2019学年度人教版必修三Unit 5 Canada - "The True North"Period3 Learning about language教案

The emphasis of this period will be place on the important new words, expressions and sentence patterns in the parts Warming up, Reading, and Comprehending.

Important points: enable students to grasp the usages of such important new words and expressions as surround, measure, confirm, impress, rather than, manage to do, and to master the patterns "The thought that they could cross the whole continent was exciting." And "It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measuring over 90 meters"

Difficult points: how to get students to understand some useful words and expressions as well as some long and difficult sentences correctly.

Knowledge aims:

1). Get students to learn and grasp the important useful new words and expressions in this part.

2). Let students learn the following important useful sentence patterns:

Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train west to east across Canada. (rather than .....)

The thought that they could cross the whole continent was exciting. (noun clause as the appositive)

Going eastward, you will pass mountains and thousands of lakes and forests, as well as wide rivers and large cities. (present participle used as adverbial)

Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and sailing in the harbor make Vancouver one of Canada`s most popular cities to live in. (make + O + O.C)

It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measuring over 90 meters. ("pronoun + doing" used as adverbial)

Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water than any other country in the world. (more... than any other....)

Step 1 Revision

Check the homework exercises.

Ask some students to retell the passage A TRIP ON "THE TRUE NORTH".

Step 2 Reading and finding

Get students to read through Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending to underline all the new words and expressions or collocations.

Step 3 Practice for useful words and expressions.