Unit 7 Holiday postcards
5. tell the students to draw a line down the center of the card and to write the address on the right-hand side. ask them to write the message for their postcard in rough. remind them to use the use the past tense forms of the verbs.
6. when the students finish tell them that they should check their sentences are in a god order. they should mention where they went first, when they were there and after that what they did there. this is called editing. it is the reason why the students should write their wrok in rough first.
7. then the students there is one more step called proof-reading. tell them to check their work for any errors. ask them to exchange their writing with a partner to check for errors.
8. tell the students to write their message neatly on the left-hand side of the back of the postcard. this can be done for homework..
g listen the say the poem
1. play the pupil’s book cassette for the students to listen to the poem.
2. play the cassette again and encourage the students to join in with the words.
h think about it!
ask the students to look at the diagram which shows why when it is summer in australia it is winter in china and vice versa. ask the students to complete the table about the seasons in the different countries.
post-task stage
the students could buy or make postcards showing the things that can be done in the area in which they live. these could be written on with a friendly message and went to another school in the same city, but a different area, or to classes in schools in other countries. addresses for these can be found on the internet at www. or at ( there is a small charge for this service).
i further reading
1. arouse interest in reading by asking the students how many days does it take to go round the world? explain that they are going to read about a book written in the days before aeroplanes. ask them to fin out how many days it took for philieas fogg to go round the world.
2. tell the students to read the passage again and then circle the correct answers.
3. ask the students did phileas go around the world in 80 days? the answer to it is yes. the students can find the original 1873 translation of the story at www.jv .ji/pg/80day/.
課后記：本單元學生容易出錯的地方是國家名稱的第一個字經常忘了大寫，還容易出現這樣的錯誤：in the canada, in the australia. 這課的活動手冊題量大，而且比較難。大部分學生不能很好的完成。教師要花比較多的時間來講解。希望對學生有所幫助。