2. 教学难点：

1) 阅读短文，获得相关的信息的能力。

2) 理解并运用所学的词汇及表达方式。

三、教学过程

Ⅰ. Revision

1. Check the homework.

2. Role-play the conversation in 2d.

Ⅱ. Lead-in

一、播放视频《茶叶的起源》，让学生们了解中国的茶文化，及茶叶被发明的渊源，并了解其发展过程。

1. What is the video about?

2. Who is the writer of Cha Jing?

Ss try to answer the questions:

It's about the tea.

Lu Yu.

Ⅲ. Reading

Work on 3a:

1. Tell Ss to read the article quickly and match each paragraph with its main idea.

Para. 1

Para. 2

Para. 3

Ss read the article quickly and match each paragraph with its main idea.

2. 方法指导：先阅读所给的三句话，然后快速阅读短文，抓住每一段的主题句，找到答案。

3. 学生们，按老师指导的方法进行阅读，并快速阅读三个段落。

4. 最后，教师让部分学生回答答案，并校对答案。

Para. 1 How tea was invented by accident

Para. 2 Lu Yu and his book Cha Jing

Para. 3 How tea spread to other countries

Work on 3b:

1. 告诉学生们再次阅读短文内容，并回答3b中的所有问题。

2. 学生们先阅读这些问题，理解它们的意思，然后带着相关问题仔细回读短文，并在短文的相关信息处划线。

3. 让学生们回答问题，并校对答案。

　① It was first drunk nearly 5, 000 years ago. ② It was invented by accident.

　③ Lu Yu. ④ It's about how tea plants were grown and used to make tea.

　⑤ It is believed tea was brought to Korea and Japan during the 6th and 7th centuries. Tea didn't appear until around 1660 in England.

4. 让学生读一下自己的答案，并改正答案。

Ⅳ. Post reading

Read and fill the blanks.

Fill the blanks according to the first paragraph.

Tea (after water), the most popular drink in the world _______ (invent) by accident. It is believed that tea _______ (drink) 5,000 years ago. It ______ (say) that a Chinese ruler ______ (call) Shen Nong was the first ______ (discover) tea as a drink. One day Shen Nong _______ (boil) drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a tea plant ____ (fall) into the water and remained there for some time. It ________ (produce) a nice smell so he ______ (taste) the brown water. It was quite delicious, and so, one of the world's favorite drinks _________ (invent).

2. Fill the blanks according to the second paragraph.

Lu Yu, "the saint of tea", ______ (mention) Shen Nong in his book Cha Jing a few thousand years later. The book describes how tea plants _______ and used to make tea. It also discusses where the finest tea leaves _______ (produce) and what kinds of water _______ (use).

3. Fill in the blanks with the proper forms .

　People believed that tea _______ (bring) to Korea and Japan during the 6th and 7th centuries. In England, tea ________ (not appear) until around 1660, but in less than 100 years, it had become the national drink. The tea trade from China to Western countries ______ (take) place in the 19th century.

Work on 3c. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in the box.

1. 告诉学生们本学习活动的要求：用所给单词的适当形式填空。

2. 让学生们读3c中的内容，理解每个句子的大体意思。

3. 学生们阅读句子内容，回想短文的内容，选择恰当的单词并用其恰当形式填空。