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Unit 3. A
day out
Reading Ⅰ
Around the world in a day!
Teaching
aims:
1. To understand
the passage and learn about the school trip to the World
Park..
2. To describe
the feeling of a trip by using proper words and phrases.
Teaching
focuses:
1. learn about
the general idea of the school trip.
2. learn the
words and phrases used to describe the feeling of a
trip.
Teaching
procedures:
Step1. Daily
greetings
Get a student to give his or her duty
report.
Step2.
Present the teaching aims
Get the students to read the teaching
aims by themselves.
Step3.
Reading
Contest 1 of
self study
Give the
students a question: How did Linda feel about the visit
to the World Park? Let the students scan the letter and
get the information. Get one student to give the answer:
She had a great time there. It was a great day but she
didn’t enjoy it at the beginning.
Contest 2 of
self study
Play the tape
for the students. Make them finish Exercise C1 ( Tell
true or false) on Page 43 by themselves as they listen
to the tape. Get better students to correct the wrong
answers and tell the reasons.
Contest 3 of
self study
Get the students
to read aloud the letter after the tape. Discuss the
following questions in pairs:
1. Where did
Linda go?
2. Who did she
go with?
3. How long was
the journey?
4. Did she enjoy
it at the beginning?
5. What did she
see from the coach when they arrived?
6. How many
models of places of interest are there?
7. Which places
of interest did they see?
8. What was the
best part?
9. Where can
Linda’s mother see the photos of the trip?
Get nine
students to answer these questions. Then get them to do
Exercise C2 ( Put the photos in the correct order.) on
Page 43. The teacher gives some opinions if the students
can’t work out these questions.
Contest 4 of
self study
Divide the
students into several groups of three. At the same time,
divide the letter into three parts. Give each group one
part and let them find out the adjectives, adverbs or
phrases which describe the feelings of Linda during the
school trip.
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Para.
1~2 |
Wonderful, interesting, great, did not enjoy,
boring, felt sick |
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Para.
3~4 |
Very
excited, did not feel sick, enjoy ourselves,
wonderful |
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Para.
5~7 |
Couldn’t
believe my eyes, wonderful, amazing, great |
Give the winners
something as a reward.
Contest 5 of self study
Encourage the
students to describe the feelings of Linda by using the
words and phrases in the table. Get the students to help
each other to finish this exercise.
Step4.
Relaxation
Enjoy some pictures of places of
interest in the world.
Step5.
Ask the students to go over all the contents of the
letter find out if they have any other questions. Then
discuss the questions raised by some students. Encourage
the other students to help them to solve the puzzles.
Step6. Test
If there are no questions, test them
with a test paper.
Exercises:
Test 1:
Retell the letter by using the following words and
phrases:
Para.1: have a wonderful time
interesting invite…to
the World Park great did not enjoy at the
beginning
Para.2: at the school gate get on
a coach took about two hours a lot of traffic
boring get better feel sick
Para.3: arrive at blue
beautiful very excited the model Eiffel Tower
is made of get off quickly not…any
more enjoy ourselves
Para.4: the whole world models
of places of interest from all over the world
small beautiful
Para.5: the model pyramids look
just like Egypt the model Golden Gate Bridge
back home couldn’t believe my eyes wonderful
Para.6:
amazing the song and dance parade great join in
Para.7: some photos of the trip
teach himself make a home page put his photos on
it for yourself
Test2: Describe a place of interest you are interested in and familiar
with by using the words and phrases we have learned in
class.
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