Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇及短语

realistic, landscape, watercolor, achieve, at one's best, in the time of, be successful in doing, tend to do

b. 重点句式 (P38)

These artists painted with ... using...

Chinese landscape painting was at its best ..., in the time of...

They were very successful in...

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to write a paragraph that begins with the topic sentence.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to write a paragraph that begins with a topic sentence.

Teaching important points教学重点

Get the students to learn how to write a passage that begins with a topic sentence.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

How to write a coherent passage.

Teaching methods教学方法

Task-based activity, pair work and group work.

Teaching aids 教具准备

A multimedia computer, a projector and some slides.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Topic Sentences

Task 1

Ask the students to look through the passage in READING AND VOCABULARY and find the topic sentence in each paragraph.

T: I allow you a few minutes to read the passage in READING AND VOCABULARY again and find the topic sentence in each paragraph.