高中英语人教版 (新课标)必修3&4Unit 5 Theme parks教案

Period 3　Extensive Reading

The General Idea of This Period

This period includes the reading of FUTUROSCOPE—EXCITEMENT AND LEARNING on Page 38 and the reading task on Page 73.FUTUROSCOPE—EXCITEMENT AND LEARNING introduces the idea of scientific and future-oriented theme parks—Futuroscope,much of which offers hands-on experiences and “virtual” adventures into the past and the future.This information will extend the students’ information about the variety of theme parks.And the reading task THE POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTRE tells us a cultural theme park in Hawaii,where the visitors can see the different customs,the style of dress,and above all,the different skills of the Polynesian people.

The two reading passages can be given to the students as extensive reading tasks to develop their reading skills.They are expected to skim the first passage for the experiences that the visitor can have at Futuroscope first and then classify the activities under the headings—Entertainment and Education.And next the students are encouraged to involve in a peer activity to create a map of what they think Futuroscope looks like and report their work to other peers in order to share their work.As for the second passage,the students are expected to do the true or false questions after a fast reading to see how well they understand the passage,and then finish the tasks on Page 74.

Teaching Important & Difficult Points

How to improve the students’ reading ability.

Teaching or Learning approaches

Task-based learning;cooperative learning

Teaching Aids

A tape recorder

A multi-media computer and a blackboard.

Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

Knowledge and Skills

Train the students’ reading ability.

Extend the students’ information about the variety of theme parks.

Learn the different customs,the style of dress,and above all,the different skills of the Polynesian people in a cultural theme park in Hawaii.

Process and Strategies

Fast reading to get the main idea.

Necessary explanation to make them have a better understanding of different customs in the world.

Individual work or group work to be involved in class actively.

Feelings and Value

These two reading passages can serve as extensive reading tasks,through which they can know more about the varieties of theme parks and meanwhile they will learn about the different customs in different countries.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Revision

T:Hello,everybody!At the beginning of this period,we will first check your homework.

Possible answers to the homework exercises:

Exercise 1 on Page 70.

1.rides　2.shuttle　3.souvenirs　4.variety　5.athletic　6.amusement　7.imaginary8.advanced　9.imagination　10.excitement

Exercise 2 on Page 70.

Brazil，jungle，survived，creatures，mysterious，excitement，up-to-date

Exercise 1 on Page 71

1.survive　2.countable　3.profitable　4.imagine　5.agreeable　6.charge7.changeable　8.moved

Exercise 2 on Page 71

1.disagreeable　2.unusual　3.unwilling　4.unsuitable　5.misbehave　6.dislike7.disadvantage　8.misrepresented

Exercise 3 on Page 72

1.Susan was pleased to have an introduction to the queen.

2.Have you got the correct equipment for the journey up that mountain?

3.I felt very satisfied after looking at those pictures in the museum.

4.Rebecca was curious about what it is like to go to a theme park.

5.Peter’s quick actions saved the little girl.

Step 2 Pre-reading

T:Well done!From the first reading passage we’ve learned much about different theme parks—what a theme park is;what people can see and do in these parks;why people built so many different theme parks and THEME PARKS—FUN AND MORE THAN FUN.Today we are going to read about a very unusual theme park in which we can have an exciting experience of the life under the sea,over the mountain,and into space.Would you like to know more about this fantastic park?Please open your books and turn to Page 38 and read the passage Futuroscope—Excitement and Learning.

Step 3 Reading

T:Please read the passage as fast as you can for the first time and find the answers to these questions on the screen.

T:Who would like to tick the experiences visitors can have at Futuroscope?

S:I will.The experiences visitors can have at Futuroscope are ABCDE.

T:What are the correct answers to the questions?

S:I think the correct answer to question 1 should be C,and the answer to question 2 should also C.

T:Congratulations!You got them right.

T:Now do you understand the passage?There are different kinds of activities in Futuroscope.What kinds of activities do you think provide people with entertainment?And what kinds of activities provide people with education?Please fill in the form in Part 2 according to the passage.You may discuss the questions in groups.After that fill in the form and check the answers with your partners,and then we will check the answers in class.

Suggested answers:

T:Wonderful,keep up the good work!Now create a map of what you think Futuroscope looks like with a partner.Include all the activities and areas that are mentioned in the passage.Make sure they are connected to each other in a way that would make it easy to move from one to another.

T:Who would like to show your map?What about yours,Peter?

S:Here you are.

(The teacher shows a few more maps.)

Suggested answers:

A MAP OF FUTUROSCOPE

T:Good thinking and imagination!Futuroscope lets people travel in three periods (the past,the present,the future) and three places ( the bottom of the sea,the edges of the solar system and the jungle).Maybe some day you will have a chance to pay a visit to Futuroscope yourselves.

Step 4 Reading task

T:Just now we read about a science and technology-based theme park—Futuroscope.Now let’s come to a cultural theme park in Hawaii.In this park,visitors can see the different customs,the style of dress,and above all,the different skills of the Polynesian people.

Let’s read the passage quickly for the first time and then tell whether these sentences are true or false.

The teacher shows the statements on the screen.

The students read through the passage for several minutes.

T:Are you ready for the answers now?

S:I think statements 1,2 and 4 are true,while statements 4 and 5 are false.

T:Do you all agree with him?

Ss:Yes.He got them right.

T:OK,do you understand this passage?Can you tell me some of the skills of the Polynesian peoples?Now please skim the passage and try to make a list of the skills of the Polynesian peoples.

(A few minutes later.)

T:Have you finished your work?

S:From the passage we know that they can make clothes from bar and climb very tall trees with their bare feet.They are able to find their way using the smell of the wind,the movements of the fish and seaweed,and the height and direction of the waves.But their most important skill is boat-building.

Suggested answers:

T:They are really clever sailors.Now I would like you to answer the questions of Part 2 on Page 74.

S:I’d like to answer the first question.People show the skills of the Polynesian people because this helps to protect their skills and culture for the future.

T:What about the second question?

S:Let me answer the second question.There are so many different kinds of Polynesian village designs because Polynesia is made up of a group of small islands,and people there come from many island communities with different tradition,customs and styles of dress.

Step 5 Summary

T:Today we first went to a science and technology-based theme park—Futuroscope.There we traveled in three periods (the past,the present,the future) and three places (the bottom of the sea,the edges of the solar system and the jungle).What adventurous experiences we had!Then we went to a cultural theme park in Hawaii.In this park,we learned the different customs,the style of dress,and above all,the different skills of the Polynesian people.From this period,we extend our understanding of theme parks and broaden our vision about different cultures.I’m really proud of you for your wonderful performances.

Step 6 Homework

1.Do Exercise 3 on Page 70.

2.Get ready for Listening on Page 37,and Listening on Page 69.

The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard

Record after Teaching

Activities and Research

Work in pairs and create a map of what they think Futuroscope looks like.The map should include all the activities and areas that are mentioned in the passage.Make sure they are connected to each other in a way that would make it easy to move from one to another.

Reference for Teaching

Background Information

迪斯尼乐园（Disneyland）

Few places of entertainment on Earth have garnered as much wonder,legend,or controversy as Disneyland,the Walt Disney Company amusement park,which was the first large-scale implementation of Disney approach to fantasy,story,and crowd control.

Places of Family Amusement are not new in the world,and there has certainly grown a science to them not unlike that of keeping a travelling circus intact,or maintaining national parks.But more than those who came before them,Disney and his creative team focused on the presentation of Disneyland,ensuring that it would be as controlled and predictable a fiction as their movies,records and television shows had been up to that point.

Walking into Disneyland is like an entering the sweeping shot of a fantasy movie,with a town square reaching forward to a breathtaking castle.Every aspect of the park was said to be planned ahead with the energy of one of the Disney animated features,with artists from various productions brought in to work on the look and style of the place.Actors from many Disney features appear as the voices of birds,announcers and narrators in the park.But all this wonder hides how extensive the Disney planning really is.

When you enter Disneyland,you are actually on the top floor of a giant complex of underground facilities,providing most of the “heart and health” of the park with security,employee facilities,garbage collection and other important administrative aspects all hidden from view.You don’t see garbage stacked outside Disneyland waiting to be picked up,and you never see an employee shuffling out to the lot after a long day.The park has even developed its own nomenclature to insulate gritty details from the public;A protein spill is the code that a child’s vomit needs to be mopped up.

It is said that Walt Disney planned the park to the point of the placement of wastebaskets.He supposedly took a snack that might be purchased at a stand,walked until he finished it,and decreed that no trashcan would be further than that distance from any other.There are few places outside of Las Vegas where such grandiose and breathtakingly anal plans would be taken seriously,both in implementation and in believing that such forethought existed.And Las Vegas was nowhere near Disneyland’s level for years.

This has caused such urban legends as the “Disney Tapes”，where Walt Disney was said to have left film loops to be played after his death for several years,his forward-thinking genius so amazing he could predict what would be awaiting the company in the ensuing years.This is actually a core part of Isaac Asirnov’s Foundation series of novels,and not the real case.It is thought that promotional films that Disney made before his death regarding EPCOT and other projects were the source of this rumor.

迪斯尼世界以其独有的魅力,每天都吸引着成千上万来自世界各地的游客,彩车游行,旧日的街道,迪斯尼动画中的形象,古老的童话传说,惊险刺激的游戏,未来世界的梦想,所有的一切让人流连忘返,无论成人还是孩子,都会被它深深地吸引,一次又一次地踏入迪斯尼乐园的大门。

美国所有的迪斯尼乐园几乎一模一样,都是由八个主题园区构成,分别为:

美国主街区(Main Street U·S·A)

新奥尔良广场(New Orleans Square)

万物家园(Frontierland)

荒野地带(Adventureland)

欢乐园(Fantasyland)

米奇童话城(Mickey’s Toontown)

未来世界(Tomorrowland)

游人尽可以根据自己的兴趣来选择各个园区,要是想把整个迪斯尼乐园都游览一遍的话,最少要花上三天时间。如果只是走马观花的看一下,可以选择坐迪斯尼的游园小火车。那是一种小小的红色无轨火车,车头是老式的蒸汽式样,非常可爱,它会带游人绕行全部的地方,招手上车,随时下车,方便快捷。

To make the most of Disneyland—the ultimate escapist fantasy and the blueprint for imitations worldwide—throw yourself right into it.Don’t think twice about anything and go on every ride you can.The high admission price ($36) includes them all,although during peak periods each one can entail hours of queuing.Remember,too,that the emphasis is on family fun.The authorities take a dim view of anything remotely anti-social and eject those they consider guilty.

Over four hundred “Imaginers” worked to create the Indiana Jones Adventure,Disneyland’s biggest opening in years.Two hours of queuing are built into the ride,with an interactive archeological dig and 1930s-style newsreel show leading up to the main feature—a giddy journey along 2500 ft of skull-encrusted corridors in which you face fireballs,falling rubble,venomous snakes and,inevitably，a rolling boulder finale.Disney claims that,thanks to computer engineering,no two Indiana Jones rides are ever alike.Judge for yourself.

Among the best of the older rides are two in Adventureland:the Pirates of the Caribbean,a boat trip through underground caverns,singing along with drunken pirates;and the Haunted Mansion,a riotous “doom buggy” tour in the company of the house spooks.

Tomorrowland is Disney’s vision of the future,where the Space Mountain roller coaster zips through the pitch-blackness of outer space,and the Star Tours ride simulates a journey into the world of George Lucas.The Skyway cable-car line that connects Tomorrowland with the clever but cloyingly sentimental Fantasyland is the only spot in the park from which you can see the outside world.

As for accommodation,try to visit Disneyland just for the day and spend the night somewhere else.Most of the hotels and motels nearby cost well in excess of $70 per night.

You’re not permitted to bring your own food to the park.You can only consume the fast food sold on the premises.

Disneyland is at 1313 Harbor Blvd,Anaheim,45 minutes by car from downtown using the Santa Ana Freeway.In summer,the park is open daily between 8 am and 1 am.Otherwise opening hours are weekdays 10 am to 6 pm,Saturday 9 am to midnight,and Sunday 9 am to 10 pm.Arrive early.Traffic quickly becomes nightmarish,especially in the summer.For further information,including public transportation details,call 714/999-4565.