Learning about Language教学设计及课堂实录

Unit 4 Travel Journal I.

Teaching aims

Knowledge aims: 1.

Get the students to learn the following new words and expressions in this passage: Journal fare transport Vietnam finally cycle persuade stubborn insist proper determine attitude valley altitude change one’s mind give in 2.

Get the students to learn about the usage of The Present Continuous Tense to express future actions.

Ability aims:

Develop the student’s reading ability and let them learn to use some reading skills such as skimming, scanning and so on.

Emotional aim:

Stimulate the student’s love for nature by getting them to knowing the greatness of a river.

II. Important points

Get the students to learn different reading skills.

III. Difficult points Develop the students’ reading ability and let them learn to use the ability of understanding implied meanings. IV. 学情分析

1.

“旅游”可以说是一个世界性的话题，随着经济发展、世界进步、人们生活水平

的提高，旅游作为现代人的一种生活方式，被越来越多的人所接受和喜爱，学生大多数喜欢旅游，但出去游玩的机会很少，本课的内容能引起学生的兴趣，激发学生的探究心理。

2.

进入高中，大部分学生的英语表达能力较差，在本课的教学中提供了多种机会让学生用英语进行真实交际，以增强学生的自信心，丰富学生的想象力，培养学生的逻辑思维能力。

III. Teaching procedures Step1. Leading in Task1.

Ask the students to answer the following questions: Do you like traveling? Where have you been?

Show some pictures about Hui Shi Garden, Tao Hua Mounts, Eiffel Tower, The Opera House,

Mount Fuji

Step2. Group work On National Day , many people including you may prefer to go traveling for a break. If you are traveling，which means of transport do you prefer?

on foot

by bike

by motorbike

means of transport

by bus

by by plane/ air

by ship/boat/sea

by spaceship

Task2.

1.

Let students think about the advantages and disadvantages of each form of transport.

fast / slow

convenient safe /dangerous

inconvenient expensive

cheap comfortable

uncomfortable efficient（有效的）

crowded(拥挤的）

accommodation(住宿) and meals

time-saving

Transport

bus

Advantages

Disadvantages Very cheap, efficient for Takes longer than the train or short journeys,

plane, no meals, uncomfortable convenient for the small

towns and cities train Cheaper than the airplane, Takes longer than the airplane, Faster than the bus

Views along the road Accommodation(住宿) and meals. crowded

ship Cheaper than plane Comfortable, More expensive than the train or bus. Accommodation(住宿) Not convenient for visiting and meals plane fastest, time-saving, Comfortable, efficient

Meals

inland places Expensive, dangerous

Airports are far from the centre of the cities.

Step2. Pre-reading Show a map about China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Cambodia. Step3. Reading 1. Skimming

⑴. Get the students to read the text quickly and answer the following questions: Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? What is their dream? Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? What do you think they will see when they travel along the Mekong River?

2.

Scanning.

Let students read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks. Their dream

Wang suggestion Their preparations

To take a long bike trip

wei’s To find the source and begin there

Both of them bought expensive bikes, got their cousins to join them and researched in the atlas in the library

Why is it such a It begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres difficult Wang believes…

Wang believes…

3.Group work Encourage students to discuss Wang Kun’s and Wang Wei’s attitude to the trip in groups, and finish

Exercise 3 on page 19. Wang attitude

Wei’s Positive. She wants to organize it as it was her idea.

where it is hard to breathe and very cold Kun 1. they must start in Qinghai where the river begins. 2.that they don’t need to prepare much.

Wei 1. it is too cold and high to start in Qinghai. 2.that using an atlas is very important.

Wang attitude

My attitude

Kun’s Less positive as he wants to organize it and thinks he can do that better than his sister.

It sounds a wonderful trip and I would love to be able to do a trip like that myself one day.

Step2. After-reading Read the text and the notes P80-82 No.1-9 carefully, and find some difficult sentences in the text.

Step 3. Homework

Ask students to retell the reading text according to the following information after class. Wang Kun and his sister

middle school

after graduating

got the chance to

thought of the idea

cycle the Mekong River

bought

bicycles

journey got sb. interested in

at an altitude of

atlas

change one’s mind

in the library

begin