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Unit3 Travel Journal
Reading
(Part1: Journey down the Mekong River)
Analysis of the teaching material
The teaching material used in this lesson is the NEW SENIOR ENGLISH FOR CHINA：STUDENT’S BOOK 1, PEP version, which is written on the base of task-based language teaching concept. Its topics are related to students’ daily life and that helps to arouse the students’ learning interest.
The topic of unit3 in the textbook is about travel, enabling the students to know something about countries or regions by traveling, such as local conditions and customs, geographical characteristics and climate features. Reading is the first part of the journal. it tells the story of Wang Kun and Wang Wei's bike travel dreams and plans, describes what they have done for the tour, such as selecting the route and looking at maps to get information about the Mekong river. The journal is written in the first person. Through the introduction to Wang Wei’s way of doing things, we have a deep impression on her characteristics.
Teaching goals
1.Knowledge goal
Learn something about the Mekong River through reading.
2.Ability goal
(1) To develop the students ’ability of reading, such as scanning, skimming and detailed reading.
(2) To cultivate the students’ ability of cooperation
3.Affective aims
Students should realize if they want to be successful, what personalities they should have.
Teaching important and difficult points:
1.Understand the text well.
2.How to grasp the main idea of the text
Teaching methods
Task-based language teaching
Teaching aids: a computer & a projector
Teaching procedures
Step ⅠLead In(1minute)
T: Q1: Have you visited any river?
Q2: How many great rivers do you know?
Q3: If you can travel down only one of them, which one would you choose? Why?
Show pictures and maps of some famous rivers in China, students tell their names. (The Yellow River, the Changjiang River, the Pearl River and the Mekong River)
Step ⅡPre-reading（2 minutes）
T: Have you visited the Mekong River? If no, let’s learn something about it.
1. Show a map of the Mekong River and the brief introduction of it. Ask them:
Can you list the countries that the Mekong River flows through?
Step ⅢReading(26minutes)
In this step, get the students to read the text and finish some tasks.
Fast-reading:
Task1: Scan the text quickly, and then answer some questions (10minutes)：
Q1. What is the main idea of each paragraph?
Q2.where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter？Evaluation way: oral evaluation made by students.
Detailed-reading
Task2：The whole read paragraph 1 loudly and find out the answer of the following questions: (4minutes)
Q1、What is Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s idea of a good trip?
Q2、Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang?
Q3、Who plans the trip to the Mekong?
Evaluation way: oral evaluation made by teacher.
Task3：Listen to the tape of paragraph 2 carefully, and then finish the True or
