第一部分 教学设计

Function Comparing places and geographical features

Structure Comparing places; comparative adjectives

Listening/ Speaking Understanding comparisons Comparing places

Reading/ Writing Finding specific information; matching photos with titles Making notes and writing full answers; joining simple sentences with and

Around the world Important cities

Task Making a poster comparing two cities or rivers in China

Unit 3 Language in use

Goals

l To learn to put adjective comparisons into use;

l To learn to read about important cities;

l To learn some words and expressions

Procedures

●Warning up by singing a grammar song

The Very Basic Grammar Song

An ARTICLE introduces a noun.

A NOUN is a name of person, place or thing.

An ADJECTIVE describes a noun.

An ADVERB describes a verb.

A VERB is a word that shows action.

●Language practice

Dalian is smaller than Shanghai.

Chang jiang is wider than the River Thames.

Shanghai is busier than Hong Kong.

China is bigger than the UK.

1 Ask and answer.

Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about the places.

Is China smaller than the UK? No, it isn’t. China is bigger than the UK. Is Los Angeles smaller than Shanghai? Yes, it is. Shanghai is bigger than Los Angeles. Is New York smaller than Cambridge? No, it isn’t. New York is bigger than Cambridge. Is Hong Kong smaller than London? No, it isn’t. Hong Kong is bigger than London. Is Chang Jiang wider than the River Thames? Yes, it is. 2 Write full answers to the questions in Activity 1.

China is bigger than the UK.

Shanghai is bigger than Los Angeles. New York is bigger than Cambridge. Hong Kong is bigger than London. Chang Jiang is wider than the River Thames. 3 Say where these places are. Use a map.

Mumbai It’s a big city in the west of India. It’s on the coast. Cape Town It’s a city in the south of South Africa. It’s on the coast. Rio de Janeiro It’s a big city in the east of Brazil. It’s on the coast.

Alexandra It’s a big city in the north of Egypt. It’s on the River Nile.

Los Angeles Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second-largest urban area in the nation. It is in the southern part of the state on the Pacific Ocean. It is the seat of Los Angeles County. Geographically, it runs more than 40 mi from the mountains to the sea. New York It’s a big city on the east coast of the USA. New York City is the largest city in the United States. It is in the southern part of New York State, at the mouth of the Hudson River. Darwin Darwin is a small, but modern city with in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Melbourne Melbourne is the only city in the world that has five international standard sporting facilities (including three with retractable roofs) on the fringe of its central business district. Paris Paris is the capital city of France, the largest country of Western Europe with 550 000 km² and with about 60 millions inhabitants in the Whole of France.

Moscow Moscow is the capital of Russian Federation. The city area is about 30 km in diameter and the population reaches to almost 10 million people.

● Around the world

You are going to read the text and copy down all the useful expressions. ● Module task→Making a poster comparing two cities or rivers in China

4 Work in pairs. Choose two cities or two rivers. Then look for information about them

Find out: Where they are (in the north, south, east or west of China) Any other facts…. Put the information in the table: City / River 1:_____________________________ City / River 2:___________________________ What Is Moscow?

Moscow is the capital of Russian Federation. The city area is about 30 km in diameter and the population reaches to almost 10 million people.

Moscow was founded by Yury Dolgoruky in 1147.

Nowadays Moscow is the most important political and business center of Russia and has a true "Russian" feel. Some people even call it a "big village".

Where is Yellow River?

Yellow River, great river of N China, c.3,000 mi (4,830 km) long, rising in the Kunlun Mts., NW Qinghai prov., and flowing generally east into the "great northern bend" (around the Ordos Desert), then east again to the Bohai, an arm of the Yellow Sea.

Where is Beijing?

Beijing, city (1994 est. urban pop. 6,093,300; 1994 est. total pop. 7,240,700), capital of the People's Republic of China. It is in central Hebei prov., but constitutes an independent unit (6,564 sq mi/17,000 sq km) administered directly by the national government. The second largest city in China (after Shanghai), Beijing is the political, cultural, and educational center of the country.

5 Make a poster.

A Poster is any large piece of paper which hangs from a wall or other such surface. They are a frequent tool of advertisers, propagandists, protestors and other groups trying to communicate a message, and they also see personal use by people, especially the young, who wish to decorate in a relatively low-cost manner.

Include:

A map showing where the cities / rivers are A paragraph with facts comparing them The River _________is longer than the River ____________.

6 Display your poster and look at other students’ posters.

Taiyuan is more beautiful than Tian Jin.

Yellow River is longer than Fen River.

China has a larger population that America.

Rive is more popular in south China than in north China.

This lake is wider than that one.

He is more famous than she is.

I am busier than you are.

My hometown is farther away from Taiyuan than yours.

●Closing down by looking at posters and saying about them