The British Isles（The Fourth Period）

the fourth period
teaching aims:
1. review the noun clauses introduced by “that”.
2. review the important words and expressions learnt in this unit.
3. do some reading and writing to improve the students' integrating skills.
teaching important points:
1. learn to describe the countryside, the cities, the people and their life by reading the passage.
2. train the students' writing.
teaching difficult points:
improve the students' integrating skills--reading skill and writing skill.
teaching methods:
1. fast reading to go through the reading material.
2. discussion method to finish the writing task.
3. individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids:
1. a computer and a courseware
2. a projector
3. a tape recorder
teaching procedures:
step i greetings
 greet the whole class as usual
 step ii revision
 t：in the last period we learnt the noun clauses introduced by “ that”. now        we'll do an exercise to review them. please open your books and turn to page 40. look at the exercise in checkpoint 5. complete the sentences by using the noun clauses. do it by yourself first and then i'll ask some of you to give your answers.
 (after a while, teacher asks some students to read their sentences. )
 t：are you ready? (ss：yes.)who'd like to complete the first sentence using the        subject clause? any volunteer?
 s1 =that britain is a good place for sightseeing and studying english is agreed        by the people who have been there.
 t：very good. now complete the second sentence.
 s2 =do you agree(that)britain is a good place for sightseeing and studying        english?
  t：…
  s1: the reason why many people like to go to britain is that britain is a good        place for sight-seeing and studying english.
  s4：the advertisement that britain is a good place for sight-seeing and
studying english has attracted a lot of chinese young people.
    t: well done. you are quite right.
    step iii reading
t： through the internet, we're got much information about englishmen, their        culture, food, sports, places of interest and so on. from the passage we read,        we've also known something about the british isles, the united kingdom and       ireland. now we all know england is a good place to travel to. today we'll read  a  passage.  it's about daniel defoe's experience. he visited salisbury in southern england. what did he see there？what places did he visit? let's read the passage and you'll find the answers to the questions above. please read it quickly and then answer the questions on the screen.