Module 4 A Social Survey----- My Neighbourhood
Period 4 Function and Speaking & Writing
Teaching contents:
1. Function and Speaking
2. Writing
Learning aims and requirements:
1. Develop the student’s speaking ability.
2. Help the students to improve their writing ability.
课前预习案：
Remember the words and phrases.(look up these words in the dictionary if necessary and write down the Chinese meaning)
suburb________ position_______ direction_________northwest_____
art galleries________ exchange ideas________ _in the east of China__________
mean to do sth.______________mean doing sth.___________________
the beauty of nature _______________get away from____________
Tian’anmen Square_______ the high-rise buildings___________
ask for direction ________ give directions_______
continental Europe______________ Summer Palace _________
课堂探究案；
Step 1. Function and Speaking （Page38）
Activity 1:
1. Where is Tian’anmen Square ? (middle, Beijing)
2. Where are the British Isles?
3. Is Guangzhou in the east of China? (South)
4. Can you see the high-rise buildings of Pudong from the Bund? (across the water)
5. What part of China is the city Urumqi in? (suburb, Beijing)
6. Do you know where the Summer Palace is ?(suburb, Beijing)
Option 1:
(1) Ask the students to read through the questions and answer them
individually with the words in the brackets.
(2) Put the students into pairs to compare their answers.
(3) Finally call back the answers from the class.
Step 2: WRITING
Activity 2:
1. The teacher may first ask the students to read A Lively City again carefully and underline the sentences that contain the coordinate conjunctions “and” as well as “but”.
2. Ask the students to work in pairs comparing the differences and similarities of the two conjunctions “and” as well as “but”. Complete the sentence using the words “and” and “but”.
1. Work hard, _______ you’ll catch up with others.
2. We bought Granny a present, _______ she didn’t like it.
3. The boy is only ten, _______ he can do something himself.
4. He is rich, _______ he isn’t happy.
5. Mr. Zhang felt very tired, _______ he needed a good rest.
6. I know him _______ I can't remember his name.
7. People think we look the same, ______ I can see that we're different.
There is a short passage in the textbook. Complete the paragraph with and or but.
Activity 3:
Write about where you live. Use and to link similar ideas and but to contrast ideas.
My hometown (location, area .population. climate, scenery, business district ,local product, place of interest)(Page 90)
