UNIT 18 NEW ZEALAND Period 3 Reading Teaching Aims: General reading: Understanding of the reading material.Develop the students’ reading ability, especially their skimming and scanning ability.Enable the students to know something about New Zealand. Improve students’ knowledgeConsolidate the understanding of the textTeaching difficulty: Inferring according to the reading material. The usage of the words and phrasesTeaching methods: 阅读、归纳、推理、判断Teaching proceduresStep 1. RevisionCheck the homeworkStep 2 Pre-reading Show some pictures of New Zealand to let the students talk about the country .Step 3 Fast readingAsk the students to read the text silently and fast to get general idea of each paragraphParagraph 1 geography Paragraph 2; climateParagraph 3: natural resource Paragraph 4 historyStep 4 Careful-readingRead the passage again , then decide if the following sentences are true or false. Write “T” if the sentences is true .If it is false , write “T” and correct the error .1. New Zealand lies to the east of Australia. T2. It has two large islands and is as large as Japan T3. The capital city is on the South Island. F14. It is very hot in summer and very cold in winter. F5. There are a lot of natural beauties in New Zealand, namely, clean sand beaches, green hills and moun-tains, dead volcanoes, hot springs and special plants and animals. T 6. Its population is mainly made up of by the Maori. F7. The name of the country was given by Abel Tasman T8. All the settlers came from Europe, most of whom were British. FRead the text and fill in the form:Location off the eastern coast of AustraliaCapital Wellington on the North IslandSize the same as JapanClimate A mild sea weather subtr...
