1. London is made up of lots of smaller villages (P4) 戴群 北京一零一中学 Email: caicaidai@yahoo.com.cn

2. Curriculum focus: Culture Awareness: getting to know basic knowledge about London Language skills: skimming to find required information; learning words through context

3. Pre-reading 1.Look at these pictures. They are taken in a European country. Can you tell us the name of the country? What’s the capital city of that country? 2.What else do you know about this city? Share it with your class.

4. While reading 1.Please read the passage quickly for the first time and match the name of the place with its character. Square Mile West End East End West London very fashionable and has lots of residents busy shopping and entertainment district poorer and dangerous the oldest part of London

5. 2. Read the passage again and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Each part of London has an individual character. Being a tourist, you can easily have the same feeling about London as the local residents. The Square Mile is where all financial business is done. In London, you can find people from around the world. If housing, education and employment in the East End can be improved, London will win the bid to hold the Olympics in 2012. To visit Diana’s home, you should go to West London. Living in the West End, you will have to spend at least 3,000 pounds a month to rent an apartment. Of the four parts mentioned in the passage, the centre of London is the best place to live in. T T T F F F T F

6. industrial stroll residential cosmopolitan immigrants diverse reputation burst with different relating to industry to be so full as to be almost breaking open having residence people leaving one country to settle permanently in another a leisurely walk an opinion held about sb by people in general global 3. Match the words with its explanation.

7. Grammar focus Further away is West London. = West London is further away. 当表示方位的状语或表语位于句首时，句子采 用全部倒装的结构，即把谓语部分移至主语之前。 这类作状语或表语的常见词有： away, up, down, in, off, over, above, below, here, there 及介词短语 与分词。 e.g. * There goes the bell! * The door opened and in came Mr Smith.

8. 1. The following names may be added to the list. To the list ______________________________. 2. The leaders of our school are sitting in the front. Sitting in the front ________________________. 3. 报告厅的前面坐着一位教授。 4. 黑板上写着今天早上迟到的人的名字。 are the leaders of our school In the front of the lecture hall sits a professor. Written on the blackboard are the names of those who were late this morning. Exercises: may be added the following names

9. Post-reading 1.Pair work: Imagine you are two Chinese students who are now staying in two different parts of London. Share your information about the place you are staying with your partner. 2.Group work: Work in groups to discuss how many main parts Beijing can be divided into and what characters they have.

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