英语不止做为一门语言和交流工具，而是被提升到了必备技能的范畴，精品小编准备了高二英语必修三unit5教案，具体请看以下内容。

Teaching aims

Skill Goals

Talk about the basic information about Canada— location, main cities, customs and cultural diversity.

Learn how to read a traveling report and use maps.

Learn to express directions and positions.

Master the Noun Clause- Appositive clause.

Learn to write a report to express what you hear and see in a place.

Important sentences

Where is...?

How does one go to...?

In what direction is...?

Is... close to/far from...?

How far is...?

It is/lies in the north/south of...

It is/lies to the south/east/northwest of...

It is within...

Kilometers of...

It is/lies on the west/east.

Teaching importance

Noun clause as the appositive

Teaching methods: skimming, scanning, discussing.

Teaching aids: a tape recorder, a projector and a computer.

Teaching procedures

The first period Reading (I)

Step 1 Revision

Check the students’ homework.

T: Before we come to the new lesson, let’s check your homework.

The teacher checks the assignment of the last class.

Step 2 Lead-in and Warming Up

Show the students the maple flag and ask them some questions. T: Do you know which country uses this national flag?

Ss: Canada.

T: Which continent is Canada in?

Ss: It is in North America.

T: How large is it?

Ss: I only know it is the second largest country in the world. I don’t know the exact number.

T: Canada occupies an area of 9, 978, 4670 square kilometers. It is a bit bigger than China. Which country is its neighbor?

Ss: The United States.

(The teacher shows a map of Canada to the students.)

T: Right. The United State is its neighbor. Canada is a beautiful country. First let’s have a quiz and see how much you know about Canada. Please turn to Page33. I will give you one minute to choose your answers. You can score 2 points for each correct answer.

Give one minute to the students to do the quiz.

One minute later.

T: OK. Time is up. Let’s check the answers.

1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A

T: Now figure out your score please. If you get 10 points, you did a good job. Did you do a good job? If not, it doesn’t matter. The reading passage is about a trip to Canada. It will tell us more information about this country.

Step 3 Pre-reading

T: Now I want to ask you a question. Do you like traveling?

Ss: Yes, we like traveling very much. (No, I don’t like traveling. It is tiring.) T: I know most of us like traveling. Have you ever been abroad?

Ss: No / Yes.

T: Few of us have ever been abroad. Then what is the longest trip you have ever taken?

Sa: Beijing (Shanghai / Hainan / Harbin).

Sb: I have never been out of my hometown.

T: If you get a chance to go abroad, which three countries would you like to visit most? Why?

If you take a trip to Canada, what do you expect to see?

What three words would you use to describe Canada?

The teacher can ask some pairs to tell their ideas in class.

Step 4 Fast reading

Get the students read the passage quickly and carefully. Meanwhile, help the students form a good habit of reading. T: Do you feel puzzled when you read the title? What is “the True North”? Now, read the passage and get the general idea of the passage. Underline the main places mentioned in the text.

Give the Ss five minutes for reading.

Ask: what the passage is mainly about?

Sa: The passage is about a trip of two girls, and it tells us some information about Canada.

T: Right. It mainly tells us the information about Canada. What are the main places mentioned in the text?

Sb: They are the Atlantic coast, Vancouver, Rocky Mountains, Calgary, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior and Toronto.

T: Look at the map on Page33. Draw the traveling route of the two girls on the map. Give the students one minute to draw the route.

T: You did a good job. Do you have any difficulty in reading? Let’s look at the difficult points together.

The teacher explains some important or difficult points to the students.

Step 5 Reading aloud

Let the students read the passage again and find the details from the passage.

T: Now you read the questions on Page35 first, and then read the text aloud to find the answers to the questions. After a while, answer the questions in complete sentences without looking at your books.

Give the students a few minutes to read and find answers. Then ask some students to give their answers.

Suggested answers:

(Show them on the screen.)

1. They are not flying directly to the Atlantic Coast because they want to travel across Canada.

2. They are crossing the North America.

3. “The True North” is the train that runs through Canada.

4. People want to live in Vancouver because it is very beautiful. They can ski in the Rocky Mountains and sail in harbour.

5. Cowboys compete in riding wild horses, and some of them can win thousands of dollars.

6. Wheat grows in the center of Canada.

7. Ships are able to reach the center because they can follow the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.

8. Canada has water from its lakes and rivers and wood from its forests.

Let the students do Exercise 2 by themselves. Then check the answers with the whole class.

1. The girls went to see their relatives on the Atlantic coast of Canada.

2. Danny Lin was going to drive them to the train station to catch the “the True North”.

3. You can’t cross Canada in five days by bike, and you can’t cross Canada in less than five days by train.

4. The girls looked out of the window and saw a grizzly bear, mountain goats and wild scenery.

5. Thunder Bay is a port city at the top end of the Great Lakes, near the center of the

country.

Step 6 Listening and fill in the blanks

(1)Listening

T: Listen to the tape and underline some important sentences. Pay attention to your pronunciation. You can follow the tape in a low voice.

1. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly from China to Vancouver.