Book 1 Unit 3 Travel Journal[上学期]

Teaching Plan for Unit 3
I. Analysis
1. Theme ----- traveling, describing a journey
2. Skill goals
Talk about traveling
How to make preparations for traveling
Use The Present Progressive Tense expressing futurity
Be able to write a travel journal
Tell the difference between a diary and journal
3. Functional items
Good wishes
Farewells
Means of transportation
4. Grammar
The Present Progressive Tense
5. Vocabulary
6. Teaching Periods Arrangement: 6 periods
1st period Reading
2nd period Grammar
3rd period Speaking
4th period Listening
5th period Writing
6th period Summing up
II.Teaching Design
Period 1 Warming up and Reading
Goals
1. Get the students familiar with geographic terms.
2. Enable the students to write a travel journal.
Teaching important points
Help the students to comprehend the reading passage.
Teaching difficult points
How to get the main idea of the passage.
Teaching methods
a. Discussion.
b. Reading.
c. Listening.
d. Cooperative learning.
Teaching procedures
I.Revision
Have a dictation.
II. Warming up
Ask: Where did you go in the summer vacation
How were you traveling
How did you like your traveling
III. Reading
1. Pre-reading
Discuss two questions on page 17 to arouse the Ss’interest.
2. Get Ss to scan the passage with Ex.1, page 19.
3. Read and summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
4. Give some notes.
5. Get the Ss to read the whole passage together.
IV. Discussion
Q: 1.Do you think it is great to cycle along the Hanjiang River Why
2. Have you ever traveled with your bicycle for such a long trip before
V. Homework
Page 19 Ex.1—3
Period 2 Grammar
Goals
Enable the students to master the usage of Present Progressive Tense.
Teaching important points
The usage of important words and Present Progressive Tense.
Teaching difficult points
How to use the words and Present Progressive Tense.
Teaching methods
Explaining, discussing, practicing.
Teaching procedures
I. Revision
Dictation.
Check the homework..
II. Lead in
Give the students some examples and enable them to realize the rule of Present Progressive Tense.
III. Practice
Make use of the Exs of Using structures in WB.
IV. Homework
Period 3 Speaking
Goals
Enable the students to desctive that they see during their trip so as to improve the students’ writing ability.
Teaching important points and difficult points
1. How to describe what they see and hear.
2. How to infer the author’s feelings.
Teaching methods
1. Pair works to make dialog.
2. Co-operative learning.
Teaching aid
A recorder.
Teaching procedures
I. Revision
Dictation
Check the homework.
II. Lead in.
1. Revise patterns for language difficulties.
2. Make dialogs, using the expressions. Work in pairs, or groups.
III. Speaking Task
P60
Period 4 Listening
Goals
1. Get the students to know more geographic items by listening.
2. Get the students to know more city names in Southeast Asia.
Teaching important points
Listen to the tape-recorder and grasp the information needed.
Teaching difficult points
Work together with partners and describe what the characters see.
Teaching methods
Listening and discussing.
Teaching aid
A tape-recorder
Teaching procedures
I. Revision
II. Listening
1. Listen and answer questions on page 23
2. Listen and answer questions on page 58
Homework P56~57
Period 5 Writing
Goals
Help the students know how to write a journal and to tell the difference between a journal and a diary.
Teaching important points and difficult points
How to write a short letter and how to give best wishes to somebody.
Teaching methods
Task-based learning.
Teaching procedures
Teaching procedures
I. Revision
Check the homework
II. Presentation
1. Summarize the way of preparing oneself before writing. (P15)
2. Make a brainstorming map.
III. Writing task
IV. homework
Period 6 Summing up
Goals
1. Know more about the customs and landscape in the countries that lie along the Mekong River.
2. Help the students learn how to sum up what they have learned.
Teaching important points
How to sum up what they have learned.
Teaching methods
Fast reading and discussing.
Teaching procedures
I. Revision
Check the homework.
II. Reading.
Get the students to read through the passage on page 59.
Ask them some questions about the passage.
For example:
1. Why did Wang Kun say that he felt lucky
2. Why did Wang Wei’s cousins make jokes about them
III. Discussion
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