Period 5 Reading and Writing
整体设计
教学内容分析
The teaching materials of this period contain two parts.The first part is the reading passage on Page 39 with the title of The Lake of Heaven，which describes some of the tourist attractions in Changbaishan in Jilin Province.The second part is the Writing Task on Page 74.Ask students to imagine they were caught in a terrible natural disaster，but they are now safe.Ask the students to write a diary describing how they felt during and after the disaster.
三维目标设计
Knowledge and skills
1．To enable the students to know something about some of the tourist attractions in Changbaishan in Jilin Province.
2．To get the students to learn the following useful new words and expressions：precious，unconscious，shoot，panic，glance through，anxious，guarantee，vary from...to..
3．To help the students learn how to write a diary expressing feelings.
4．To foster the students' ability in skimming and looking up information in reference books and improve the students' reading ability.
Process and methods
Reading for specific information，summarizing，discussing and practicing.
Emotion，attitude and value
1．To introduce the students to the natural disasters.
2．To develop the students' sense of protecting the environment around them.
教学重、难点
1．The understanding of the reading passage.
2．The following key sentences：
(1)The height of the land varies from 700 metres above sea level to over 2000 metres and is home to a great diversity of rare plants and animals.
(2)Among the rare animals are cranes，black bears，leopards and tigers.
(3)It takes about an hour to climb from the end of the road to the top of the mountain.
