Unit 3 Going places

Teaching Aims and Demands

Words and Phrases

consider means experience vacation nature basic equipment simple normal excitement separate get away from watch out protect sb/sth from see sb off on the other hand as well as transportation board simply tip poisonous handle combine

Spoken English:

1.Intention and plans:

What would you prefer going …?

When are you going off to…?

How would you like to go to…?

How are you going to…?

2.Wishes:

Have a good trip. Have a nice/pleasant trip.

Grammar:

Using the Present Continuous Tense for future actions

1. Adventure travel is becoming more and more popular.

Look! He is waiting at the gate.

2. Bob is coming with me to the airport.

How are you getting there?

How long are you staying in xi’an?

Use of Language:

(1) Help the students to finish the tasks of listening, reading, writing, speaking presented in the book and the exercise book through using what the students have known. Learn the text about traveling. Finish the exercise in their books.

(2) Get the students to learn some skills about giving intentions and wishes.

Important points: Grammar and learning about the basic skills and the purpose while traveling.

Difficult points: Using the Present Continuous Tense for future actions

Teaching aids: computer tape-recorder

Way of Teaching: communication way of teaching, discussion and group work.

Lesson 1

Step 1 Warming-Up

1. Ask the students to look at the pictures and write down the people are doing wrong.

(a).He is driving too fast.

(b).He is littering./He is throwing rubbish on the ground.

(c).The man is smoking where he shouldn’t . / The sign says that smoking is not allowed, but he is smoking anyway.

(d).The car is parked where no parking is allowed./ The car is parked in the wrong place.

2. Show the students pictures of different places. Ask them to choose the best way of transportation.

3. The students will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different means of transportation.

Step 2 Listening

(a) Because when you are traveling, you need to listen to announcements to get enough information. Ask the student to listen to the tape and fill out the charts in 1 and 2.

(b) Finish the listening part in the workbook as well.

Step 3 Speaking

Imagine that you have a machine that lets you travel in time. With this machine you could travel to the past or the future. Then make a dialogue using the questions in the form as a guide. Here the teacher may first give an example as a guide.

Encourage more students to practise the dialogue.

Useful Expressions:

I would like to travel to the year…

I would like to know what life was like … years ago.

I want to know what like will be like…years from now.

To which year do you want to go?

Do you want to travel to the future or to the past?

Step 4 Homework

Ask the students to get previewed the reading material in the listening part.

Lesson2

Step 1 Introduction

Ask the students to close their books and ask individual students to answer the questions in Pre-reading.

1.Do you like traveling? Why or why not?

2.Where would you most like to travel? Why?

3.Have you ever heard about adventure travel? What do you think of it?

Divide the student into groups. Ask them to prepare a trip to the place they like. Encourage the students/the leader of a group to give reasons why they think their plan is the best.

Step 2 Fast-reading

Tell the students that there are kinds of travels. And get them give their idea of the possible variation of travel.

Then ask the students to read paragraph 1quickly and answer the following questions first:

Why do people travel?

Why do people want adventure travel?

What are the two examples of adventure travel?

Step 3 Careful-reading

1.For part one, give the students the following questions and ask them to read paragraph 1 carefully.

1).What is hiking?

2).Why is hiking a kind of adventure travel?

3).Where can you go hiking?

Deal with the language points if there is any.

2. For paragraph 2, give the students the following questions and answer the following questions:

1).What is rafting?

2).Where is rafting done?

3).Why is rafting a kind of adventure travel?

Deal with the language points if there is any.

Step 4 Post-reading

Ask the students to listen to the tape while getting the exercise 1 done.

The answer is: a b d d c

Ask the students to read the text carefully and fill in the chart in exercise 2. Then check their answers.

Step 5 Homework

Get the students to be prepared for the talking part in their workbooks.

Lesson 3

Step 1 Revision

Check the students’ homework by asking several of them to report what they have done.

Step 2 Word-study

Give the students several minutes to finish the exercise in word-study. Then check the answer with them.

Step 3 Grammar

First give the students a brief explanation of “Using the Pressent Continuous Tense for Future Actions”.

1. When the present tense is used of the future in the main clause, there is often an indication of time. The action is usually regarded as having been dicided upon beforehand. Verbs that are often used in this way are go, come, leave, get, arrive, meet, see off, take off, return, start, fly, stay, etc.

e.g. “I’m leaving at seven tonight.”

2. The present tense is used of the future in a clause introduced by “when”, “if”, “before”, “till/untill”, “everytime”, “by the time”, “as soon as”, “the moment” etc.

e.g. We shall not go out for a hike if it rains tomorrow.

Step 4 Consolidation

Ask the students to read the dialogue and underline the verbs that express future in exercise 1.

For exercise 2 encourage the students to give as many answers as possible.

Step 5 Workbook

Get the students to finish the exercise 3 in the students workbook. Check the answers with the students.

Step 6 Homework

Finish the exercises 1 and 2.

Lessson 4

Step 1 Revision

Check the homework

Step 2 Discussion

First explain to the students what an Eco-travel is. Then divide the students into groups of four. Ask the students to decide where they will go and why. Here you may add more examples of destinations, so the student may have a larger choice.

At last ask each group leader to report their decisions while giving their reasons.

Step 3 Writing

Before the students start to write the passage, get them to read the requirement carefully. And make sure that they understand what they are asked to do.

Sample letters

Dear Mum and Dad,

We have just arrived at the hotel. We ate unpacking our bags and we will go to the park this morning. We are going to have a picnic in the park and eat sandwiches. After the picnic, we will go back to our hotel. In the afternoon we will go for a walk and maybe sing songs in the evening. On Sunday, we are going to play volley-ball on the beach and then go hiking. When we get back from hiking. When we get back from hiking, we will pack, go to the train station, and go home. This is our first day and we are very excited. I think we will have a great time.

Love

Sue

Dear Mum and Dad,

We are playing volleyball on the beach. Yesterday, we went swimming and played volleyball in the morning. We had lunch at our hotel and then went for a walk and sang songs in the evening. On Friday, our first day here, we arrived at the hotel and unpacked. We went to the park and had a picnic and ate sandwiches. After the picnic, we were tired and went back to the hotel and watched a film. We will go hiking today and then pack and go to the station. We are having a great time, but it will be nice to get back home.

Step 4 Homework

Finish the exercises in the workbook