【人教课标选修7】Unit 5 Travelling abroad

Unit 5  Travelling abroad

Period One for warming up

Teaching Aims: 1. Help the students to learn to talk about traveling.

             2. Help the students to learn to talk about means of transportation.

             3. Encourage the students to learn how to express good wishes.

             4. Learn and master the following:

               consider, means, transportation, Have a good trip, Gook luck to you.

Contents: Important Points in Teaching

        1. Listening and speaking practice.

        2. Talk about travel in English.

        3. Learn the expressions of means of transportation

        4. Learn to expression good wishes

Difficult points in teaching

Talk about travel in English

Teaching Methods:

1. Listening, speaking and writing.

2. Watch and say

3. Pair/Group work

4. Inducing method with questions and answers

 Discuss and answer the questions.

1. If you could go anywhere in the world, which country would you like to visit and why?

2. What kind of things would you learn best by being a tourist in a country and what would you learn best by working or studying there?

3. How difficult or easy do you think it is to adjust to living or traveling in another country? What kind of differences might you experience?

4. Have you talk to anyone who has spent some time in another country? What did they find unusual or difficult about it?

 

 

Period Two for Reading

Teaching Aims: 1. Learn to define or paraphrase the given words and phrases.

              2. Learn and master : separate (v. adj);  benefit

              3. Revise the tenses learned before.

              4. Learn to organize sentences together to form a short passage.

Contents: 1. Language points:

         board vt. to get on a bus, plane, train etc. in order to travel somewhere.

       e.g. 1. Passengers are asked to board half an hour before departure time 乘客须在起飞前半小时登机。

          2. The students board during the week and go home at weekends. 学生们平日住校，周末才回家。

Set phrases: 1. on board 在船/飞机上

       e.g. The ship went down with all his crew on board.

          2. take sth on board = to listen to and accept a suggestion or idea etc. 接受（建议，想法等）

       e.g. The school refused to take any of the parents’ criticisms on board. 学校拒绝接受家长们提出的任何批评。

       get used to / be used to doing sth.

e.g. 1. It’s not just study that’s difficult. You have to get used to a whole new way of life, which can take up all your concentration in the beginning.”

   2. I haven’t got used to living the life of the village.

3. Don’t worry. You will soon get used to it. 别担心。你很快会习惯的。

3. be numb with sth.

   1. My fingers were so numb that I could hardly write. 我的手指都麻木了几乎不能写字。

     be numb with shock / fear / terror, etc

   2. I just sat there, numb with terror. 我只是坐在那儿，吓呆了。

4. I have been so occupied getting used to everything that I haven’t had time for social activities.

  2. I’m fully occupied with my office work and have little time for the housework. 我忙于办公室工作很少有时间搞家务。

  3. I think it’s important to have a balance between study and a social life.

 

 

Period Three for Learning and using language

Teaching Aims: 1. Try to recite some key sentences of the text.

             2. Answer some questions about the text.

             3. Discuss the key questions in groups.

Contents: key beautiful sentences to remember.

        1. I was very excited because I had dreamed of this day for so long.

        2. When I got lost and had to ask a pass-by for directions, I didn’t always understand.

        3. When I miss my family, it’s a great comfort to have a substitute family to come home to.

Answer these questions about the text.

  1. What is Xie Lei in England for? How long has she been in English?

  2. Why is she doing a preparation course first?

  3. What are some of the difficulties she faced when she first came to England?

  4. Which two types of people have helped Xie Lei most since she came to England?

In groups, discuss the following questions.

  1. What kind of person do you think Xie Lei is? Find evidence in the article to support your opinion.

  2. Why do you think the reporter used some direct speech in the article?

  3. Where do you think this article might have been published?

  4. Why did Xie Lei feel like a child when she first arrived in England?

  5. Why has Xie Lei decided to join a few university clubs?