Unit 4 Journey Across a Vast Land Listening and speaking教案-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第二册

Optional Education English Textbooks II for Senior High (New People's Education Edition of 2019) Unit 4 JOURNEY ACROSS A VAST LAND Using Language 1: Listening and Speaking Instructor: XXX Material analysis: The tapescript is a conversation that happens among Li Daiyu, Liu Qian and Anna. All of three are on a train travelling in Canada. During the conversation, they not only enjoy the views outside the window, but share their feelings with each other. As a native Canadian, Anna gives a detailed introduction to the cities, scenery, landforms, and customs along the way. (For example, “... many areas of south Canada have a continent climate ... some days it gets as hot as an oven.” “It’s a small city almost in the dead centre of North America, from east to west.” ) Li and Liu showed great interest in what Anna said and put forward more questions about Canada. (For example, “Does all of Canada get so cold in winter?” “Is all of Canada full of mountains like here?” “What kind of place is Winnipeg?” “What do you do to kill time there?”) Some idioms, moreover, are used in the conversation, such as “words fail me”, “as hot as an oven”, “as flat as a pancake” and so on. That is good for improving students’ English speaking proficiency. Besides, the material introduces a vital communicative strategy: to end a conversation naturally. Teaching aims: At the end of this section, students will be able to: 1. predict the main idea of the conversation according to the pictures; 2. obtain more information about Canada from the conversation; 3. express surprise and curiosity and end a conversation naturally; 4. develop a better awareness of introducing geography and culture of China. Teaching key points: 1. To catch the information needed to answer the questions; 2. To learn how to express surprise and curiosity and end a conversation naturally. Teaching difficult points: Students can talk about scenery and culture of XXX city appropriately. Teaching procedures: StepⅠ Lead-in 1. To