Unit 5 The British Isles

             unit 5 the british isles
teaching goals:
1. talk about the uk and ireland.
2. practise expressing agreement and disagreement.
3. learn about noun clauses (1).
4. write a description of a town and the countryside.
5. improve students’ ability in listening, speaking, reading and writing
teaching key and difficult points:
1. master the expressions for agreement and disagreement.
2. learn and master the following words and expressions:
words: form, influence, basis, inland, mountainous, narrow, diversity, republic, wales, mild, union, strength, welsh, scofish
phrases: stand for, be made up of, be unknown to, make the most of, hold together, lie off, be separated from, at one point, in general, as much as, run over, end up with
3. learn and master noun clauses as the subject, the object, the predicative and the appositive introduced by “that”.
4. master the differences between the appositive clause and the attributive clause.
teaching approach: task-base; student-centered; equipment-aided
learning approach: exploration study; co-operation
teaching aids: a computer, a courseware , a projector, a tape recorder

teaching procedures:
pre-unit task:
task 1: exploring the british isles
before class, present students the following subjects about britain :geography (including important cities/rivers/names of countries),history, language, culture, sports and arts , architecture, literature, film food, famous people and life .divide them into several groups and each choose one to do some exploring study. ask them to do as follows: first , surf the internet to find out as much information as you can and then sort out the information collected. finally, make cais and get a leader to report the results.
task 2: investigate your hometown
get the same groups to investigate their hometown, by interviewing experts, going to visit some places of interest and government offices related (eg. the weather station), and colleting information. then fill in the chart:
name of my hometown location weather places of interest the life of residents population or history

                                 the first period