教育部参赛The ThreeGorges Dam-鞠艳

Book 3 Module 6 The Three Gorges Dam

教案

滕州二中鞠艳

Module 6 The Three Gorges Dam

Teaching goals

1. T arget language

a. Important words

construction, site, historical, narrow, remove

b. Important sentences

The power of the Y an gtze River, which is the world’s third longest river, has been harnessed by the Three Gorges Dam.

The dam will generate electricity equal to about 40 million tons of coal without causing so much air pollution.

2. Ability goals

Improve the students’ reading ability and enable them to talk about the Three Gorges Dam.

Teaching important points

Help the students to learn something about the Three Gorges Dam and talk about it properly.

Teaching difficult points

Enable the students to communicate using the language learnt. Teaching methods

Reading and discussion

Teaching procedures & ways

Lead-in

Show the students some pictures, including the Great Wall, the Grand Canal and the Dujiangyan Dam. Get the students to know the famous construction projects in the history of China and enhance the national pride of the students. Then show the picture of the Three Gorges Dam and lead to the topic.

Step1 Skimming

Ask the students to read the passage and then match the main idea with each paragraph.

T: In this lesson, we are going to learn about the Three Gorges Dam. Now please look through the passage quickly and get the main idea of each paragraph.

Show the following on the screen.

para. 1 1.The disadvantages of building the dam

para. 2 2.A brief introduction to the dam

para. 3 3.The advantages of dam compared with burning coal para. 4 4.Chairman Mao’s dream has come true.

para. 5

the answers: para. 1 — 4, para. 2— 2, para. 3—3,

para. 4 and para. 5— 1

Get the students to guess the words’meanings according to the explanations and then match the words with the definitions.

Show the following on the screen.

generate historical narrow

submerge harness remove

1. to cause sth to exist; produce electricity _____

2. to make use of natural resources ______

3. not far from one side to the other ______

4. to go under the surface of water ______

5. of past times ______

6. to take something away from a place ______

The answers: 1. generate 2. harness 3. narrow

4. submerge

5. historical

6. remove

Step2 Scanning

Ask the students to read the text again and then work together with their partners to check the statements and decide T or F.

Show the following on the screen.

1. Mao Zedong once dreamed that there would be a great dam to harness the power of the Y angtze River.

2.The Three Gorges Dam will provide enough hydro-electric power for

the whole country.

3.The dam will generate a lot of electricity causing much less air

pollution.

4. All the historical relics have been submerged because of the dam. Answers: T, F, T , F

Step3 Intensive Reading

This time, get the students to read the passage by parts and find out the detail information.

Task 1

Read para.1 and 2

Questions:

1. What did Mao Zedong dream of in his poem?

2. Why do we build the Three Gorges Dam?

Answers:

1. Walls of stone to hold back clouds and rain till a smooth lake rises in

the narrow gorges.

2. To control flooding and provide hydro-electric power for the central

region of China.

Read para. 3

Answers:

Disadvantages of burning coal: causes serious air pollution and increases global warming

Advantages of Dam: generate much electricity without causing so much air pollution

Read para.4 and 5

the disadvantages of building the dam:

Answers:

flood: 2 cities, 11 counties, 140 towns and more than 4,000 villages move: more than a million people have moved from their homes submerge: 800 historical relics

Task 2

1. What’s the purpose of the author quoting the poem written by Mao Zedong?

2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

The Three Gorges Dam has used the power of the Y angtze River to produce electricity.

3. Put the following sentence into Chinese.

The dam will generate electricity equal to about 40 million tons of coal without causing so much air pollution.

Answers:

1. To express the feeling that the dream for many years has come true at last.

Or: To tell us building the Three Gorges Dam is a dream of many people, including the great leader, Chairman Mao.

2. The power of the Y angtze River, which is the world’s third lon gest river, has been harnessed by the Three Gorges Dam.

3. 大坝将要生产相当于燃烧4000万吨煤所产生的电量，但却不会造成那么严重的空气污染。

Step4 Post-reading

Debate

Divide the class into two parts and get the students to discuss whether it is worth so much money and efforts to build the Three Gorges Dam.

Homework

Write an email to a foreign friend to introduce the Three Gorges Dam.

教学反思：以课文为载体，对学生进行听说读写的训练。效果很好，尤其是后面的辩论部分，学生充分的发挥了自己的潜力，很是精彩。