Unit 18 New Zealand (Reading 1)

Show Class Teaching Plan 謝靜

I. Teaching Aims and Demands:

1. Through fulfilling the tasks, the Ss learn the general knowledge about New Zealand.

2. The Ss learn how to introduce a country or a place through the text learning.

II. Teaching Key Points:

1. Reading comprehension of the reading text and materials.

2. Individual tasks---duty: to talk about the British Common Wealth of Nations; in-class: pre-reading quiz; searching for language problems; post-reading exercises.

Group tasks--- pre-reading chart-filling and report; to prepare posters for a traveling program of a travel agency and practice receiving a consulting traveler; quick writing about Hong Kong.

III. Teaching Difficulties:

1. Get the Ss understand and fulfill the demanded tasks.

2. The language used in talking about a country or a place. (Including the language points in the text)

IV. Teaching Medias:

1. the tape and tape recorder.

2. a computer and flash-disc.

3. a classroom with the multi-media system

V. Teaching Methods:

1. Mainly group work and TBL Approach.

2. Inductive approach in teaching the language points.

VI. Teaching Procedures:

Step1. Representation and the duty report

1. Greeting: Good afternoon, boys and girls. I am happy that you can come to attend my class today. I hope that you can relax and enjoy this class. First, let’s welcome the student on duty today to report her work for us. Li Shuang( ), please!

2. The student on duty will give a short talk about the British Common Wealth of Nations (5min)

Step2 Lead-in

1. Comment and Revision (Homework checking): Thank you, Li Shuang. You’ve done an excellent job in talking about the Commonwealth of Nations. As to what she talked about, we are going to go to the details of one of the members of the Commonwealth. Today, we are going to learn something in detail about one member of the Commonwealth. And this country is made up of two large islands. I asked you to fill up the form in Pre-reading as homework. Have you done that? Who would like to talk about this form? [A volunteer answers.]

So we can see that when describing the location of an island, we can use the following sentences:

It is located in … sea/ocean.

It is off the … coast of … (mainland).

It is to the … of ….

The nearest country is … to its ….

There is two prepositions here that I want someone to explain about. Why is the preposition “off” used in this sentence, not an “on”, “at” or “in”? We’ve talked about it last time. [A volunteer answers.]

Good. [Bb: off/on the coast; at the seaside; in the sea/water]

Then why is the preposition “to” used in these two sentences, not an “on” or “in”? [A volunteer answers.]

Good. [Bb: to/on/in the east of China] These are what we learned last time in Warming-up. I am very glad that you are all clear about the difference between these prepositions. And this country is closely related to one of the most famous movies last year. Let’s watch.

2. “The Lord of the Rings” (1min)

The name of the movie is The Lord of the Rings. [Bb] The Lord is someone who govern/control the other people, as we translated it into King in Chinese. The whole story takes place in a imagined land called “the Middle Earth”[Bb]. To most fans of the movie, the land in the film was really wonderful. It was so beautiful that many people are thinking where the beautiful place we saw in the film is. Do you know where the main filming locations of this film are? Yes, New Zealand, a member nation of the Commonwealth.

Step3. Pre-task

1. Listen and watch: Try to understand the text according to what you hear and watch. (4min)

2. Comprehension exercises: see slides.

(1) Finish the map. (2) Heading to each paragraph. (3) Questions. (4) Fill in the form.

3. Language focus:

Listen to the text again and pass this doll on among all the students and when the tape stops, the one with the doll must give me a sentence using the phrase from the text in the same way the text uses.

I shall divide the whole class into groups. There are 14 groups (of 4) now. So the group whose members failed to make a sentence shall be given some special job to do. Do you agree? Ok, here we go.

be made up of A basketball team in the game is made up of 5 people.

be surrounded by He is so attractive that he is always surrounded by lots of pretty girls.

the same … as... He ran at the same speed as that bicycle rider beside him.

while She likes classic music while her husband prefers pop songs.

mild He is the mildest man you could wish to meet. He almost never get mad.

with (green hills) He is a tall man with gray hair.

My hometown is a little village with green hills around.

be famous for New Zealand is famous for its beautiful landscapes after the show of the trilogy---the Lord of Rings.

some of which My mother bought me many books as birthday gifts, some of which are very helpful to my study.

is used to do Computer can be used to do a lot of help to our English study.

some There used to be some 200 car accidents every year in the city and now the number is getting much bigger because of the increase of private cars.

settle Most Chinese people like to settle in cities while many rich men in Britain like to settle in the countryside.

on one’s voyage They were caught in a bad storm on their voyage for New York.

take possession of If the only tiger in the mountain goes, the monkeys will take possession.

By We will have learnt at least 2000 new words by the end of this year.

sign an agreement with I signed an agreement with the landlady for renting her house for a year.

where I dream of visiting New Zealand, where the Lord of Rings is filmed.

Show the key phrases on the screen and talk about them quickly.

Step3. During-task (25min)

After the show of “The Load of the Ring” series, the government of New Zealand took the chance to advertise about their country so that many movie fans go to the filming site of this film and they are really surprised by the natural beauty of the country. Today let’s just suppose we are working at a travel agency and I am the boss. We want to start a new program called “Travel to New Zealand”. Because those groups didn’t give a sentence as I wished, and you 5 groups are going to have some special work to do. Please get on the Internet and look for materials and make advertisement posters for me, one poster from each group. We need these posters to attract my customers/clients. And the other groups also have work to do. Read the supplementary materials I provide in the shared files and collect enough information about the aspects you choose here. I asked 3 students to act as our picky clients and are going to please the clients with your answers.

1. Groups pick up their specific aspect of learning.

2. Prepare for the questions and the posters.

3. Play show: the 3 clients ask questions and the class answer then in turn.

Step 4. Post- task (Homework)

1. Ok, it’s nearly the end of my class. Let’s enjoy the posters designed by the 3 ads groups.

2. Grant the gift to the best desigers.

3. For homework, please write a passage about Hong Kong according to the information given below.