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1、Unit3What are you doing for vacation?Contentsl Background informationl Teaching objectivesl Teaching approachl Teaching aidsl Teaching proceduresl Blackboard designBackground informationTeaching material Unit 3What are you doing for vacation?Section ABackground informationStudent analysis Age: 13-15

2、Interests:Level:Teaching objectivesknowledge objectives New words: plan, away, send, bike, ride, famousStructures:1. -What are you doing for vacation? - I am babysitting my sister.2. When are you going? 3. How long are you staying? Teaching objectivesSkill objectivesStudents are able to: Talk about

3、their future plans. Recite the new words and structures. 1. Recognize the key information while listeningMoral objectivesStudents are able to notice the cultural differences between China and AmericanTeaching approachTeaching aids PPT Blackboard Video Chalk Teaching procedures1Lead-in2 2Presentation

4、 3 3Practice 5Homework 4 4Production 1Lead-in(5mins)Teaching proceduresTeaching procedures1Lead-in2 2Presentation babaysittingswimminggoing fishingdoing homeworkcleaning the room playing volleyballsleepingreadingChalkPPT PPT Blackboard Video PPT Blackboard Video Video Background Information l 美國佛羅里達(dá)

5、州南部的亞熱帶克拉莎草沼澤地區(qū)，這是一條最寬處達(dá)80公里但一般深不到0.3公尺(1尺)的“草河”，面積超過11,100平方公里。河水經(jīng)由該地區(qū)向南緩慢地流到與西南部墨西哥灣和南部佛羅里達(dá)灣相連的紅樹林沼澤。沼澤地向東延伸到包括邁阿密都會區(qū)在內(nèi)的狹窄沙洲附近，向西與大賽普里斯沼澤匯流。大沼澤地的英文名“Everglades”是佛羅里達(dá)州獨有的名稱?！癵lade”用于指森林中長滿草的開闊地或者潮濕的沼澤地；“ever”可能是用來形容當(dāng)?shù)氐恼訚傻貐^(qū)似乎一眼無際。EvergladesTen Thousand Islands The Ten Thousand Islands are a chain of

6、 islands and mangrove islets off the coast of southwest Florida, between Cape Romano (at the southern end of Marco Island) and the mouth of Lostmans River. Some of the islands are high spots on a drowned shoreline. Others were produced by mangroves growing on oyster bars. Despite the name, the islet

7、s in the chain only number in the hundreds.Marco IslandMarco Island is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States, located on an island by the same name in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Southwest Florida. It is a principal city of the NaplesMarco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area. Ori

8、ginally named San Marco Island by Spanish explorers, Marco Island is the largest barrier island within Southwest Floridas Ten Thousand Islands area extending southerly to Cape Sable. The Westward Movement Life on the American Frontier, daily life in the new settlements that formed as the United Stat

9、es expanded west to the Pacific Ocean, south to the Gulf of Mexico and north to Alaska, did much to shape the American life. The westward movement across the continent began during the colonial era in the 1600s and continued into the 1900s. Although each frontier posed its own set of problems, all s

10、hared certain characteristics:Text OrganizationText Organization15554 4Production Difficult Sentences in Part PARA 4 We had made our home in Palmetto for a year or so where my mothers gentle folks, the Harrisons, had settled following the Civil War. gentle folks : (old usage) people of high social s

11、tanding; people who come from families in a high social class PARA 4Our comfortable two-story frame house . was set about with live oaks . provide a roost for the chicken. set about: (rare) surrounded by trees that have been set (planted) there rather than growing naturally set about(doing sth): to

12、start or begin 開始 to try 試著(做某事)，試圖： e.g. I set about reading the book at one go.PARA 9 I wish I could make you see the little stores, all alone, way off in the backwoods where we would stop to replenish our food stock from time to timeOccasionally a blacksmiths shed would adjoin the store 我真希望能夠讓你看

13、一下單獨在人煙稀少的偏遠(yuǎn)地方的小商店偶爾也有鐵匠的棚子搭在商店的近旁Backwoods 人煙稀少的偏遠(yuǎn)地方；blacksmith 鐵匠Replenish /rpln/ TEM8 If you replenish something, you make it full or complete again. 重新充滿; 再度裝滿e.g. 需要30萬噸谷物才能重新裝滿倉庫。Three hundred thousand tons of cereals are needed to replenish stocks.n.replenishment 補充，補給Adjoin /dn/ CET6 TEM8 If

14、 one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other. vi. 毗連，鄰接vt. 毗連，鄰接 adj.adjoining 鄰接的；毗連的 e.g.If the enclosing sides adjoin each other, the area should be properly vented. 如果封閉的側(cè)面彼此鄰接，該區(qū)域要有適當(dāng)?shù)耐L(fēng)。PARA 10This third day out, and days to come, found us in the unsettled wilds of

15、Florida. The structure varies a little in this sentence to avoid monotony and to give emphasis to the time. Otherwise it would start with “we” again- We were in the unsettled wilds of Florida in the third day out, and the days to come. 出發(fā)的第三天以及以后的日子里，我們都在佛羅里達(dá)無人居住的荒野中穿行。 e.g. The sun in the early mor

16、ning found him running in the playground。PARA 12These lush hammocks were green with ferns. hammock:a fertile raised area with hardwood trees拓展：hammock /hmk/ TEM8 A hammock is a piece of strong cloth or netting which is hung between two supports and used as a bed. 吊床e.g.Some of the Indians of this re

17、gion, earlier in the century, used to sleep naked in hammocks. 在本世紀(jì)早期，這一地區(qū)的一些印第安人常常赤身睡在吊床里。PARA 13 Every lawman in southern Florida was acquainted with his treachery and cunning. Treachery: /trtr/ CET6+ TEM8 背叛;變節(jié)；背叛行為 Treachery is behaviour or an action in which someone betrays their country or bet

18、rays a person who trusts them. e.g. And that was never regarded as treachery to his faith, nor was every treacherous to the non-Muslims.PARA 27 Despite the unrelenting heat, we were happy to be let off from our hours of school indoors, sessions which our mother kept every day, rain or shine. 盡管烈日當(dāng)頭，

19、我們卻很高興不用在屋里上課；平時每天的這個時候，無論天晴還是下雨，媽媽都要給我們上課。 Unrelenting /,nrlnt/ adj. unpleasant situation not stopping or becoming less severe.Unrelenting /,nrlnt/ TEM81.adj. be continuing to do something in a very determined way, often without caring whether they hurt or embarrass other people. 不留情面地堅持的 e.g.She e

20、stablished her authority with unrelenting thoroughness. 她以徹底的一絲不茍樹立了自己的權(quán)威。2.If you describe something unpleasant as unrelenting, you mean that it continues without stopping. 無休止的 (不愉快的事情) e.g.an unrelenting downpour of rain. 一場下不停的傾盆大雨。PARA 32 From where he stood he could see the two boys in the boa

21、t, each with a rifle held in small, capable hands and a bead drawn down on the man who threatened their father. draw a bead on: to take careful aim at 瞄準(zhǔn)PARA 36 This man who never paid his debts paid my father and walked with him to the landing to take a close look. All he saw were two nonchalant li

22、ttle boys sitting with their guns beside them, slapping mosquitoes. The matter was properly settled and the authors father got what was due. When Watson walked to the landing, before him were only two little boys, casually indifferent. 這個從未還過債的人把錢還給了爸爸，還跟著爸爸走到船塢看個究竟。他看到的是兩個若無其事的男孩兒正在驅(qū)趕蚊子，旁邊放著槍。 1. a

23、dj. If you describe someone as nonchalant, you mean that they appear not to worry or care about things and that they seem very calm. 若無其事的; 漠不關(guān)心的 e.g.克拉克的母親對她在兒子最新作品中的角色反應(yīng)平淡。 Clarks mother is nonchalant about her role in her sons latest work.nonchalant /nnlnt/ TEM8nonchalant /nnlnt/ TEM8 2. n. 若無其事;

24、 漠不關(guān)心 nonchalance e.g.我假裝若無其事地遞給她兩張百元鈔票。 Affecting nonchalance, I handed her two hundred dollar bills.Rhetorical DevicesPun The woods were tossing with jewelsSimile But these marks of wild country called to my father like the legendary siren song.(para. 3) Its underwater grasses looked like green ri

25、bbons constantly unrolling, and the trees held thick sprays of wild orchids. (para. 10) 水下的水草就像綠色的絲帶，不斷地伸展開來，野蘭花一簇簇地掛滿了枝頭Allusion South Florida was uninviting to many because of the mosquitoes, panthers, crocodiles, swamps, and wetlands. But these marks of wild country called to my father like the l

26、egendary siren song. (para. 3)Meterphor The burly arms of the oaks were hairy with fern and blooming bromeliads. Redbirds, tanagers, and painted buntings flew back and forth across the trail, leaving a child with the impression that the woods were tossing with jewels.(para. 12)paradox The strangleho

27、ld Watson had over this section . certain lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors that our state was to suffer though its history. (para. 17) e.g. cruel kindness 殘忍的善良 painful pleasure 悲喜交加 proud humility 不卑不亢Comparisom King Richard in his gluttony never sat at a table more sumptuous than our

28、s was three times a day.(para. 22)Alliterationv The site had a nice gradient up from the sea; the big house in the tree looked safe and sturdy. (para. 23) safe and sturdy: safe and strong, solid and substantialv Blooming bromeliads (para. 12 ) v Wild butter beans (para. 26)Understatement 含蓄表達(dá)法 Understatement,asthewordimplies,isthe opposi