必修（Unit　TheUnitedKingdomPeriod）.docVIP

Unit 2　The United Kingdom Brief Statements Based on This Unit This unit centers on the United Kingdom, including its geography, especially the historical influence on geography, historical attractions and traditional festivals.The students should be encouraged to practice talking about countries. The whole unit can be divided into seven parts: warming up, reading, listening and speaking, language focusing, reading and writing, grammar, and assessment. In Warming up, there is a quiz for the students to do, which will arouse the students’ interest in knowing about the detailed information about the United Kingdom.While checking the answers, the teacher can add more knowledge about the UK, to prepare the students for the following processes.In this part, the teacher should also help the students to deal with the new words and expressions that will appear in the Reading passage.Group discussion and brainstorming will be used in this period to help the students to communicate with each other using their previous knowledge. In Pre-reading, the students are provided with three questions related to the UK, which can act as an introduction to the Reading passage. In the Reading passage, the students will learn about the historical influence upon geography in the UK and get a general idea about the process of the combination of the UK.They will also learn about the historical attractions left by the invaders in England and London.In reading the passage the students should also pay special attention to the techniques of writing a passage of human geography. In Post-reading part, the students will do three activities.The first one is to answer three questions according to the Reading passage.Secondly, the students are asked to divide England into three districts on a map, which is based on the deeper understanding of the passage.Thirdly, after getting the general idea of the passage, the students should write a summary of the passage in about 50 words. In Learning about