Unit 18　New Zealand

unit 18　new zealand
ⅰ.teaching goals:
1.talk about new zealand and china.
2.talk about location and direction.
3.learn to use“it”as a subject.
4.write a description of a country or a region.
ⅱ.teaching time:
four periods
the first period
teaching aims:
1.learn to describe location and direction.
2.do some listening practice.
3.improve the students' speaking ability by talking.
teaching important points:
1.train the students' listening ability.
2.master the expressions describing location and direction.
teaching difficult points:
1.how to improve the students' listening ability.
2.how to finish the task of speaking.
teaching methods:
1.listening-and-choice activity to help the students go through with the listening material.
2.individual,pair or group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids:
1.a tape recorder
2.a map of china
2.a computer
teaching procedures:
step ⅰ.greetings
greet the whole class as usual.
step ⅱ.lead-in
t:(put up a map of china on the blackboard.)
this is a map of china.i think you're familiar with it,aren't you?
ss:yes.
t:good well,please look at the english words on the screen.say their chinese meanings and match them with the map.
(teacher shows the screen)
bohai sea　yellow sea　east china sea　south china sea　sea of japan　pacific ocean　Chinese Taiwan　hainan　japan　the philippines　korea　russia　mongolia　india　thailand　the himalayas
(teacher asks some students to the front and do the task.)
t:very good.now we've put the names of countries,islands,seas and oceans to their correct places.
step ⅲ.warming up
t:look at the map,please.try to describe their locations.before you do the task,look at the two examples on the bb:the east china sea lies to the east of zhejiang province.hainan island lies to the south of guangdong province.(teacher reads them).
t:from the two examples,we can learn to use the following sentence structure to describe location.(teacher writes the following on the bb.)
(bb:a lies/is to the east/west/south…of b.)
ok.let's practise the sentence structure.i'll give you three minutes to prepare it.then i
'll ask some students to read out their sentences.
t:(three minutes later)time is up.are you ready?
ss:yes.
t:ok.i'll check your sentences.one student,one place.
s1:the bohai sea lies to the southwest of liaoning province.
s2:the yellow sea is to the east of shandong province.
s3.the south china sea lies to the south of guangdong province.
s4:the sea of japan is to the north of japan.
s5:the pacific ocean lies to the east of asia.
s6:Chinese Taiwan lies to the southeast of fujian province.