Unit 5 The British Isles

Integrating skill

By Xie Wei in Senior Two

I: Teaching aims:

1. Train the students’ reading ability

2. Let the students’ master important words and useful expressions.

II:Teaching Important Points:

1. Learn how to read and how to understand the passage.

2. Learn to describe the countryside, the cities, the people and their life .

III:Teaching Difficult Points:

1. Improve the students’ integraitn skills-reading skill and writing skill.

2. Master the new words and useful expressions: as far as… as many as.. raise sheep, be famous for, without doubt, namely, sheet, a great deal, spread out into…

IV：Teaching Methods:

1. Listen to go through the reading material.

2. Read to understand the reading material more.

3. Do T or F practice to learn some important ideas.

4. Do blank fillings to go over the important words and phrases.

5. Discussion method to find out the writing clue, ready for the writing.

6. Individual, pair or group work to make every student in class.

V. Teaching Aids:

a computer , a projector, a tape recorder

VI: Teaching Procedures:

Step1 Lead in

By talking about the English writers I introduce Daniel Defoe to the students. And ask one of the student to read the short introduction about Daniel Defoe.

( He was born in London in 1660 and died in 1731. He wrote many books all his life, among which Robinson Crusoe is the most famous one )

Step 2 Reading

1. listen and try to find out the answers:

What is one of the most famous relics in Sailsbury?

Is there any river in Sailsbury?

Are there people of Sailsbury happy and rich?

2. Read the passage and find out the details for the following questions:

What is one of the most famous relics in Sailsbury?

Is there any river in Sailsbury?

Are there people of Sailsbury happy and rich?

How did Daniel Defoe describe the senery of Sailsbury?

3. Discuss and finish T or F practise:

1.) All around the city of Salisbury you can see several sheep.

2). The cathedral is famous for the shape of its tower.

3). Salisbury itself is a good but small city.

4). Salisbury Whites refers to making cloth and shoes. people here are happy and rich and doing business well.

5). Sailsbury is such a place with beautiful fields, small and clear rivers and rich fields .

6). We can find some good little towns, villages and houses, and among them many of good size.

4. Go over words and phrases:

１)．All around the city of Salisbury, ____________ twenty –two miles to the west, and six miles south, down to the coast, farmers _____________.

2). The cathedral _________________ the height of its tower, ______ is _________ the highest and the most handsome in England.

3). Their business is____________ , and there is ______________ good manners and good company among them.

4). There could be ______________six hundred thousand sheep _____within six miles of Salisbury, _______ every way round and the town in the center.

5). The city of Salisbury has two important kinds of produce and trade, ______employ the poor of _______________the country round ---_______, making cloth and sheets, called Salisbury Whites

6). I have written before that this country has high hills, _______tops __________ green fields ___________ great numbers of sheep are fed.

Step 3 Discussion

1. In which order did the writer describe the city?

2. When you write a descriptive passage about a place, what would you include in it?

Step 4 Homework

When you write a descriptive passage about a place, which words and expressions would you use? Think about the questions after class.

Blackboard design:

as far as… spread out into… raise/ keep /feed sheep sheets

be famous for… without doubt, namely, a great deal of…