高一英語教案：《City and Country》教學設計(2)

　　Task 2 

　　Do the exercise 4

　　Students read the texts again and complete the table with information from them

　　Students write down information about their own life in the table

　　Students work in groups and talk about their life and compare their life with Debbie’s and Pauls.

　　Ⅲ Voice your opinion

　　First give the following materials to make students learn about city and country better.

　　Country life, is walking through a field of hay, as dusk paints orange and purple hues on the sky above.

　　The birds twitter and brood, streams babble and flow, horses graze and gallop, crops are sown and harvested without cease.

　　Life in the country is much more exciting than many city-dwellers would like to believe. In particular: it does you good ...

　　City Life is Greater Manchester's weekly listings and lifestyle magazine,

　　covering areas such as clubbing, cinema, comedy, gay, food & drink, shopping, music, theatre, art, books, sport and travel

　　City life: a growing problem.  What was life like inside the City walls?

　　Inside the crowded Citywalls, fine houses belonging to merchants often stood next to squalid houses belonging ...

　　Cities are the great havens for knowledge, culture, and social life.

　　cultures are found in cities because it takes a large population to support museums, concert halls, sports teams, and night-life districts.

　　Which lifestyle do you prefer? Why?

　　Give students some time to discuss each other

　　Then give others’ opinion about the questions

　　Some people like to live in big cities. They say city life is colorful, convenient and exciting. There are shopping malls or supermarkets everywhere, so you can buy anything you like, while in the country, shops are very far away from your house. It is difficult to do shopping. In cities, people enjoy themselves in many ways in their spare time, going to the cinemas or theatres, taking a walk in the park, or watching a footfall game…

　　But others prefer to live in the countryside. They say cities are crowded with people and cars. It is noisy. While people are suffering from all kinds of noise, you can enjoy yourself by sitting on the hillside watching the cattle around you. And now cities are becoming dirtier and dirtier. Factories and cars send out poisonous gases, which pollute the air and sky over cities is often gray. Water pollution and white pollution are also big problems in cities. On the contrary, the sky is blue and water is clear in the country.

　　Different people have different choice. Where would you like to live, in cities or in the country?

　　Ⅳ Vocabulary

　　Do the exercise 5

　　Ⅴ Homework

　　Write a composition

　　Life in city or country

　　Words: 100 or so

　　Use your own language and tell the reason why you like the lifestyle.