Unit 18 New Zealand
The First Period Speaking

Teaching goals
1.Enable the students to talk about the directions.
2.Help the students learn how to show pros and cons.
3.Cultivate the patriotism of the students.
Teaching important points
1.Help the students learn how to show pros and cons.
2.Cultivate the patriotism of the students.
Teaching difficult points
1.Distinguish the three expressions of direction.
2.Help the students learn how to show pros and cons.
Teaching methods
1.Watching and saying
2.Pair work and group work
Teaching aids
Slide-show and pictures
Teaching procedures & ways

Step I Lead-in
1.What do you want to be? And why?
2.Today we’ll begin a new unit ----Unit 18 New Zealand.
1)Do you like travel?
2)Where have you been?
3)Have you been to some foreign countries?
Step II Warming up
1.Let’s see the next pictures of scenery and try to guess what and where they are.
1)Canterbury Plains: it is farming region which has rolling hills on both its eastern and western flanks, great for pasture land.
2)Hagley Park: it is an enormous park land which is one of Christchurch’s most important parks and regular hosts some of the city’s largest outdoor events.
3)The Great Wall: it is the only man-made structurevisible from the moon in the world.
4)Hainan Island: it is called“ the Hawaii of China”.
2.Maybe you know many famous places of our country. Now let’s see how much you know about our own country. ( Show the map of China) Please fill the blanks.
3.What’s this? ----Map of China( point to the map)
What’s this?----Asia( point to Asia in the map)
Where is our country in relation to Asia?
　----it lies in the east of Asia.

Examples:
1)( Point to Hainan Island and Guangdong )
What are they?
---- Hainan Island and Guangdong
Where is Hainan Island in relation to Guangdong?
----it lies to the south of Guangdong.
2)( Point to the Philippines)
What is this?
----Philippines
Where is Philippines in relation to our country?
----it lies off the southeast of China.
4.Practice:
1)( Point to Taiwan Island, the mainland of China and Philippine Sea in the map of China)
What are they?
----Taiwan Island, the mainland of China and Philippine Sea
Where is Taiwan Island in relation to the mainland of our country?
----it lies off the east coast of the mainland of China.
Where is Taiwan Island in relation to Philippine Sea?
----it lies to the southeast of Philippine Sea.
2)( Point to Hainan Island, Hong Kong and South China Sea in the map)
What are they?
---- Hainan Island, Hong Kong and South China Sea
Where is Hainan Island in relation to Hong Kong?
----it lies to the south of Hong Kong.
Where is Hainan Island in relation to the South China Sea?
----it lies off the western coast of the South China Sea.
3)( Point to Hawaii and the Pacific Ocean in the map)
What are they?
---- Hawaii and the Pacific Ocean
Where is Hawaii in relation to the Pacific Ocean?
----it lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
4)( Point to the United Kingdom, Ireland and France in the map)
What is the relationship among the three?
----they are neighbors.
Where is the United Kingdom in relation to Ireland and France?
----it neighbors Ireland and France.
5)( Point to New Zealand and the mainland of Australia in the map)
What are they?
---- New Zealand and the mainland of Australia
Where is New Zealand in relation to the mainland of Australia?
----it lies off the eastern coast of the mainland of Australia.
Step III Talking
1.Well done!
Do you know who are the first settlers on New Zealand?----M
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