M2U2reading.doc

2nd period
Reading An adventure in Africa

Teaching Aims:
1. Help students improve their reading abilities.
2. Learn and master the following words and phrases
Teaching Important Points:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Enable the students understand the text better.
3. Get the students to master the tenses used in the passage.
4. Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
Teaching Difficult Point:
1. How to improve the students’ reading ability.
2. The use of some useful expressions.
Teaching Aids:
The multimedia, the blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Ask one or two students to talk about their traveling experiences.
Step 2 Reading Comprehension
1. pre-reading
What do you think of the pictures in the media show? Have you ever been to all these places? Do you like traveling? Yes. Actually, most people are crazy about traveling. With the rapid development of economy, Chinese people are becoming richer and richer. To improve life quality, they will try to find chances to travel. And also the Chinese government has arranged for two golden weeks to that people can have more time to enjoy traveling. As you have seen from the pictures, some places of interest are crowded with tourists. More people are now going out for sightseeing. Then why is traveling becoming more and more popular?
As a matter of fact, many of you have ever been to some places of interest, can you tell us the names of the tourist attractions? Well, all these places are located in China. Have you ever been abroad for a visit? Neither have I. Then it doesn’t make any difference. We can travel abroad by reading. Here is a passage about An adventure in Africa. (Teach the students how to pronounce the word “adventure and explain the meaning.)
2. Scan the whole text to find the route of the adventure and answer questions:
1. Who is the writer of the letter?
2. Which country does he come from?
3. (Present the world map. Show the students the route from London to Morocco by plane.) So this is their first destination for their summer vacation trip. From the map, we know that Morocco is located in northwestern part of Africa. Skim the first second Para. and find the answers to these questions.
(1)What will they be doing there? (slide show)
(2)What will Toby bring a torch for? (slide show)
Anyway, traveling in desert is romantic, though it is tiring and a little bit dangerous. But Toby has to continue his adventure. Who will tell me their next destination? (Better find a video clip)
Questions:
(1)What will they be doing while traveling down the Nile?
(2)What do you have to wear while doing the game?
(3)What do you think of the game?
Since rafting is dangerous and may kill you, will you experience the game? Why?
4. Different people have different points of view. You have the right to choose to die or live. In rafting, Toby and Colin may feel nervous. So they want to relax at the next destination. What is it? And what are they going to do there? Why do the guides have guns with them?
Further thinking:
(1). Should Toby drink the cow’s blood?
(2). Should they get as close as possible to the wild animals?
After all, wild animals are wild animals. If they are hungry, they might attack anything.
5. It is certain that staying with Kenya local people for Toby and Colin will be quite an experience and they had a good time watching the wild animals. So they are continuing their exciting trip. Do you know the name of the highest mountain in Africa? Kilimanjaro. In which country does it lie?
Questions:
(1)What do you think of mountain climbing?
(2)What problems do some people have while climbing?
Discussion:
If you feel exhausted in climbing mountain, should you give up half way?
6. Now the letter is almost coming to an end. Do you still remember the countries they will be visiting and the things they will be doing? (Present The route and destinations in Africa to the students and ask them to retell what they will be doing along the route)
Step 3 An Informal letter sample
Dear Toby,
How are you? I’m glad to ……………….…………………
……………………………………..……
Best wishes to you!
Love,
Aihua

Step4 Homework
You are supposed to write a letter to Toby telling him your plan for the oversea travel. Pay attention to the style of the letter.
8th and 9th periods
Project
Teaching objectives:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Help students to learn English through doing group work.
3. Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
4. Encourage students to design a travel leaflet by imitating the one about traveling to Shangri-la.
Important teaching points:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Use what they have learnt to complete the project by working together.
Difficult teaching points:
Learn to design a travel leaflet by imitating the one about traveling to Shangri-la.
Procedures:
Step1. Free talk
1. Where have you visited?
2. Have you taken photos? Can you share them with us?
3. Have you read travel leaflets before you traveled?
4. Do you know something about Shangri-la?
Step2. Pre-reading
If your family plan to visit Shangri-La how will you learn more about it?
Where is Shangri-La?
Where do you want to travel?
Step3. Reading
Read the travel leaflet and answer the questions
1. Where did the word “Shangri-la” first appear?
2. What can you know from it?
3. What interests you most?
Introduce Shangri-La to us as a local guide
Step4.The writing features of a travel leaflet
• brief introduction of the place
• history and culture
• description of the scenery of the place
• how to get to the place
• what the weather is like
Which of these places would you like to visit most? (showing some pictures)
Step5 Making a travel leaflet
1. 6 students a group to think about the place you will travel to and the reason.
2. Talk about the climate there?
What to take with you?
How to get there?
Where to stay?
What do you want to see there?
3. Make a leaflet. Each group member must write a section.
Step6 Homework
Collect more information about the history, culture and people there to complete your leaflet.
Look for some photos to illustrate your leaflet.
Get ready to display your group’s leaflet for the rest of the class to read.