Lesson 1 Travelling by Air
Period 1
Teaching Aims
To enable the students to do the following:
1．Book an air ticket.
2．Ask and talk about flight information.
3．Check in at the airport.
4．Write about booking details.
5．Make and respond to a polite request.
Functions
1．Booking an air ticket.
2．Making and respond to a polite request.
3．Checking in at the airport.
Teaching Focus and Difficult Points
1．Patterns
（1）Would you mind …?
（2）When would you like to leave?
（3）What class would you like to fly?
2．Language points
（1）finish (doing) sth.
（2）have to do sth.
（3）before / after / when /doing sth.
3．Vocabulary:
（1）air ticket
（2）airline
（3）flight
（4）British Airways
（5）go economy
（6）fly business class
（7）fly first class
（8）two pieces of luggage
（9）two days in advance
（10）Heathrow Airport
（11）a single ticket
（12）a return ticket
（13）a three-day return
（14）an open return
（15）take the morning / afternoon / evening flight
（16）boarding pass
（17）boarding time
（18）boarding gate
Teaching Time
Three periods
Teaching Procedures
I. Warming up
1．Quick responses (Focus on the summer holiday life)
（1）Did you have a nice summer holiday?
（2）Did you do anything special during the holiday?
（3）Did you go traveling during the holiday or did you go anywhere else outside Shanghai/China?
（4）Where did you go?
（5）Who went with you?
（6）What was the weather like there?
（7）How long did the trip last?
（8）How was the trip there? What places of interest did you visit?
（9）How did you go there?
（最后一个问题用来衔接后面生词的教学）
II. Vocabulary teaching
1．Using objects to present the vocabulary, for example an air ticket and a boarding pass
2．Using Tuning In to present the vocabulary
3．Ask and answer questions to consolidate the vocabulary
（1）What is the name of the passenger?
（2）How will he travel? (By air.)
（3）Where is he flying? (Beijing.)
（4）Where will he take the plane? (At Heathrow International Airport in London.)
（5）Which airline’s flight will he take? (British Airways.)
（6）Will he fly business class or economy class?
（7）What’s the flight number?
（8）When does the plane leave?
（9）How much luggage can he check for free?
（10）What is his seat number?
（11）What’s the boarding time? / When does the boarding pass tell him to board?
（12）Which boarding gate will he board?
4．Finish the Exercise on P3 according to the boarding pass (students’ book)
5．Supply some more additional words and expressions if necessary.
（1）window seat
（2）middle seat
（3）aisle seat
（4）luggage check
（5）luggage allowance
（6）international flight
（7）incoming passenger
（8）outgoing passenger
（9）board /get onto a plane
III. Pattern teaching
1．What class would you like to fly? First, business or economy?
-I’d like to go economy. / I’d like to fly first class. / I want to travel business class.
2．How much luggage can I check for free? / How many pieces of luggage can I check for free?
-One piece under 30 kg.
3．Would you mind…? （创设情境教学以下句型）
（1）It’s too hot today. Would you mind my opening the window?
-Not at all. / Of course not. / Certainly not. / Ok. / Sure.
（2）I want to go over the lessons. But I can’t find my notebook. Would you mind lending yours to me?
-No Problem.
（3）I’m sorry, the morning flight is full. Would you mind taking the afternoon flight at 3 p.m.?
-That’s fine.
（4）Would you mind showing me your passport?
-Here you are.
（5）Would you mind my smoking here?
-I’m afraid you can’t. You mustn’t smoke in the hospital.
（6）Would you mind lending me your dictionary?
-Sorry, I’m using it now.
注意：
1．此句型是本课的重点，要求掌握的一是结构即mind后面遇动词需用动名词，二是应答方式。以上两点可以在上述六例对话教学后让学生进行总结。
2．Would you mind …? 是一种较委婉的提问方式，也可以用Do you mind…? 但后者语
气不如前者委婉。
A．结合Discovering Language部分加深理解。
B．进行形成性单项训练，教师提供动词词组，让学生组句，进一步巩固句型结构，如：
Take a message for Alice, read the report to me
Book me an air ticket to London, show me your wonderful stamps
Take the evening flight, pass the ticket on the table to me
C．对以上句型进行练习并给以适当的应答
D．学生自己运用此句型造句。
E．操练Developing Skill部分的1 (speaking)，结合语境运用句型，并注意合理的应答，允许学生有所扩展。
Lesson 1 Travelling by Air
Period 2
Teaching aims
To enable students to do the following:
1．Learn the text
2．Review the sentence pattern:
-Would you mind?
-Not at all
-I’m afraid
3．Know how to book an air ticket.
4．Ask and talk about the booking details.
Teaching Focus and Difficult Points
1．Know how to book an air ticket.
2．Ask and talk about the booking details.
Teaching Procedures
I. Warming up
1．To warm up the students
2．To develop the student’s listening ability, especially the ability to get the specific information
3．Duty Report:
It’s Cookie’s duty today. Ask her to give us a story about his father’s trip to Korea. The other students should pay attention to the key words on the screen first (Why, How long, How, Activities, Food, Presents), they can take some notes while listening. After the story, the teacher asks them some questions to see how much they’ve caught.
4．Questions:
Why did Cookie’s father go to Korea?
How long did his trip last?
How did her father go to Korea?
What did her father do there?
What special food did her father have there?
What presents did her father bring to her?
Why
How long
How
Activities
Food
Presents
II. Revision
1．To check if the students have memorized what they learned in the last lesson.
2．To prepare for the text learning.
3．Translate some useful phrases into English.
英国航空公司 British Airways
乘经济舱 go economy
乘商务舱 fly business class
乘头等舱 fly first class
两件行李 two pieces of luggage
提前二天 two days in advance
希思罗机场 Heathrow Airport
浦东国际机场 Pudong International Airport
登机牌 boarding pass
登机口 boarding gate
登机时间 boarding time
单程票 a single ticket
往返票 a return ticket
一张三天的来回票 a three-day return
一张不定期的来回票 an open return
免费托运 check for free
乘早上/下午/晚上的航班 take the morning / afternoon / evening flight
4．Review the sentence pattern:
Ask the students some questions and encourage them to respond in different ways.
Questions:
Would you mind closing the window?
(Certainly not. / Of course not. / Not at all. / No problem. / Sure. / O.K.)
Would you mind my smoking here?
(I’m afraid you’d better not…. / I’m sorry you can’t. …)
5．Ask the students to translate some sentences into English:
（1）你介意乘早上的航班吗? Would you mind taking the morning flight?
（2）你介意我在这里抽烟吗? Would you mind my smoking here?
（3）你介意给我看你的护照吗? Would you mind showing me your passport?
（4）你介意乘头等舱吗? Would you mind flying first class?
（5）你想乘坐头等舱、商务舱还是经济舱？-坐经济舱。
-What class would you like to fly, first, business or economy?
-I’d like to go economy. / I want to fly economy. / I want to travel economy.
（6）我可以免费托运几件行李？-30公斤以下两件。
-How much luggage may I check for free? / How many pieces of luggage may I check for free?
-Two pieces under 30 kg.
III. Text
A．To help the students to understand the text.
B．To let the students grasp how to book air tickets.
C．To help the students learn the text easily.
1．Picture talk
（1）Where is the boy?
（2）What is he doing?
（3）What is the girl?
（4）What is she doing?
2．Suppose you are going to book an air ticket, what information should you tell the clerk? Suppose you are a clerk at the booking office, what information should you provide for the guest?
(Ask some students to give their opinion to elicit the text)
3．Listen to the text for the first time and try to fill in the missing information.
Questions:
（1）What’s the passenger’s name?
（2）What airline does he want to take?
（3）What is the flight number?
（4）What class does he want to take?
（5）Where does he leave?
（6）Where does he want to go?
（7）When does the flight leave?
（8）What time does the plane take off?
（9）How much luggage can he check for free?
（10）How much is the airfare?
Passenger Name:
Airline:
Flight:
Class:
From:
To:
Date:
Time:
Luggage:
Fare:
4．Listen to the text for the second time, and then try to do the “T or F”.
（1）Zhang Jun wanted to visit the United States before he went to study in Britain. F
（2）He booked a single ticket. T
（3）His flight was in the morning. F
（4）The departure time is 3p.m. on 18 August. T
（5）The airfare was $285. F
（6）He had to confirm the tickets 48 hours in advance. T
5．Listen and repeat the text sentence by sentence.
6．Open the books and read the text together.
7．Find out the key sentences:
(How to ask about the passenger’s name / departure date / departure time / flight number / ticket / class / airfare / luggage / boarding / confirming?)
Passenger name: May I have your name? Departure date: When would you like to leave? Departure time: Would you mind taking flight? Flight number: What’s the flight number? Ticket: Single or return? Class: What class would you like to fly? Airfare: How much is the airfare? Luggage: How much luggage can I check for free? Boarding: Where can I board the plane? Confirming: Do I have to confirm my ticket?
8．Comprehension check
First, students finish the comprehension individually. Then check in pairs by asking questions and answering.
E.g.
What’s the passenger’s name? His name is Zhang Jun.
When would he like to leave? On 18 August.
9．Read the passage again, then do disappearing text.
Zhang Jun has finished his studies in Britain. He is going to visit the United States before coming back to China. Now, he is at __________________.
Clerk: May I help you?
Zhang Jun: Yes, please. I’d like to book a ticket ___________.
Clerk: _______________________?
Zhang Jun: 18 August. I’d like to go in the morning.
Clerk: Please wait. Let me check. I’m sorry the morning flight is __________.
_______________ taking the afternoon flight at 3 p.m.?
Zhang Jun: That’s fine.
Clerk: _______________?
Zhang Jun: Single, please.
Clerk: ___________ would you like to fly? First, business or _________?
Zhang Jun: I want to go economy. _____________?
Clerk: $285.Would you mind _______________________?
Zhang Jun: Here you are.
Clerk: OK. I’ve booked you an economy seat on Flight BA 806, leaving______________ at 3 p.m. on 18 August.
Zhang Jun: Thanks. By the way, ________________ may I check _______?
Clerk: One piece under 30 kg.
Zhang Jun: Do I have to _______________?
Clerk: Yes, you’ll have to confirm it __________________.
Zhang Jun: OK. Thank you very much.
IV. Guided dialogues.
Divide the students into 4 groups. Each group is given a situation. Encourage the students to try to make up dialogues according to the situation.
Situation 1: A girl and her mum want to go to Athens to watch the Olympic Games.
To: Athens
Date: August 12
Time: 2 p.m.
Ticket: One-way
Class: Economy
Flight NO: CA 608
Fare: $852
Luggage: 35/1
Situation 2: Confirming a ticket by phone.
To: London
Date: January 29
Time: 10 a．m.
Ticket: 2 5-day return
Class: Business
Flight NO.: CA 429
Luggage: 23/1
Fare: $852
Luggage: 35/1
Situation 3: You’ve booked an air ticket for your friend．You’re telling him / her the booking details on the phone.
To: U.S.A
Date: September 2
Time: 8 a.m.
Ticket: Single
Class: First
Flight NO.: BA 105
Fare: $300
Luggage: 32/1
Situation 4: Your parents are old and weak. You book two air tickets for them by phone.
To: Japan
Date: October 18
Time: 9 a．m.
Ticket: Round trip
Flight NO.: CA 123
Fare: 5,000
Luggage: 25/1
V. Assignment:
1．Recite the text.
2．Rewrite the dialogue into a short passage.
3．Preview the new words and expressions in Part II
Lesson 1 Travelling by Air
Period 3
Teaching aims
To enable students to do the following:
1．Learn the text
2．Review the sentence pattern:
-Would you mind?
-Not at all
-I’m afraid
3．Know how to book an air ticket.
4．Ask and talk about the booking details.
Teaching Focus and Difficult Points
1．Know how to book an air ticket.
2．Ask and talk about the booking details.
Teaching Procedures
I. Warming up
1．Quick responses (focus on the patterns and main sentence structures in the text)
2．Free talk
My First Visit to…
II. Revision
1．Review the words and expressions
（1）Word spelling
（2）Definitions
①a regular service of aircraft for public service ---- airline.
The Oriental Airline, international airline, an airline ticket office.
②flying through the air; journey by air ---- flight.
A long-distance flight, a round-the-world flight, the flight from Shanghai to Hainan.
③bags, suitcases , etc., and their contents taken on a journey ---- luggage.
Two pieces of luggage, check one’s luggage, registered luggage.
④get onto (a plane) ---- board
Board a plane, boarding pass, boarding gate.
⑤government document to be carried by a traveler abroad, giving personal information ----passport.
Check one’s passport, show the passport.
⑥money charged for a journey by air ---- airfare
⑦make sure ---- confirm
Confirm the ticket, confirm a report
⑧before of time ---- in advance
Two days in advance, book a table two weeks in advance.
（3）Translate the sentences, using some useful phrases.
2．Ask some students to present their short passages (Text rewriting) and make comments on them.
III. Developing skills
1．Ex2 (listening and speaking)
Task 1:
（1）Scan the table to get idea what information they should try to catch while listening
（2）Listen with the book closed to check if the students can understand the material (students are allowed to take some necessary notes)
（3）Fill in the booking details
（4）Listen again, book closed
（5）Ask the students to finish the exercise
（6）Listen and repeat to check the exercise
Task 2:
Suppose you are Linda and you are calling Tom about his flight information. Work in pairs and make up a dialogue, using the information you have got in the listening part.
2．Ex3 (listening and speaking)
（1）Listen to the tape without opening the book.
（2）Listen and repeat with the book closed.
（3）Complete the dialogue to see how much of the dialogue they can remember.
（4）Listen and check.
（5）Role-play the dialogue.
IV. Reading
Task 1:
1．Read the passage paragraph by paragraph and ask the students to give the general idea of each paragraph – what place is introduced in each paragraph.
2．Match the names of the places to the photos.
Task 2:
1．Read the map carefully
2．Decide where each of the six places is on the map with the help of the passage.
Task 3:
1．Read the passage again and try to get the exact meaning of the italicized words and expressions.
2．Read and complete the sentences with the italicized words and expressions from the reading material in their proper forms.
V. Writing
1．Instruction to the writing.
The principle of C.A.P.
C→content flight number, date, time, class, luggage, when to check in A→audience: Tom
P→purpose: To tell him about the booking details.
2．Ask the students to write the e-mails in class and present some of the good ones.
3．Ask the students to revise their e-mails after class.
