Unit 3　Travel journal  Period 6　Speaking and Writing

三維目標knowledge aims:1. get the students to learn some useful new words and expressions.2. get the students to know about what a dam does to a river and the people who live on it.3. get the students to learn the form of an email and the ways to express good wishes.ability aims:1. develop the students’ speaking ability.2. get the students to learn how to write an email and how to express good wishes in it.3. get the students to learn how to make a travel poster.emotional aims:enable the students to master writing skills and write excellent emails and make wonderful posters.

教學過程設計方案（一）→step 1 revision1. check the homework exercises.2. ask some students to summarize journey down the mekong.→step 2 speaking1. show students the pictures of the aswan dam, the hoover dam and the three gorges dam and talk about them.2. work in pairs and discuss the question:what do you think a dam does to a river and the people who live on it?3. make a list of good and bad things a dam does.good things:1)control floods2)make electricity3)the raised water level makes it possible for heavy-loaded ships to pass.4)bring new scenerybad things:1)force the people to move from their land and homes2)the three gorges dam has forever changed some of the most historically celebrated scenery in the area.3)refugees are economically, culturally and psychologically devastated.4)people in the mekong delta suffer from diseases dams and large irrigation projects in the tropics bring.5)the construction of dams in southeast asia has brought some of the countries into heavy debts.4. discuss your report with your classmates.→step 3 writing1. pre-writing1)talk about what is the difference between a diary and a travel journey.show the two passages on the screen.passage 1:it is the most beautiful spot i have visited in the world to date. it has delicious air, sparkling lakes, and stunning scooped-out vistas from a bygone age. i have heard others speak effusively about its jaw-dropping beauty. but after seeing glacier for myself, i can honestly say that prior descriptions did not do it justice. it exceeded my expectations. it’s spectacular.passage 2:at 6:00 am, my classmates and i met at the school gate. then we went to the xihu park by bus. in the morning, we went to the zoo, where we saw many different animals. of all the animals, i like monkeys best. at noon we had a picnic lunch on the grassland. after a short rest, we went boating on the yingshan lake. we held a boat race and our team won. at about 4:00 in the afternoon, we went home.