Advance With English
Module 2 Making Discoveries
Unit 2 Wish You Were Here

Period 1 Welcome to the unit

Teaching Aims:
1.Learn about traveling
2. Develop students’ speakingability by talking about places in the world and traveling.

Teaching Important Point:
Develop students’ speaking ability.

Teaching Difficult Point:
How to get students to speak more and improve their speaking ability.

Teaching Methods:
1. Free talk to arouse students’ interest in traveling.
2. Discussion to make students finish the task of speaking.

Teaching Aids:
1. The multimedia
2. The blackboard

Teaching Procedures;
Step 1 Greeting and Lead-in
(Show the students some pictures on the screen)
1. Do you like traveling?
Do you want to visit these picturesque places?
Why do you want to visit these places?
Stpe 2 Welcome to the unit
(Show the students 4 pictures of Africa, Australia, Brazil, and Gobi Desert)
Which of these places would you like to visit most?
And why?

Step 3 Some questions about yourself
1. Have you ever been to some places?
2. What is the most exciting place you have ever been to?
3. Try to describe the place for us.

Step 4 Pair Work
Bob just come back from Sydney, and now Susan is asking him about his trip.
1.Work in pairs and try to use the following expressions.
Useful expressions:
• What do you think of the city?
• How do you find the city?
• Are there any places of historic interest to see in this city?
• What is the city famous for?• Would you please tell me something about the historic art of the city?
• I’d like to look around the city.
• How I wish I could go there someday!
2. Act out your dialogue in front of the class.

Step 5 Discussion
-- talk about traveling
(show the following on the screen)
Bob likes traveling, but Jean thinks it too costly and she has a good idea about how to travel without paying too much.

Step 6 Homework
1.Find more information about places in the world and traveling.
2.Preview the reading text.
Good staying with you!Thank you for your cooperation!
Period 2 Reading
Teaching Aims:
Train the students’ readingability and know how to write an informal letter.
1.Get the students to know the main idea of the text.
2.Develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
Teaching Important Points;
1.Develop the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points
1.How to make the students understand the passage better.
2.How to help the students finish all the exercises.
3.How to help the students develop their creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
Teaching Methods:
1.Fast-reading method to get the general idea of the passage.
2.Careful -reading method to get the detailed information in the text.
3.Discussion after reading to help the students finish the tasks.
4. Acting to develop the students’ creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.
Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia
Teaching Procedures:
Step1 Revision
Step 2 Free-talk and Lead- in
Show a map of Africa to students and ask them to discuss the following questions;
1.Can you tell me where the pyramids are located?
2.Apart from the grasslands, what else do you know about Africa?
Prepare some pictures. Encourage students to talk about Africa after watching them.
Step 3 Fast Reading
Ask students to skim the passage and answer the following questions:
1.who wrote the following letter?
Toby wrote this letter.
2.What animal is uncomfortable to sit on?
Camel
3.How lon
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