初中英语外研版 (新标准)九年级上册Unit 2 The Grand Canyon was not just big.教学ppt课件

Unit 2 The Grand Canyon was not just big.

Ⅰ Teaching model

Reading and writing. 

Ⅱ Teaching method

 Interactive approach

Ⅲ Teaching aims

1. To get information from the reading material about the Grand Canyon;.

2. To know the way of writing you see and your feeling when travelling.

Ⅳ Teaching Objectives

1. Key vocabulary: below, shine – shone - shone; shine – shined - shined, sign, silent, silver, sky, grey, go through, beside, reply, clear, fall away, stream, nearly, on top of, canyon, remain, by

2. Keys structure: Sentence structure.

Ⅴ Teaching aids

Tape recorder, handout

Ⅵ Teaching Steps

Step 1 Free talk

What do you know about these wonders?

Step 2 Presentation

1. Introduce the new words.

2. Read the words after the teacher.

Step 3 Work in pairs.

1. Talk about a great natural wonder you know. Use the words in the box to help you.

Step 4 Reading.

1. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully.

2. Ask the students to read through the passage.

3. Complete the table.

Keys:

1. Nearly one mile.

2. About fifteen miles.

3. More than 200 miles.

4. True or false.

1. When I arrived, the weather was sunny and hot.

2. I went to the wrong way at first.

3. The Colorado River was nearly three miles below me.

4. Finally, I looked to my left and to my right, and on both sides the canyon went far away for more than 200 miles.

Keys:

F   F   F   T

Step 5 Learning to learn

Some adjectives tell you facts, such as wide, deep, high and tall; dome adjectives tell you the opinion of the author, like wonderful, huge and great. Learn to use them to talk about facts and give your opinion.

Step 6 Choose the correct answer.

1. Read the passage again.

2. Choose the correct answer.

1) Where does the passage possibly come from?

a) A magazine.   b) A grammar book.  C) A dictionary.  D) A storybook.

2) Why was there nothing to see?

a) Because there was nothing.  b) Because it was too dark.

c) Because it was raining.     d) Because it was in the morning.

3) Which direction was the writer facing while he was looking over the Grand Canyon?

a) South.   b) North.    c) East.   d) West.

4) What is the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?

a) To give facts about the natural world.

b) To say how he feels about the natural world.

c) To tell an interesting story about the Grand Canyon.

d) To attract people to visit the Grand Canyon.

Keys: 1. d  2. b  3. d  4. b

Step 7 Complete the passage with the words in the box.

In the dark, there is no (1)____________ of the Grand Canyon, and it is (2)____________. But if you (3)____________ by the Grand Canyon as the (4)____________ gets brighter and look down about one (5)____________, you can see the Colorado River (6)____________ you. It looks like a silver (7)____________ as it passes (8)____________ the rocks at the bottom of the canyon. If someone asks you whether the Grand Canyon is the greatest wonder of the natural world, it may be easy to (9)____________.

Keys:

1. sign  2. silent  3. remain  4. sky  5. mile  6. below  7. stream  8. through  9.reply

Step 8 Writing

1. Complete the table with facts about a natural or man-made wonder of the world.

Step 9 Language points

1. I got out of the car, went through a gate and walked along a dark path.

  我下了车，穿过一扇门，沿着一条黑暗的小路走着。

  go through  通过，穿过；经历

  e.g. The rain has gone through my coat.

     The country has gone through too many wars.

拓展：go 相关词组

go abroad  出国

go against  违背；与……不符

go up  增长；上升；被兴建起来

go on  继续；继续下去；发生

go over  复习 ；仔细审查；走近

go ahead 进行

go away  走开；消失

go for  去取来；争取得到

2. I looked over them, but it was silent and there was no sign of it.

我朝那片岩石望过去，但是一片寂静，还是看不见它。

I was looking across one of the wonders of the natural world- the Grand Canyon.

我在眺望自然界奇观之一的大峡谷。

I looked down to the Colorado River我俯瞰科罗拉多河…

Finally, I looked to my left and to my right,最后，我向左右遥望…

look与不同的介词/副词搭配，组成不同的词组，表达不同的意思：

拓展：look 相关词组

look after  照料

look back  回顾，向后看

look in   顺便来访

look into  调查

look through  浏览

look over  翻阅；调查

look up  找出，查阅；仰视

look down upon sb.  轻视某人

look forward to doing  期待

3. The sun rose behind me and shone on the rocks. Far below me, the ground fell away and down to a river. 太阳从我身后升起，照在岩石上，地面(仿佛在随光线)向下延伸，(逐渐)退落，显露出谷底的河流。

用behind, on, below, away和down几个介词和副词生动地展现了太阳升起时作者在大峡谷观察到的奇妙景象。…the ground fell away…是形象化的描述，说明了随着阳光的照射，作者仿佛看到地面在下降，逐渐显露出谷底的河流。

4. I remained by the canyon for about half an hour…

remain  v. 逗留，留下  n. 剩余物；遗迹；残骸

e.g. I didn’t remain long in the city.  我并没有在那个城市逗留很久。

   The police told everybody to remain in their cars.  警察叫大家都留在车里。

Step 10 Exercises

中考连接

(   ) 1. I have ____________ my watch everywhere. But I cannot find it.

A. look at   B. looked up   C. looked for

(   ) 2. The Xianmen-Shenzhen high speed railroad will run ______ eight cities.

A. across   B. through   C. over

(   ) 3. —Please drive ______ when you pass a school.

—OK.

     A. nearly B. early C. slowly D. really

(   ) 4. The little elephant is afraid to go alone. He always walks _______his mother.

A. beside  B. behind  C. below  D. under

(   ) 5.The volunteer spoke as_______ as she could to make the visitors understand her．

A. clearly    B. more clearly   C. most clearly   D. the most clearly

6. 他们正在建一条隧道，它将穿过这座山。

They are building a tunnel and it will __________________ the mountain.

Keys: 1. C  2. B  3. C  4. A 5. A  6. go through

Step 11 Homework

Imagine you have just visited one of the wonders. Write a passage and describe how you felt when you visited the wonder.

Say when you visited it.

I just visited the Great Wall last month.

Say where it is.

It is in the north of China.

Describe its size.

It is…

Say what interesting facts you know.

It is famous for…

Say what happened when you visited it.

It was raining when we were…

Say how you felt.

I thought it was the most wonderful sight.