Using LanguageⅡ优秀教案案例

Module8 Unit1 Using Language Ⅰ. Lesson type: reading for writing Ⅱ. Learning goal(学习目标)：

1) to master words and expressions related to travel diary, such as luggage, shave, team up with, mark out, bakery, immigrant and etc.

2) get to know and the history of some tourist spots in San Francisco

3) to learn the language, structure, content and writing feature of a travel diary and get prepared to write one.

4) enjoy the pleasure of self-learning and team-work

Ⅲ. Teaching Procedure:

Step 1: Pre-reading —

free talk and lead in Task 1: Ask students to talk about their plans for summer holiday and cities they would like to travel.

Introduce San Francisco briefly by showing pictures to students.

（purpose: To help students have a general picture of the American city. ）

Task 2: Read the title of the text

Who wrote the diary? When did he go to San Francisco and write these diaries?

answers: George; 12th- 14th June

(purpose: To help students quickly get some information from the title of the given text.) Step 2: Reading

Task 1: a. Read the text and find out all the tourist spots George visited in San Francisco.

b. Mark out and state the possible routes of George’s 3-day tour to San Francisco on the map.

Possible answers: cable car system, Fishermen’s’ Warf, a 79 round-trip, Chinatown, Angel Island. (purpose: To help students quickly identify the routes of George’ visit and be able to identify them on a map.) c. What is the language of this text different from the other ones we’ve read before? Why?

Possible answer: the author doesn’t write any “I”.

Diary is meant to be read only by oneself. So the author left out all the “I”.

(purpose: To enable students to know the writing feature of a travel diary.) Task 2:

a. Read the first diary carefully and find out:

1) What did George do? Underline all the verbs. 2) What did he see at each tourist spot? (nouns)

3) What history of each spot did he learn?

Day 1

What did he do? (verbs)

What did he see? (nouns)

History

Feelings

possible answers: 1. arrive, went (straight), drop, shower, shave, explore, have (lunch) …

2. (spectacular) view of San Francisco Bay and the city, shops, sea food restaurants and bakeries. 3. cable car system, invented by, find a better form of transport, shocked, a terrible accident, Fisherman’s Warf, Italian fishermen, fishing industry…

b. With the map,

retell George’s first day in San Francisco together by using these key words and phrases.

(purpose: To help students get key information and have a better understanding of George’ first-day trip, encourage students to learn and appreciate words and expressions in the text.) Task 3: Team work: locate and take down key information of George’s 2nd

– 3rd day trip and introduce his trip to the class.

(Purpose: To learn and master words and expressions related to travel diary; Encourage students to speak out and enjoy the pleasure of self-learning and team-work.) Task 4: What’s your impression on San Francisco? Why?

Possible answers:

1) San Francisco is a city with a long history as we may find…

2) San Francisco is a multicultural city that welcomes immigrant from all around the world because …

3) San Francisco is a spectacular/fascinating city with lots of tourist spots …

(purpose: 1. To consolidate words and expressions such as spectacular, mark out, immigrant; 2. To further understand San Francisco city from the viewpoint of the author.) Step 3: Post-reading Multiple choice：All of these three pieces of diaries include: 

time of visit

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conversations between people

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means of transport 

description of the tourist spot 

description of the weather 

history of the tourist spot 

author’s feelings/comments on the tourist spot answer：time of visit/means of transport/description of the tourist spot/history of the tourist spot/author’ feelings on the tourist spot.

(purpose: Students get to know content and structure that need to be included in a travel diary and get prepared to write their own version.) Homework: (Show students pictures of some tourists sites of our hometown, Xiangshan, which owns similar landscape with San Francisco.) Write a travel diary about your tour to one tourist spot of our hometown by imitating the structure, content and expressions from the given text.