Unit 7 Where would you like to visit?
The Fourth Period
Ⅰ.Teaching Aims and Demands
1.Knowledge Objects
(1)Key Vocabulary
customer, save money, pool, culture, dream vacation, travel agency
(2)Target Language
Where would you like to go?
I’d like to go somewhere warm.
2.Ability Objects
(1)Train students’ listening ability.
(2)Train students to use the target language in oral English properly.
3.Moral Object
To role play the conversations you’ve heard is a very good way to improve your oral English.
Ⅱ.Teaching Key Point
Train students’ listening skill by listening to the conversations with the target language.
Ⅲ.Teaching Difficult Point
Help students to role play the conversations.
Ⅳ.Teaching Methods
1.Brainstorm
2.Listening method
3.Pairwork
Ⅴ.Teaching Aid
A tape recorder
Ⅵ.Teaching Procedures
Step ⅠRevision
1.Revise the passage about Singapore by asking two or three students to read it to the class.Make sure that they pronounce each word correctly.
Then let students read it aloud once by themselves.
2.Check the short compositions they have written at home.First let several ones read theirs to the class.Second, get them to work in pairs to check the compositions.At last, collect all students’ compositions.Go over them carefully after class.
Step ⅡPart 1
This activity reviews the target language and introduces new vocabulary.
Read the instructions to students.Explain brainstorm like this:
Brainstorm a list of things means you should write down all the ideas that come into your minds.
Now brainstorm a list of things that are important to you when you go on vacation.Write them down in your exercise books.You should not worry if an idea is silly or if a word is spelled wrong.You can even write a word in their first language for the moment.
Ask them to have a look at the two model phrases the book provides before they begin.Move around the room offering language support as needed.
After about three minutes, tell them to stop writing and thinking.
Let’s review the ideas you’ve thought of together.We will correct spelling and find the correct English words for any words you don’t know.
Then ask some children to read their lists to the class.Write any new words or
phrases they have used on the blackboard.Ask them to discuss the lists in groups of four.Each one reads his or her own list to the other three.Then they discuss the words or phrases together.If there is something that they are not sure, tell them to show me by putting up their hands.Move around the room and solve the problems they may have.Help students find the correct English words to express their ideas.
Step Ⅲ2a
This activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.
Read the instructions to students.Tell them to guess the meaning of travel agency first.Then explain it like this:
If you plan to have a trip or vacation, you can go to a travel agency.A travel agency is an office that can help you make travel plans.Also they help you get plane tickets and hotel reservations.Then presentate whale watch and amusement park to the class like below.A whale watch tour means you stay in a ship and go out to the oceaning during the time of year when the whales are migrating, then you can see them travelling.Amusement park means a place like disneyland.You can do lots of rides and play lots of games there.
Write the two phrases on the blackboard.
Look at the three pictures in Activity 2a now.We know Jeff has a summer job at a travel agency.We will hear him talking on the phone with three different people.
Can you see the small box in the corner of each picture? Listen to the conversations and number the pictures.Write a proper number in each box to show the right order of the pictures.Then play the tape for the first time.Tell them only to listen.Play the tape a second time.As they listen to the tape this time, have the students number the pictures.
Check the answers.
Answers
The pictures should be numbered in the following order:
1,2,3
Tapescript
Woman 1: Jeff, I have to go out for half an hour.Could you please answer the phone? Just take messages and I’ll call people back.
Jeff: Sure.Hello, Ace Travel.Jeff Marino speaking.How may I help you?
Woman 2: I’d like some information on vacation packages, please.
Jeff: My boss is out of the office for half an hour.Could she call you back?
Woman 2: Actually, I’d like to get some information now, if you wouldn’t mind…
Jeff: Well, I guess it would be OK.So, where would you like to go?
Woman 2: Oh, I don’t know.Somewhere warm.
Jeff: Somewhere warm…How about Hawaii?
Woman 2: Oh,…no…I…I don’t like flying.
Jeff: Ok.Well, there’s always…
Jeff: Hi, Ace Travel.Jeff Marino speaking.
Man: Hello.I’d like to find out about your vacation packages.
Jeff: Sure.What kind of vacation are you looking for?
Man: Well, I hope to go on a nature tour.
Jeff: Well, we have a great whale watch tour.You might like that.
Man: Hmmmm…It depends on where it is.I don’t want to go anywhere cold.
Jeff: Hmmmm…Let’s see.Yes, we have a great summer whale watch tour…
Jeff: Hi, Ace Travel.May I help you?
Woman 3: I hope so.I saw your advertisement for vacations in California.We’d like to go somewhere that’s fun for kids.
Jeff: Fun for kids…hmmmm …How about Los Angeles? Kids love visiting Hollywood.
Woman 3 Oh, but we don’t really like big cities.
Jeff: I see.Then maybe you’d enjoy…
Step Ⅳ2b
This activity gives students practice in understanding and writing the target language.
Read the instructions to the children.
Tell them to look at the chart.Then read the headings Customer, Wants, Doesn’t want and point out the blanks under each one.And let them see the sample answer under Wants in the chart.Ask them to read it together.Say, Then first customer wants to go somewhere warm.
I’ll play the recording again.Please write down the things the three customers want and don’t want in this chart as you listen to the recording.
The play the recording again.Students fill in the blanks with the words they hear.Pause the tape several times to give students time to fill out the chart.
Correct the answers.
Answers
Customer 1 wants: to go somewhere warm.doesn’t want to fly
Customer 2 wants: to go on a nature tour, doesn’t want to go anywhere cold
Customer 3 wants: to go somewhere that’s fun for kids, doesn’t want to go to a big city
Step Ⅴ2c
This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
Read the instructions to the children.
Say, In this activity, you are asked to role play Jeff’s conversation with the information in the chart in Activity 2b.
Ask a pair of students to read the sample conversation to the class.
SA: Where would you like to go?
SB: I’d like to go somewhere warm.
SA: Where else can you tell me?
SB: I don’t want to go to a place which is too far away.
Then ask them to continue it.Offer some help if necessary.For example, they may say like this,
SA: Where would you like to go?
SB: I’d like to go somewhere warm.
SA: What else can you tell me?
SB: I don’t want to go anywhere too hot.
Offer more phrases,…to go to a small town,…to go by ship,…to go to a place which is too crowded, …to travel by plane,…to go to anywhere too far, ect.
Write them on the blackboard.
Then ask students to practice in pairs.
Move around the room checking the progress of the pairs and offering help as needed.Ask one or two pairs to say their conversations to the class.Correct any mistakes they may have made.
Step ⅥSummary
Say, In this class, we’ve done lots of listening practice on target language, and we’ve also written and spoken some.
Step ⅦHomework
1.Write out the phrases you have brainstormed in Activity 1.
2.Write down the conversation in Activity 2c.
Step ⅧBlackboard Design
Unit 7 Where would you like to visit? Section B The Fourth Period The answers to Activity 2b: Customer 1 wants: to go somewhere warm, doesn’t want: to fly Customer 2 wants: to go on a nature tour, doesn’t want: to to anywhere cold Customer 3 wants: to go somewhere that’s fun for kinds, doesn’t wants to go to a big city Some phrases for Activity 2c: to go to a small town to go by ship to go to a place where is too crowded to travel by plane to go to anywhere too far |
Unit 7 Where would you like to visit?
The Fifth Period
Ⅰ.Teaching Aims and Demands
1.Knowledge Objects
(1)Key Vocabulary
provide, firm, offer, spot, Confucius, stele, forest
The Forest of Steles
(2)Reading practice using the target language
(3)Writing practice using the target language
2.Ability Objects
(1)Train students’ reading skill.
(2)Train students’ writing skill.
(3)Train students’ listening and speaking skills.
3.Moral Object
Are you planning to take a trip this summer?
Write an e-mail to a travel agency in English to get some information on vacations.
Ⅱ.Teaching Key Points
1.The new vocabulary.
2.Read an e-mail.
3.Write an e-mail.
Ⅲ.Teaching Difficult Point
Write an e-mail.
Ⅳ.Teaching Methods
1.Scanning the e-mail to find out the answers
2.Writing
3.Groupwork
Ⅴ.Teaching Aids
1.Some pictures of Qufu, the Great Wall and the Forest of Steles in Xi’an
2.A projector
Ⅵ.Teaching Procedures
Step ⅠRevision
1.Revise the conversation in Activity 2c on page 55 by making a conversation with one student like this,
T: Where would you like to go?
Ss: I’d like to go somewhere relaxing.
T: What else can you tell me?
S: I don’t want to go to big noisy cities.
After that, ask them to practice in pairs.
Ask several pairs to share their conversations with the whole class.
2.Check their homework.First, choose some students to read the phrases on Activity 1.Second, ask several ones to read the conversations they wrote to the the class.Correct the mistakes that they may have made with the whole class.Get them to work in pairs to help each other.Tell them to show their homework to each other, and help correct any mistakes they may have made.
Step Ⅱ3a
This activity provides reading practice using the target language.
At first, introduce the key vocabulary words.Show the key vocabulary words on the screen by a projector.
provide v.提供;供给 firm n.公司 offer v.提供;给予 spot n.地点;场所 Confucius 孔子(公元前551~前479年,春秋末期思想家,教育家) stele n.(pl.stelae)石碑;石柱 forest n,森林;森林地带 The forest of steles 碑林(位于陕西西安) |
Teach students to read the words and expressions several times.Then ask several to read to the class.Make sure that they can read the words fluently and correctly.
Read the instructions to students.Do some explanation.Make sure that each student knows what they will have to do.
Go over the statements about the e-mail message with the whole class.Make sure that they can understand all the six sentences in the box.And tell them to put the six statements in their minds while they scan the e-mail below.
Say, Boys and girls, please scan the e-mail in Activity 3a now.Try to get the main idea of the letter and find out the answers to the statements.Ask them to scan the letter individually, and write T,
F or DK before each statement.
After they’ve all finished scanning, check the answers with the whole class.Elicit why the false sentences are false at the same time.
After checking the answers, tell the children to read the passage more carefully and prepare to answer the questions on the blackboard.
Write the questions below on the blackboard:
1.Where do S.T.Zhang and the family want to take a trip?
(Somewhere in the east of China.)
2.What kind of place do they want to go to?
(An exciting place where they can do lots of exercise.)
3.What exercise do they especially love doing?
(They especially love hiking and swimming.)
4.What does S.T.Zhang say about the hotel they want to live in?
(They need to stay in an inexpensive hotel.And they wish their hotel had rooms with kitchens so that they could save money by cooking their own meals.The room needs to be big enough for three people.And they’d like to stay at a place with a big pool or somewhere near the ocean.)
5.What does S.T.Zhang want the travel agency to do?
(Give them some suggestions for vacation sports and let them know if it’s best to travel by plane, train or bus.)
6.How long would they like to be away?
(About three weeks.)
After they’ve all finished reading, get some students to answer these questions.
Encourage them to ask questions on what they don’t understand about the e-mail.
Ask one student to read the letter to the class.Help him or her with the pronunciation.Then let all the students read the passage several times.
Answers
1.F(the family wants an inexpensive hotel and wants to save money by cooking)
2.F(the :family enjoys hiking and swimming)
3.DK
4.DK
5.T
6.F (the person wants to go to the east of China)
Step Ⅲ3b
This activity provides writing practice using the target language.
Read the instructions to students.
Ask: Who can explain the instructions in your own language?
Choose two or three among those who have put up their hands to explain the instructions in English.
They may say like this, Suppose I work for Ace Travel Agency and I have received the letter from S.T.Zhang.Then it is my duty to reply the e-mail and I have to tell where they should go on vacation.
After they all know what to do, get them to begin writing.Move around the classroom as they write, offering help if necessary.Remember whose passage is excellent and prepare to ask them to read theirs to the class.
After they’ve all finished writing, ask the students who have written very good passages to read theirs to the class.
Let them work in pairs to correct the mistakes in the passage they’ve written.
Tell them that they have to rewrite the letters after class and bring them to school tomorrow.
A sample writing
Subject: Vacation From: Ace Travel
Dear S.T.Zhang,
We are very glad to receive your letter.
Thank you for choosing our agency.
I think Qingdao is the best place for you and your family to go on vacation based on your e-mail.
Qingdao is a very beautiful city with lots of nice scenery.It’s on the east coast of China.The waves of the sea are really wonderful.It’s really an exciting place to visit.And you can also do a lot of exercise there, such as hiking along the coast
on the beach, swimming in the great ocean.
It will become a more attractive place in summer.
We can help you book an inexpensive room with three beds.Many local people there run that kind of hotels with their own houses.The rooms are very clean and nice and you can cook your meals in the kitchens if you like.
I suggest you’d better travel by plane.
You can save much time in that way.
How do you think of travelling to Qingdao?
Please tell us.
Best wishes to you and your family.
Ace Travel
Step ⅣPart 4
This activity provides reading, writing, listening and speaking practice using the target language.
Read the instructions to students.
Say something about the three places in the chart.Showing some pictures of these places to the students, say like this,
Qufu is a small city in Shandong Province.
It is famous for Confucius.It was Confucius’ hometown.He was born there.
The Great Wall is the pride of the Chinese people.It is very long and it is hard to believe that it was built over two thousand years ago.
The Forest of Steles in Xi’an is a great place for people who are interested in writing Chinese with brushes.
What do you think of the three places?
Look at the chart in Activity 4.We can see the sample answer in the box about Qufu in the column of you.
Continue saying, Now please fill in the boxes about The Great Wall and The Forest of Steles in Xi’an on your own.
You can use the words above the chart or any other word.
Tell them to write out the three students’ names in the proper places in the chart.
Then.get them to survey the three students.Let them work in groups of four.
Ask a pair of students to read the model conversation in Activity 4 before they begin their own ones.
At last, have several groups report the results to the class.Then ask the class where they would prefer to go together.
Sample answers to the chart:
An ideal place for a school trip |
You |
Li Hong |
Wang Wei |
Zhao Yang |
Qufu |
educational |
narrow |
great |
hot |
The Great Wall |
exciting |
crowded |
cold |
relaxing |
The Forest of Steles in Xi’an |
crowded |
educational |
expensive |
exciting |
Step ⅤSummary
In this class, we’ve read an e-mail to a travel agency and we’ve also written an e-mail.And we’ve done some reading, writing, listening and speaking practice using the target language through group work.
Step ⅥHomework
1.Rewrite the e-mail which you wrote in class.
2.Try to remember the new words and expressions on page 56.
Step ⅧBlackboard Design
Unit 7 Where would you like to visit? Section B The Fifth Period Answers to Activity 3a: 1.F 2.F 3.DK 4.DK 5.T 6.F Questions on the e-mail in Activity 3a: 1.Where do S.T.Zhang and the family want to take a trip? 2.What kind of place do they want to go to? 3.What exercise do they especially love doing? 4.What does S.T.Zhang say about the hotel they want to live in? 5.What does S.T.Zhang want the travel agency to do? 6.How long would they like to be away? |
Unit 7 Where would you like to visit?
The Sixth Period
Ⅰ.Teaching Aims and Demands
1.Knowledge Objects
(1)Key Vocabulary
surf, arctic
(2)Use the following words properly
hope, pack, save, provide, cook
(3)Write an article using the target language.
2.Ability Objects
(1)Train students to use the verbs hope, pack, save, provide and cook well.
(2)Train students’ writing skill.
3.Moral Object
Do you want to travel abroad? English
will be very useful for you then.It is spoken all over the world.
Ⅱ.Teaching Key Points
1.Help students have a self check on the key words and target language.
2.Practice using the verbs.
hope, pack, save, provide, cook
3.Write an article.
Ⅲ.Teaching Difficult Points
1.Use the verbs hope, pack, save, provide and cook.
2.Write the article.
Ⅳ.Teaching Methods
1.Teaching by making sentences.
2.Teaching by writing.
Ⅴ.Teaching Aid
The pictures of the four places
Ⅵ.Teaching Procedures
Step ⅠRevision
1.Check the homework by asking students to show their e-mails.
Choose several to read theirs to the class.Then let them work in pairs and read their own letters to the partners.At last, collect all the letters.
2.Have a dictation to see if they can remember the new vocabulary which they learned last class.Dictate the following ones.provide, firm, offer, spot.the Forest of
Steles, Confucius
Step ⅡPart
This activity focuses on vocabulary introduced in the unit.Focus attention on the box.Invite a student to read the vocabulary words at the top.
You are asked to fill in the blanks with the words.In some cases, you may need to use another form of the word, for example, adjusting for tense or subject/verb agreement.
Ask students to fill in the blanks on their own.
Check the answers.Five students each read a sentence, filling in the blanks.The rest of the students check their work.
Answers
1.provide 2.cook 3.saving 4.pack 5.hope
Ask students to make their own sentences with the words, preferably sentences that are meaningful.Move around the room.
Collect a few students’ answers with mistakes on the blackboard.Along with the students help correct the mistakes.
Sample answers
1.My family hope to go to Sydney soon.
2.He is packing all his clothes.He will leave for London tomorrow.
3.We’d better save time for study.
4.The hotel provides breakfast for free.
5.Many foreigners can cook dumplings.
Step Ⅲ2
This activity provides reading and writing practice using the target language.
Read the instructions to the class.Get them to look at the pictures.
Say, Can you say out the English names of the four famous places in the pictures?
Ask some students who know that to tell the names.Write the four names on the blackboard: the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Sydney Opera House, Big Ben in London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Then teach them to read the names several times till they can read them fluently and correctly.
Practice reading the names by showing some pictures of the four places to students.Get them to say out the English names of the places as soon as they see each picture.Change the pictures more and more quickly and students do as fast as they can.
After practicing the names, ask, Which these places would you like to visit most? Why? Ask two or three students to tell their answers to the class.They may say like this,
I’d like to visit Paris most.Because I cam see the famous tower, the Eiffel Tower.there.And I have ever heard the people there are very romantic.I’m interested in that.
Then say, Please say something on the place where you would like to visit most to your partner now.Get them to work in pairs.Move around the room as they work, offering words and sentences as needed.
After they’ve all finished, tell them to write an article about where they would like to visit most and why.Ask students to complete the work on their own.Move around the classroom and help them.
After they’ve finished writing, ask a few students to read their articles to the class.Encourage the rest of the class to tell the mistakes they may have made in their passages.
Work in pairs.Each one reads their own passage to the partner.Help correct any mistakes in the passage.
Sample writing
I’d like to go to a beautiful place.I think it would be Paris.If I went there I could visit the Eiffel Tower.It is famous all over the world.I like the Eiffel Tower very much.I have collected lots of pictures of it.Some of them are on the walls of my small room.It is my dream to go to visit the Eiffel Tower and take photos there by myself.That’s the main reason for me to like to visit Paris most.
I also like to see the other scenes in Paris.I have heard that the streets there are very beautiful.And there are many famous buildings in Paris.I would like to visit the museums there, too.I hope my dream can come true some day.
Step ⅣJust for Fun!
This activity provides reading and speaking practice with the target language.
Teach the new words surf and arctic first.Explain them in English like this, Surf means try to ride the waves on the board on the ocean.Surfing is a kind of very popular water sports.
Arctic means the north polar regions, and a polar bear is a kind of bear which live in the north polar regions.
Teach them to read the two words several times.
Get students to read the conversation in the pictures in two halves.Then ask them what is funny about this cartoon? Help them to answer: At first we think the travel agency is talking to a woman, and then I find out it’s a polar bear.
Call students’ attention to the posters on the wall in the first picture and the words on the polar bear’s board.Do some explanation on them.
Step ⅤSummary
In this class, we’ve practiced using some words.We’ve done some exercises on writing, too.
Step ⅥHomework
1.Review all the language points in this unit.
2.Finish off the exercises on pages 27~29 of the workbook.
3.Make another more sentence with each of these verbs, hope, pack, save, provide, cook.
4.Rewrite the passage in Activity 2.Try to make sure each sentence is correct.
Step ⅦBlackboard Design
Unit 7 Where would you like to visit? Self check The Six Period Answers to Activity 1: 1.provide 2.cook 3.saving 4.pack 5.hope Sample answers to Activity 1: 1.My family hope to go to Sydney soon. 2.He is packing all his clothes.He will leave for London tomorrow. 3.We’d better save time for study. 4.The hotel provides breakfast for free. 5.Many foreigners can cook dumplings. |