第一步 作业检查
1. Have a dictation. The teacher reads some sentences with new words or phrases in them.
① They were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast.
② It is the second biggest city, which is surrounded by mountains on the north.
③After settling down in their seats, they looked out of the windows at the wild scenery.
④ Most Canadians live within 320 kilometres of the USA border.
叫两个学生上黑板写，然后鼓励其他学生上黑板帮他们纠错，最后学生互改互评。
2. Remind students of what they have learnt in Reading.
第二步 引入话题
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian saw lots of beautiful scenery when traveling in Canada. Last night the train that they were taking rushed across the top of Lake Superior. Which is the next city it runs towards?
第三步 预测文章的内容
Look at the title of the passage “THE TRUE NORTH” FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL and predict what the passage is mainly about.
第四步 阅读文章 “THE TRUE NORTH” FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL
1．Give students 5 minutes, and ask them to scan or skim for the answers to the following questions:
① What is the main idea of the passage?
③ How many parts is the text divided into and what’s the main idea of each part?