Chapter nine[上下学期通用]

Chapter nine Travel
Lesson Plan
Teaching aims and demands:
1. New words and expressions
2. Grasp the object clause.
3. Improve the students’ speaking ability about how to ask the way.
4. Enhance the students’ writing ability to write a composition about travel.
Teaching Objectives:
　　Student should be able to use the new words and expressions to describe a country. They should be able to ask the way and direct the way.
Teaching aids: PPT Tape-recorder, Overhead projector
Periods needed: 10
Teaching procedures:
Period 1-2(new words and expressions)
Step 1 Greetings and lead-in
T: The Spring Festival has just gone by. Did you have a good time
T: We all know that the Spring Festival is the most important and greatest festival to our Chinese people. And we also know that there are some other important festivals in our country. Can you tell me the name of them
Ss: Yes, There are Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb sweeping Day,
Mid-autumn Day, New Year’s Day, May 1st, National Day…
T: How do our Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival
Ss: 1. Before the Spring Festival, we clean our houses , decorate our rooms and put red spring couplets on our doors and walls. Most people do Spring Festival shopping, we buy a lot of things such as new clothes, shoes, food etc.
2. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every member is present at the Family reunion dinner. Traditional holiday food is served, such as whole chicken symbolizing family reunion and whole fish representing surplus in family income.
Children are very happy to get lucky money from their parents and relatives.
3. On New year’s Day, we begin to visit our close friends and relatives. It is traditional for married people to visit their parents first.
T: There are many important and interesting activities in Spring Festival, Can you
tell me some of them
SS: Yes, there are many gala performances here and there. Many wonderful traditional programs are performed, such as the dragon and lion dance, walking on stilts, acrobatic show. We can light fireworks and firecrackers. We can see many red lanterns along the streets or in kinds of supermarkets etc.
Step 2 Words and expressions
T: Did you travel this winter holiday
If you have a good chance to travel to other countries. Where do you want to go
Ss:
capital country World-famous landmarks
Paris France the Eiffel Towerthe Arc de Triomphethe Notre Dame de Paris
Sydney Australia the Sydney Opera Housethe Sydney Harbor Bridge
Washington The USA the White Housethe Statue of Liberty
London The UK the Big Benthe London Bridgethe Tower of London
Tokyo Japan the Fuji Mountainthe Tokyo Disney
Beijing China the Great Wallthe Summer Palacethe Tian’an Men Square
S tep Ⅱ New words
Period 3
(Paraphrase the sentences of chapter 9)
1. You can catch a train from London to Paris.
You can go to Paris from London by train.
(catch a train to=go to…by train
ride a bike to= go to…by bike
take a car to= go to…by car
take a ferry to= go to…by ferry
fly to= go to…by plane)
2. Learning French is not that easy.
It is not so easy to learn French.
(It is very difficult to learn French.)
3. Why not try learning French now
Why don’t you try learning French now
( Shall we try learning French now
How/ What about trying learning French now )
4. Come to the wonderful place, and you can enjoy yourself.
If you come to the wonderful place, you can have fun/have a good time.
( Study hard, and you will achieve good grades.
=If you study hard, you’ll achieve good grades.)
5. Take the first turning on the right.
Turn right at the first crossing.
6. Excuse me. How can I get to the post office
Excuse me. Can /Could you tell me the way to the post office
Excuse me. Is this the right way to the post office
Excuse me. Which is the way to the post office
Excuse me. Where’s the post office
Excuse me .Could you tell me how I can get to the post office,please