Unit 18 New Zealand（Warmming－up）

1、Unit 18 New Zealand(The first period) Goals:Knowledge objective: to talk about location and directionAbility objective: to improve the students abilities of listening and speakingEmotional objective: Get the students to love ChinaTeaching important points:1. Train the students listening ability.2. M

2、aster the expressions describing locations and directions.Teaching difficult points:1. How to improve the students listening ability.2. How to finish the task of speaking.Teaching methods:Listening-and-choice activity, individual, pair or group work.Teaching procedures:Step1.Revision and Lead-inYest

3、erday we finished Unit 17 Great Women. Questions: Do you still remember the great woman Helen Thayer? What does the part of reading mainly talk about? (Her solo travel in Antarctic)(The teacher shows the place of Antarctic in the map of the world, and gets the students to say the main plates on the

4、worldand gets the students to know the map of China. ) In this class we are going to learn Unit 18 New Zealand (the first period).Step2.Warming upWell, can you find China on the map? Look at the map of China, please. And try to describe their locations. Before you do the task, please look at the thr

5、ee examples on the screen. Examples: The East China sea lies to the east of Zhejiang Province. Hainan Island lies to the south of Guangdong Province. Shaanxi is on the left of Henan.(The teacher encourages more students to speak as the examples above.)Step3. ListeningWell, just now we talked about t

6、he location and direction according to the map of China. Now listen to a passage about the location and direction of the Dolphin Island, and do the following exercises.First, lets get through the new words in the listening material before listening.Dolphin (海豚) capital (首都) beach (海滨,沙滩） Pacific Oce

7、an（太平洋）volcano（火山） range（范围，山脉） connect （连接） income （收入） tourism（观光事业，游览）Well, lets begin to listen to the tape and complete the map with information from the tape.(Then the teacher check their tasks and show the completed map on the screen.)Very good, now lets listen to it again and finish exercise

8、 2 in the part. First lets get through the four uncompleted sentences.(A few minutes later, the teacher checks the answers with the whole class .If time permits, the teacher can get the students to listen to the tape again with the answers and make them understand the passage better.)Step4.SpeakingO

9、k, from the practice of warming up and listening, we can know that we mainly learn how to talk about directions and locations. Yes or no? Have you found it?(Yes)Well, lets practice it by talking about the birthplaces of your grandparents, parents, and yourself. First, answer my questions. (The teach

10、er and the student make a small dialogue as below.) Where were you born? I was born in Zhangzhu and it lies in the southwest of Yixing. Do you know where your parents were born? My mother was born in Liyang and my father was born in Yixing. Where were your grandparents born? My Grandfather was born

11、in Zhenjiang and my grandmother was born in Yixing. Good, Thank you. Sit down, please. Next lets talk about the birthplaces of our families. Before you talk about it, you can go through with the following expressions on the screen.First, lets enjoy the example dialogue. Well, whod like to act out th

12、e dialogue? Any volunteers?(After the students act out the dialogue, the teachers gives the students several minutes to prepare their new dialogues. And then ask some pairs to act out theirs.)Step5. summary Talk about the map of the world and the map of China. Master the useful expressions about location and direction. Make dia