Unit 7 Where would you like to visit?
step ⅲ 2a
read the instructions to students. tell them to guess the meaning of travel agency first. then explain it like this:
if you plan to have a trip or vacation, you can go to a travel agency. a travel agency is an office that can help you make travel plans. also they help you get plane tickets and hotel reservations. then presentate whale watch and amusement park to the class like below. a whale watch tour means you stay in a ship and go out to the oceaning during the time of year when the whales are migrating, then you can see them travelling. amusement park means a place like disneyland. you can do lots of rides and play lots of games there.
write the two phrases on the blackboard.
look at the three pictures in activity 2a now. we know jeff has a summer job at a travel agency. we will hear him talking on the phone with three different people.
can you see the small box in the corner of each picture? listen to the conversations and number the pictures. write a proper number in each box to show the right order of the pictures. then play the tape for the first time. tell them only to listen. play the tape a second time. as they listen to the tape this time, have the students number the pictures.
check the answers.
step ⅳ 2b
read the instructions to the children.
tell them to look at the chart. then read the headings customer, wants, doesn’t want and point out the blanks under each one. and let them see the sample answer under wants in the chart. ask them to read it together. say, then first customer wants to go somewhere warm.
i’ll play the recording again. please write down the things the three customers want and don’t want in this chart as you listen to the recording.
the play the recording again. students fill in the blanks with the words they hear. pause the tape several times to give students time to fill out the chart.
correct the answers.
step ⅴ 2c
this activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.
read the instructions to the children.
say, in this activity, you are asked to role play jeff’s conversation with the information in the chart in activity 2b.
ask a pair of students to read the sample conversation to the class.
offer more phrases,…to go to a small town,…to go by ship,…to go to a place which is too crowded, …to travel by plane,…to go to anywhere too far, ect.
write them on the blackboard.
then ask students to practice in pairs.
move around the room checking the progress of the pairs and offering help as needed. ask one or two pairs to say their conversations to the class. correct any mistakes they may have made.