《Travelling-around》单元教学设计

Period 1 Listening Speaking＆Talking
教学目标与核心素养：
1. Instruct students to get main facts by listening and motivate them to talk about the topics about how to prepare for the trip and make reservations by listening and ultimately can make travel arrangements and reservations.
2. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.
3. Develop students’ different listening skills to solve different listening comprehensive problems.
4. Help students to understand how to use the structures “the present continuous tense (be doing) is used to express future plans.
教学重难点：
1. Teach students how to focus on key words, not on single words or grammar.
2. Prompt Ss to talk about the related topics, such as how to prepare for the trip and make a travel plan.
教学过程：
Part 1: Listening and Speaking
Lead in
The teacher is advised to talk with their students about the places that they want to travel most both at home and abroad: boys and girls, if you have a chance to travel around the world, where will you go? After their small talk, the teacher can move on by finishing the following listening task:
Before travelling, what do we need to prepare for the trip?
After finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to play conversation 1 which is about Paul and Meilin’s conversation about coming holiday and after finishing listening for the first time, the students
need to solve the following task.
1．Circle the two places Meilin is going to for holiday.
A． Germany. B. England. C. Iceland. D. France.
2. How is she going to get there?
A. By sea.
B. By air. C .By train.
3 How is she planning to get around after she arrives?
A .By car. B. By train. C. On foot.
Listening tip:
After finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to play conversation 2 which is about where and why Paul is visiting with his family and after finishing listening, the students need to solve the following task.
Listen to Conversation 2. Then answer the following questions:
1.Where is Paul's family going over the holiday?
2. Why are they going there?
After finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to play conversation 3 which contains the whole conversation and solve the following task.
Fill in the table below:
Finally, after finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to instruct students to work in groups to finish the following project: Speaking Project
Work In pairs. Choose a travel destination and discuss how to prepare for the trip
Part 2: Listening and Talking:
The teacher is advised to talk with their new students about the related topic: Boys and girls, do you know how to make reservations for a trip? Let’s listen and find out:
Play the listening and answer the following questions:
1．What are the two speakers talking about?
2．What is the relationship between the two speakers?
2 Listen again and complete the table with the words you hear.
Making reservations
Opening:
Talking about time
Talking about what you prefer:
Other information
Payment
Talking project
Work in groups.
Imagine you are making plans for the holiday. Choose one of the situations below and role-play a phone call with a partner.
Booking air tickets Booking a hotel room Booking a table for dinner
Period 2 Reading and Thinking
教学目标与核心素养：
1. Enable students to acquire the basic usage of the new words and expressions concerning the topic of traveling and learn to use them flexibly.
2. Enable students to sum up some details related to Peru.
3. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.
4. Develop students’ different learning skills to solve different reading comprehensive problems, such as skimming, scanning and inferring.
教学重难点：
1. Develop students’ reading ability such as skimming, scanning and summarizing.
2. Let students talk about their travel plans and topics about travelling.
教学过程：
1. Before reading
Step 1 warming up
Have a free talk with students. Ask them the following question:
How much do you know about Peru? Let’s have a quiz. Show the quiz on the screen.
Step2 Pre-reading
Prediction:
1. What types of text is the passage?
2. Let students guess what the text will be mainly about before reading by looking at the picture and the title.
Step3: Reading
1. Fast reading
Ask students to skim the reading passage to find out some main details about Peru as quickly as possible by doing the multiple choice test.
1. Peru lies on the _________ coast of South America.
A. Pacific
B. Atlantic
C. Arctic
D. India
2. How many years did Spain control Peru about?_________
A.1400.
B.1500.
C.300.
D.100.
3. How will you get the center of forest if you visit Amazon Rainforest?
A. By air.
B. By sea
C. On foot.
D. By car.
4. If you want to enjoy stone buildings, which tour should you take?
A. Amazon Rainforest Tour
B. Machu Picchu Tour
C. Cusco Tour D Lake Titicaca Tour
5. Where is your accommodation while visiting Lake Titicaca?
A. Local hotel.
B. Visitor center.
C. Stone building.
D. Local home.
2. Intensive reading
Allow students to read the passage more carefully this time to sum up the features of each scenic spot.
Step 4: Further Reading and discussion
Read the text the third time and work in pairs to do the following task.
Suppose you are a travel agent, and the following people want a package trip to Peru and ask for your advice. Please recommend them the destination according to their interest.
Good expressions that students can choose to use: help the travelers choose which tour to take
1. Mike, a well -paid photographer, who has great interest in adventuring and exploration. He hopes to have an active holiday and shoot some pictures of different kinds of animals. He doesn’t need first class accommodation.
2. Bill is a reporter, who not only enjoys learning about the culture and lifestyle of the country, but also likes admiring beautiful scenery. He needs to make a report about the local people’s life of this country.
3. Tom, a hiking lover, hopes to spend some days hiking while enjoying the beautiful natural scenery.
4. Mary, a designer, is planning to make a trip to a place, where she can enjoy the different architecture of this country and some excellent food. She also likes going shopping.
1.In my opinion, you could/might choose…, because you prefer to…
2.Could be a perfect choice for you, for…
3.As far as I am concerned, you would enjoy…, for…
4.Would probably suit you, because you enjoys/ love/hate doing…
Step 5: Passage Consolidation
Language appreciation:
• 1. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.
•[句式分析] 本句主体结构为spend some time doing sth.
•exploring the rainforest 与_____________________为并列结构;
____________作方式状语; unique to the rainforest为形容词短语作定语修饰____________
•[尝试翻译]在接下来的三天里，您可以在当地导游的陪同下,深人雨林进行探索,欣赏雨林特有的动植物。

• 2. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones.
•[句式分析] ____________引导结果状语从句。

•nothing与the perfect fit为并列成分; other than在句中意为“____________”;to exact sizes 表示结果。

•[尝试翻译]印加的建筑工人将石头切割成精确的尺寸，仅仅凭着石头间的完美契合,即可稳固墙体。

Step 6: Homework
Suppose you will travel to Peru, write a short essay about your three-day tour plan.
Period 3 Discovering Useful Structure
The present continuous tense used to express the future meaning
教学目标与核心素养：
1. Get students to have a good understanding of the basic usages of the present continuous tense used to express the future meaning.
2. Strengthen students’ great interest in grammar learning.
3. Instruct students to express their ideas with this grammar correctly.
教学重难点：
How to enable students to use the grammar item: the present continuous tense used to express the future meaning flexibly both in their spoken English and written English.
教学过程：
Step1: 语法自主探究
Listen to a radio and figure out the new uses of “be doing structure” by filling in the blanks:
Question:以上歌曲中的含有现在进行时的句子有哪些？表示什么意义？
一．现在进行时表示将来的用法
英语中还可以用现在进行时（be doing ) 表示按计划、安排将要发生的动作。

主要用于以下两种情况：
（1）表示位置移动的动词的进行时表将来，如:
go, come, leave, start, begin, arrive, return, move, fly, take off等。

Mary is leaving for Beijing on Friday.
玛丽星期五要动身去北京
My uncle is coming back from abroad next week.
我叔叔下周要从国外回来了。

—Hurry up! The movie is beginning.快点，电影就要开始了。

—Don’t worry. There is still a little time left.不用担心，还有一点时间。

Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts. The plane is taking off.
女士们，先生们，请系好安全带。

飞机就要起飞了。

（2）有些不表示位置移动的动词的进行时也可以表将来，如：
do, get, rent, meet, bring, eat, have, meet, play, see, stay, wear, work, run out等。

What are you doing for the National Day holiday?国庆节假期你计划干什么？
We ’re renting a car and driving!我们要租辆车开车去！
--Are you eating at the park? 你们要在公园吃饭吗？
--I’m bringing my own lunch.我自带午餐。

We are having a few guests over tomorrow.明天有几位客人要来。

Food supplies in the flood-stricken area are running out .We must act immediately before there’s none left.灾区的食物快要吃完了，在吃完之前，我们必须立刻行动。

（3）一般将来时的其他几种表达法
初中阶段学习过will/shall do 和be going to do的形式表示将来意义。

高中英语中还可以用be to do 和be about to do 以及一般现在时表示将来意义。

will do（主语为第一人称时可shall）
①将要发生的动作或存在的状态（单纯表将来）。

He will be thirty next year. 明年他就30岁了。

With the development of science and technology, robot cooks will appear in our families in the future. 随着科技的发展，未来机器人厨师会出现在家庭中。

②未经过预先计划或考虑要做的动作（临时决定要做）。

— Excuse me, what time does Flight BA 2793 leave?
打扰了，波音2793航班何时起飞？
— Just a minute. I will check it for you. 请稍等，我现在就帮你看一下。

—Ann is in hospital. 安住院了。

—Oh, really? I didn’t know. I will go and visit her.
真的吗？我不知道啊，我要去探望她。

（4）be going to do
①表示计划、打算干某事（事先考虑）。

②表示有迹象表明要发生的动作。

We are going to visit the Great Wall with the exchange students this weekend.
周末我们打算和交换生去参观长城。

There is going to be a folk music concert in Beijing Opera Theater next month.
下个月在北京剧院有一场民族音乐会。

Look at the dark clouds. It is going to rain.
看这乌云，要下雨了。

Oh , it's 8:20. I'm going to be late for my class.
现在是8点20分。

我上课要迟到了。

（5）be to do （可以和具体的时间状语连用）
①表示按计划、安排即将发生的动作。

②用于时间、条件状语从句中，表示“如果要……，想要……”。

The examination is to take place next week.
下周要举行考试。

The students are to meet at the school gate tomorrow. 明天学生们将在学校大门口集会。

If you are to succeed, you must work as hard as possible. 如果你想要成功，比必须努力工作。

（6）be about to do （不与具体的时间状语连用）表示即将要发生的动作。

We are about to start. 我们就要出发了。

The new school year is about to begin. 新学年开学在即。

（7）一般现在时表将来
①表示按时间表规定将要发生的动作。

常限于表示位置移动的短暂性动词。

②在时间、条件或让步状语从句中，用一般现在时表将来。

Look at the timetable. Hurry up! Flight 4026 takes off at 18:20.
你看看时刻表，快点！4026次航班的起飞时间是下午6点20分。

Jane is in a hurry because the train to the airport leaves in half an hour.
简很匆忙，因为去机场的火车半小时后出发。

We will go for a picnic if it doesn’t rain this Sunday.
如果本周日不下雨，我们将去野餐。

Please tell him the news as soon as he arrives.
他一来，你就告诉他这个消息。

Period 4 Reading For Writing
教学目标与核心素养：
1. Get students to have a good understanding of how to write an impressive travel plan
2. Enable students to use some writing skills flexibly.
3. Develop students’ writing and cooperating abilities.
4. Strengthen students’ great interest in writing discourses.
教学重难点：
1.Guide students to write a concise, coherent and structured e-mail, introducing their own travel plans
2.Guide students to properly convey emotions using the proper language.
教学过程：
Step 1: Lead in
Begin the class with the lead-in questions: how to write to your friend an impressive travel plan? What kinds of aspects should be included? It is strongly recommended that the teacher should ask students to discuss the topic freely with their partners and brainstorm some ideas concerning the topic. In this way, students can come up with more ideas and avoid being nervous at the beginning of the class.
Step 2: Read to discover details
The teacher is expected to ask students to read Richard’s email to his friend and the brochure that he found silently and then request students to solve the task below. Study the organization and language features by summarizing the email: Paragraph 1: main purpose for the trip
Paragraph 2:other plans for the trip
Paragraph 3: transport
Paragraph 4: final thoughts
Tip: In this step, what should be highlighted is that the teacher ought to give students proper time to read individually, silently and think independently. There is no need for them to discuss the detailed questions. In this way, students can develop their individual logical thinking ability and promote their skills of finding details.
Step 3: Read to f ind out the words and phrases used to express emotion in the email After finishing the task above, the teacher move on the following task:
Underline the words and phrases used to express emotion in the email. Then complete the sentences below.
It is amazing sight. It is ____________ I am amazed.
It's almost unbelievable.
I can’t _______________.
It's hard_________________
It's an _____________________ story.
Step 4: Use what you have learnt to write a travel plan.
1. Pretend you are Xiao Li and reply to Richard's email.
2. Exchange drafts.
Assess each other's work according to the checklist.
Is there a clear purpose for the trip? :
Does each paragraph have a clear main idea?
Does the writer use the present continuous tense for future plans?
Does the writer use commas, stops, and question marks correctly?
Are all the words spelt correctly?
Are all the proper nouns capitalized?
Revise your draft according to your partner's comments.
_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________
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_____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________
Step 5:The summary of how to write a travel plan.
旅游计划是一种常见的应用文写作。

旅游可分为观光游、文化游、美食游及探险游等不同类型，因此旅游计划也要根据不同的旅游目的进行设计。

常规的旅游计划需要明确以下几个方面的问题:
Travel plan
When will you leave for？
Where is your the destination?
How will you get there?
What will you do there?
How long will you there?
Is there a clear purpose for the trip?
为了提升旅行计划的层级，还需注意以下几个方面的问题:
1.每段是否有明确清晰的主题;
2.用一般现在时代替一般将来时:
3.用更高级的形容词词汇。

例如:表达“好”时，不要总用“nice”,我们
还可以用“smart, clean, excellent, exciting, beautiful, wonderful, clever, famous, grand”等表达更具有指向性的同汇:
4.用更高级的动词词汇。

比如:我们可以用“seem stand, lie .get stay,
remain, look . sound, become . keep, grow”等代替"be";
5.所有“专有名词”要大写:
6. 文章最后要有适当的总结性语言。

[常用高级句式]
place of interest名胜古迹
tourist attractions旅游景点
historic sites 历史遗迹
Must- see attractions必看景点
go on a holiday/take a vacation去度假
check in登记人住check out结账退房enjoy the scenery of nature欣赏自然美景go sightseeing观光
feel like doing sth.想要做某事。