Language Focus:

Words: capital, population, ridge, tomb, whether, edge, rim, cool

Phrases: the second largest,  in the northeast of, be famous for

Sentences:

It’s a pretty city with an interesting flower market.

There is scuba diving, fishing and boating.

Hainan Island is the place to be, whether it’s summer or winter.

Teaching Objectives

1.    Read the whole lesson and finish all the questions in workbook ex. 1.

2.    Master the teaching materials

3.    Read it fluently, the pronunciation and intonation should be right.

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector: Pictures

Teaching Procedures:

Ⅰ. Organization of the class

Talk about Hainan Island

Ⅱ. Revision

1. Revise Lesson 17. Ask: Could you tell me how to search the Internet? Have the students say out the instructions. Make sure the students can say correctly.

2. Ask one student to come to the front, ask another student to leach him how to search the Internet, just act according to the instructions if it can’t be done in class.

3. Revise the Object Clause in Lesson 17. Ask the students to make up sentences. Then ask the students to act out the dialogue of Part 1 in pairs.

Ⅲ. Pre-read

Would you like to live on Hainan Island? Why or why not?

What kind of weather does Hainan Island have?

Talk about it with the students

Ⅳ. Read

Part 2. Speech Cassette. Books closed. Get the students to listen to the tape. Then books open, read the passage loudly, and find the answers to the questions of Exercise 1 in the workbook. Check the answers in pairs.

Ⅴ. Practice

Play a game. Ask one student to act as a tourist to show the other students around Hainan Island. He can introduce the scenery and the food to the other students. Any information is OK. First play this game in small groups, then in front of the class.

Ⅵ. Read and complete

Have the students work in pairs to complete the dialogue. Then ask some pairs to read the dialogue, and check the answers with the whole class.

Note:

1. Have you found out what we can do on Hainan Island?

2. no matter

No matter how he will say, I won’t believe him.

3. Let’s see if we can find some information about that city.

4. be famous for

Hangzhou is famous for it’s beauty.

5. The edge of the sky and the rim of the sea

Some points:

Capital     the capital of China; the capital of Guangdong; capital letter

Population   China has a large population.

Australia have a small population.

The population of Hainan is 7 million.

Ridge      the ridge of the roof; the ridge of the field;

the ridge of the mountain

Tomb

The second largest island     the first biggest city

In the northeast of the island     inside it

to the northeast of the island     outside it

on the northeast of the island     border on

It is a pretty city with an interesting flower market. a book with a nice cover

There is….  动词的单复数用就近一致原则

There are long white beaches to walk along.

whether 是否； + to do sth.;   +… or not;

  if     是否；    不可以；   不可以

Ⅶ. Workbook

Do Exercise 2 with the whole class. First get the students to do it individually, then ask one student to read the passage for the class to check the answers.

Do Exercise 3 in class. Have the students make up similar dialogues in pairs.

Do Exercise 4 after class.

Ⅷ. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.

2. Ask the students to retell the text in the following class.