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Step III Reading T： Through the Internet, we're got much information about Englishmen, their culture, food, sports, places of interest and so on. From the passage we read, we've also known something about the British Isles, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Now we all know England is a good place to travel to. Today we'll read a passage. It's about Daniel Defoe's experience. He visited Salisbury in Southern England. What did he see there?What places did he visit? Let's read the passage and you'll find the answers to the questions above. Please read it quickly and then answer the questions on the screen. (Students begin to read the passage silently and teacher shows some questions on the screen. ) Answer the following questions: 1. What did he see all round the city of Salisbury? 2. What is the cathedral famous for? What does he think of it? 3. How many important kinds of produce and trade are there in the city of Salisbury? What are they? 4. How about the hills and fields there? 5. What does he think of the country when he looks at the fields from the hills? 6. At which is he surprised when he comes down the hills? (After a few minutes, teacher collects the students' answers and then checks them.) Suggested answers： 1. He saw six hundred thousand sheep fed within six miles of Salisbury. 2. The cathedral is famous for the height of its tower. It is 410 feet high. He thinks the tower is the highest and the most handsome in England. 3. There are two important kinds of produce and trade in Salisbury. They are making cloth and sheets called Salisbury whites. 4. The hills and fields are most beautiful, with many small and clear rivers and rich fields bearing fruit and grain. T： (Show the screen). Your comprehension is quite right. Now look at the screen. There are some useful works and expressions on it. Please read them and learn them by heart. Words and expressions: 1. raise: cause to grow or develop and look after= feed e. g. She's raised two sons. They raise horses. 2. be famous for: Guilin is famous for its beautiful scenery. 3. without doubt: He is the most successful without doubt. 4. join: become united e. g. Where do the two streams join? 5. employ: He employed an engineer to design a building. 6. namely: that is(to say) e. g. He understands two foreign languages, namely, English and Japanese. 7. feed on: Sheep feed on grass, 8. bear: The tree is bearing a lot of apples this year. Sentence Patterns: 1. (a)most/the most: He is most careless. He is a most careless boy. He is the most careless boy in our class. 2. The number of students is 2000 in our school. Step IV Listening and Reading Aloud T: Now look at your books and listen to the tape. Pay attention to your pronunciation. (Teacher plays the tape for students to listen. After that, teacher gives students a few minutes to read aloud the passage. ) T: Let's have a discussion in groups of four and find out what's the main idea of each paragraph. (Teacher gives students a few minutes to do so and then collects the answers from each group. At last teacher checks their answers.) T: OK. You have different ideas and they are very good. Now look at the diagram at Page 40. It shows what Defoe writes about in five paragraphs. Please compare them with your ideas and understand the passage better. (责任编辑：admin) |