Unit 3 Going Places
The 4th period Speaking
Step 1 Daily Greeting
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step2 Lead-in Activity
T: Travel is our favorite and it becomes more and more popular among us. But there are always some problems. For example, some people can’t afford enough time and money to have a trip. Don’t you thing so?
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T: Do you have some ideas to solve these problems?
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T: To save money is a good way. Today, I will invite a new friend to our classroom. We know him on TV. He is lovely and helpful. He is afraid of mouse very much. Can you guess who he is?
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T: Ok, here he is. ( show the picture of “多啦A梦”)
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Step3 Speaking
Part 1 Time machine
T: Do you like to make friend with him? If you do, then he will give you a special present and the present is free. (Show another picture)
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T: First, let me introduce the present to you
This machine is called Time Machine. It can let you travel in time. With this machine you can travel to the past or the future. You could visit any year or any place you wish
T: Do you want to have a try?
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T: Which do you prefer, the future or the past?
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T: Where do you want to go?
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T: How long will you stay there?
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T: Travel alone or with others?
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T: Ok, with this machine I want to go to the past, maybe the Tang dynasty because I want to make friend with the great poet Libai. I want to see how he had the nickname”” and will ask him to write some poems for me. By the way, I also want to pay a visit to the beauty “Yang Yuhuan”. What about you?
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T: Different people may have different ideas. Please look at the dialogue on page 16. Two students to act it out. Who’d like to have a try?
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T: How can we ask others about the time machine?
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T: Yes, we can ask like this.
Where do you like to go?
Why do you like to go there? Any reasons?
Which year would you like to go to?
To which year do you want to go?
Which do you prefer, the future or the past?
T: How do we reply to these questions?
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T: We can use the following sentences.
I would like to travel to the year…
I would like to know what life would be like…years ago.
I want to know what life will be like…years from now.
T: Let’s have a discussion in-group of four. Ask your partners these questions and write down the information like this.

Name
Year
Place
Reason
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T: (in 5 minutes) I’d like someone to make a dialogue about the time machine. Any volunteers?
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Part2 Dream-machine
T: What other inventions do you want? Homework-machine?
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T: Others?
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T: What about a Dream-machine? The Dream-machine can help us realize the fond dream.
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T: Someone says it is much easier to succeed if we have a dream in our life? Then what will happen if we don’t have one?
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T: This is a poem about dream.
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow
T: Boys read the first part and girls read the rest part.
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T: This poem is written by an American poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Dreams mean ideal or hope in the life. It emphasizes that if there is no dream in life, there will be no goal and direction. And our life will be boring and dull. What do you think of dream? Is it important for us?
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T: What dream do you have? (One student)
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T: Why do you have such a dream?
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T: How can you realize your dream?
S:生词表:

discussion [di´skʌʃən]   n.讨论；辩论   (初中英语单词)

barren [´bærən]   a.贫瘠的；不生育的   (初中英语单词)

dynasty [´dinəsti]   n.王朝；朝代   (英语四级单词)