The British Isles（The Fourth Period）

(students begin to read the passage silently and teacher shows some questions on the screen. )
answer the following questions:
1. what did he see all round the city of salisbury?
2. what is the cathedral famous for?
    what does he think of it?
3. how many important kinds of produce and trade are there in the city of salisbury? what are they?
4. how about the hills and fields there?
5. what does he think of the country
 when he looks at the fields from the hills?
6. at which is he surprised when he comes down the hills?
 (after a few minutes, teacher collects the students' answers and then checks them.)
suggested answers：
1. he saw six hundred thousand sheep fed within six miles of salisbury.
2. the cathedral is famous for the height of its tower. it is 410 feet high. he
   thinks the tower is the highest and the most handsome in england.
3. there are two important kinds of produce and trade in salisbury. they are   making cloth and sheets called salisbury whites.
4. the hills and fields are most beautiful, with many small and clear rivers and
   rich fields bearing fruit and grain.
t： (show the screen).
    your comprehension is quite right. now look at the screen. there are some useful works and expressions on it. please read them and learn them by heart.
words and expressions:
1. raise: cause to grow or develop and
 look after= feed
 e. g. she's raised two sons.
 they raise horses.
2. be famous for: guilin is famous for its beautiful scenery.
3. without doubt: he is the most successful without doubt.
4. join: become united
 e. g. where do the two streams join?
5. employ: he employed an engineer to design a building.
6. namely: that is(to say)
  e. g. he understands two foreign languages, namely, english and japanese.
7. feed on: sheep feed on grass,
8. bear: the tree is bearing a lot of apples this year.
sentence patterns:
1. (a)most/the most:
  he is most careless.
  he is a most careless boy.
  he is the most careless boy in our class.
2. the number of students is in our school.
step iv listening and reading aloud
 t: now look at your books and listen to the tape. pay attention to your
 pronunciation.
  (teacher plays the tape for students to listen. after that, teacher gives       students a few minutes to read aloud the passage. )
   t: let's have a discussion in groups of four and find out what's the main idea       of each paragraph.