1、Book 2 Unit 3 Festivals and customsReading 2Alex around the world教学目标By the end of this section, students will be able to:1. understand and appreciate the difficult sentences in the travel journals;2. use new words and expressions in appropriate situations;3. explore the metaphors and apply metaphor
2、s correctly;4. extend their vocabulary of countries.教学重难点1. To understand and appreciate the difficult sentences;2. To use the new words and expressions appropriately;3. To explore the functions of metaphors and apply metaphors correctly.教学过程步 骤教学活动设计意图互动时间&模式RevisionStep 1The teacher invites studen
3、ts to go through the two travel journals quickly and think about the following question. Besides weddings and festivals, what other elements are an important part of a countrys customs and traditions?Students discuss in groups while making a list and then describe one after another.通过设问，让学生回顾文本，内化所学
4、，在此基础上延伸拓展，迁移创新语言能力，提升思维品质。6Individual workGroup workAppreciationStep 2The teacher presents some phrases and sentences on PPT:(1) it would be the opportunity of a lifetime.(2) The customs that followed were anything but ordinary.(3) I have two left feet and both of them hurt!Students are invited to
5、locate these in the journal and read them carefully by themselves and answer the following questions.(1) Why did the author think “it would be the opportunity of a lifetime”?(2) How do you understand the sentence “The customs that followed were anything but ordinary”?(3) Why did the author say “I ha
6、ve two left feet and both of them hurt”?The teacher encourages students to think carefully and guides them to express their understandings. 在学生理解文本表层信息后，帮助学生深入挖掘文本，理解文本中的难点及深层涵义，通过启发性的设问开展有效的阅读和思维训练活动，关注语言、内容和思维的统一，提升学生的语言能力和思维能力。12Individual workGroup workStep 3The teacher presents some sentences w
7、ith some highlighted phrases on PPT:(1) No wonder people from Rio take a week off for this happy occasion.(2) To experience the spirit of the Carnival for myself, I went to a street party. (3) Then there was an explosion of bright colours and lively music, and the group jumped into action.(4) I was
8、so caught up in the party fever that I hardly noticed five hours fly by!Students are invited to locate these in the journal and read them carefully by themselves and answer the following questions.(1) Why did the author say “No wonder”? What does the author want to show?(2) What is “the spirit of Ca
9、rnival”?(3) With the two phrases used here, what does the author want to show?(4) What does the “fever” mean here?12Group workIndividual workApplicationStep 4The teacher has students read the introduction to La Tomatina on Page 33 and makes sure that students understand the words and phrases in the
10、box and their usages before putting them in the correct blanks. Then students complete it with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box. 通过对文本中所学的重点和难点进行操练，完成语言知识的运用和巩固。5Individual workStep 5The teacher tells students that the travel journal describing Alexs experience at the Rio Carniv
11、al uses a group of words related to the sea. Then the teacher encourages students to find them out and read them by themselves in silence. The teacher presents the words and phrases related to the sea and lets students feel the atmosphere with the metaphor. The teacher encourages students to use a g
12、roup of words related to a topic to describe their experience at a festival. Before students start out, the teacher presents a sample. 掌握文本中的暗喻手法，感受暗喻在描述中的作用，结合自身经验，运用暗喻这一修辞手法进行描述。8Group workIndividual workExtensionStep 6The teacher presents some countries and several related adjectives with most missing in a table on PPT and encourages students to refer to the dictionaries and fill the adjectives in. 借助词典，查找与国家名词相关的形容词，结合练习，拓展词汇。5Group workIndividual workHomeworkRead the travel journals again and finish Exercises A, B and D on Pages 6970 in the workbook.2
