Unit 22 A world of fun ( Reading: Theme Parks)

Teaching Goals:

1. Make the students understand what is a “Theme Park”.

由於“主題公園”這一概念可能學生還不是很熟悉，作爲知識教學的一部分，應將着一部分作爲一個重點，以拓展學生的一些課外知識。

2. Learn more about content about theme parks.

3. Teach the students to get some certain information in a passage according to the request.

閱讀是學習外語的主要輸入方式之一。本冊書的中的閱讀課程中主要是培養學生的各種閱讀技巧，具體的將在下面的教案中具體體現。

Teaching importance and difficulties:

1. How to make the students understand the theme park.

由於資訊和時間的限制，如何使學生明白一個新的概念是很困難的。

2. How to learn the skill of skimming and scanning.

3. How to understand a passage as a whole.

Teaching times:

One period.

Teaching aids:

A tape recorder & the blackboard

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

The teacher can use the question “Have you ever been to the World Park in Shen Zhen, China?” to make the students get a general idea about the theme park.

有可能還有一些同學不知道深圳世界公園，那麼教師可以利用學生所熟悉的例子，如：Have you ever been to the The World Under the Sea in Nanjing?關於南京的海底世界，學生們可能更清楚一點。

那麼，海底世界主要的目的就是爲了讓人們瞭解海里的一些生物的狀態，這些都是平時生活在陸地上，尤其是我們這些生活在內陸的人所不知道的，它就是一個主題公園。（由此，學生就可以明白主題公園的大概含義）

Step 2 Skimming and Scanning

跳讀和略讀是一種非常重要的閱讀技巧，是一中提高閱讀速度的技能，着就要求學生掌握如何識別關鍵詞（Kea words）、中心句（Kea sentences）的技巧，可以告訴學生，每一段的第一和第二句話以及最後一句話往往都是這一段的中心句。

The teacher ask the students the following questions:

1. What is the definition of “Theme Park”?

2. Can you give some names of the theme parks?

After asking the students to read the text quickly and find the answers to the questions, the teacher checks the answers with the students.

Step 3 Intensive reading

精讀是閱讀課的又一重要部分，透過這種訓練，可以讓學生得到兩個方面的益處：一，可以讓學生學到更多的知識，尤其是國外的文化背景以及各種相關的課外知識。二，讓學生了解各種題材的英語文章的結構和寫法，提高學生的寫作水平。

First, ask the students to read the passage again while listening to the tape, and then, ask them to answer these questions:

1. How to divide the whole passage into several parts?

透過分段可以瞭解這篇文章的大體結構。

2. Find the key sentences in each paragraph.

透過概括段落大意，可以學習文章的具體的知識。

First part: Paragraph 1

Main idea: What is a “Theme Park” and what is its personality?

Second Part: Paragraph 2&3

Main idea: Introduce some certain examples of theme parks to the readers.

Third part: Paragraph4

Main idea: Theme parks are more and more important and popular.

Step4 post reading

這一部分是提高學生技能的一個項目，是昇華課本知識的一個重要手段。要求學生在讀過這篇文章後能夠在實際生活中運用所學到的知識。但是根據學生的實際情況，可以透過任務教學的方法讓學生自己設計一個主題公園。

Answers to the questions in post reading:

1. Theme parks offer a large variety of attractions and may teach something. They have special celebrations and kinds of food to eat.

2. Possible reasons include: People want more than just fun; People want to learn something when they visit a park; etc.

3. People go on rides, eat, watch others, and just relax.

4. Encourage the students to create an English-Speaking World Park by using the skills they have learned in this passage and the creativity they have.

透過這些練習使學生更加熟悉課文內容，鞏固了課堂學習，還可以開發學生的創新思維，符合了新大綱的要求。

Step 5 Homework

Ask the students to read the text until they can read it fluently, during which, underlined the difficulties and sentences that are hard to understand. Do the language study exercises before we explain the language points.

透過家庭作業進一步鞏固課堂學習，加深學生對知識的理解，達到溫故而知新的目的；透過它，還可以讓學生對下一堂課的內容進行預習，提高課堂效率。

BLACKBOARD DESIGN: 見膠片

2004年5月4日