Unit 3 Going Places (The 1st period: Warming-up)

Teaching plan:

Objectives: 1. To learn and master the following words: traveling, transportation, consider, boarding call, destination.

2. To do listening practice.

3. To do some speaking and talk about traveling to the past or future.

4. To talk about means of transportation.

Teaching important points:

To improve the students’ listening and speaking ability.

Teaching difficult points:

How to finish the task of speaking and how to make dialogues correctly.

Teaching methods:

Individual pair-work group-work students-centered

Teaching aids:

The computer and tape recorder

Teaching procedures:

Step I : Exchange greetings

Step II: lead-in

Teacher: Do you like traveling? Why do you like it?

Students: A lot of reasons . . .

Teacher: In my opinion, we can . . .

But do you know how people travel?

Students: . . .

Teacher: Which means of transportation is the fastest?

Students: By air.

Step III. Listening part:

Teacher: Suppose you were at the airport, listen to the boarding calls carefully, try to get some information about the Flight Number, Destination and Gate.

The box on the slide show (page 15)

Step IV. Speaking part:

Teacher: Do you think we should consider the means of transportation before or after traveling?

Students: . . .

Teacher: What others should we consider before traveling besides means of transportation?

Students: . . .

Teacher: If you have enough money and time, which item do you think is very important?

Students: . . .

Teacher: Have you considered what we shouldn’t do during travel?

Students: . . .

Teacher: Look at screen, what can you see from the pictures?(describe them in English)

Students: . . .

Teacher: Now,7-day holiday is coming. I want to travel from Harbin to Lhasa by way of Dalian and Tsingdao. Can you tell me how I can get there and why?

Students: . . .

Teacher: Do you want to travel during these 7days?

Students: . . .

Teacher: Where will go? How and why? (Four people a group and make a travel plan and then we will share it with each other.)

Students: . . .

Teacher: Have you ever considered going to the past or future?

Students: . . .

Teacher: Now look at a short piece of video. It’s a means of transportation that can take us to the past or future. Try to guess what it is.

Students: . . .

Teacher: Suppose you had a time machine, what would you do? (Discuss it with the partner and make up a dialogue. What would you do? Why?)

Students: . . .