M2U2welcome.doc

1st Period Welcome to the unit
Teaching Aims:
1. Talk about traveling.
2. Make the students practice their spoken English and share opinions with each other by either discussing their travel experiences or using their imagination.
3. Teaching Important Point:
Make the Ss free to talk in and after class about traveling.
Teaching Difficult Point:
Help students finish the task of speaking.
Teaching Methods:
Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
The multimedia and the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Brainstorming
Ask and answer the three questions between T and the Ss.
(1). Do you like traveling? Do you want to visit these picturesque places?
(2). Why do you want to travel?
(3). Why do more and more people like to travel, even some of them traveling abroad?
(4). Where do people often travel?
(5). What do people need to do before traveling?
(6). What items should we take?
Step 2 Speaking----Our travel route
Talk about the pictures of Grasslands of Africa, Australia’s famous beaches, Brazilian rainforest, Gobi Desert in pairs or groups.
Step3 Interview
Ask him/her as many questions as possible about his/her traveling experiences using the following sentences.
Step 4 Homework
1. Find more information about places in the world and traveling.
2. Preview the reading text.