人教修订版高中二年级 ( 下 )

Unit 16

SEFCB2 Unit 16 The United States of America

一 . 教材分析

• 教学内容 • 教学目标• 语言知识• 语言技能 • 教学重点和难点

语言知识

• 词汇： entry mental physical suffering greedy trader unemployment unrest sacrifice reconstruction former funeral dawn overcome insist plain resist chief afterwards widespread rot wildlife supply chain willing in vain take a chance leave alone insist on put on on sale in turn

语法：复习非限定动词

I don’t mind his being invited.

He hate being laughing at

She enjoys being interviewed.

It is important for lost time to be made up.

功能：描绘场所 • What does your hometown look like ?

• What does the landscape look like ?

• Are there ? There is in the north.

• How long/wide/high/tall is the….?

• It’s .. metres / feet long /wide/high/tall.

• It looks like …….

语言技能 • 听：听两段有关 NY 的短文，捕捉信息，

改正错• 说：用恰当的语言描述一个地方• 读 : 掌握 skimming scanning generalizati

on taking notes 等微阅读技能。能欣赏对比性写作的文章

• 写：采用对比性手法写一段文章。

教学重点和难点

重点：• 课文中出现的重要单词和词组的 如：• insist on / leave alone / supply / • be determined to do / be forced to do/resist• 非谓语形式的用法难点：• 采用对比性手法写作• 非谓语形式用作定语的区别

课时安排和教学思路

• Period 1 Warming up &speaking

• Period 2 Listening &Reading

• Period 3&4 Reading

• Period 5 Language study

• Period 6 Integrating Skill and Writing

Can you guess it?

It is a very young country in the world, which has only a history of 200~300 years. There is a Statue of Liberty in the east coast. It is about 46 metres high. The head office of the UN was set up there. Two World Wars didn’t take place there. Now it is the strongest country of the world.

The map of the USA

Full name 

Location 

Capital city 

The largest city 

When was founded 

population 

1.      General idea of the USA. 

useful expressions.

• How long /wide/high/tall is ….?

• It’s …metres/feet long/wide/high/tall.

• There is …in the north/south/east/west.

• It looks like….

Play a game

One student read his short article , the others guess where it is.

Step 1 lead-in

Step 2. Listening

• Listen to part 1 and correct the errors in her notes.

• Listen again and answer questions

• Listen to part2 and choose the best answer

Step.3 Reading

Read the following material about New York. (adapted from SB3 Lesson 49).Then do some true or False.

Step 1 Lead-in

Pre-reading

Put the events below in the correct place on the timeline.

30,000 years ago 1600 1861 1930s 1960s

1.    1.  the American Civil War

2.The great Depression

3.The Civil Rights Movement

4.The arrival of Native American

5.The arrival of European settlers

Skimming(get a general idea of the passage)

• 1. What kind of story is the story of the south?

• 2. Which city is the typical southern city.?

Try to finish the chart below

Why Atlanta is a typical southern city ?

The past

In the war 

The difficulties the people of Atlanta had to overcome after

the war

economical _________________

2. political __________

today

The success in 1996 

Modern Atlanta 

.Task: work in pairs to make up a dialogue.

  A Chinese college student who

studies history came to Atlanta for a trip. His pen friend showed him around the city They talked about the history and development of the city.

Further understanding(discuss in groups)

People of many different background live and work together in

Atlanta .What are the advantages of living together with people who are different from you ? Are there any

disadvantages?

Unit 16 the American south

• Troubled past• Burnt down• Destroyed• Great depression• segregation

• Hope and success• Rebuilt• Civil Right Movement

• Dr Martin Luther King

• The Olympic Games

• (in1996)

• Booming business centre

Atlanta: a typical southern city

Step 1 Word study

• 1. have a dictation.

( former, greedy, mental, physical,

wide spread, chief )

Then do Ex3on page 45

2. About the word formation

Do Ex 2& EX1

Step 2 Grammar---Review Nonfinite Verbs(2)

• review non-finite verbs

The verb that cannot be used as the predicate is called the non-finite verb. The “v.-ing, v.-ed or to do cannot act as the predicate, so we call them the non-finite verb.”The passive form of them i

s separately “being done” “or“to be done”

Rewrite the sentences on the screen using the correct non-finite passive form.

• It is impossible that lost time can be made up.

• 2.Rules are made so that they can not be broken.

• 3.I don’t mind their inviting him.• 4.She enjoys their interviewing her.

  动 词 --ing 形式

不定式

形式 主动 被动 主动 被动

一 般式

writing Being written

To write To be written

进 行式

    To be writing

 

完 成式

Having written

Having been written

To have written

 

Step4. Choose the best answers

• (B) 1. I learned a lot _________ in the countryside.

• A. working B. while working C. when worked D. to work

• (A) 2. It is well known that a tiger looks very ____________.

• A.     frightening B. frightened C. being frightened D. to frighten

• (B) 3. The little boy got too _________ to move.

• A. frightening S. frightened C. frighten D. to be frightened

• (C) 4. It was getting dark. I found a car ______in a pool by the side of road.

• A. stick B. sticking C. stuck D. to be stuck

• (C) 5. I have collected the money __________.

• A. deeding B. need C. needed D. to need

• (B) 6. The glass of water is too hot. I prefer some cold ________ water.

• A. boiling B. boiled C. having boiled D. to boil

• (A) 7. It’s a good idea _______ to the front of the line.

• A. to push B. of pushing C. pushed D. to be pushed

• (B) 8. I won’t have you ________up and down all day.

• A. ran B. running C. run d. to run

Lead-in

Step 2 Fast-reading

• 1.In what ways did the settlers treat the Native Americans unfairly?

• 2.What caused a big change in the wildlife on the plains?

Step 3 Careful reading

• Tick the sentences that are true and correct the false ones.• 1.( )The first settlers on the plains were farmers.• 2.( )Native Americans willingly gave up land to the

settlers.• 3.( )The settlers did not deal honestly with the native

Americans.• 4.( )Settlers ended up with better land than the native

Americans.• 5.( )Later settlers made use of the bison in the same

way as the native Americans.

 Step 4 Post reading

Use what your have learned from the text to complete the diagram below

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( 8)Fewerpl al t s.

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st opeat i ng t he gr ass.

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( 1)( 2)

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Writing

• Imagine that your American pen friend has sent you an e-mail asking for help.

He want to know the history and the development of your home town. Write a letter to him or her comparing the past and today of your home town. The following table may help you.

The following table may help you. 

  The past today

Area and population   

City building   

Transportation   

Education and school   

The people’s living conditions   

教学反思

本单元的话题是美国，着重引导学生注意美国历史的变迁。其实美国的文化，建筑，地理特征，名胜古迹，民间传说，民俗特色，政权形式，科学成就都很值得老师引导学生去了解，这对学好英语是有很大的帮助的。 尤其是能够体会领悟美国的社会特征和人文特点，在学生阅读文章时就能够减少好多障碍。但是内容涉及很广，我们不可能在一个单元的时间内让学生都了解，但是应当鼓励学生上网或去图书馆查阅资料，自主学习。同时也应该提醒学生思考中国和美国这两个国家

的相似的地方和不同的地方，做一些比较。