Teaching Plan
Unit15 Getting There (Integrating skills)
--- Travel tips and Practical Advice
Teaching Goals:
1. Get the students to be familiar with some travel tips.
2. Help the students to improve the Ss’ readingability
3. Enable the students to write a travel diary.
Key Teaching Points
How to improve the Ss’ reading ability.
Difficult points
1. How to grasp the main idea of a passage.
2. Let the Ss can use what they have learnt.
Teaching methods
1.Discussion methods to make the Ss understand what they’ve learned in class.
2.Pairwork of group to get every student to take part in the teaching-and-learning activities.
Teaching aids
A tape recorder and the multi-media
Teaching procedures
Step1. Lead-in
Lead-in by playing a song “ Journey” and then follows a question:
What’s the name of the song?
Many people like traveling. May Day will soon come , they are planning to go on a good trip during the holiday. As we know, people will usually get some information before going on a trip, in what way to get information? What should we get ready before we go to a far-way destination?
Step2. Skimming
Let the Ss read the passage fast and then find out:
1.What travel tips are mentioned in the passage?
2.What are money matters?
Step3. Scanning
a. Let the Ss read the passage carefully and then answer the questions:
1. Why do travel agents play an important role in your trip?
2. Why should not travellers take too much money?
3. Why is it suggested that you never change money on the street or with strangers?
4. How to pack your things before the trip?
b. Further reading
1. How can you view rooms and rates of a hotel in advance(预先)?
2. Which of the following is the best place to buy foreign currency according to the text?
3. According to the text, reading about a destination is a good way to (1)_______________(2)_________________(3)___________________
4. What is a package trip?
A package trip is a trip that ______________
5. The word “seasoned” in the last paragraph probably means ______.
6. The phrase “travel light” in the last paragraph probably means______.
7. The main idea of the text is _________.
Step4. Listening
Play the tape for the Ss to listen
Step5. Vocabulary: Find the word in the text which can match the explanation
• a plan of how to spend money
• a fixed amount of money that is charged or paid for sth.
•a small official book to be shown when entering a foreign country or returning home
a small official book to be shown when entering a foreign country or returning home
•a written order to a bank to pay a certain sum of money from one’s bank account to another person
•the particular type of money in use in a country
•a plan or preparation that you make so that sth can happen
•to put things into (cases, boxes,etc) for travelling
Step6. Fill in the blanks with the given words:
budge, rate, passport, cheque, currency, pack, arrangement
1.She can read at the _________ of 100 words a minute.
2.Many travellers prefer traveller’s _________s to cash.
3.She made a monthly ___________ for her family.
4.If you go to another country, you need a ____________.
5.It’s useful to have some local ________________. You can change money at the airport.
6.A travel agent can help you make the necessary ______________ for your trip.
7.What should I _________ before going aboard?
Step7. Word builder--- Can you add other words to this web?
passport, sight, attract
Step8. Discussion
1. Which tip do you think most useful?
2. What other tips can you give?
3. Imagine and Compete
Little Marco Polo is setting out for Shenzhen on May Day. What are in his backpack?
1. pre
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