随着新一轮的高中课程改革的展开，信息技术给我国的教育事业带来了巨大的挑战。信息技术在教学中的应用引起了教学内容、教学方法、教学组织形式等系列变化，导致了教学思想，教学观念，以及教学体制在一定程度上的变化。本案例就是借助于信息技术制造 CAI课件进行辅助教学。

一、教学背景

教学对象是高一学生，英语基础知识和基本技能都是一般水平，对英语学习爱好不浓，因此，调动学生的学习爱好，以学生主动学习为目标。

二、教材分析

本课例是高一必修 1第四模块里的Reading and Vocabulary部分，围绕“A Lively City”这一主题，介绍厦门市的地理位置、气候及城市概况。让学生阅读文章后完成练习，培养学生的快速阅读能力，以及对词汇的认读和应用能力。要求学生学完本课后能够熟练运用英语表达自己的看法，最突出特点是让学生尝试“自主学习，主动思考，乐于协作，勇于创新”。

三、教学目标

1.Enable the students to describe the city of Xiamen .

2.Help the students to learn how to introduce or describe a city from different aspects.

3. Make the students enjoy the beauty of our country and love our homeland.

四、教学重点、难点

Enable the students to learn words and expressions used to describe a place.

五、教法

Fast reading, intensive reading, pair work and discussion.

六、教学辅助手段

A computer, a project or and a tape recorder

七、教学课程设计与分析

Step1. Presentation

The teacher used the picture connected with Xiamen to lead in. Ask the students:“Where do you think the place is?”

教师：让学生发表自己的见解，以这种方法导入课题，引起学生对问题的探究，也培养了学生观察问题的能力。

Step2. Pre-reading

Show the map of China to the students. Let them point out the location of Xiamen . Encourage the students to say something about this city.

教师：通过看图谈论，充分培养了学生运用语言交际的能力和自主学习能力，充分调动了他们的积极性和创造性。

Step3. Reading

Play the tape for the students to listen and read the passage. Show the questions with pictures on the screen:

1. It seems that______.

2. The following are what John Martin thinks of Xiamen except_______.

3. The dialogue takes place most probably________.

4. What doesn't Xiao Li like about Xiamen ?________.

5. If you want the dialogue develops, what's the talking topic for the following part?______.

Give the students sometime to work in pairs and discuss the questions. Then call back their answers.

教师：让学生再次观看一些图片，进行分组自由讨论，最后学生展示本组查找结果。这样，既让学生大胆地开口说英语，进行了口语表达，又让学生形成自主学习的能力，调动了他们学习英语的爱好。体现了“以学生为本”的教学理念。

Step4. Post-reading

By learning the text and look at some pictures, the students had a general idea about Xiamen . Ask them a question: would you like to live in Xiamen ? Why or why not? Make them work in pairs and discuss with their partners for three minutes.