1

Getting students ready for learning

(4 mins)

Class activity

Greeting.

Greeting.

教师可事先准备一些风景胜地的图片做为素材提供给学生。

不要打断学生的对话，对于对话中存在的错误在总结时委婉提出。鼓励学生使用尽可能多的英语交际用语。

Pair work

Ask students to act out

conversations about their

vacations.

Students act out their own conversations about what they did on their winter holidays; describe some places of interest they have been to during the holiday, using the attributive clauses.

2

Revision

(5 mins)

Pair work

Individual work

Offer the diagram of 1c in Section C to the students, and ask them to ask and answer about the Great Wall.

Let students show their written works.

Ask and answer about the Great Wall　according to the diagram in Section C.

Example:

A: What’s the material of the Great Wall?

B: The early walls were made of …

Read their passages written after class about a famous Chinese tourist attraction.

可把全班分为四大组,大组中每有一对学生正确问答记为一分，教师对得分最多的大组给予鼓励。

3

Pre-reading

(3mins)

Class activity

Play the video about tea, such as Kungfu tea, or show some pictures about it, introduce the Chinese tea culture in brief.

Watch the video about the history of tea, and know something about the Chinese tea culture.

教师也可口头介绍一些有关中国茶文化的背景知识，让学生对要读到的内容有一定了解，唤起他们求知的欲望。

4

While-reading

(15 mins)

Individual work

1.Let the students read the passage and understand the general meaning of the passage to choose the best title.

2.Guide students to read the passage paragraph by paragraph to mark the sentences in 1b.

1.Read the passage and choose the best title for it.

2.Read the passage paragraph by paragraph to finish 1b.

1.通过略读使学生整体了解课文大意，选出最佳题目。

2.通过判断句子的正误检查学生对本课内容的理解。

5

Post-reading

(15 mins)

Pair work

Ask students to translate the sayings about tea in pairs.

Discuss and translate the sayings and their meanings about tea in pairs.

本环节的任务要结合上节课布置的作业来完成，旨在拓展学生在阅读中所学到的知识。培养其说的能力的同时也提高其合作探究的能力。

Group work

Ask students to give a report about some unique Chinese tea culture.

Talk about some unique Chinese tea culture they know or they have searched before class in groups, and then choose one of group members to report it.  

6

Summarizing and assigning homework

(3 mins)

Individual work

1.Ask two students to sum up the key points and write them down on the blackboard.

2.Offer a passage about Chinese culture the teacher prepared before class, and let students finish the reading practice.

1.Sum up the main content of this topic.

2.Finish the reading practice alone.

1.话题总结之前，可留给学生归纳的时间。

2.通过运用本节学到的阅读技巧完成阅读任务，学以致用，同时也是一种语言的综合运用。

Pair work

Review the whole topic by asking students to ask and answer in pairs.

Review the whole topic and recite the sayings mentioned in it.

Individual work

Ask students to search some sayings of Confucius on the Internet after class.

Search some sayings of Confucius.