Unit Three Going Places

Teaching Goals:

1.        to talk about traveling and means of transportation;

2.        to grasp the ways of expressing good wishes;

3.        to review verb tenses;

4.        to use the Present Continuous Tense for future actions;

5.        to write travel letters.

Teaching Key points:

1.        to grasp different verb tenses;

2.        to use the Present Continuous Tense for future actions;

3.        to do writing about traveling.

Teaching difficult points:

1.    to grasp the Present Continuous Tense for future use;

2.    to write a travel letter;

3.    to learn to use the following phrases:

1)      get away from

2)      watch out

3)      protect sb/sth from

4)      see sb. off

5)      on the other hand

6)      as well as

Teaching methods: listening, speaking, discussing

The First Period

Teaching Aims:

1.      to get some knowledge about traveling;

2.      to promote the Ss’ abilities of imagination;

3.      to improve the Ss’ listening ability

Teaching procedures:

Step One Warming up

1.      As the society develops, people can go places in many means of transportation. Ask the Ss to list means of transportation they have known.

car, bus , train, plane, spaceship, …….

2.      Present the four pictures to the Ss and ask them to talk about what is happening in the pictures.

1)      He is driving too fast.

2)      He is littering waste things everywhere.

3)      He is smoking in the park.

4)      He is parking his car at a non-parking place.

The Ss conclude: We must protect our environment while traveling and obey the rules.

3.      ask the Ss to discuss what they have to consider before they decide which means of transportation they will use.

1) distance  2) weather  3) fare  4) whether it is easy to get tickets

5) the time the journey will take

4.      Ask the Ss to discuss how would they like to go to the places and give reasons

1) from Shanghai to London      2) from Beijing to Guangzhou

3) from Chongqing to Chengdu    4) from Dalian to Qingdao

Step Two Listening

1.      Teach the new words :

1) board   2) boarding calls/cards/gate   3) destination

2.    &n