TravelJournal教案

详细内容

Travel Journal教案
Unit 3 Travel journal
Warming-up
Teaching aims
1. Ss will be able to learn things related to travel, e.g. the place the fares and transport, etc.
Teaching important points
1.To talk about travel.
Emotion goals:
There are so many beautiful places in China and the whole world. We should love our country, love the whole world and love nature.
Teaching aids
a puter
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Warming up
Show the photos of some beautiful places visited by my son,ask ss to guess where they are.
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.
T: Do you like traveling?
T: Why do you like traveling?
Enjoy beautiful scenery; Increase our knowledge; Make friends; Be good to health…
T :How will you prepare for traveling? (including the time, the place, the means, the cost, the things you’ll take along, … of traveling)
1. time: the Spring Festival; National Day; May Day; weekend;
summer( winter) vacation…
2.destination: Enjoy some beautiful pictures of famous places with the whole class:
3.What to do: Rock climbing; rafting; bengee; skiing; hiking
4.travel cost: talk with the Ss quickly.
5.things to take: ID cards(身份证) passports; money (cash); a book of maps; 等。
6.means of transportation: on foot; by bike; by bus; by car; by plane/by air; by boat/by ship/by sea
What do you have to consider before you decide which means of transportation you will use?
Talk about advantages and disadvantages.
7. background information: history; customs; culture; language; religion; politics; weather; …
8. Points for attention: 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 2 practice
While you are discussing with your partner , ask each other the following questions:
When are you leaving?Where are you going?How are you going to…?
How long are you staying in…?When are you arriving in/at…?When are you ing back?
Step 3 discussion
Imagine you are going to an isolated island to do research work, make a list of the following things you are going to take.List from the most important to the least important,and state your reasons.
Step4 homework
Preview the text

Unit 3 Travel journal---Reading
Teaching goals
1.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 suessful, 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 puter & a projector
Teaching procedures
Step 1 warming up
Do you like traveling along a river, a great river?
As we all know, there are a lot of rivers in the world and also there are many great rivers. Now look at the chart. In the left column are names of some great rivers. In the right column are locations where the rivers lie. Please match them. What role does a river play in people’s life? In other words, how do people who live along a river use it?
The suggested answers:
People can drink the water in a river or wash their clothes.
People can swim in a river in summer.
People can use a river to irrigate their fields.
People can use a river to produce electricity.
People can travel along a river.
Step 2 Lead In
If you plan to travel along a river, what will you do?
Step 3 Pre-reading
T: Have you visited the Mekong River? If no, let’s learn something about it.
Enjoy a clip of video.
2. Can you list the countries that the Mekong River flows through?
3.Enjoy the beautiful sights along the Mekong River to arouse their interest of it.
4.The countries the Mekong River flows through
Step 4 Reading
In this step, get the students to read the text and finish some tasks.
Task1: Scan the text quickly, then answer some questions
?1. Who will travel in the text?
?2. Where are they going ?
?3. How are they getting there?
?4.What did Wang Wei prepare for the trip?
1) Two years ago, …bought…
2) Then , …persuaded…
3) Last year, …visited…
4) Several months before our trip, …went to…
?5What didn’t she prepare for the trip?
?（1）。She didn’t know
（2）.She hadn’t
（3）.She doesn’t
?What kind of person is Wang Wei? Which answer is wrong?
A. stubborn
B. determined
C. careless
D. careful
?
5. Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why?
6.What can you see when you travel along the Mekong River?
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 eastern Yunnan province
3.The source of Mekong is in Qinghai province .
4.Finally Wang Kun agreed with his sister to cycle with her.
5.They found few atlas and books about Mekong River in library. 6. Mekong river begins at glacier on a Tibet mountain. the water there is clear but not cold.
7. Only a small part of the river is in China.
8.As it enters Southeast Asia, it moves slowly.
Task3: Careful reading
Read the text again and try to plete a form.
their dream
Their journey
Their preparation
The details of the Mekong River
?1.It begins …
?2.As it passes through valleys…
?3. It enters…
?4.After it leaves…
?5. As it enters..
?6. Its
Task4: Consolidation
Fill in the blanks
Wang Kun and Wang Wei have ______ about taking a great bike trip. when they __________ from college. They _________ to _________ along the Mekong River with their ________. Wang Wei is very _______. Once she is __________ to do something she will never __________ her mind. Although it is difficult to travel along the Mekong River by bike, she ________ that they find the ________ of the river and begin their journey there.
Step 5 Post-reading
Task1: Make parison
An attitude is what a person thinks about something. Make lists of Wang Wei’s and Wang Kun’s similar and different attitudes about the trip.
Task2: Debate
Which character do you like,Wang Kun or Wang wei? Why?
Task3: Understand two mottos
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
Suess belongs to the persevering
Task 4:discussion
If you and your friends want to go for a travel, what will you prepare, and why?
Different travelers may have different purposes to travel, what about you when you plan to travel?
Do you know Xu Xiake? Do you think his way of traveling is meaningful? Why?
Step 6 Homework
1．Read the text again.
2．Write a passage about MeKong River