教学设计方案 Lesson 74
Step 1 Revision
1 Check the homework exercises.
2 Find out how much the Ss remember about New Zealand from the previous text.
Ask a few rapid questions around the class.
What's the other name for New Zealand? (Aotearoa. )
When did the first traveller reach New Zealand, 950, 1050 or 1150?
What did early travellers bring with them? (Dogs, rats and plants like the
sweet potato.)
Which is warmer, North Island or South Island? Why? (North Island is warmer
because it is closer to the equator.)
What is the name of the earliest New Zealand people? (Maori.)
Where did they come from? (Polynesia.)
Why did settlers and the Maori fight? (Over land rights.)
Step 2 Presentation
SB Page 40, Part 2. Get Ss to tell the class what else they have found out
about New Zealand. Get them to talk about the chart and describe what they can see.
Step 3 Reading for general understanding
The purpose of this task is to get the Ss to read a text very fast in order to
find out what the different sections are about. It is a speed-reading exercise.
Give the Ss a time limit of 3 minutes for this exercise.
Answers:
Politics----Agriculture----Sports and free time----Natural beauty----Wildlife
Step 4 Reading
Wb Lesson 74, Ex. 1. Go through the exercise and make sure the Ss know what to
do. Let them read the whole passage carefully and answer the questions, working in
pairs or small groups. Check the answers with the whole class. This is a good time
to deal with any language problems. See if the Ss can guess the meaning of pension,
exports.
Step 5 Reading aloud
Speech Cassette Lesson 74. Play the tape of the passage for the Ss to listen and
follow. Flay the tape of part of the passage once more; this time the Ss listen and
repeat. Pay attention to stress and intonation, and the sentence stress of longer
sentences.
Step 6 Diagram
SB Page 40, Part 2. The aim of this exercise is to train students to obtain
information from a diagram. First, help them to become familiar with the diagram.
Step 7 Workbook
Wb Lesson 74, Exx. 2-3.
Get the Ss to do Ex. 2 individually, making sure that everybody makes an
effort. Then check the answers with the whole class.
If there is time, get the Ss to do Ex. 3 in groups. Call out some of them to
give their performance in class. Set this exercise as their homework.
Homework
Read the passage again.
Finish off the Workbook exercises.