话题	Nature and travel				课题	Module 1 Wonders of the world
Unit2 The Grand Canyon was not just big.
课型	读写课			主备人	刘飞	审核	陈洪	课时	1.5课时
教材分析	This unit aims to review the learnt tenses so far and help students to be able to present some important and creative ideas about writing a passage of a wonder .
学情分析	The students are in their third year in the junior school ,a year later most of them will go to the high school ,their English level is very different .so in the class we should treat them differently and give them different homework to make all of them make a progress.
语言知识目标	功能	Describing places and experiences
	语法	Comparison of present simple past simple ,future simple ,present perfect ,present continuous ,past continuous
	词汇	Shine shone sign silent silver sky grey go through beside reply clear fall away stream nearly On top of canyon remain by
	语音	Learn where to pause in the sentences
语言技能目标	听	Listening for specific information and identifying photos
	说	Expressing views and opinions
	读	Reading and finding the specific information
	写	Describing a wonder of the world.
学习策略	自学策略		Preview the words
	合作学习策略		Group work
文化意识	Help the students to feel the beauty and greatness of the nature and enable them to love and respect the nature and live in harmony with nature .
情感态度	TO help the students en large their vision on wonders of the world and help to know more about writing s passage about wonders
重点难点	Use of vocabulary and key phrases and comprehension of the text The passage about the wonders
导学过程
【复习检测】 Check the words that the ss have previewed It was 4 o’clock in the morning ,the world was so _______ that you can even hear the beat of your heart The sky was g______ and there was some fog but there’s no s________of raining .About an hour later the fog began to ______ and the sun rose in the east ,it s_______the world .Now everything was bright,i started my car and went through the city went to the canyon area. After I got there I stopped my car beside a small road .I walked up to the top of the canyon and found there was a s_____ stream at the bottom of the canyon, the ground below me fell away in to the stream.It is so deep ,nealy1600 meters, I remained there by a big rock ,looking to the left and right ,it was so long that i couldn’t see the end. I shouted with the excitement and joy, the only reply is my echo .What a wonder! 【读前导入】 Read for information 激发兴趣，背景铺垫 We all know wonders ,what wonders do you know? Ss:.........There’re two kinds of wonders :natural wonders,such as .... and man-made wonders such as.... (show the pictures /videos of the wonders ) Yes ,there are so many wonders in the world and do you know the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? They are the Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls, Mount Everest, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, Glacier Bay in Alaska, Lake Baikal, Yellowstone National Park. Today I’ll take you to one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World to enjoy ,please read the passage and find it. and I’m sure you’ll be amazed. 【多层阅读】 Read for comprehension 总体阅读（搜集信息、概括性问题）→分段细读（梳理信息、细节性问题）→总体阅读（文章结构） Skim First read the whole passage quickly and silently and find the answer. 1,what is the passage writing about? 2 where does the passage most probably come from? A: a magazine B: a dictionary C: a story book Careful reading Para 1 Now let’s learn more details about the Grand Canyon,please read the first paragraph carefully and finish the question. 1, Why was there nothing to see? A:Because it twas raining . B:Because it was too dark . C:Because it was in the morning . Para2 Read the 2nd paragraph carefully and answer the following questions Why did the stranger know where “I”would go? Para 3 Which direction was the writer facing ?And why ? 2 now read para 2 again ,tell us what does “it ”in the last sentence refer to ? Para 4 Fill in the table How deep /wide/long is the Grand Canyon?And how do you know the answer? Para5 1. Did the writer think the Grand Canyon the greatest wonders in the world? And how do you know it? 2.In what order did writer write the passage ?( it was early morning , after a while ,) Read the passage loudly then say something about the Grand Canyon , The Grand Canyon is located in northwestern Arizona, United States, southwest of the Colorado Plateau. The grand Canyon is 446 kilometers long, with an average width of 16 kilometers, its deepest point of 2,133 meters, an average depth of more than 1,500 meters, about 500 stories high. and a total area of 2,724 square kilometers. In 1919, President Wilson opened the Grand Canyon as the Grand Canyon National Park. Colorado means "red river" in Spanish, it is so named because of its reddish hue (色相） because of the heavy sediment and silt. Enjoy the video of the Grand Canyon. 【精读足练】 ★ Match and recite 动词短语 Get out of look to go through walk along look over fall away look across look down to go far away 看向.... 从 ... 出来沿着.... 走穿过... 看过去俯瞰... 落下延伸向远方介词短语 Beside the path in five minutes on top of at the bottom of the other side on both sides 五分钟后在顶部小路旁另一/边/岸在底部，在两边 ★reply reply vi. Reply to 回复...... I heard from Jim yesterday and I am replying to him now. Reply n. 回信，答复 ; a /the reply to......对.....的答复。 She made a reply to our letter. Ask the students to make the sentences. Jim 上一周回复了我。我没有收到回复我还没有回TOM 的信呢。我正在等着你的回复呢。让我惊讶的是有好几百人回复了我我对他的回复感到很激动他不知道如何回答我的问题。【写作】group work , The Grand Canyon is so amazing and we all enjoy it so much,but another wonders are also great ,maybe they’re greater than the natural wonders ,what are they ? yes ,they’re the man_made wonders,what man-made wonders do you know ,in our country the Great Wall is one of the greatest man made wonders now work in group of four ,talk about it with the help of the following questions,then write a passage about your experiences to the Great Wall. , 1.What was it built for ? why did people build it ? 2.H ow old is the Great Wall ? 3.where is it ? 4.Who built it ? 5.What’s it’s height/width /length? 6. When was it built ? . 7.How was it built? 8..what is it like ? 9.Have you ever visited the Great Wall? 10..When did you visit it ?/When will you visit it ? I visited it 5 years ago /I will visit it next year. ..... Stop the enemy/ protect the people / has a history of 2000 years / in the north of.... Shanhaiguan /Jiayuguan Over 6000 kilometers width:6.5 meters height :8 without modern machine by hand like a huge dragon The Great Wall ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 当堂达标检测语法填空 In the dark,there is no sign of the Grand Canyon,and it is (1) _＿ (silence) . But if you remain （2) _____ (介词）the Grand Canyon as the sky gets (3)＿ (bright) and look down about one mile,You can (4) _____ (see) the Colorado River below you. It (5) _____（look) like a silver stream as it passes through the rocks (6) ____(介词）the bottom of the canyon. If someone (7) _＿ (ask) you whether the Grand Canyon is (8) _____ (冠词） greatest wonder of the (9) ______ (nature) world,it may (10) _____ (be) easy to reply.