1、Unit2 The United KingdomWarming up & ReadingI. Teaching aims: 1. Get the students interested in talking about the UK, and at the same time improve their speaking ability. 2. Enable them to get some basic information about the UK. through reading. 3. Improving Ss reading skills such as prediction

2、, scanning, skimming. II. Teaching difficult and important points:1. Express the ideas freely in English2. Understand the history and the geography of the UK. . 3. Improve the reading skills. III. Teaching procedures:Step 1 Warming up& lead-in1. Game playingT: Morning everybody! You see, nowaday

3、s, travelling abroad are becoming more and more popular. So if you have a chance to go aboard, which country do you want to go most? How much do you know about that country? T: Very good! Just now some of you shared your ideas, and now lets play a short game: Guess which country it is! Altogether th

4、ere are 8 groups, you are asked to choose one item and guess which country it is according to the related information offered to you. 1. People-America2. Music-Argentina3. Video-Australia4. Food-Italy5. Shooping-France6. Architecture-China7. Poetry-the UKStep2 Pre-Reading1. Brainstorming :T: Now you

5、 have a chance to go to the UK. , before you go there youd better go to the library to search for some information about the country. What kind of information about it you want to find out?S: geography, literature, politics, sports, sightseeings, cultures, ethnic groups, famouscities, food, history,

6、 language, fashion, life styles . T: How much do you know about these?Step 3 Reading1. Fast-reading. 1)Task 1:Question: What kinds of information are mentioned in the text?(sports, geography, history, flag, London, The biggest country England, flag, invasions). 2) Task 2:How many parts can this pass

7、age be divided into and what the main idea of each part is?. Part1(para1-4): How the UK came into being Part2 (para5): England is divided into 3 zones. Part3 (para6): The reason why London became the cultural capital of England. 2. Careful readingPart 11) T: Very good! So could you tell me how many

8、countries the UK consists of and what they are? S: The UK consists of four countries, that is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. 2) T: Exactly! Then does these four countries united in one day? S: No. T: Then how can the UK come into being? S: First there was only England, then in the 13

9、th century AD, Wales was linked to the England, and in 1603, the two were joined to Scotland to make the Great Britain come into being. Later, Northern Ireland was united to the Great Britain to form the UK. T: Wonderful job! Actually the history can be shown in the national flag called the Union Ja

10、ck.     Cross of St George (England)        Cross of St Andrew (Scotland)     Cross of St Patrick (Ireland)  Union Jack or Union Flag3) T: By the way, you see, the flag Union Jack only unites England, Scotland and Northern Ir

11、eland, with Wales left out. So do you know why?S: Because it is usually assumed to be part of England. T: Yes! And according to the passage, although the four countries belong to the UK, they are still quite different in some aspects, so in what ways are the four countries different?S: They are diff

12、erent in international relations. They have different educational and legal systems as well as football teams. Part 2T: Among the four countries, England is the largest, and for connivance it is divided into 3 zones. What are they?S: The South of England, the Midlands and the North. T: Good! And now

13、 could you tell me what the feature of each zone? Most population settled in The South of England. Most of the large industrial cities are in the North and the Midlands. Many cities have famous football teams. Part 31) T: So we all know the UK has a long history and of course rich culture, and the c

14、ultural center is, obviously, the capital city London. So why can London become the cultural center ?S: Because there are a lot of historical treasure in London. T: Why there are so many historical treasure in London?S: London has been influenced by some invaders. 2) T: Actually, in the England hist

15、ory, altogether there are four invasions, do you know what they are? S: The Romans; The Anglo-Saxons; the Vikings; the Normans. T: What did they left in England? S: the Romans left towns and roads, the Anglo-Saxons language and government, the Vikings influence the vocabulary and place-names of the

16、North and the Normans castles and words for food. Step 4. Post-Reading1. Task 1 Role-play Two students act as tourist guides, and two students act as the tourists who want to go to the UK. Before they start, they ask the guides some background information of the UK. 2. Task 2 Discussion of ideas Thi

17、s is an opportunity to allow students to draw connections in the history and the geography of England. Ask students work in groups of 4, and every group choose 1 topic. At last the group leader should give a representation of their ideas. 1) What similarity is there between the invasions of the Roma

18、ns and the Normans? 2) What similarity is there between the invasions of the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings? 3) Why does London only have evidence from three of the four invaders? 4) What geographical factors make it difficult to invade England successfully?2. Task 2 Debate In the history of the UK. , there are some important inventions. Those invaders ruled the country for sometime. They brought