【正文】 laces and countries guess meaning from pictures Teaching focus introduce wellknown foreign cities and popular places of interest. activate existing knowledge of the world and identify names of places and countries guess meaning from pictures Difficult points activate existing knowledge of the world and identify names of places and countries guess meaning from pictures Teaching method Taskbased approach， Scene pedagogy and Teaching with humor Teaching procedures The second preparing lessons Step 1: Warm up activities and elicit the new words. Enjoy some pictures of places of interest around the world. Free talk: T: What places did you visit before? Ss: Beijing、 Shanghai T: Yes, they are beautiful cities. T: What places of interest do you know? Ss: The Great Wall、 Shui Hui Park、Long Life Garden T: What places in the world would you like to go? Ss: the USA、 the White House、 England、 Harbour Bridge T: Yes, they are some foreign countries and places of interest in the world. T: How can we go on a trip? Ss: By bus、 by plane、 by boat/take a boat. Step 2: Wele to the unit. T: Amy and Simon?s friends? went to some places of interest. Read the postcards and match them with the pictures. (Students read and match them with pictures. Teacher avoids to present the words directly with pictures. Give the students chances to guess the meaning of places with context and pictures.) 1. Read postcard .Ask the students to look for the new words and then learn: greetings , president 2. Look at the pictures and talk about them. T: Now we have known a lot about these worldfamous places. Please talk about these places. A: Which foreign country do you want to visit, Simon? B: I want to visit the USA. A: Which city do you want to go to? B: I want to go to Washington. A: How will you go there? B: I can go there by air. A: Why do you want to go there? B: Because I want to see the White House there. A: I hope you will enjoy yourselves./have a good time there. The teacher gives a model with a good student then ask the students to do pair work with their desk mates with the help of these three postcards. Pair work: A: Which ________country do you want to visit, Simon? B: I want to visit_________. A: Which _______do you want to go to? B: I want to go to ________. A: How will you go there? B: I can ____________. A: _______ do you want to go there? B: Because ___________________. A: I hope you will enjoy yourselves./have a good time there. 3. Game: Quick reading and quick answering. The students read more information about these places. And then they do multiplychoices. The White House: It was built between 1792 and 1800. The president of the USA lives and works here. The Eiffel Tower: It was built in 1889. It is 324 metres tall. It has 1,665 steps. The Opera House: It was built in has 1000 rooms. It?s one of the most famous buildings. ( A ) 1. ____ is living in the White House. A. Bush B. Washington C. Clinton ( B ) 2. The Eiffel Tower and the River Seine are both in ____ . A. London B. Paris C. New York ( C ) 3. The Eiffel Tower is ____ metres high. A. 34 B. 134 C. 324 ( B ) 4. If you go to Australia, don?t fet to go to see the ____. A. Big Ben B. Opera House C. River Seine Step 3:ic strip: T: Our old friend Eddie will go on a trip. Do you think that Eddie can enjoy himself going traveling? Why? 1. Listen and answer: What is Eddie going to do? Ss: He is going to exercise. 2. Read and answer: What kind of hill is Eddie going to climb? Ss: food hill. 3. Act it out. 4. Tell a story about Eddie with the help of some sentences. Step to be a guide: Eddie can have a day out . We will also go on a trip to someplace .But we need a guide, who wants to be the guide? Come on , show us around the place of interest. Hello, boys and girls. I?m your guide. Today I will take you to see _______. It?s in _______. There you can see ___________. You can also ________________. I hope you will ________yourselves. Homework: Finish the postcard and try to find pictures or draw pictures for your postcard. Teaching notes 總課題 7B 8A Unit 3 A day out 總課時(shí) 10 第 2課時(shí) 課題 Reading1 課型 New Teaching aims 1. To make the students know some famous places around the world。. 2. Let the students know something about the World Park and Linda?s trip there。 2. To encourage them to work hard to protect the famous places around the world Difficult points 1. The understanding of some long sentences. 2. The students use their own words to express their own trips. Teaching method Taskbased approach， Scene pedagogy and Teaching with humor Teaching procedures The second preparing lessons Step One: Prereading Warming up and lead in. T: Do you like traveling? S1: Yes. T: What places of interest did you visit before? S: … T: How did you go there? S: … T: Oh! We have many ways to go traveling, right? (teach a new word “coach”) T: Can you tell us some other ways of traveling? T: Traveling is great fun. Today, I will show you some pictures of some interesting places. Tell me their names or the countries they are in if you know. (Teach the word “pyramid” and “metal” at the same time.) T: What do you think of these places? S2:They are very… T: Do you want to visit these places? S2:Of course. T: Do you believe we can visit them in a day? S: … S2: We can go to the World Park. Step 2: Whilereading 1. Number the paragraphs first and find out which paragraphs talk about the trip to the World Park. (Para 26) 2. Please show us their traveling route. (ask the students to work in groups and try to ask the students to retell