Unit 3Travel journal Reading

1、附件2教学设计（教案）模板基本信息英语年 级教学形式教 师 单 位 课题名称Unit 3 Travel journal Reading学情分析Analysis of the teaching material：1. Warming-up： Lead in the topic of this unit -traveling by thinking about the pros and cons of different kinds of transport. Ask students to discuss the things that should be considered if they

2、want to travel.2. Pre-reading and reading： The world has many great rivers. One of them is the Mekong. Introduce a travel journalJourney down the Mekong to students.3. Learning about language： In this part, students will learn how to use the words and expressions of this unit and also learn useful s

3、tructuresthe Present Continuous Tense to express future actions.4. Using language： Present how to write a travel journal and then practice writing.教学目标Teaching aims：1. To talk about things related to travel such as etc. 2. Learn something about the Mekong River through reading.3. Students can use wh

4、at they have learned to describe a trip.4. Students should realize if they want to be successful, what personalities they should have.教学过程Teaching procedures： Step 1 Lead-in1. Show some pictures that I took while traveling on the PowerPoint. Ask students whether they know where they are and lead in

5、our topic today- traveling. 2. Ask& answer： Q 1： Do you like traveling? Why or why not?(enjoy beautiful scenery, make friends, build up our body, broaden our horizons, learn more about local culture and history; relax ourselves, ) Ss may have a lot of different ideas. Give them time to have a free t

6、alk.Q 2： What do we have to consider before we set out for a trip?Time, destination, means of transportation, things to take, travel cost or budget, Step 2 Warming up1. Fill in the chart (Part 1)Ask students to compare the advantages and disadvantages of each means of transport and fill in the chart

7、. 2. Make dialogues (Part 2) Let them work in pairs to make dialogues about holidays.Step 3 Pre-reading1. Many people live beside a river. How do they make use of it in their daily life?The suggested answers：People can drink the water.People can swim in a river in summer.People can use the water to

8、irrigate their fields/produce electricity.People can travel along a river. 2. Ask the students to name some famous rivers in the world. If you could travel down one of them, which one would you choose? Why?3. Look at the map on page 18 and list the countries that the Mekong River flows through. 4. I

9、ntroduce some background information about Mekong River to the Ss.Step 4 ReadingIn this step, get the students to read the text basing on some tasks.Task1： SkimmingRead the passage quickly within 5 minutes and find out the 5 “W”s.l Who Wang Kun and _ Wang Weil What They are dreaming about _.l Whenl

10、Where l Why Task2： ScanningRead the passage again and get the main idea of each paragraph. Para. 1 A plan to take a great bike trip along the Mekong River.Para. 2 Different attitudes between Wang Kun and Wang Wei.Para. 3 The preparation before the trip & details about Mekong River.Task 3： Careful Re

11、adingListen to the recording of the text and answer the following questions.Para. 1 1. What was Wang Kun and Wang Weis idea of a great trip?2. Who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong?3. Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?Para. 24. What was Wang Weis serious shortcoming?5. Where is the source of th

12、e Mekong and which sea does it enter?Para. 3 Blank-filling.Mekong River begins _ a glacier on a Tibetan mountain. At first, the river is small and the water begins to move _. It becomes _as it passes _ deep valleys. Traveling _western Yunnan Province. Sometimes the River _ wide Valley and becomes a_

13、. We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China. After it leaves china and the high altitudes, the Mekong becomes _, brown and warm. As it enters Southeast Asia, it travels slowly _ hills and low valleys, and the _ where rice grows. At last the rivers delta enters the South Chin

14、a Sea.More questions6. What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?7. What difficulties did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find about their journey?Step 5 Post-reading (Discussion)An attitude is what a person thinks about something. Write down Wang Weis and Wang Kuns attitudes to the trip.Wang Weis attitudePositive to the trip. She wants to organize it as it was her idea.Wang Kuns attitudeLess positive to the trip as he wants to organize it and thinks he can do that better than his sister.My attitudeIt sounds like a wonderful trip and I would love to b