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Teaching plan of unit three
Travel journal

Teaching aims and demands

1. Topic: traveling; describing a journey
2. Vocabulary and useful expressions:
 journal, fare, transport, finally, cycle, persuade, insist, proper, properly, determine, rapid, valley, waterfall, plain, attitude, shorts, p, record, afterthought, topiiliar, brave
 change one’s mind, give in
3. Function:
Good wishes：
Have a good day/time!
Have a good journey/trip!
   Good luck!
   Enjoy yourself!
   Best wishes to you.
   Happy New Year!
   Merry Christmas!
   Happy birthday!
   Than.
   You, too.
   The same to you.
Means of transportation:
   walking, cycling, horse riding, tases/trains/boats/planes
4. Grammar: 现在进行表将来
Where are you going on holiday?
I am going to Hawaii on holiday.
When are we ing back?

Teaching procedure:

Period 1.
Step 1.Warming up
1. Ask some questions:
Do you often travel? Where have you been?
2. Following the steps of the warm-up on page 17.
Step 2. Pre-reading
1. Show some traveling pictures of the teacher’s.
2. Ask Ss : which river is the longest one in the world and which is the largest one; which river is the longest one in China.
3. Ask Ss: how people who live along a river use it.
Step 3. While-reading
1. Scanning: Ss read quickly and answer:
What are they going to do?
2. Skimming: Ss read again and finish prehending 1 on page 19.
3. Ss read and get the main ideas of each paragraph.
4. Ss list the countries that the Mekong River flows through.
Step 4. After-reading
  Ss in pairs and discuss: Wang Wei’s and Wang Kun’s similar and different attitudes about the trip.
Similar attitudes about the trip Different attitudes about the trip
Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun think…

1. taking this trip is a dream e true.
2. that they will enjoy this trip a lot.
3. they should see a lot of the Mekong.
4. that most of the Mekong will be found in Southeast Asia. Wang Wei believes…

1. they must start in Qinghai where the river begins /see all of the Mekong.
2. that they don’t need to prepare much
Wang Kun believes…

1. it is too cold and high to start in Qinghai.
2. that using an atlas is very important.