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 +復數名詞(謂語動詞用單數) a number of + 復數名詞(謂語動詞用復數)
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, 距離的短語做狀語. 其中south前面省略to the .由于coast是地勢較低處,所以用down to the coast.
⒊ ⑴句中fed within six miles of Salisbury是一個過去分詞短語修飾sheep，measuring…是一個V-ing短語，修飾six miles of Salisbury。
⒋ ⑴without doubt=certainly無疑地；確定地
e.g. Without doubt, our team will win the game.
⑵ being from the ground 404 feet在此句中做狀語，用語說明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又一條河流，不定冠詞a 用在序數詞之前，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.(這２本書都沒意思。)表示“兩者都”，用both of＋復數名詞，表復數概念。E.g. Both of you have to go there.
⒍ namely 副詞，即，就是，用以補充或具體說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做賓語補足語，bear“結果實”，產生，長出
e.g. The tree is bearing a lot of apples this year.
⑵ with +賓語＋v－ing，在此做狀語。
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.