x Unit2 Wish You Were Here
教案学案一体化讲义 麒麟中学高一英语备课组
Period1 Welcome to the unit
The main idea of the period:
The four pictures in this part can arouse the students' interest in traveling. By talking about these places, the students will know the beautiful world better, 10ve nature and be willing to protect the surroundings. Then, the students are required to talk about their traveling experiences. They can learn from each other how to express themselves on traveling freely.
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about traveling.
2. Develop the students' speakingability by talking about places in the world and traveling.
Teaching Important Points.
1. Develop the students' speaking ability.
2. Train the students' listening ability.
Teaching Difficult Point:
How to get the students to speak more and improve their speaking ability.
Teaching Methods:
1. Free talk to arouse the students' interest in traveling.
2. Listening-and-answering activity to help the students to go through the listening material.
3. Discussion to make the students finish the task of speaking.
Step 1 Lead-in
Nowadays, more and more people are interested in traveling on holidays. They want to go to different places and different countries to get close to nature to enjoy beautiful scenery. Now, I have some questions to ask you.
1. How do you spend your holidays?
2. What do you usually do on your holidays?
3. Is there anywhere you would particularly like to visit on holidays? Where and Why?
( give the students5 minutes to think them over or discuss them.)
Step 2 Welcome to the unit
T: Now, let’s come to the pictures. First, please describe the four pictures.
Picture 1. Africa is a continent rich in natural resources, oil, gold, diamonds and countless other minerals. A large variety of animals like elephants, lions, zebras and giraffes live in this mysterious and wild land. Being the second largest continent on the Earth, it contains more countries than any other. Each has unique customs and natural attractions. The grasslands of Africa are home to various animals. Lions are the only cats that live in large family groups. Elephants usually live in groups that consist of 8 to 15 related members. Zebras, with a horse-like appearance, have wide black-and-white stripes all over their bodies. Giraffes in Africa can grow to a height of over 17 feet.
Picture2. Australia’s Gold Coast is famous for its attractive beaches. With 70 kilometers of coastline, Gold Coast beaches have something for everyone. Every year the Gold Coast attracts visitors from all over world to sit back, relax, experience the fun and taste the excitement of Australia’s most popular holiday playground.
Picture 3 The Amazon rainforest extends for 4 million sq km and is home to hundreds of thousands of animals and plant species. Although it covers only 3.5% of the overall Earth’s surface, it is home to around 50% of the world’s living species, many of which are still unknown to humans.
Picture 4 Where is the Gobi Desert?
What is it like?
Have you ever heard of a person who traveled across the Gobi Desert all by himself/herself?
Step3 Language Points:
1. There are a lot of amazing adventures to have and places to see in the world.
amazing 令人惊奇的
e.g The economy of that area is developing at an amazing speed.
amazed 感到惊奇的 be amazed at/by
be amazed to do sth.
be amazed that…
1. 他的丰富的知识使我们感到吃惊.( be amazed at/by)

2. 当我10年后回到家乡,我惊奇地发现家乡已经发生了巨大的变化.
(be amazed to do sth.)

3. 你居然没去过上海,真让我吃惊.( be amazed that…)

2. Explore the amazing Brazilian rainforest!
explore vt. 勘探, 探索, 探究
1. They explored the land to the south of the river.
2. 对北冰洋的探索需要巨大的费用.
It takes a large amount of money to explore the Artic Ocean.
Ex: 美国科学家下个月即将探索月球.

拓展: explorer n. 探险家
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