人教版高中英语必修 5NEW SENIOR ENGLISH FOR CHINASTUDENTS’ BOOK 5Unit 2 The United Kingdom年级：高三课时： 1课时任课老师：王爽Unit 2 The United KingdomⅠ. Material analysisThe topic of this unit is the United Kingdom, which helps students to gain a better understanding of history and geography of the UK and its constitution as well as some sights and historic ruins. The reading part of this unit talks about how the four countries combined into the UK, which makes students have a clear clue of its history. And it also tells us about the UK’s main sights. All of these will help students know more about the UK.Ⅱ. Teaching objectives1. Knowledge objective: to share the information about the UnitedKindom.2. Ability objective: to foster students’ reading ab ility(prediction,skimming, scanning).3. Emotion objective: to stimulate the students’interest forlearning more about the UK.Ⅲ. Teaching points and teaching difficulties1. Key vocabulary: consist of, clarify, conflict, unwilling, breakaway, to one’s c redit, currency, institution, convenience, roughly, attract, architecture, administration, enjoyable2. Key points: to show the position, direction and distance3. Difficult points: Wales was linked to…England and Wales were joined to…England is devided into three zones.Ⅳ. Teaching aidsText book, blackboard, pictures about the UK’s mapⅤ. Teaching methodTask-based language teachingⅥ. Teaching proceduresStep 1 Pre-reading (10 mins)Task 1 Warming up① Ask the students t o work in pairs and do the quiz on page 9.Keys: 1. C 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. B1. The United Kingdom consists of England, Wales, Scotland andNorthern Ireland.2. It takes ten hours to fly from Beijing to London Heathrow Airport.3. The Prime Minister together with his most important ministers andMember of Parliament make the important political decisions and laws.And the UK is a constitutional monarchy country, which means that the Queen doesn’t have the real right.4. The counties of Britain are much more smaller than provinces inChina. They have local government powers for their areas.5. The River Thames is 338km, which is the longest in England.② Show the four countries’ map to students and ask them to put the pictures together to make a map of the UK.Task 2 PredictionAsk the students to predict what the reading passage talks about according to the title and the picture of the passage. Design a simple match.EnglandCardiffWalesBelfastScotlandLondonNorthernIreland Edinburgh Step 2 While-reading(20 mins)Task 1 Fast-readingAsk the students to read the map and the text and answer the following questions.(Devide students into three groups and each group answer one question)Question 1: The Union Jack flag unite the flags of three countries in the United Kingdom. Which country is left out? Why?Wales. It is usually considered to be part of the England.Question 2: What three countries does British Airways represent?England, Scotland and Wales.Question 3: Which group of invaders did not influence London?The Vikings did not influence London.Task 2 Text structure analysis1. Have the students find out the topic sentences of each paragraph.2. Ask the students to devide the passage into three parts and writethe main idea of each part.Part 1 (para.1-3): What the UK includes and how the UK formed and more detail information about the four countries in the UK.Part 2 (para.4-5): The geographical division of England into three zones; their similarities and differences and the cultural importance of London. Part 3 (para.6): When you visit the UK, keep your eyes open.Step 3 Post-reading(15 mins)Task 1Have the students put the events happening to the form of the UK intothe right order.Task 2Have the students identify the invaders and their influences ontheUnited Kingdom.Task 3Have the students look at the map of England and Wales on page 11. Drawlines across to show zones of South, Midlands and North of England.North: Leeds, York, Sheffield and ManchesterMidlands: Coventry, BirminghamSouth: Reading, London, Brighton, PlymouthStep 4 Homework1. Finish exercise 1 on page 11.2. According to what you like, find more information about the UK andshare it with your classmates next class.Ⅶ Te aching reflectionClear clues will help students to grasp the important information easily and they can also give a right direction to the students. And teachers’ task is not only to teach the language point but also to cultivate their interests and their ability to learn something.Ⅷ Blackboard design。