Listening and vocabulary教学设计第二课时

Unit 3 Travel Journal Period 1 Reading Journey Down the Mekong 课时教学设计 Introduction: In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to get the information about the Mekong River and share it. They will then be helped to read a passage entitled JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. It’s about two students taking a trip down the river. Objectives: ■ To help students read a travel journal ■ To help students better understand “traveling down a river” ■ To help students understand and use some important words and expressions ■ To help students identify examples of the present progressive tense: expressing futurity in the Text Focus Words: transport, prefer, flow, persuade, graduate, schedule, organize Expressions: ever since, be fond of, change one’s mind, make s mind, give in, as usual, at midnight Patterns up one’When are we leaving and when are we coming back? Then she persuaded me to buy one.后来她说服我买了一个。 Wang Wei soon got them interested in cycling too. She insisted that she organize the trip properly. Finally, I had to give in. Teaching Aids Multimedia facilities Teaching Procedure 1. Warming up ⑴Observing and talking Ask the students look at the map and find out the Mekong River on the map. Then find out the proper information to fill the blanks:

The Mekong River is called ___Lancang River___ in China. It goes through ____Myanmar___, ___Laos__, ___Thailand___, __Cambodia__, __Vietnam__ and pours into the __South China Sea____. ⑵Brainstorming and discussion If you are going to cycle along the entire Mekong River, what would you prepare for your travel according to the information you have known and your travel experiences? What to consider: Time, money, route, what to take, weather, accommodation, local conditions and customs, partners, ect. What to take: Riding equipment(bike, helmet, gloves, backpack, glass, mask, riding suit, ect), camping equipment(tent, lighter, rope, flashlight, kife,ect), repair tools, food, clothes, medicine, etc. 2. Skimming Now we’re going to read the passage Journey Down the Mekong. Please go through the passage quickly and find out the general idea of the passage and match the main idea of each paragraph. ⑴ What is the general idea of the text? The text mainly talks about Wang Kun and Wang Wei’

s plan and preparations for their trip along the Mekong River. ⑵ Match the main idea with each paragraph Para 1 We decide to take a great bike trip along the Mekong river Para 2 Different attitudes between Wang Wei and Wang Kun Para 3 The preparation before the trip and details about the Mekong river 3. Scanning for specific information ⑴ Next we are going to read aloud the text once again and then answer some questions. 1) Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? (They are brother and sister, and both are college students.) 2) What was their dream? (Their dream was to take a great bike trip.) 3) Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? (They are Wang Kun’s cousins who are at a college in Kunming.) 4) Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter? (The source of the river

is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.) 5) What can you see when you travel along the Mekong? (You can see glacier, rapids, hill, valleys, waterfalls and plains.) 6) Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why? (Yes. The journey begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.) ⑵ Read paragraph 3 and try to find the scene along the river and the change of the water It begins in a glacier on a mountain in Qinghai province. The river is small; The water is clear and cold. →It _passes through valleys __across__ western Yunnan Province. →The river becomes _rapids_ and moves quickly, sometimes becomes __a waterfall__ and __enters__wide valleys. →It enters Southeast Asia, makes __bends or meanders through_ valleys to the plains. →The river becomes wide, brown and warm; its pace _slows____. →It enters the South China sea. ⒋ Paraphrase Look at the following sentences and explain them in your own words. If you have any questions, you may have a discussion with your partners. 1. She gave me a determined look — the kind that said that she would not change her mind. She has decided to do something and will not change her ideas. 2. …my sister does not care about details. This means that she concentrates on the broad outline of the trip but not the particulars: where they will stay, what they will take with them etc. 3. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows. The Mekong River flows slowly and gently through the valleys and reaches the farming plains 5. Discussion in groups We have got the general meaning of the passage, and we know Wang Wei and Wang Kun have some similar and different attitudes about the trip. You may have a short discussion with your partn

ers and use some words or phrases to describe the characters of Wang Wei and Wang Kun? Wang Wei: stubborn; determined; adventurous; risk-taking; eager, etc. Wang Kun: Serious; organized; sensible, etc. 6. Homework ⑴ Read the passage again and try to retell it in your own words. ⑵ Find out the examples of the present progressive tense to express futurity in the text and

underline them.