Unit 4 Journey Across A Vast Land Period 1 Opening Page + Reading and Thinking 教学设计-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第二册

Teaching and Learning Design

选择性必修Book2 Unit4 Journey Across A Vast Land

教学设计

单元教学核心素养目标与要求：

核心素养	教学目标与要求
语言 能力	主题：长途旅行
	词汇：能正确使用下列单词和词块。 单词：airline, bay, antique, pleasant, arise, massive, literally, breath, bound, awesome, peak, highlight, goat, drill, freeze, anticipate, bunch, thunder, frost, curtain, border, duration, idiom, contrary, anyhow, alongside, proceed, shore, astonish, mist, steel, advertisement, accent, photographer, owe, toast 词块：take sb.’s breath away, grizzly bear, freezing cold, a bunch of, contrary to, proceed to sth., owe sth. to sb.
	语法：能够比较过去分词与动词-ing 形式的用法和功能(作表语、定语、状语等)并在语境中正确理解与使用两种非谓语形式。
	语篇： 1. 阅读横跨加拿大的长途火车旅行游记，把握文本的时间、空间线索，利用地图等非连续性文本梳理主人公的旅行见闻。 2. 听懂一段长途火车旅行中与当地人的对话，把握双方交谈的关键信息，并在上下文中理解几个常用英语习语。
	表达： 1. 能够基于听力语篇提供的信息，结合自身相关经历，并利用教材给出的语言提示续编对话。 2. 能够利用地图梳理旅行路线，并以作者身份写一封家信，记录此次旅行的经历和见闻，充分理解交际场景、目的、角色和对象，得体表达。
学习能力	1. 能够充分关注语篇标记词，理解和掌握文中的语义连接手段和过渡衔接技巧。 2. 能够结合上下文和背景知识等理解习语，并掌握自然结束交谈的交际策略。 3. 能够运用合成、派生、转化等构词法学习、归纳、复习词汇。
文化意识	1. 通过阅读加拿大长途火车旅行游记深入了解加拿大自然、人文地理概况和历史文化。 2. 通过文化对比，深入理解本国和他国文化，提高跨文化理解和沟通能力。 3. 通过长途旅行话题的讨论，深入思考“读万卷书，行万里路”对人生的意义。

思维品质	1. 能够利用连续性和非连续性文本概括、梳理相关信息，包括旅行线路、见闻、感受等。 2. 能够利用文本信息，并结合自身经历，分析与评判长途旅行中不同交通方式的特点与利弊。

单元教学课时规划：

课时安排	教学内容
课时1	Opening Page (看读说语篇1) + Reading and Thinking—Reading comprehension (阅读语篇2)
课时2	Reading and Thinking—Language focus (阅读语篇2)                 [实际需要2课时完成]
课时3	Learning About Language—Building up your vocabulary (综合运用语篇3)
课时4	Learning About Language—Discovering Useful Structures
课时5	Using language (Listening and Speaking ) (听说语篇4)
课时6	Using language—Reading comprehension and language focus (阅读语篇5)   [实际需要2课时]
课时7	Using language—Writing (写作语篇6)
课时8	Assessing Your Progress(综合运用语篇7) + Project (综合运用语篇8)
课时9	Video Time (视听说语篇9) + Unit Revision

Period 1

Teaching and learning contents: Opening Page + Reading and thinking—Reading comprehension

Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives:

By the end of this period, the students will have been able to:

1) Talk about the picture and the saying on the Opening Page related to the theme of this unit;

2) Read and comprehend the text about a rail journey across Canada to know about some geography features and information about Canada;

3) Be aware of the use of discourse markers to show relationships in the passage;

4) Improve thinking quality by thinking and talking about the journey across Canada.

Teaching and learning important points:

1) Reading comprehension of the text to know about some geography features and information about Canada;

2) Being aware of the use of discourse markers to show relationships in the passage;

3) Improving the students’ thinking quality by thinking and talking about the journey across Canada.

Teaching and learning difficult points:

1) Reading comprehension of the text to know about some geography features and information about Canada;

2) Being aware of the use of discourse markers to show relationships in the passage;

3) Improving the students’ thinking quality by thinking and talking about the journey across Canada.

Teaching and learning procedure:

Step 1 Leading in (Opening Page) and introduction

Activity 1 Leading-in

1. Lead in the topic of this unit by looking at the title of this unit, and think about these questions.

What do you think “vast land” means? Where does the phrase “vast land” remind you of?

“Vast land” means an extremely large area of ground. The phrase “vast land” remind me of Xinjiang, Xizang, North China Plain, Inner Mongolia, Siberia, and so on.

2. Look at the picture and discuss the following questions. And then introduce the background information.

1) When and where was the photo on Page 37 taken? How would you like to describe the picture? How do you feel about the picture?

  I think it was taken in the winter somewhere in the Rocky Mountains or the Alps.

2) If you took a rail journey like this, what do you think you would see and experience?

If I took a journey like this, I think I would see a lot of beautiful scenery and make some new friends.

3) Have you ever taken a long rail journey? What was it like? How might the rail journey in the photo be different or similar?

I have travelled from Beijing to Urumqi by train. The trip was quite pleasant and relaxing, as I had a bed to sleep on, and I could get up and walk around the train. I think this trip was different from the trip in the picture because the train did not pass through any high, snowy mountains during the trip. On my trip I mostly saw hills and desert.

  Introduce the background information:

The photo is of a Canadian Pacific Railway Train going through Banff National Park, Canada in the winter. The Canadian Pacific Railway is a private railway company which has routes connecting western Canada with eastern Canada, and with the Midwest of the United States. The railway across Canada was completed in 1885 and the most difficult part of the construction was the route through the Canadian Rockies. This section of the Rockies was made into Banff National Park, Canada’s oldest national park. Banff is located about 100 kilometres west of Calgary, Canada, and is one of the most beautiful and pristine alpine (原始高山) areas in the world.

3. Talk about the quote: