Unit 5 Canada—“The True North”


Part 1: Teaching Design
(第一部分：教学设计)
Period 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language
(“THE TRUE NORTH” FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL)
Aims
To enjoy the passage “THE TRUE NORTH” FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL
To learn to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing
Procedures
I. Warming up by listening and writing
Turn to page 37 and listen to the tape and complete the sentences with correct information.
II. Speaking
In groups of four, talk about the 4 questions on the top of page 38.
III. Reading
Reading and underlining
Next you are to read “THE TRUE NORTH” FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL and underline all the useful expressions or collocations you’ve found in it. Copy them into your notebook after class as homework.
Collocations from “THE TRUE NORTH” FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL
frost on the ground地上覆盖了一层薄霜, around noon中午时分, the most wealthy and biggest city in Canada加拿大最大最富有的城市, leave for…离开去……, go on a tour of the city继续在市内游览一番, go up the tower登上塔顶, look across the lake俯瞰湖面, flow into…流人……, flow over…流经……, on one’s way to…在去……的路上, a covered stadium加顶的运动场, walk north向北走, phone… from a telephone booth到电话亭给……打电话, have dinner in downtown Chinatown在市内的中国城吃晚饭, move to…移居到……, meet… at…在……迎接……, get good Cantonese food吃到好吃的广东菜, come from South China来自中国南方, go as far as Ottawa去到远至渥太华, about four hundred kilometers northeast of Toronto距多伦多东北大约有400公里, take too long花费的时间长, at dawn黎明, at the train station在火车站, have English words in small letters有小字体的英文标注, go downtown到市区去, be close to…,接近…… spend the afternoon in the lovely shops
整个下午在可爱的商店, visit… in…在……拜访……, sit in a café坐在咖啡馆, look over…眺望……, sit down with…和……坐在一起, on a train trip across…坐着火车上横穿……, have a French culture具有法国文化, speed along the river toward…沿着河流驶向……, dream of…梦想……
IV. Acting
Next we are going to put the text “THE TRUE NORTH” FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL on stage.
V. Guided writing
Suppose you are Liu Qian now. You are going to write home an imagined report on Canada.
After a total flight time of 11 hours I should be tired I guess, but somehow I was in a good shape and still willing to have a first sightseeing tour around Cadada.
Today we went to Capilano Suspension Bridge, a 13m long and 70m high suspension bridge. I saw quite some totems there, pretty impressing. I could also see how those totems are made by Indians.
Today I met my distant cousin Li Daiyu. She is from Beijing and studies in Vancouver. Until we could find arrangements to meet, several phone calls had to go all around the globe from Canada to China and from China to Canada again.


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