Period 3 Reading
Teaching Aims:
General reading: Understanding of the reading material.
Develop the students’ reading ability, especially their skimming and scanning ability.
Enable the students to know something about New Zealand.
Improve students’ knowledge
Consolidate the understanding of the text
Teaching difficulty:
Inferring according to the reading material.
The usage of the words and phrases
Teaching methods:
閱讀、歸納、推理、判斷
Teaching procedures
Step 1. Revision
Check the homework
Step 2 Pre-reading
Show some pictures of New Zealand to let the students talk about the country .
Step 3 Fast reading
Ask the students to read the text silently and fast to get general idea of each paragraph
Paragraph 1 geography Paragraph 2; climate
Paragraph 3: natural resource Paragraph 4 history
Step 4 Careful-reading
Read the passage again , then decide if the following sentences are true or false. Write “T” if the sentences is true .If it is false , write “T” and correct the error .
1. New Zealand lies to the east of Australia. T
2. It has two large islands and is as large as Japan T
3. The capital city is on the South Island. F
4. It is very hot in summer and very cold in winter. F
5. There are a lot of natural beauties in New Zealand, namely, clean sand beaches, green hills and moun-tains, dead volcanoes, hot springs and special plants and animals. T
6. Its population is mainly made up of by the Maori. F
7. The name of the country was given by Abel Tasman T
8. All the settlers came from Europe, most of whom were British. F
Read the text and fill in the form:
Location off the eastern coast of Australia
Capital Wellington on the North Island
Size the same as Japan
Climate A mild sea weather subtropical in the north
Season summer (Dec -- Feb) winter ( June-- Aug)
Natural beauty deep blue sea, deep harbour, clean beaches, green hills, hot springs
National bird kiwi (cannot fly)
Settlers earliest ----the Maori later----Europeans
Read again, tell what the word in bold refers to
It : New Zealand
Which : Hot springs
This heat : The heat near the earth’s surface
These settlers European & British settlers
It England
Step 5. Language points
. 1. New Zealand is an island that lies off the eastern coast of Australia. 新西蘭是澳大利亞東海岸外邊的一個島嶼。
off 意為 “在離……的海上(in a part of the ocean that is near the land)”.
e.g. They live on the island off the coast of Fujian. 他們住福建沿海的一個島嶼上。
They were sailing two miles off shore. 他們在離岸兩英里的海上航
off 還可以解釋“靠近……(near a particular street, road, etc, but not directly on it)”.
e.g. The restaurant is just off the main road. 這家飯店就在主干道旁邊。
2. It is made up of two large islands: North Island and South Island. 它(新西蘭) 由兩個大島組成:北島和南島。
be made up of 由……組成 (consist of).
e.g. Our class is made up of 32 boys and 20 girls. = Thirty-two boys and twenty girls make up our class.
我們班由三十二個男生和二十個女生組成。
注意類似詞語的意思:be made of 由……制造的(在產品中可以看出原材料)。
e.g. The bridge is made of steel. 這座橋是用鋼材造的。
be made from 由……制造的(在產品中看不出原材料)。
e.g. Paper is made from wood. 紙張是用木料制成的。
make up還可作“彌補；編造；整理；化妝”講。例如：
This story was made up by Tom. 這個故事是湯姆虛構的。
She always makes up before leaving. 在走之前，她總是化一下妝。
We must make it up to him somehow.
我們得想個辦法賠償他。
3. New Zealand is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the north and east, and the Tasman Sea to the south and west. 新西蘭北面和東面被太平洋包圍, 南面和西面則是塔斯曼海。
surround…with …用……把……圍住,常用于被動語態be surrounded by/ with, 意思是 “(四周)被……包圍,圍住”。要表達“在某一面被包圍, 圍住”,短語后面接介詞to, by 或on。
e.g. The village is surrounded by mountains on its sides. 這個村子三面環山。
4. …many of New Zealand’s cities lie on a bay and have a natural, deep harbour. 新西蘭許多城市都建在海灣上, 擁有天然的深水港。
這里的介詞on表示“在……(水) 旁，靠近……(水);沿著(水邊) (at the side of a river or area of water) ”。
e.g. Her mother comes from a small village on the Baltic Sea. 她母親出身在靠近波羅的海的一個小村子里。
a town on the Mississippi 密西比河岸上的小鎮
注意比較:on the coast 與off the coast.兩者的意思都是“靠近岸邊”,但前者表示在岸上;后者表示“在海上”。
5. It is some 3,500 kilometres from Polynesia to New Zealand, which they travelled in narrow boats. 從波利尼西亞到新西蘭約有3,500公里, 他們乘著狹長的小船前來。
1) 此處“it”與“which”均指代距離；
2) some在句中是副詞,通常用于數字前, 解釋“大約(about)”。
e.g. That was some twenty years ago. 那是在大約20年前的事。
3) Polynesia (波利尼西亞) 是位于大洋洲東部的中太平洋群島,主要包括法屬波利尼西亞、夏威夷、湯加等
6.It is about the same size as Japan. 新西蘭大約和日本一樣大。
the same…as…意為“與……一樣/相同”。as后可接名詞、代詞、副詞及從句。如：
Your pen is the same as mine.
according to the same rules as before. 根據以前的規則
注意：“the same +名詞”后可接由as或that引導的定語從句。但是that強調的是同一件事情。例如：
This is the same book as I lost the other day.
這本書和我前幾天去的那本一模一樣。
This is the same book that I lost the other day.
這正是我前幾天丟的那本書。
Step 6 post-reading
1. Look at the graphs below and choose the correct answers to the following questions.
(1).The highest temperature in Christchurch in winter
is about ___________.
A. 9 B. 11 C. 12 D. 16
(2). the city whose temperature changes from about 6 to 12 in winter is __________.
A. Auckland B. Wellington C. Christchurch D. Queenstown
(3). From summer to winter the greatest change in temperature ( between highest and lowest) is in _________.
A. Auckland B. Wellington C. Christchurch D. Queenstown
.(4). The cities whose rainfall changes least from winter to summer are ___________.
A. Queenstown and Wellington B. Auckland and Christchurch
C. Auckland and Wellington D. Christchurch and Queenstown
2.Compare the climate in China with that in New Zealand . What is the same and what is different ? Can you explain the differences ?
Step 7 Homework
Retell NEW ZEALAND in no more than 100 words.