1、亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.cc亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.ccUnit 3 Travel journalITeaching 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
2、 farewellsHave 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, fare, transport, finally, cycle, persuade, stubborn, insist, proper(ly), determine(d), altitude, valley, attitude, sho
3、rts, camp, record, topic, familiar, brave, give in, change ones mind.detail, atlas, glacier, rapids, waterfall, plain, delta, canyon, afterthought. Vientiane, Laos, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, Mekong, Tibetan.4.Grammar:The Present Continuous Tense to express future actions.II.The ana
4、lysis 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 practice2. Pre-reading and reading: The word has many great rivers. One of
5、 them is the Mekong. Introduce a travel journal-Journey down the Mekong to 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 5.Using language: Present how to w
6、rite a travel journal and then practise writingIII.Teaching arrangment1st Period warming-up and listening2nd Period Reading3rd Period learn about language4th Period Using language亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.cc亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.ccThe First Period warming-up and listeningTeaching aims1. To talk about things
7、 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 in China and the whole world
8、. We should love our country, love the whole world and love nature.Teaching aids a tape recorder, a projector and a computerStep 1. A song (歌词见后面)Step 2 Warming upShow the photos of some beautiful places on the PowerPoint. （The Great Wall; Yuanming Yuan ; Budala Palace; Venice; The Liberty Statue in
9、 New York,America; Fujiyama.）Ask students whether they know where they are. Then T ask: Do you like traveling? Ss: YesT: 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 fre
10、ely.T ask: How will you prepare for traveling? (including the time, the place, the means, the cost, the things youll take along, of traveling) (超级链接) : 1. time (超级链接 ): the Spring Festival; National Day; May Day; weekend; summer( winter) vacation2.destination(超级链接): Enjoy some beautiful pictures of
11、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 ); Tiananmen Square(天安门广场 ); Terracotta,Xian(西安兵马俑 ); Summer Palace(颐和园 ); London Bridge;The Opera House 悉尼歌剧院
12、; Eiffel Tower 艾菲尔铁塔 .3.What to do(超级链接): Rock climbing; rafting; bengee; 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
13、bus; by car; by plane/by air; by boat/by ship/by sea7. background information(超级链接): history; customs; culture; language; religion; politics; weather; 8. Points for attention(超级链接 ): Dont throw away waste; Dont park your bike or car in the wrong parking lot; Dont make a fire freely; Dont feed 亿库教育网
14、http:/www.eku.cc亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.ccanimal; Protect animals and plants; Do as the guide tells you do; .Step 3 Speaking T: Now, imagine that you live in Qinghai Province. You plan to spend a holiday with a friend somewhere in Southeast Asia. Choose three places to visit and find out the one way far
15、e 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 of Southeast Asia with detailed position of Laos; Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh City; Phnom Penh; Thailand; Cambodia; Singapore; Malaysia.Then show
16、 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 Listening1.Listen to Part 3 CHATTING WITH A GIRL and tick the words .2. Listen again to the tape and fill in the chart3.Listen
17、 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 didnt they begin the journey in Tibet with Wang Wei and Wang Kun
18、? The story doesnt say(4)Find a word that describe how the person telling the story feels about travelling in Laos. Afraid,alone,excited,glad5.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 experien
19、ce in Laos.(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 Laos by 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 thei
20、r arms. (4) In Vientiane, they saw _C_A. trucks, buses and bicycles B. cars, motorbikes and busesC. trucks, buses, jeeps and motorbikes(5) The Mekong River is very rich in _C_.A. gold B. pears C. fishStep 5 Homework亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.cc亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.cc Make up a dialogue . P57. Using structur
21、es P59. Reading taskThe Second Period ReadingTeaching goals1. Learn something about the Mekong River through 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 diff
22、icult points:1. Understand the text well.2. Try to master the useful new words change her mind 4. proper 5. insisted 6. detail 7 fare; Finally 8. cycle二、Match the words and the meaningsvalley a high place from which a river suddenly goes down.plain a fast-moving part of a river. waterfall a long, lo
23、w, 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 valleycanyon a large flat place亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.cc亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.ccglacier a deep, very wide valley, usually with a river超级链接: some pictures of all these words
24、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 discove
25、red 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 deltaSTEP 3 : GrammarEnjoy a song
26、to present the Present Continuous Tense:Im babysitting on ThursdayWould you like to go out on Monday?No, sorry, I cantWhy not?Im babysitting on Monday.Would you like to go out on Tuesday?No, sorry, I cant.Why not?亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.cc亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.ccIm doing my laundry on Tuesday.Would you li
27、ke to go out on Wednesday?No, sorry, I cant.Why not?Im working overtime on Wednesday.Would you like to go out on Thursday?No, sorry, I cant.Why not?Im working out on Thursday.Would you like to go out on Friday?No, sorry, I cant.Why not?Im visiting relatives on Friday.Would you like to go out on the
28、weekend?Well maybe!Ask the Ss to answer: What is she doing on Monday/Tuesday? The Present Continuous Tense for future useThe 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：亿库教育网 http:/www.eku.cc亿库教育网 htt
29、p:/www.eku.ccgo, come, leave, start, arrive, give, return, sleep ,stay, play, do, take, get, see off, travel, fly, drive, walk, reach, meetStep4: Practice1. Look at the following dialogue and underline the verbs in this tense.A: Are you working this evening?B: No. Were having an English party, dont
30、you know?A: Yes, I do. And were giving some performance at the party. What are you going to do?B: Im singing song with my classmates.2. In the following dialogue, a newspaper reporter is interviewing Wang Wei about her plans for the trip along the Mekong River. However, they are not sure about some
31、of the verb tenses. Please help them complete their conversation.R: Miss Wang. I hear that you _ along the MekongRiver. Thats really exciting. Have you got everything ready?W: Almost.R:When are you _ ?W:Next Monday.R: How far are you _ each day?W:Its hard to say. If the weather is fine, I think well be able to ride 75km a day.R:Where are _ at night?
