aidsl Teaching proceduresl Blackboard designBackground informationTeaching material Unit 3What are you doing for vacation?Section ABackground informationStudent analysis Age: 13-15

2、Interests:Level:Teaching objectivesknowledge objectives New words: plan, away, send, bike, ride, famousStructures:1. -What are you doing for vacation? - I am babysitting my sister.2. When are you going? 3. How long are you staying? Teaching objectivesSkill objectivesStudents are able to: 1. Talk abo

3、ut their future plans. 2. Recite the new words and structures. 3. Recognize the key information while listeningMoral objectivesStudents are able to notice the cultural differences between China and AmericanTeaching approachTeaching aids PPT Blackboard Video Chalk Teaching procedures1Lead-in2 2Presen

4、tation 3 3Practice 5Homework 4 4Production 1Lead-in(5mins)Teaching proceduresTeaching procedures1Lead-in2 2Presentation babaysittingswimminggoing fishingdoing homeworkcleaning the room playing volleyballsleepingreadingChalkPPT PPT Blackboard Video PPT Blackboard Video Video Background Information l

5、美国佛罗里达州南部的亚热带克拉莎草沼泽地区，这是一条最宽处达80公里但一般深不到0.3公尺(1尺)的“草河”，面积超过11,100平方公里。河水经由该地区向南缓慢地流到与西南部墨西哥湾和南部佛罗里达湾相连的红树林沼泽。沼泽地向东延伸到包括迈阿密都会区在内的狭窄沙洲附近，向西与大赛普里斯沼泽汇流。大沼泽地的英文名“Everglades”是佛罗里达州独有的名称。“glade”用于指森林中长满草的开阔地或者潮湿的沼泽地；“ever”可能是用来形容当地的沼泽地区似乎一眼无际。EvergladesTen Thousand Islands The Ten Thousand Islands are a ch

6、ain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast of southwest Florida, between Cape Romano (at the southern end of Marco Island) and the mouth of Lostmans River. Some of the islands are high spots on a drowned shoreline. Others were produced by mangroves growing on oyster bars. Despite the name, the

7、 islets in the chain only number in the hundreds.Marco IslandMarco Island is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States, located on an island by the same name in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Southwest Florida. It is a principal city of the NaplesMarco Island Metropolitan Statistical Are

8、a. Originally named San Marco Island by Spanish explorers, Marco Island is the largest barrier island within Southwest Floridas Ten Thousand Islands area extending southerly to Cape Sable. The Westward Movement Life on the American Frontier, daily life in the new settlements that formed as the Unite

9、d States expanded west to the Pacific Ocean, south to the Gulf of Mexico and north to Alaska, did much to shape the American life. The westward movement across the continent began during the colonial era in the 1600s and continued into the 1900s. Although each frontier posed its own set of problems,

10、 all shared certain characteristics:Text OrganizationText Organization15554 4Production Difficult Sentences in Part PARA 4 We had made our home in Palmetto for a year or so where my mothers gentle folks, the Harrisons, had settled following the Civil War. gentle folks : (old usage) people of high so

11、cial standing; people who come from families in a high social class PARA 4Our comfortable two-story frame house . was set about with live oaks . provide a roost for the chicken. set about: (rare) surrounded by trees that have been set (planted) there rather than growing naturally set about(doing sth

12、): to start or begin 开始 to try 试着(做某事)，试图： e.g. I set about reading the book at one go.PARA 9 I wish I could make you see the little stores, all alone, way off in the backwoods where we would stop to replenish our food stock from time to timeOccasionally a blacksmiths shed would adjoin the store 我真希

13、望能够让你看一下单独在人烟稀少的偏远地方的小商店偶尔也有铁匠的棚子搭在商店的近旁Backwoods 人烟稀少的偏远地方；blacksmith 铁匠Replenish /rpln/ TEM8 If you replenish something, you make it full or complete again. 重新充满; 再度装满e.g. 需要30万吨谷物才能重新装满仓库。Three hundred thousand tons of cereals are needed to replenish stocks.n.replenishment 补充，补给Adjoin /dn/ CET6 T

14、EM8 If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other. vi. 毗连，邻接vt. 毗连，邻接 adj.adjoining 邻接的；毗连的 e.g.If the enclosing sides adjoin each other, the area should be properly vented. 如果封闭的侧面彼此邻接，该区域要有适当的通风。PARA 10This third day out, and days to come, found us in the unsettled wil

15、ds of Florida. The structure varies a little in this sentence to avoid monotony and to give emphasis to the time. Otherwise it would start with “we” again- We were in the unsettled wilds of Florida in the third day out, and the days to come. 出发的第三天以及以后的日子里，我们都在佛罗里达无人居住的荒野中穿行。 e.g. The sun in the ear

16、ly morning found him running in the playground。PARA 12These lush hammocks were green with ferns. hammock:a fertile raised area with hardwood trees拓展：hammock /hmk/ TEM8 A hammock is a piece of strong cloth or netting which is hung between two supports and used as a bed. 吊床e.g.Some of the Indians of t

17、his region, earlier in the century, used to sleep naked in hammocks. 在本世纪早期，这一地区的一些印第安人常常赤身睡在吊床里。PARA 13 Every lawman in southern Florida was acquainted with his treachery and cunning. Treachery: /trtr/ CET6+ TEM8 背叛;变节；背叛行为 Treachery is behaviour or an action in which someone betrays their country

18、or betrays a person who trusts them. e.g. And that was never regarded as treachery to his faith, nor was every treacherous to the non-Muslims.PARA 27 Despite the unrelenting heat, we were happy to be let off from our hours of school indoors, sessions which our mother kept every day, rain or shine. 尽

19、管烈日当头，我们却很高兴不用在屋里上课；平时每天的这个时候，无论天晴还是下雨，妈妈都要给我们上课。 Unrelenting /,nrlnt/ adj. unpleasant situation not stopping or becoming less severe.Unrelenting /,nrlnt/ TEM81.adj. be continuing to do something in a very determined way, often without caring whether they hurt or embarrass other people. 不留情面地坚持的 e.g

20、.She established her authority with unrelenting thoroughness. 她以彻底的一丝不苟树立了自己的权威。2.If you describe something unpleasant as unrelenting, you mean that it continues without stopping. 无休止的 (不愉快的事情) e.g.an unrelenting downpour of rain. 一场下不停的倾盆大雨。PARA 32 From where he stood he could see the two boys in t

21、he boat, each with a rifle held in small, capable hands and a bead drawn down on the man who threatened their father. draw a bead on: to take careful aim at 瞄准PARA 36 This man who never paid his debts paid my father and walked with him to the landing to take a close look. All he saw were two nonchal

22、ant little boys sitting with their guns beside them, slapping mosquitoes. The matter was properly settled and the authors father got what was due. When Watson walked to the landing, before him were only two little boys, casually indifferent. 这个从未还过债的人把钱还给了爸爸，还跟着爸爸走到船坞看个究竟。他看到的是两个若无其事的男孩儿正在驱赶蚊子，旁边放着枪

23、。 1. adj. If you describe someone as nonchalant, you mean that they appear not to worry or care about things and that they seem very calm. 若无其事的; 漠不关心的 e.g.克拉克的母亲对她在儿子最新作品中的角色反应平淡。 Clarks mother is nonchalant about her role in her sons latest work.nonchalant /nnlnt/ TEM8nonchalant /nnlnt/ TEM8 2. n.

24、 若无其事; 漠不关心 nonchalance e.g.我假装若无其事地递给她两张百元钞票。 Affecting nonchalance, I handed her two hundred dollar bills.Rhetorical DevicesPun The woods were tossing with jewelsSimile But these marks of wild country called to my father like the legendary siren song.(para. 3) Its underwater grasses looked like gr

25、een ribbons constantly unrolling, and the trees held thick sprays of wild orchids. (para. 10) 水下的水草就像绿色的丝带，不断地伸展开来，野兰花一簇簇地挂满了枝头Allusion South Florida was uninviting to many because of the mosquitoes, panthers, crocodiles, swamps, and wetlands. But these marks of wild country called to my father like

26、 the legendary siren song. (para. 3)Meterphor The burly arms of the oaks were hairy with fern and blooming bromeliads. Redbirds, tanagers, and painted buntings flew back and forth across the trail, leaving a child with the impression that the woods were tossing with jewels.(para. 12)paradox The stra

27、nglehold Watson had over this section . certain lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors that our state was to suffer though its history. (para. 17) e.g. cruel kindness 残忍的善良 painful pleasure 悲喜交加 proud humility 不卑不亢Comparisom King Richard in his gluttony never sat at a table more sumptuous th

28、an ours was three times a day.(para. 22)Alliterationv The site had a nice gradient up from the sea; the big house in the tree looked safe and sturdy. (para. 23) safe and sturdy: safe and strong, solid and substantialv Blooming bromeliads (para. 12 ) v Wild butter beans (para. 26)Understatement 含蓄表达法 Understatement,asthewordimplies,isthe oppos