高中英语阅读课教案(2)
Ans. to Que.2. On May 6, 1840.
Step 4. Full reading(21')
1. Instructions
T: Now I give you ten minutes to read the passage for the third time and you should read it carefully. Before reading, let's go over the questions on the work sheet.
Give Work Sheet 1 to the Ss. Explain the new words in Que. 4.
prevent: stop, not let sb. do sth.
reuse: use again
T: Try to find the answers to the questions. But don't write the answers down, you can put a sign or underline the sentences concerning the questions.
2. Reading
3. Checking
1) Group work: Checking the answers in a group of four Ss.
2) Class work: Checking the answers in class.
Possible Answers:
1. Why were people unhappy to pay postage for letters in the early nineteenth century?
Because they had to pay postage when they received letters, especially when they paid for a letter which they did not wish to receive at all. The postage was high.
2. Why was it much easier for people to use stamps for postage?
Because people could go to the nearby post office to buy stamps and put them on envelopes before they sent the letters.
3. Why was the postage much lower using stamps?
Because in this way, the post office did not need to send postmen to collect postage. It only needed to send fewer postmen to deliver letters.
4. How could the post office prevent people from reusing the stamps?
The post office could simply put seals on the stamps so that people could not use the stamps again.
Check the understanding of the word "seal", and write it on the Bb.
seal: ÓÊ´Á 5. Did other countries take up the new postal system?
Yes.
Check the understanding of "postal" and "system", and write them on the Bb.
postal: of the post
system: a set of working ways
6. Does every country in the world has its own stamps?
Yes.
Step 5: Rounding-off(7')
1. Answering Ss' questions on the passage if any.
2. Making a guided-dialogue with the information given from the passage.
Hand out Work Sheet 2. Do it in pairs.
3. Asking two or three pairs to read their dailogues.
A possible completed dialogue:
A: Oh, What a beautiful stamp!
B: Yes, it's from the U.S.A..
A: Do you know in the early nineteenth century people did not use stamps?
B: Then how did they pay the postage?
A: They had to pay the postage when they received letters.
B: Was the postage very high then?
A: Yes. Because the post offices had to send many people to collect the postage.
B: Who put forward the proposal to use stamps?
A: Rowland Hill, a schoolmaster in England.
B: Why do post offices put seals on the stamps?
