中南大学附中黄艳adventureinAfrica教学设计.doc

Unit2 Wish you were here
Period 2 Reading: An adventure in Africa
Designer: The Attached Middle School to Central South University
Huang Yan
Teaching Aims:
1．Knowledge and Skills :
1). Grasp the main idea of the letter.
2). Help the students make a travel leaflet.
2．Cultural senses：
1). Help the students to learn more about other countries in the world.
2). Help the students to understand when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
3. Emotion and Values :
Develop the students’ feeling of beauty and love of life and our hometown while enjoying the nice mountains and rivers in the world.
Teaching difficult and important points:
1.How to get the main idea of the letter;
2. How to make a travel plan/ a travel leaflet;

Teaching procedures:
Step 1.lead-in/warming up
Share some beautiful pictures related to Africa while enjoying an exciting song about Africa.

Step 2. Reading
Task 1 Fast Reading
1. How will Colin and Toby travel through the desert ?( 2 words) ________________
2. What activities does Toby think is dangerous but exciting? ( 2 words)________________.
3. How long will they travel in Africa? (3 words) ________________

Task 2 Careful reading
Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks( each blank 3 words at most ). Then have a competition
Toby’s travel plan in Africa
Para
Where to go
How to travel
What to take
What to do
Para2
through the Sahara Desert
1.___________
2.__________
flashlight
travel
camp
see stars
Para3
Down the3.______________
by boat
4.__________
a life jacket
5._______________
Para4-5
In6.____________
7.____________
8.__________
food
water
see wild animals;
live with locals;
drink 9.__________
Para6
in Tanzania
on foot
not mentioned
climb10.__________

Step3 Retelling
Task3 Retelling and Acting in pairs
Rules：one student look at the map(the traveling routes of Toby) on the screen and retell Toby’s traveling experience; Meanwhile, another student act it out.

Task4 Retelling together
A travel leaflet
Week 1 take a flight from London to Morocco,
the Sahara desert ride camels through the Sahara desert,
camp in tents and sleep on the ground.

Week2＆3 go white-water rafting down the River Nile,
the River Nile see wild animals in Kenya,
Kenya live with the local people ,
eat and drink whatever they do,

Week4 climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Tanzania

Step4 Making a travel leaflet (group work)
Now, Toby and his friends want to have a four-day travel in Hunan. Now, imagine you are a guide of a travel agency, please work with your group and make a travel leaflet for them.

Step5 Presentation
Present your travel leaflets to the tourists/the class.