Teaching Aims:
1. Review the Noun Clauses introduced by “that”.
2. Review the important words and expressions learnt in this unit.
3. Do some reading and writing to improve the students' integrating skills.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn to describe the countryside, the cities, the people and their life by reading the passage.
2. Train the students' writing.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Improve the students' integrating skills--reading skill and writing skill.
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to go through the reading material.
2. Discussion method to finish the writing task.
3. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
a tape recorder
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Lead in
From now, we've got much information about Englishmen, their culture, food, sports, places of interest and so on. From the passage we read in the previous lesson, we’ve known something about the British Isles, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Now we all know England is a good place to travel to. Today we will read a passage about Daniel Defoe’s visit to Salisbury in southern England. What did he see there? What places did he visit? Let’s read the passage and you will find the answers to the questions above.
Step 2: Reading
Ok, let’s see what Daniel Defoe writes about Salisbury. Read the passage and try to find the main idea of each paragraph.
Para.1: The landscape near the city.
what did he see all round the city of Salisbury?
He saw six hundred thousand sheep fed within six miles of Salisbury.
Para.2: Historical relics around the city.
Here in this paragraph Daniel Defoe gave us one example----the cathedral.
What is the cathedral famous for? The cathedral is famous for the height of its tower. It’s 404 feet high. Daniel Defoe thinks the tower is the highest and the most handsome in England.
What does he think of it? The answer is the last sentence of this paragraph.
Para.3 What we can see in the city.
Para.4: The people, their life, work and culture.
How many important kinds of produce and trade are there in the city of Salisbury? What are they?
There’re two important kinds of produce and trade in Salisbury. They’re making cloth and sheets called Salisbury whites.
How’s people’s life there?
Para.5: The wider landscape around the city.
How about the hills and fields there?
The hill and fields are most beautiful with many small and clear rivers and rich fields bearing fruit and grain.
Say something about the hills of Salisbury(The last paragraph)
Step 3 Language points:
⒈ The number of +复数名词(谓语动词用单数) a number of + 复数名词(谓语动词用复数)
E.g. A number of students were studying in the reading-room.
⒉ All around the city of Salisbury, as far as twenty-two miles to the west, and six miles south, down to the coast, farmers raise sheep.(此句中farmers raise sheep是句子的主干,前面均是表示方位, 距离的短语做状语. 其中south前面省略to the .由于coast是地势较低处,所以用down to the coast.
⒊ ⑴句中fed within six miles of Salisbury是一个过去分词短语修饰sheep，measuring…是一个V-ing短语，修饰six miles of Salisbury。
⒋ ⑴without doubt=certainly无疑地；确定地
e.g. Without doubt, our team will win the game.
⑵ being from the ground 404 feet在此句中做状语，用语说明tower的高度。
⒌ Neither of them is very big, but they become a larger river when joined together, and yet larger when joined by a third river.
⑴ a third river又一条河流，不定冠词a 用在序数词之前，表示“再一， 又一”。
Eg. You can have a second try if you fail the first time.
⑵Neither of the books is interesting.(这２本书都没意思。)表示“两者都”，用both of＋复数名词，表复数概念。E.g. Both of you have to go there.
⒍ namely 副词，即，就是，用以补充或具体说明前面已提到的事物
e.g. Two boys are late for school today-namely, Tom and Jim.
⒎ …with many small and clear rivers, and rich fields bearing fruit and grain.
⑴bearing fruit and grain做宾语补足语，bear“结果实”，产生，长出
e.g. The tree is bearing a lot of apples this year.
⑵ with +宾语＋v－ing，在此做状语。
E.g. With you standing here, we can’t work.
⒏ …, village and houses, and among them(指代houses) many（后省略了are） of good size.
Of good size= have good size
E.g. The cellphone is of great high quality.
=The cellphone has high quality.
9.feed on: Sheep feed on grass,
10. bear: The tree is bearing a lot of apples this year.
Step 4 Writing
Now look at the diagram at Page 40. It shows what Defoe writes about in five paragraphs. Please compare them with your ideas and understand the passage better. Now you've known how to describe the land scape, the people, their lives when we see them.