Unit 9 Have you ever been to a museum?
Section B (2a-2e)
Teaching Aims
1. Knowledge and Ability Objects (1) Key vocabulary:
Singapore, population, southeast Asia, western food, Indian food, Night Safari… (2) Target language:
Have you ever tried/seen/ been…?
(3) To train students’ listening, speaking reading abilities and skills..2.Moral aims:
(1) To raise students’ interest of learning English.
(2) To make students get to know cultures of other countries. Teaching Key Points
1. Key vocabulary in this period. 2. Target language in this period. Teaching Difficulties
1. Improve students’ listening.
2. Improve students’ reading skills. Teaching methods
(1) The activity teaching methods. (2)The cooperative learning method, (3)The institutional teaching methods. Teaching Aids
1. A computer for multimedia use. 2. A tape recorder. Teaching Steps: Step 1 Free talk
1.Talk about what should we learn before our journey. 2.Draw like this: places to visit
…… best time to go and stay there
people weather
Travel
food transportation
history
Step 2 Pre-reading
T shows pictures about Singapore. Let Ss guess what country is it?
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What do you know or want to know about Singapore? Step3While reading 1. Fast reading
Read the article and answer the question:
How many reasons can you find for visiting Singapore? 1) Wonderful and safe place to take a holiday. 2) Can speak Putonghua
3) Good place to speak English.
4) Able to find a lot of food from China. 5) Place to try new food. 6) The night Safari.
7) Temperature is almost the same all year round. 8) Not too far from China. 2. Careful reading
(1)Read again and Fill in the blanks .
a) Singapore’s geographical position A small island (1) ____________ b) Language(s) people speak in Singapore (2) ______________________
c) Food we can find in Singapore Chinese food, (3) __________ and Japanese food.
d) Name of the night zoo in Singapore(4) ___________
e) Temperature in Singapore It is (5) ______________ all year round.
Keys: 1. in Southeast Asia 2. Putonghua and English 3. Indian food, western food 4. Night Safari 5. almost the same
(2)Read and work on 2c. The statements below are false. Use information from the article to correct them.
1) Most people in Singapore only speak English.
2) It is not easy to get many different kinds of good food in Singapore.
3) It’s better to see lions and tigers during the daytime because they will
probably be awake.
4) It’s best to visit Singapore in the autumn.
Keys: 1. both English and Chinese 2. very easy 3. at night 4. whenever you like (3)Read and find something important and difficult: (4)Discuss and try to use the useful expressions.
on the one hand …on the other hand…/have problems (in) doing choose to do sth./whenever=no matter when/ three quarters thousands of
Step4.After reading
1. watch a video about Singapore.
2. Share with the students according to the chart below.
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3. Make some notes about Singapore. Write down anything that you remember. Step5.Homework
Search information about other countries and share with your friends.
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