Communicative English

Semester 2
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Previously,

• Know how to describe different types of

climate zones and their characteristics
Geography and Life

Unit 5 Section IIIa

 Aims of the lesson
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to…

• Describe connection between climatic

types and life styles
– different ways of establishing logical links in
a text
Homework
5 sentences of the climate on life in China

What elements to include

Cause-effect relationship
 Patchwork assessment

Week 2
China Geography

“a form of assessment where

Week 3 Describing Climate students write several short
pieces, the “patches,” at
intervals throughout the
Impact on life and module and then at the end,
Week 4
vegetation the patches are “stitched
together” to make a
patchwork
text” (Ovens, 2003, p.546)
Lesson Rundown
01
Jigsaw Reading

02
Listening

03
Reading

04
Analysis of Language
Part 1 Jigsaw Reading
Video
Get to know
Columbia
• Divide the jobs into 3 or 4
• Find cue card on page 165 － 166
• Each student read one note (cue card)
• sort out the information helps to decide
• the climatic type (page 150)
• Brief report of your group’s choice
 Part 2 Listening

The climate and vegetation of

Western Europe
 1ST READ the outline

2nd Listening for specific details and

complete the outline
- Which sentences tell about
what the land could offer?

A long season with flowers and fruit

trees blooming before deciduous
trees
This is good for …., becuase
Dry days provides....
 Part 3 Reading
• How does the text bring together
geography and life? ‘ 人烟稀少’＋
‘植被稀疏’的表达
 How would you draw another outline to
show the impact of geography and
climate impact on life and vegetation?
How would you outline your writing
about climate, geography and life on
China?
 Part 4: Language work

• “Cause” expressions
•
Where does Guangzhou locate?
What climatic type does this city/town have?
What impact does the climate have on the local landform, plants, animals and human
life?

• e.g., Located _______, Guangzhou has ____ climate with

_______. Covered by____, this region has ____
Geography and Life

Unit 5 Section IIIa

 Aims of the lesson
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to…

• practice skimming and scanning skills

• practice data sorting skills
• apply the language previously learnt
Lesson Rundown
01
Showing example

02
Group work

03
Group presentation
Part 1 Setting the context
 A tour group is vising
your company.
 You and your partner
are to give a brief
presentation about
Mauritius to promote
this place
Poster presentation about Mauritius

 Group brainstorming
2 reading passages
 Information gathering
1 listening task
 Sorting out information

 Draw and prepare poster

  Brainstorming

Prepare your notes for presentation

 Information gathering

Pay attention to your target topics

 Sorting out the information

 Overlapping information
 Different version of the same fact
 Extra information
 Draw and prepare presentation

 Key information
 Diagram?
Part 2 Group work

30 min
Part 3 Group presentation

30 min