教学设计
T: Central Park is an urban park in middle-upper Manhattan, within New York City. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with 40 million visitors in 2013.[5] It is also one of the most filmed locations in the world.
The Park was established in 1857 on 778 acres (315 ha) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, two soon-to-be famed national landscapers and architects, won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the "Greensward Plan". Construction began the same year and the park's first area was opened to the public in the winter of 1858.[6] Construction continued during the American Civil War farther south, and was expanded to its current size of 843 acres (341 ha) in 1873.
Central Park was designated a National Historic Landmark (listed by the U.S. Department of the Interior and administered by the National Park Service) in 1962. The Park was managed for decades by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the municipal government in a public-private partnership. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 75 percent of Central Park's $65 million annual budget and is responsible for all basic care of the 843-acre park.
Step II Introduction
1.Background information
About the author
About the central park
2.Preview (page103-104)
3.Travelling route
Pictures Places
The delacorte theatre
Belvedere castle The ramble The west side Strawberry Fields The reservior
The ninety-fifth street
Park’s west drive
The north woods
Step Ⅲ Summary the passage
Step Ⅳ Answer the question in Speaking (page105-106)
Step V Interaction
T: Now, there’s still a little time left. Let’s come to Vocabulary on Page 107.
作业1．Learn the new words and expressions by heart. 2．Do all of exercises of Unit 4
3．Reading Text B. by yourselves
课。