Unit3 going places

unit3 going places
1st period
teaching aims
1. help the students to learn to talk about traveling.
2. help the students to learn to talk about means of transportation
3. encourage the students to learn how to express good wishes.
4. learn and master the following: consider, means transportation, have a good trip,
 good luck to you
important points in teaching
1. listening and speaking practice
2. talk about travel in english
3. learn the expressions of means of transportation
4. learn to express good wishes           
difficult points in teaching
talk about travel in english
teaching aids
a slide projector or computer
a tape recorder
teaching procedures
step1.greeting and revision
step2.lead-in
1. ask some students what activities they did during the summer vacation.
2. do ‘warming up’
ask the ss to look at four pics on page 15
3. get the ss to understand the questions given, get their opinions about safety, comfort, quickness, convenience, etc.
4. deal with the four situations:
form shanghai to london
from chongqing to chengdu
from beijing to guangzhou
from dalian to qingdao
ask the students to give their reasons for choosing their means of transportation.
step 3. listening
1. pre-listening
now we know something about different means of transportation, we can travel by ship or by air, imagine now we were in the waiting room at an airport. and we’ll listen to some boarding calls.
2. listening
ask the students to concentrate on comprehension of the boarding cal l.
play the tape again. get the students to focus their attention on the specific information check in pairs. then discuss the answers with the whole class.
step 4. speaking
1. lead-in
talk to the students about their travel experiences in the past. questions:
where did you travel?
when did you do that?
how did you travel?
2. deal with the table
ask three or more students about the year and the place they want to travel to ask one to write the information on the form on the blackboard, and the others in the form on page 16.
3. do the example
demonstrate the example with a good student.
then ask the students to make a dialogue with their partners on pairs according to the completed form.
4. consolidation practice
(1) ask the students to create their own dialogues according to their own imagination of traveling to the past or the future in different machines.
(2) show the traveling of a spaceship in space and ask the students to make a dialogue about it.  .