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编写人: 张覃    审核人：李海燕    编写时间： 2015-3-23

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【Study Aims】

1. To learn about the benefits and difficulties of living in a foreign country.             

2. To develop a strong will of overcoming difficulties and a determination of meeting challenges.

3. To improve reading ability.

【Key Point】To understand the benefits and difficulties of living in a foreign country.

【Difficult Point】To understand the letter thoroughly.

【Background Knowledge】

 Basic sentences related to travelling and studying abroad

1. How should I start to apply for the visa?
2. How can a travel agent help?
3. I am packing my suitcases.
4. I have some questions about these application forms. I wonder if you could help me out.
5. Could you give me some brochures about them?
6. May I have your name and flight number, please?
7. Here’s your ticket and your boarding pass.
8. Please remain seated until the plane has come to a complete stop.               

【Learning Procedures】                                                                  

Step1 Warming up

1. Have you ever dreamt of traveling or studying abroad?

2. Brainstorming: What should you take into account before you decide to travel or study abroad?

Step2 Fast reading

Skim the whole passage and find out the main idea of each paragraph.

_____ Para.1       A. The general introduction to Xie Lei and her study.

_____ Para.2       B. The advantages of living with a host family.

_____ Para.3       C. Xie Lei boarded a plane for London and her feelings.

_____ Para.4       D. Xie Lei feels much more at home in England now and is living an active life.

_____ Para.5       E. The newspaper expresses wishes to Xie Lei.

_____ Para.6       F. The difficulties Xie Lei met while living in London.

_____ Para.7       G. Xie Lei is getting used to the Western University’s requirements of learning.

Step3 Careful reading

Read the whole passage carefully and deal with the following two tasks.

1. Choose the best answers to the following questions.

1) Xie Lei’s purpose of going to London is _____________.

A. for travelling                        B. for seeing her friends

C. for a business qualification             D. for finding a new job

2) Why did Xie Lei choose to live with a host family? _______________

  A. Being away from her parents, she felt lonely.      

B. She couldn’t afford to live in student apartments.     

C. There were other college students in a host family.       

D. It is better for her to learn about the new culture and make her life easy.

3) Xie Lei got an E for her first essay because _________________.

  A. the tutor had prejudice against the Chinese student          

B. Xie Lei didn’t know how to write an essay       

C. the tutor thought what she wrote made no sense    

D. she just made a summary of the article on the Internet

4) Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?  ___________

A. There is no need for Xie Lei to complete the preparation course first.

B. Recently, Xie Lei has found a balance between her study and social life.

C. Xie Lei’s host family and tutor have helped her most since she came to England.

D. Xie Lei lives in the student accommodation with her students.

5) Where does this text probably come from? __________

A. An advertisement.                       B. A magazine.        

C. A student newspaper.            D. A book.

2. While studying in London, Xie Lei has some benefits as well as difficulties. Read the passage carefully and try to fill in the diagram below.

BENEFITS

(of doing a preparation course)

1. to get used to _______________________________________________________.
2. to learn how to get used to _______________________________________ of a Western university.

(of living with a host family)

1. to learn more about___________________________________________.
2. to have people explain things ___________________________________.

(of having a tutor)

1. to explain about why you can’t use other people’s work without __________________________it.
2. to encourage you to ___________________ different texts and ________________ them.
3. to encourage you to ______________________________ with reasons.
4. to encourage you to _______________________ the authors.

DIFFICULTIES

(at the university)

to learn to be a ___________________________ learner.

(of a new way of life)

1. to find a ___________________ between study and a social life.
2. to make _____________________________________.

Step 4 Listening

Listen to the tape and follow it in a low voice, paying attention to the intonation and pronunciation.

Step 5 Post reading

Read the summary of the passage and fill in the blanks.

在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的适当形式。

Xie Lei ____________________ (board) a plane for London six months ago to complete a business ____________________. She is now halfway through the ___________________ year. At the beginning, she had to learn almost everything again. She lives with a ________________ family, ________ gives her the ____________ to learn more about everyday life and culture in her new country. When she missed her family, it is a great _________________ to have a __________________ family to be with.

   Xie Lei wrote her first _____________ to her tutor, but she ___________________________ (satisfy) with it. Later, Xie Lei was told that she couldn’t write what other people had said without ____________________ (acknowledge) them. Now she has got used to the life and she feels much more _______________ and is going to join a few university clubs in order to have a ____________________ between study and a social life. We wish Xie Lei all the best in her new _______________________.

Step 6 Discussion

Discuss the following topic with your groupmates and then report it in class.

What can be the advantages and disadvantages of studying abroad?

【After-class Reflection】

What kind of person do you think Xie Lei is?

组长点评

导学案亮点：

1.Background knowledge, Warming up & Discussion环节设计的活动及内容，贴近学生生活，旨在培养学生听说能力及其写作能力，激发学生的学习兴趣；

2.Reading部分各个环节练习由浅入深，层层递进，引导学生加深对篇章结构和细节信息的理解；

3.Post reading 设计的练习引导学生更深层次的朗读文章，培养学生归纳总结的能力，同时训练学生新题型---语法填空的能力。

导学案不足：在Discussion部分，可以给学生一些常用句型，让学生套用，这样可以让学生通过套用重点或是常用句型来掌握它们的用法。