Unit2 Task Planning a holiday for your family
常州横林中学 高一英语 朱妍
高一（8）班
Teaching aims:
Train the students’ listening and speaking abilities.
Get the students to talk about planning a holiday.
Get the students to write an e-mail.
Teaching important points:
Finish the task of listening to improve the students’ listening ability.
Finish the task of choosing a holidaydestination to train the Ss’ speaking ability.
Finish the task of writing an e-mail.
Teaching procedures:

Step1 lead in 3mins
1. What will you do on the coming New Year’s Day? Would you like to travel?
2. If you have a chance to visit some place with your family,which place would you like to travel most?
Step2
A Here are two wonderful places for you to choose. Open your book turn to page33. Read these two leaflets and circle the names of the places mentioned and underline some new words that you don’t know.
Adventure on South Island,New Zealand
1.Christchurch go White-water rafting
2.Greymouth
3.Queenstown take a River cruise, have a Maori dinner
Explore Shandong Province
1.Ji’nan Baotu Spring
Daming Lake
The Yellow River
2.Tai’an Mount Taishan
South Heaven Gate,
sunrise,
Dai Temple,
teahouse
3.Qufu Confucius
B.Up to now, you have got a general idea of these two places.It’s time for you to draft travel plans for your family to consider.
Read the holiday leaflets carefully and fill in as many details as possible.
Before starting, let’s look at the first plan together.
Destination: the place you will visit
Duration: time during which your visit lasts
Tour departs:how often the tour leaves
Tour leaves on: when the tour leaves
Travel Plan 1
(1)South (7)Queenstown (8)traditional Maori (9)Christchurch
Travel Plan 2
12) .Ji’nan (14). Yellow (16). Sunrise (18). Dai
(19). Teahouse (20). birthplace
C.Listen carefully as the travel agent gives you more information .complete the travel plans above .
Travel Plan 1
(2)¥17,00 (3)five (4)four (5)train (6)Boat (10)weekly (11)Friday
Travel Plan 2
(13)first (15)six (17)bus (21) ¥1,200
Step3 Skills building 2 : forming questions from prompts
Now we have got so much infromation about these two places. Are you eager to visit these countries? Maybe you have already chosen a place to travel. But what about your family? So you have to discuss with your father or mother to take his or her advice.
Suppose your mother is away on business. You are phoning her to find out about your holiday plan and choose a holiday destination.
A:First,please ask your partner some questions according to part A .
1 .Type of holiday What type of holiday do you prefer ?
2 . Cost How much will you spend ?
3 . Places to visit Where do you want to go ?/what do you want to see?
4. Time When do you want to travel ?
5. Duration How long do you want to travel ?
B：Then make up a dialogue and work in pairs as son/daughter and mother .
3 mins are given.
Son/Daughter :Mum, what type of holiday do you prefer ?where do you want to go ?
Mum: Actually I don’t know . I just want to take an active holiday .
……
Now all of your have the final holiday destination. please write an e-mail to your father,who is on a business trip, telling him about the holidaydestination you and your mother have chosen for your family.
Step4 Skills building 3: writing an e-mail
A:Lead-in:By the way,do you know how to write an e-mail?
Points to note:
1. type in the e-mail address of the person you are writing to and the subject of your e-mail
2. don’t have to type in your e-mail address
3. greet the person ( Dear …)
4. start the e-mail ( Hello …)
5. type your first name at the end
6. use
生词表: