A Teaching Plan of Book 1 Module 4 A Lively City
Ⅰ. Teaching goals:
a. Foster the Ss’ ability of self-learning.
b. Ss learn how to introduce a place, using some of the new words from the text. The new words and expressions in the text:
hometown, attractive, fortunate, pretty, sound, tourist, bother, nuisance, rent, district, approach, harbour, gorgeous, architecture, starve, park, put up.
c. Cultivate Ss’s love for their hometown and motherland.
Ⅱ. Important and difficult points:
How to introduce a place.
Ⅲ. Teaching aids:
CAI facilities, a tape-recorder, and small flags
Ⅳ. Teaching procedure:
(Before class, teacher tells the Ss to learn the text by themselves. They will be checked in class.)
Step 1. Check the students on the new words.

T: Good morning, boys and girls! Nice to see you again. How are you today?
A lively city. (show the topic.)
T: Yesterday evening, I told you to learn the text by yourselves, right? Now, I want to know how much you have learnt from the text.
What’s the name of the city? Now let’s have a word competition. If you know the word, raise your hand quickly.
l Xiamen is an _______ city. (attractive)
l One of the nicest things about Xiamen is that it is on the ______.(coast)
l A lot of _______visit Xiamen in the summer. (tourists)
This is the most famous place in Xiamen, in Chinese, it is called “鼓浪屿”, and in English, it is called “Gulangyu Island”.
l Gulangyu Island is a _________ (lovely and beautiful) island with some really interesting __________ (buildings). (gorgeous, architecture)
l The _______ (weather) in Xiamen is _____ (very) hot and wet in summer, but it can be quite cold in winter. (climate, pretty)
l The business _______ is modern in Xiamen. You can buy all kinds of things in the ______________ (shopping centre).(district, shopping mall)
Have you seen the photos before? Xiamen University. Xiamen University is a very famous university in China. Many students want to go to study there. This is the entrance, the main teaching building, the library, and the students’ dormitory.
l My sister said that she was ________ (lucky) studying in Xiamen University. (fortunate)
Step 2. Check the students to see if they know the right order of the text.
A. apartment block
B. business district
C. climate
D. Gulangyu Island
E. western district
F. location of Xiamen
(key: F-C-A-B-E-D)
Way of conducting:
The first student who gets the right order gets 2 marks for his/her group
Step 3. Check the Ss to see if they know the detailed information in the text.
1. John Martin is visiting Xiao Li’s hometown. ( )
2. Xiao Li lives in a town to the northwest of Xiamen. ( )
3. John and Xiao Li haven’t seen each other for six years. ( )
4. John has never been to China before. ( )
5. Xiao Li enjoys living on the coast. ( )
6. There are very few tourists in the northwest of Xiamen.( )
7. There are a lot of new high-rise buildings in Gulangyu Island. ( )
8. There are some interesting buildings on Gulangyu Island. ( )
9. They’re walking around the city. ( )
(keys: TFTF TFFT F)
Way of conducting:
Divided the Ss into 4 groups. The four groups answer the questions in turn –-they have a competition and get marks.
Step 4. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.

This is the first time John has visited Xiao Li’s _________--- Xiamen. It ____ _____six years ____ they last saw each other.
It’s _____ hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. There are so many _____ in the summer that sometimes they can be a _______.
In the business district, a lot of high-rise buildings have been _____ recently. They can see some great shopping malls. In the western______, there are some really pretty parks. Gulangyu Island is a gorgeous island with some really interesting __________.
Xiamen is an attractive place and it’s a _____ city. Xiao Li feels ________living there.
(keys: hometown, has, been, since, pretty, tourists, nuisance, put up, district, architecture, lively, fortunate.)
Way of conducting:
Each group fill in one paragraph ---Students have a competition and get marks.
Step 5. A task:
Students Act as tourist guides and introduce places to the tourists.
They can introduce Xiamen or another place. Their presentation should include most of the following: location (位置), climate, places of interest, buildings, business districts, special food, etc …
Students use as many new words below as possible.
attractive, fortunate, pretty, tourist, bother, nuisance, rent, district, gorgeous, architecture, lively…
Way of conducting:
Students discuss among the groups and present their work. Teacher gives them marks according to how well they perform.

Step 6. Homework:

1. Surf the internet to know more about Xiamen.
www.xmtravel.com.cn
2. Write a composition about your favorite place.
Ⅴ. Teaching contents on the blackboard.
Module 4 A Lively City

Group 4 Group 3 Group 2 Group 1
(小组得分情况)