Unit 3　Travel journal  Period 5　Extensive Reading

unit 3　travel journal  period 5　extensive reading

整體設計this is the fifth teaching period of this unit. the teacher should first check the students’ homework and offer chances for the students to go over what they learned in the last period at the beginning of the class.in this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing the students’ reading ability by reading extensively and getting them learning to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning. as to new words and phrases, the teacher can first find those the students feel most difficult and help them to understand. some important points should be explained and practiced.we will deal with two reading passages. the first one is the second part of journey down the mekong:a night in the mountains. part of the purpose of this entry is to reach students in the affective domain. it tells us what wang wei and wang kun saw, heard and did, also how they felt in tibet. in order to lead in the topic of this part, the teacher can first show the students a picture about the tibetan mountains and ask some questions about tibet. then ask the students to fill in the chart designed according to this part by skimming and to locate particular information by scanning. while checking their answers with the whole class, deal with any language problems the students can’t work out by themselves. later on, ask the students to listen to the tape, mark the rising and falling tone of each sense group and sentence and practice reading aloud. the second passage is still part of the travel journal that makes up the whole of this unit. actually it is about the end of the journey. so this reading assumes information from other parts of the unit. the cyclists began their journey in qinghai province and passed through tibet, laos, cambodia and vietnam. then there is the exercise which requires the students to use information not only from this reading passage but also from other parts of the journal. so encourage them to discuss the topics in the chart and look elsewhere in the unit for the answers.during the course of reading teaching, the teacher can not only develop students’ reading ability, but also get the students to learn about common knowledge about tibet, laos, cambodia and vietnam.to consolidate the contents of the reading passages, the students should be required to retell the two parts. in order to arouse the students’ interest, the teacher can hold a competition between groups.教學重點��develop the students’ reading skills by extensive reading.