教案

Unit 3 Travel journal

I．Teaching aims and demands:

1. Skill goals:

Describe a journey.

Revise means of transportation.

The Present Progressive Tense expresses futurity.

Keep a travel journal to show personal impressions.

2. Function sentence patterns---Good wishes and farewells

Have a nice/ good time. Have a nice/good time.

Tare care. Good luck on your journey.

Say ― hello‖ to … Write to me.

Give my love / best wishes to …Have fun.

3. Vocabulary:

journal, transport, prefer, disadvantage, fare, flow, persuade, cycle, graduate, finally, schedule, fond, shortcoming, stubborn, organize, determine, determined, journey, altitude, valley, pace, bend, attitude, boil, forecast, parcel, insurance, wool, reliable, view, pillow, midnight, flame, beneath, temple, cave

4.Grammar:

The Present Continuous Tense to express future actions.

II. The analysis of the teaching material:

1.Warming-up and listening: Let students know that travel is very common in

modern society. Ask them to discuss the fares to get to one place for different

kinds of transport. Do some listening practice

2.Pre-reading and reading: The word has many great rivers. One of them is

theMekong. Introduce a travel journal---Journey down theMekongto students.

3. Learning about language: In this part, students will discover useful words and expressions and also learn useful structures---- the Present Continuous Tense to express future actions

4. Using language: Present how to write a travel journal and then practise writing

III. Teaching arrangment

1st Period warming-up and listening

2nd Period Reading

3rd Period learn about language

4th Period Using language

The First Period warming-up and listening

Teaching aims

1. To talk about things related to travel, e.g. the place the fares and transport, etc.

2. To improve the Ss’ listening ability.

Teaching important points

1.To talk about travel.

2.To tell the Ss how to catch the key points when they do listening.

Emotion goals:

There are so many beautiful places inChinaand the whole world. We should love our country, love the whole world and love nature.

Teaching aids

a tape recorder, a projector and a computer

Step 1. A song (歌词见后面)

Step 2 Warming up

Show the photos of some beautiful places on the PowerPoint. （The Great Wall; Yuanming Yuan ; Budala Palace; Venice; The Liberty Statue in New York, America; Fujiyama.）Ask students whether they know where they are.

Then T ask: Do you like traveling? Ss: Yes

T: Why do you like traveling? (超级链接)：Enjoy beautiful scenery; Increase our knowledge; Make friends; Be good to health…Ss may have a lot of different ideas. Give them time to talk freely.

T ask: How will you prepare for traveling?(including the time, the place, the means, the cost, the things you’ll take along, … of traveling) (超级链接) :

1. time (超级链接): the Spring Festival; National Day; May Day; weekend;

summer( winter) vacation…

2.destination(超级链接): Enjoy some beautiful pictures of famous places with the whole class: Huangshan黄山; Jiuzhaigou九寨沟; Guilin桂林; Stone Forest (石林); Jiuquxi(九曲溪; Yunufeng,wuyi(武夷玉女峰); Sanqing Mountain三清山;

Hangzhou;Longmen Caves (龙门石窟); Tian’anmen Square(天安门广场); Terracotta,Xi’an(西安兵马俑); Summer Palace(颐和园); London Bridge;

The Opera House悉尼歌剧院; Eiffel Tower艾菲尔铁塔.

3.What to do(超级链接): Rock climbing; rafting; bungee; skiing; hiking

Allow the Ss to talk more about it.

4.travel cost: talk with the Ss quickly.

5.things to take(超级链接): ID cards(身份证) passports; money (cash); a book of maps; 等。

6.means of transportation(超级链接): on foot; by bike; by bus; by car; by plane/by air; by boat/by ship/by sea

7. background information(超级链接): history; customs; culture; language; religion; politics; weat her; …

8. Points for attention(超级链接):Don’t throw away waste; Don’t park your bike or car in the wrong parking lot; Don’t make a fire freely; Don’t feed animal; Protect animals and plants; Do as the guide tells you do; ….

Step 3 Speaking

T: Now, imagine that you live inQinghaiProvince. You plan to spend a holiday with a friend somewhere inSoutheast Asia. Choose three places to visit and find out the one –way fare to get there for different kinds of transport. Then, make up a dialogue In pairs, discuss the fares and decide where to go.

Before they do that task, show a map ofSoutheast Asiawith detailed position of

Laos; Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh City; Phnom Penh; Thailand; Cambodia; Singapore; Malaysia.

Then show some pictures of the sceneries in these countries. Then give the Ss several minutes to prepare for the dialogue and then call some of them to act their dialogues out.

Step 4 Listening

1.Listen to Part 3 CHATTING WITH A GIRL and tick the words .

2. Listen again to the tape and fill in the chart

3.Listen to Part 4 of JOURNAL DOWN THE MEKONG and tick the words you hear on the tape.

4.Listen to this material again and answer the questions.

(1)Who is telling the story? Wang Kun

(2)When did Wang Wei meet her cousins? In October in Dali

(3)Why didn’t they begin the journey inTibetwith Wang Wei and Wang Kun?

The story doesn’t say

(4)Find a word that describe how the person telling the story feels about travelling in Laos. Afraid, alone, excit ed, glad…

5.Listen to Part 5. Wang Kun is describing a few of the things they saw during their tour. Pick out the correct in formation and then tell about their experience inLaos.

(1) In the village the cyclists saw ____B___.

A. electric lights

B. candle lights

C. kerosene lights

(2)After lunch they went to Vientiane,the capital city of Laosby B.

A. bike

B. bus

C. truck

(3)They greeted an old man by ____A____.

A. putting their hands together

B. moving their heads

C. waving their arms.

(4) In Vientiane, they saw _____C_____

A. trucks, buses and bicycles

B. cars, motorbikes and buses

C. trucks, buses, jeeps and motorbikes

(5) The MekongRiveris very rich in ____C__.

A. gold

B. pears

C. fish

Step 5 Homework

n Make up a dialogue .

n P57. Using structures

n P59.Readingtask

The Second Period Reading

Teaching goals

1.Learn something about theMekongRiverthrough reading.

2.Students can use what they have learned to describe a trip.

3.Students should realize if they want to be successful, what personalities they

should have.

Teaching important and difficult points:

1.Understand the text well.

2.Try to master the useful new words & expressions in this period.

Teaching aids: a computer & a projector

Teaching procedures

Step ⅠWarming Up

T: Do you like travelling?

Present some pictures of beautiful places to arouse their interest of travelling. Meanwhile, the teacher can also ask some more questions to make the students say something about their journey , such as their plans of trips, the difficulties they met in their journey and so on.

Step ⅡLead In

T: Q1: Have you visited any river?

Q2: How many great rivers do you know?

Q3 : If you could travel down only one of them, which one would you choose? Why?

Ask the students the locations of some famous rivers in the world .(Mekong, Rhein, Seine, Nile, Thames, Congo, Amazon, Mississippi, Volg)

Step ⅢPre-reading

T: Have you visited theMekongRiver? If no, let’s learn something about it.

1. Show a picture of theMekongRiverand the brief introduction of it. Ask them:

Can you list the countries that theMekongRiverflows through?

1.Enjoy the beautiful sights along theMekongRiverto arouse their interest of it.

Step IV Reading

In this step, get the students to read the text and finish some tasks.

Task1: Scan the text quickly, then answer some questions

Q1. Who are Wang kun and Wang Wei?

Q2.What are their dreams?

Q3.Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?

Q4. Is it a difficult journey to cycle along theMekong? Why?

Q5.What can you see when you travel along theMekongRiver?

Task2: Listen to the tape and pay attention to the pronunciation, then do the T or F exercise.

1.Wang kun is a high school student.

2.Both Dao Wei and Yu Hang are Dai and they grew up in easternYunnanprovince

3.The source of Mekong is inQinghaiprovince .

4.Finally Wang Kun agreed with his sister to cycle with her.

Task 3: Understand two mottos

Life is just a series of trying to make up your m ind.

Success belongs to the persevering

Step VI Homework

1．Read the text again.

2．Write a passage about their journey.

The Third Period Learning about language

Teaching goals

1.To revise the useful words and expressions.

2. To learn useful structures--- the Present Continuous Tense to express future actions.

Teaching important points

the Present Continuous Tense to express future actions.

Teaching difficult points

How to use the Present Continuous Tense to express a plan or something to be done according to plan..

Teaching aids

a projector and a computer

Step 1:Greeting ：A song.

Step 2:Practice

一、Use the reading passage to find the correct word or expression for each of the following sentences.

1.He is so stubborn that no one can ____________ him to do anything.

2.A ___________ person always tries to finish the job, no matter how hard it is.

3._______ she has made up her mind, nothing will ___________________.

4.Is it_______ for us to take off our hats in church?

5.He ________ that we find the source of the trouble as soon as possible. Everyone agreed.

6.Do you remember every _____ of the story you have just read.

7.I wanted to pay the train ____ , but my friend insisted. _______I gave in.

8.She persuaded all of us to _______ to work instead of taking the bus。

Answer: 1. persuade 2. determined 3. Once; change her mind

4. proper

5. insisted

6. detail 7 fare; Finally 8. cycle

二、Match the words and the meanings

valley a high place from which a river suddenly goes down.

plain a fast-moving part of a river.

waterfall a long, low, wide place between hills.

delta the long place where a river enters the sea

rapids a large body of ice moving slowly down a high valley

canyon a large flat place

glacier a deep, very wide valley, usually with a river

超级链接: some pictures of all these words to help Ss understand the meaning of the words more clearly.

三、Complete this passage with some of the above words.

I really enjoyed my school field trip in geography. We saw so many beautiful things: a _________ that flowed like a river of ice through a _______ that cut the mountains into two parts. We also discovered a river which fell off the mountains and become a wonderful __________this was even more exciting to see than the _______ where the water seemed

to boil. Later we followed the river to a quieter ______ and finally into a ______ and the sea.

Answer: glacier valley waterfall rapids canyon delta

STEP 3 : Grammar

Enjoy a song to present the Present Continuous Tense:

I'm babysitting on Thursday

Would you like to go out on Monday?

No, sorry, I can’t

Why not?

I’m babysitting on Monday.

Would you like to go out on Tuesday?

No, sorry, I can’t.

Why not?

I’m doing my laundry on Tuesday.

Would you like to go out on Wednesday?

No, sorry, I can’t.

Why not?

I’m working overtime on Wednesday.

Would you like to go out on Thursday?

No, sorry, I can’t.

Why not?

I’m working out on Thursday.

Would you like to go out on Friday?

No, sorry, I can’t.

Why not?

I’m visiting relatives on Friday.

Would you like to go out on the weekend?

Well… maybe!

Ask the Ss to answer: What is she doing on Monday/Tuesday…?

The Present Continuous Tense for future use

The present continuous tense can be used to express a plan or an arrangement.

现在进行时可用来表示一个在最近按计划或打算要进行的动作；通常带一个表将来的时间状语, 但有明确的上下文时无须指出时间。

能用进行时表将来的动词：

go, come, leave, start, arrive, give, return, sleep ,stay, play, do, take, get, see off, travel, fly, drive, walk, reach, meet…

Step4: Practice

1. Look at the following dialogue and underline the verbs in this tense.

A: Are you working this evening?

B: No. We’re having an English party, don’t you know?

A: Yes, I do. And we’re giving some performance at the party. What are you going to do?

B: I’m singing song with my classmates.

2. In the following dialogue, a newspaper reporter is interviewing Wang Wei about her plans for the trip along theMekongRiver. However, they are not sure about some of the verb tenses. Please help them complete their conversation.

R: Miss Wang. I hear that you _____________ along theMekong

River. That’s really exciting. Have you got everything ready?

W: Almost.

R: When are you _________ ?

W: Next Monday.

R: How far are you _______ each day?

W: It’s hard to say. If the weather is fine, I think we’ll be able to ride75kma day.

R: Where are __________ at night?

W: Usually in our tent, but sometimes in a small hotel in town.

R: Do you think you are ______ back here soon?

W: Oh, we __________ back to this place.

We __________ home. That’ll be a month later.

R: Thank you for your time, Miss Wang. Good luck on your journey!

W: Thank you!

Answer: are going to cycle ; leaving; cycling; you staying; coming; aren’t coming; are returning

3. Multiple choice:

1.--I’m going to the states.

-- How long ____ you _______ in the States?

1.are ; stayed B. are ; staying C. have ; stayed D. did ; stay

2.--Will you tell us something about the weather there?

--I ________ to that.

1.go B. come C. am going D. am coming

3.—When are you leaving?

--The plane ________ at 11:05.

A. takes off

B. took off

C. will take off

D. taking off

4.—I believe if we _________ abroad, most probably we will go by CAAC.

1.have been B. are going C. had been D. were going

5.—I’m going toShanghaifor a few weeks.

--_______________.

1.Good-bye B. So long C. Have a good time. D.I like it

6. A new play _____ at the theatre this week. Would you like to see it?

1.has been put on B. has put on C. is being put on D. will put on 7.—Where are you going for your holidays?

—_________.

A. What a good idea

B. I’m going toSpainon business

C. I won’t have to go

D. I haven’t made up my mind yet

8.—I’ll go camping this weekend.

--_____________.

A. Don’t give up now

B. No, I’m too busy

C. Have a good time

D. Can you fish?

9.I’ve won a holiday for two t oFlorida. I ____ my mum.

A. am taking

B. have taken

C. take

D. will have taken

Answer: 1.B 2.C 3.A 4. B 5. C 6. C 7. B 8. C 9. A

Step5: DIALOGUE

1. First show an example: Where you going on holiday?

A: Yanzi, where you going on holiday? B: I’ m going toLaos.

A: When are you leaving? B: Next Sunday.

A: How are you going toLaos? B: I’m taking a plane.

A: How long are you staying there? B: About two weeks.

A: Great. Have a good trip. B: Thanks.

Farewells:

Have a good trip/ journey; Have a good day/ time;

Enjoy yourself; Best wishes; Have fun; Good luck; Take care!

2. A game:

Divide the class into two groups with one leader. Each group will need one coin and a counter.

Procedure: 1. Show the Ss the board game.

2. Demonstrate the task: toss a coin and explain that one side of the coin means move two spaces, the other means move one space. Move your counter onto a square and speak for thirty seconds on the subjects of the square.

Encourage questions.

Step6: HOMEWORK

1.Do exercises on Page 56, 57

2. Review The Present Continuous Tense ,then do exercises on Page57,58

Period 4 Using Language

Teaching goals:

1). To read the passage A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS

2). To use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. Teaching important and difficult points:

1).Improve the students’ writing ability.

2).Enable the students to understand the passage better.

Step 1 Lead-in

1.Enjoy the music ―青藏高原‖

2.Appreciate the beauty ofTibet.

3.Ask students several questions about the pictures, e.g.

What do you think of these pictures?

What’s the weather like there?

Do you want to go there? etc.

1.Talking aboutTibet.

Have you ever been to Tibet? Do you want to travel in Tibet? Can you tell me something about Tibet?

Tibet lies on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of the southwest border of China. The average height of the whole region is more than 4,000 meters above sea level, for which Tibet is known as ―Roof of the World‖. The highest peak of Tibet, also the hi ghest in Himalayas and in the whole world, is Everest Peak, which is as high as 8,846.27 meters above sea level. Although a part of China, Tibet has a unique culture of all its own. It is mainly inhabited by Tibetans, a minority nationality of old and mysterious people. Tourist attractions include the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Jokhang Temple, and a number of Buddhist sacred places. Tibet (Xi Zang in Chinese) is to the south of Xin Jiang Uygur Autonomous Region andQingHaiProvince, to the west ofSichuan, to the northwest ofYunnan and to the north ofIndia andNepal. Its population of 2.3 million people come from a variety of ethnic groups including Tibetan, Han, Monba and Lhota. Its capital city isLhasa.Northwest Tibet, mainly Qing Hai plateau, is home to a variety of unusual and unique animals. Across the northern expanse ofTibet, you can see vast grasslands where horses, yak and sheep roam freely. The world's lowest valley, theGrandYarlun-tzanpoRiverValley lies in eastTibet. It is freezing

cold in most time of the year. Most tourists come to visitTibet only in the warmest seasons, June, July, August and early September.

Step 2 Reading

We know Wang Wei and Wang Kun have traveled down theMekong. Today they have reached theTibetanMountains. They will stay there for a night. Now let’s look at the passage ―A night in the mountains‖ on page 22. Read it quickly to find the main idea. Show some questions.

1.How does Wang Kun feel about the trip now?

2.What do you think has changed his attitude?

3.Is it natural for Wang Kun not to feel lonely?

4.Would you feel the same way in this situation? Why or Why not?

Step 3 Listen and mark

Let the students listen to the recorder and mark the rising and falling tone of each sense group and sentence. Then practice reading aloud. Pay attention to pronunciation and intonation.

Step 4 Dialogue

Suppose Wang Wei and Wang Kun leave their camp the next morning and go on with the journey. Make a short dialogue between them.

Sample dialogue :

--Oh , up so early?

--Early? It’s nearly 9 o’clock.

--Oops! (Look at his watch). I guess you’re right.

--Why were you so tired?

--Well, I stayed up late last night to watch the stars.

Have a nice/good time. Have a nice/good trip. Take care.

Good luck on your journey. Say ―Hello‖ to …. Write to me.

Give my bes t/love wishes to …. Have fun.

Tell the students that they can refer to the following steps.

In pairs. Choose the details from the journey that are most interesting. Think of what else you would like to know about the journey. Write these ideas down as questions.

Now choose two or three of the best questions for your letter. Each question should have another sentence explaining why you want to know this information.

Put them in an order that makes sense.

Begin your letter as shown in the textbook and add your questions for Wang Wei.

Finish your letter as shown in the textbook.

A sample writing:

Hi, brave little Wei,

How I worry about you and Wang Kun! Do you have a good time now? I hope so. What are you doing now? Are you still in Laos? Can you tell me something about people’s life there? When are you leaving for Cambodia? When you get there, tell me about the Buddhist temples there. Please send some photos with your next letter! Well, Have a good trip and don’t forget to write to me! Give my best wishes to Wang Kun. Good luck on your journey. Take care!

Yours,

Wang Lin

Step 6 Homework

1.Finish writing the letter

2.Review the whole unit

3.Read the passage in workbook( page 59) ―The end of our journey ‖.

Language points

1.one-way fare / single-way fare (单程票价), round-way fare (往返/双程票价)

2. different kinds of transport (Br.E) / transportation(Am.E)

3. journey down the Mekong 湄公河之旅

有―沿着‖之意,相当于―along‖,

1) 由北向南,由西向东用down, 反之用up;

2) 由城镇向农村时用down, 反之用up;

3) 依门牌号码,由大数字向小数字行进时,应用down ,反之用up;

4) 由上而下,如:沿着山坡而下,沿着江河顺流而下,从楼上到楼下由住宅到街上，应用down, 反之用up

Para.1: 4. dream of / about doing 梦想，梦见（后接名词，代词，动名词）

e.g. What a small world! I wouldn’t dream of meeting you here.

The young soldier sometimes dreams of his hometown.

dream n. have/dream a dream, realize a dream

1. take a bike trip *

2. get a chance to do *

3. finally, adv.最后，终于final adj. 最后的，n （常用复数）决赛，期末考试