Going places

the third ＆ fourth period  reading
teaching goals
1. target language
words and expressions: adventure, experience(v.), simply, rafting, vacation, basic, spider, equipment, paddle, poisonous, get away from, instead of, get close to, watch out for, protect…from…, be careful (not) to do sth
communication: 1. do you like travel? why/ why not? 2. where would you most like to travel? 3. have you ever tried any adventure travel?
2. abilities: train the students’ reading ability.
teaching key points: enable the students to understand the text better.
teaching methods: discussing or cooperative learning.
teaching aids : a multi-media room
teaching procedures:

stepⅰ. lead-in
stepⅱ. warming-up (多媒體展示multi-media slides show)
stepⅲ. pre-reading   team work /group work.
stepⅳ reading
1. discussion before reading to make students interested in travel and adventure travel.
2. fast reading to get the general idea of the text.
3. careful reading to answer some detailed questions.
4. individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
language points
get away from, instead of, get close to, take exercise, go for a hike, watch out for, protect…from…, be careful (not) to do sth.
(1)yet there are other reasons why people travel.
(2)it is done on rivers and streams where the water moves quickly.
(3)the name“whitewater”comes from the fact that the water in these…)
stepⅴ. homework / class work
(  ) 1. we walked along the street, talking and laughing and ____ at the end of the street.
a. divided          b. separated            c. left             d. met
(  ) 2. Chinese Taiwan straits ______ the island _______ the mainland.
a. separated, from   b. divide, from          c. separate, into     d. divide, into
(  ) 3. would you please take care of my dog while i’m away ________.
a. in holiday       b. on holiday            c. take a holiday    d. for holiday
(  ) 4. —will you tell us something about the weather there?　—i ________ to that.
a. go             b. come                c. am going        d. am coming