Unit 2 The environment教案

Project

Revision

　Translation：Language focus in Task

Lead-in

1. Show the students pictures of the Yangtze River. Then ask them questions.

2. Do you like the Yangtze River?

3. Why is it important in our country?

Competition:

4. Let's divide the class into four groups. Then try your best to tell about the Yangtze River as much as possible. The group which has the most ideas will be the winner.

　GROUP A: ....

　GROUP B: ....

　GROUP C: ....

　GROUP D: ....

Brain storm

Basic knowledge about the Yangtze River:

1. How many provinces does it run across?

(Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu)

2. How long is the Yangtze River?

(About 6300kms)

3. Please give the names of the three longest rivers in the world?

(The Amazon River, the River Nile, and the Yangtze River)

4. Where is the source of the river?

(It starts from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau)

5. What are the three gorges?

(The Qutang Gorge, the Wu Goege, and the Xiling Goege)

6. Would you say something about them?

7. Where is the Three Gorges Dam?

( Yichang, Hubei)

8. How long is the Three Gorges Dam? How high?

(3035 metres, 185 metres)

9. Please give the names of the bridges over the river as many as you can

(武汉、重庆、芜湖、江阴、润杨、铜陵、南京1、2、3，苏通、崇启)