Unit 11 How was your school trip
Section B 2a-3b
Teaching aims:
New words: exciting, lovely, expensive, cheap, slow, fast, robot, guide, gift
Ability objects:
Improve Ss’ skimming and scanning ability.
Teach how to describe past events with diary entries.
Moral object:
Educate Ss to express the feelings and share joy with others.
Important and difficult points:
Important points:
1.Be able to use the description adjectives to show their feelings
2.Be able to describe past events through diary entries.
Difficult point:
Write a diary entry about his/her trip using the simple past tense.
Teaching procedures:
Step1 Warming up.
1.Brainstorm: describe good or bad things
good bad
2. Show the learning aims
Step 2 Pre-reading.
1. Read and learn the new words.
2. Work on 2a.
Step 3 While-reading.
1. Skim.
Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph to get the main idea and answer
Questions: 1. Did Helen and Jim go on the same trip
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(They went on the same day, both went to the science museum, both got there by train, both
saw robots.)
Questions: 2. How do they feel about the trip to the museum
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2. Scan.
Task 1: Find out the description adjectives in the two diaries.
Then tell us what kind of things they describe, good or bad
(Tell Ss the reading strategy: Let your eyes scan the text quickly to find details that you are looking for. You can find information quickly without reading the whole text.)
Task 2: Read and List: How do Helen and Jim describe these things
Helen Jim
the trip
the train
the museum
the gift shop and gifts
Why do Helen and Jim have different descriptions about the school trip to the museum
Step 4 Post-reading.
1. Talk about the passage structure.
2. Write diary entries and enjoy them.
Step 5 Summary
What did you learn today
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