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教学重点

1. Let students read the passage and learn about the geography, population, main cities, natural beauty and natural resources of Canada.

2. Get students to learn different reading skills.

教学难点

1. Develop students’ reading ability.

2. Enable students to learn about some basic information and talk about Canada.

三维目标

知识目标

1. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part.

2. Let students learn the knowledge of Canada.

能力目标

1. Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.

2. Let students learn how to read a traveling report and how to use a map.

2. Enable students to learn about some basic information and talk about Canada.

情感目标

1. Stimulate students’ interest in learning about foreign countries.

2. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.

教学过程

→Step 1 Leading-in and warming up

1. Show a map of Canada to students and talk about Canada. Then ask them the following questions:

1)What kind of country is Canada?

2)How large is it?

3)What else do you know about Canada?

Suggested answers:

1)Canada is a multicultural country.

2)It’s the second largest country in the world. It covers an area of 9 984 670 square kilometers. It is a bit bigger than China.

3)(Students’ answer may vary. Encourage them to tell more information. )

2. Make a quiz

Show the following on the screen.

How much do you know about Canada?

1. What language(s) do Canadians speak?

A. English.

B. English and German.

C. English and French.

D. English and Spanish.

2. What is the capital of Canada?

A. Vancouver. 　　　　B. Toronto. 　　　C. Calgary. 　　　　D. Ottawa.

3. What is the national animal of Canada?

A. Beaver.

B. Grizzly bear.

C. Polar bear.

D. Penguin.

4. What is the Canadian leader called?

A. President.

B. Prime Minister.

C. Governor.

D. King.

5. How many Great Lakes are there in Canada?

A. 4.

B. 3.

C. 5.

D. 6.

Let students work in pairs and answer this quiz. Then have them compare their answers with another pair. Give them the correct answers and see how many students got 80% or better.

→Step 2 Pre-reading

1. Let students discuss the following questions:

1)What is the longest trip you have ever taken?

2)If you take a trip to Canada, what do you think you might see there?

3)What three words would you use to describe Canada?

3. Have students turn to Page 34 of the text book, look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures and predict what the passage is about. Then have them read the passage quickly to see if they are right.

→Step 3 Reading

1. Fast reading

Ask students to skim the reading passage and then answer the following questions:

1)What is the passage mainly about?

2)What is “The True North”?

3)How many cities are mentioned in the text? What are they?

Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class.

Suggested answers:

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

2)“The True North” is the train that goes across Canada/the cross-Canada train.

3)Five. They are Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Thunder Bay and Toronto.

2. Intensive reading

Allow students to read the passage carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and get the important details, and then finish the following:

1)Choose the best answer to each question according to the text.

(1)As you go eastward, you can see the following things except ______________.

A. mountains

B. thousands of lakes

C. forests and wide rivers

D. cows