A Teaching Plan for Unit 5 Senior Book2A
The British Isles
Teaching aims:
1.Learn and master the following words and expressions:
Words: influence, basis, narrow, republic, mild,
Phrases: be made up of, make the most of, hold together, lie off, as well as, as much as, stand for
2.Further develop the students’ readingability and reading skills
3.Get the students to know more about the British Isles
Teaching important points:
1.Train the students’ readingability and develop their reading skills
2.Enable the students to understand the text better
3.Master the following phrases:
Stand for, be made up of, be unknown to, make the most of, hold together, be separated from, in general, as much as,
Teaching difficult points:
1.How to improve the students’ readingability and develop their reading skills
2.How to enable the students to understand the text better know more about the British Isles
Teaching methods:
1.Discussion before reading to make students become interested in what they will learn
2.Fast reading to get the general idea of the text
3.Question and answer activity by students themselves to get the detailed information in the text
4.Individual ,pair or group work to make every student work in class
Teaching aids:
1. a multimedia
2. a tape recorder
3. the blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step 1.Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual
Step 2. Revision and Lead-in
In the last period , we talked much about the United Kingdom and you know a lot about it .well, If you have a chance to travel in the British Isles, which country do you like best to travel to?
( give students some minutes to discuss it .)
But at first I think you should know more information about the British Isles. Today I will take you to travel British Isles. Well, look at the picture on the screen. Do you know its name ?(Big Ben)It is the biggest clock in England ,it’s 320 feet high. Its minute hand is 14 feet long. Whoever goes to London ,he will go to enjoy the beautiful clock tower.
Step 3. Fast reading
Now open your book at page 35,look at the questions in Pre-reading and have a discussion about what you know about these questions.
1.What are the most important facts about the United Kingdom?
2.How many countries make up the British Isles?
3.What are the most important facts about Ireland?
Step4.Main topic of each paragraph
Get the students to scan the passage again and match the paragraphs and the topics.(I show the following on the screen)

Match the paragraphs with their topics
Para.1 history
Para.2 language
Para.3 climate
Para.4/5 culture
Para.6 brief introduction
Para.7 geography

Step 5. Listening
Listen to the tape carefully and then try to finish the Exercise 1 in Post reading.
Take a look at the map of the British Isles and tell me the place names of the different numbers on the map.



Step 6. Carefully reading and discussion
We have known a lot about the British Isles and the United Kingdom .but there are still many facts that we don’t know. Well, now read the passage carefully ,and try to find something that you don’t understand .Attention please ,you can ask some questions and let other students to answer them ,or you can discuss them in groups .(Maybe students will ask some questions like these as follows:)(Maybe I will show some of them on the blackboard)
1. What is Great Britain made up of?
2. What is the climate of the British Isles
3. What are the coldest and warmest months?
4. Has the culture of the people in British isles received many influences? From where?
5. 4.Who conquered the England in 1066?
6. 1.What language do people throughout British Isles speak?
7. What’s the
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