Unit 3　Travel journal單元規則與Period 1　Warming up and Reading

period 1:warming up and readingperiod 2:important language pointsperiod 3:grammar:the present continuous tense for future actionsperiod 4:listeningperiod 5:extensive readingperiod 6:speaking and writingperiod 7:revision (summing up and learning tip)

period 1　warming up and reading

整體設計從容說課this is the first teaching period of this unit. at the beginning of the class, the teacher can lead in the topic of this unit by brainstorming some questions, such as:do you like traveling? why do you like traveling? where have you ever been before?as to warming up, the teacher can follow the steps on page 17. its purpose is to get students talking about the six question prompts and the topic of this unit. so it does not matter whether they can find the correct fares. they can estimate, or give a good guess about how much it will cost. the important thing is to get students to carry on conversations in pairs using the present continuous tense to express planned actions in the immediate future. this part helps to make the students ready for reading.before reading the passage, the students should discuss the two questions in the part pre-reading in pairs. this makes for getting the students thinking about the general topic of the reading passage.the reading passage is the first part of journey down the mekong. it gives students the background about the bike trip, especially the planning that went into it. this part also introduces students to the four young people who made the trip:wang kun, the writer of the journal and his sister, wang wei, and their cousins dao wei and yu hang. this section also introduces students to many of the geographical terms they will use throughout the students’ book and workbook parts. so, the teacher can ask the students first to read quickly to get the main idea of the passage and topic sentence of each paragraph, then read carefully to locate particular information for exercise 1 in comprehending (on page 19), and finally do exercise 2:list the countries that the mekong river flows through. during the course of reading teaching, the teacher can not only develop students’ reading ability, including skimming, scanning and further understanding, but also get the students to learn the common knowledge about travel and the mekong river. because there are too many new words in the reading passage, in order not to let students feel much difficult, the teacher should deal with any language problems while they are reading.after reading the passage, the students should discuss in pairs:wang wei’s and wang kun’s similar and different attitudes about the trip.