Unit5__Canada_教案

1、Unit5 Canada “The True North”Period 1 Warming-up and reading .Teaching aims:1. Talk about the basic information about Canada.2. Learn the geography, population, main cities, and natural beauty, natural resources of Canada.3. Learn how to read a traveling report and pictures.Teaching important points

2、 1. Talk about the basic information about Canada.2. Get the student Learn how to read a traveling report. .Teaching difficult points Develop the students reading ability. Have the students learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, key sentences, skimming, scanning and so on so as to ge

3、t the main idea and find some detail information of the Canada. Ability goals1. Know something about Canada;2. Enable students to get the main idea of the passage;3. Develop students reading skills - guessing words, searching for information;. Emotional target1. Learn how to read a traveling report.

4、2. Learn to love the nature and our country.Teaching aids: Multimedia, a tape and several paper apples .Teaching steps:Step1.Lead-in and warming up1. Show the students a short video about the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada 2010 and ask them two questions. T: What can you see in the video?

5、 Ss: The Olympic GamesT: Which country do you think the video is about?Ss: Canada.T: Yes, you are right. Today we are going to learn something about Canada. How much do you know about Canada?2. Show another video to the students, ask them to pay more attention to the information in the video.3. Have

6、 a quiz in Warming up. (Show the questions on the scream, add two questions) The answers are: 1.C 2.D 3.A 4.A 5.C 6.B 7.AStep2.Pre-reading.T: Canada is a beautiful country, Would you like to take a trip to Canada? Ss: Yes.T: I know most of you do. If we want to make our motherland more beautiful and

7、 more developed, we should know more about other countries. If you take a trip to Canada, what do you expect to see? What three words would you use to describe Canada?(Ask some pairs to tell their ideas to their classmates.)Step3.Reading1). Skimming:Get the students to read the passage quickly and m

8、eanwhile help the students to form a good habit of reading.T: Do you feel puzzled when you read the title? What is the true north? Now read and find the answers.a. What is the passage mainly about?Sample：The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada.b. What

9、is “The True North”?Sample：“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada / the cross-Canada train.2). scanning Play the tape, the students listen and scan the passage and find out characters, places and their travelling route then choose the best answer and draw a travel route on the map. (Page33)3). Detailed reading:Get Ss to read the passage again and choose the best answers to the questions. Check the answers, 1.C 2.A 3.B 4.D 5.B (Team A VS Team B)4). SummaryGet the students to fill in blanks in pai