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I Teaching aims　 :

　 1. Listening and reading comprehension

　 2.Vocabulary : system ; spirit ---spiritual ; faith ; hand town ; elder-----older ; curiously ; underground ; rather than ; percentage ; birth rate ; precious ; fence ; round up ; outdoors ; argue ; shave ; Italy -----Italian

　 3. Grammar : the –ing form

　4. Geography and history understanding about Australia

Moral teaching : Australia is a very new country compared with China , but why it is a developed country while ours is a developing one ?

II Teaching aids : tape recorder ; slide show ; computer ;

multimedia education software

III Teaching main-points　 :

　 1．Content understanding through reading and listening and questioning

　 2．Vocabulary study in real-situation sentences

　 3．Oral practice of the content of the text

IV Teaching crux　　 :

1. 1. older / elder

e.g. Is the girl over there your elder sister?

　　 Who is the older of you two students ?

　 2. be suitable for　 : be fit for

　　 e.g. The suit is too big to fit you .

　　　　　 The design of the clothes is for girls , so it is not suit you.

　　　　　 Anyone who is not fit for his office will lose his job very soon , for the

　　　　　　　 society is now full of competition and serious struggle .

　　　　　 That job doesn’t suit you at all , for it needs a person who should be

　　　　　　 very careful and at the same time , he must be very bright .

　 3.be intended for : be prepared for　 or　 sth made specially for

　　 e.g . The chair which is in the middle of the first line and in the front of the

　　　　　　 room was intended for the chairman of the conference .

　　　　 The days when school education is intended only for the boys have

　　　　　　 passed for ever and will never come back again .

　　　　 What do you intend to do doing next after you have finished your work?　

1. 5. be experienced at : to be very familiar with and become accustomed to

　　　　　　　　　　 easily

She was very experienced at finding drugs , despite how secret the drugs have

　　　　　　　　 been hidden .

Her experiences in the war become very precious properties in dealing with all kinds of criminals .

Once you experience the difficulty of working on the farm , you will never

　　　　　　　　　 come back again .

2. 6. feed on : depend on / live on

e.g. As every one has known , cats really feed on fish .

My mother liked to feed our dog with all kinds of bones .

It is not necessary to feed some fish food to the gold fish , or some

　 might be killed because of over eaten .

The old lady got no sons , so she had to depend on her daughter .

V Teaching steps　　 :

Step 1 : Presentation : multimedia showing : scenes of Australia

　　　　 Discussion : History and geography introduction

　　　　 Revision　 : Cook’s discovery of the new continent

Step 2 : Listening with the following questions put forward before( lesson 10)

a. a. When did the first people come to Australia and how ?

b. b. What kind of life did Kooris develop in Australia ?

c. c. What kind of situation are Kooris facing ?

Step 3 : Listening with the following questions put forward before ( lesson 11)

a. a. Why Australia has so many unusual animals that can’t be found in some

　 other places ?

b. b. What kind of country is Australia compared with other countries ?

c. c. What kind of climate does Australia have ?

Step 4 : Reading both Lesson 10 & 11 with the detailed questions answered in the

　　　　 students book .( they can be finished in two lesson periods )

Step 5 : Vocabulary explanation in real-situation sentences : the teacher is going to

　　　　 put some examples and students are asked to do the same and to make

　　　　 dialogues with those now words and expressions used in them .

　　　　　 ( # lesson 10 & 11 will follow the same step )

Step 6 : Grammar : the –ing form

　　　 @ Use the verbs below in the Past Indefinite to complete the sentences .More than one verb can be used for most sentences .

　　　　 ( catch ; find ; hear ; keep ; leave ; listen to ; notice ; see ; stop ; watch )

1) I ______ a long queue outside the bank waiting for it to open .

2) The baby ______ his dad shaving his face with great interest .

3) We ______ them arguing in the other room .They were getting very angry .

4) The policeman ______ two men fighting in the street . I think they were drunk.

5) I ______ two men trying to break into my office .

6) For two hours we ______ the Koorie elders talking about their earliest memories .

7) I’m sorry I ______ you waiting . I got caught in the traffic .

8) Mary had to go to a meeting , so she ______ her children playing at home .

9) A long fence round the field ______ wild dogs killing the young sheep.

10) From the classroom window we ______ a huge snake crossing the yard .

　 Step 7 : Consolidation : retelling : ( which is divided into two parts , one is about the past of

　　　　　 Australia , the other is about the new Australia ever since it was discovered and

　　　　　 developed .