时间 课题 M7 U4 Reading 授课时数 1 Learning aims:

1. To grasp the main topics of the article and get familiar with London Underground.

2. To gain some knowledge about transportation means and reinforce reading comprehension.

3. To develop a reading ability---how to read a tourist brochure.

4. To have a positive attitude towars modern transportation means .

Learning important and difficult points:

Learn how to quickly obtain detailed information in a text.

Learning methods: Discussion and task－based activities

教学过程 一备 观察课本49页的图片，回答下面的问题。

1. What is the difference between a bus and a coach?

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2. Why do you think people would choose to travell by aeroplane rather than by ship?

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3. Why do you think we need all these different types of transport?

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Pre-reading 导读

Step 2 Warm-up

　When we talk about London, what will you think about? Give some examples.

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Step 3 Reading strategy：reading a tourist brochure

the_______of its development dates or years in the _____of the

development

a tourist brochure __________people who influenced or changed the development

about a place

of interest

__________ fact

_________you to visit the place for yourself

Step 4 Fast reading for general ideas

1. When was the first underground system opened?

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2. What did Charles Holden do?

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3.Why was the Victoria Line important?

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Step 5 Detailed reading for important information

Activity 1 analysis the structure of the passage.

There are 7 paragraphs in the passage. Choose how many parts can this passage be divided into and the main idea of each part..

Choose the right structure of the text

A. ①② ‖ ③④ ‖ ⑤⑥ ‖ ⑦

B. ①‖②③④‖⑤‖⑥⑦

C. ① ‖ ②③ ‖ ④⑤⑥ ‖ ⑦

D. ①②③ ‖ ④ ‖ ⑤⑥ ‖ ⑦

文章段落大意配对：

Part 1: Development of the first underground before World WarⅡ

Part 2 Reason why the first underground in the world was developed

Part 3 Expansion and popularity of the first underground system

Part 4 Some unusual uses of the first underground during World War Ⅱ

Activity2: read the first paragraph of the passage and answer the following question ?

Why was an underground system first developed in London?

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Activity 3 read the second part of the passage and do the following exercises.

1. find the events to match the years.

Date Event 1854 1863 1868 1884 1933 1918-1938 2. true or false.

1.The Metropolitan Railway Company created the Circle Line.

2.With the help of the new ways of digging tunnels , the city and South London Railway linked other places in London.

3. Traveling on the six independent underground lines was convenient , as each line was very close to each other.

4. An American businessman set up the London Transport.

5. An architect called Charles Yerkes was responsible for designing many of the new stations between 1918 and 1938.

Activity 4 do the exercise according to the third part.

Find out the information. Some unusual uses of the underground system during the World War II.

It has functioned as

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Activity 5 Paragraph6-7 task-based reading comprehension

After 1________ In 1945,so more lines were added, this included the 2_______________. In 1977 the3 ______ line added was the 4_______________. Recent years 5___________ people travel on the underground every day. The network of the underground system includes 6_________ lines now. You can buy one of the 7_____________ in order to travel all over the underground system in London. 随堂检测：Complete the following passage with proper words or phrases from the article on pages 50-51. Change the form where necessary.

The London underground system has the (1) __________ of being the oldest and most complex underground system in the world. Before 1850, train services to London had already been (2) __________, but people couldn't build railways into the city because doing that would cause great (3) __________ to many historic buildings. So many buses were needed to (4) __________ people to the city centre, which, however, often (5) __________ traffic. This problem led to the development of the underground system.

　　In 1854, Metropolitan Railway Company was allowed to build an underground railway and the first tunnels were opened in 1863. In 1868, the next (6) __________ of the underground system was opened by another company called the Metropolitan District Railway. In 1884, these two companies (7) __________ and provided the underground service in the middle of the city.

　　With the development of the (8) __________ ways of digging tunnels, the first railway tunnel under the River Thames was dug in 1884, and over the next 25 years, six (9) __________ deep underground lines were made. But because they were (10) __________ owned and far away from each other, traveling on these lines was (11) __________. Having seen the situation, Charles Yerkes, tried to improve the system. He bought many of the different lines and setting up the Underground Group. In 1933, a public (12) __________ called the London Passenger Transport Board was created, which eventually became London Transport. From 1918 to 1938, the system (13) __________ a lot.

　　During World War II, the underground system had some (14) __________ uses. For example, many underground stations once (15) __________ as bomb shelters. After the war, more lines were added. Now, the network of the underground system includes 12 lines and goes 26 miles out of central London. Three million people travel on the underground every day. Can you imagine what London would be if there were no such underground system？