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Part One: Teaching Design (第一部分：教学设计)

Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading

(JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG)

Aims

To talk about traveling

To read about traveling

Procedures

I. Warming up

1. Warming up by discussing

Good morning, class. Do you like traveling? Why do you like traveling? And why not? Where have you ever been before? How did you get there? If you are given a chance to travel around the world, what kind of transportations will you use and why? Now look at the following pictures and discuss it in pairs.

Name of the transportations Means of transportation Reasons

by car (in a car)

by bike

by plane (by air)

by train ( on a train)

by bus ( on a bus)

by ship (by water or by boat)

in a hot balloon

by motorbike (on a motorbike)

by jeep

by truck

in a plate

2. Warming up by looking and speaking

Now boys and girls, what do you need to take with you if you are preparing for a bike trip along the Changjiang River? Look at the pictures and tell the whole class which object you think is the most useful and which one is the least useful. Give a reason why you think so.

3. Warming up by asking and answering

Now suppose you live in Qinghai. You plan to spend a holiday with a friend somewhere in Southeast Asia. You have been given a chance to choose three places to visit. Please find out the one-way fare to get there for different kinds of transportation. Perhaps you may not know the exact fare, but you can guess how much the fare is. Please have a short discussion with your partners and then decide where to go.

Ok, now I’d like you to ask your partner the following questions.

II. Pre-reading

1. Imaging and sharing

Do you like traveling along a river, a great river?  What role does a river play in people’s life? In other words, how do people who live along a river use it?

The suggested answers:

People can drink the water in a river or wash their clothes.

People can swim in a river in summer.

People can use a river to irrigate their fields.

People can use a river to produce electricity.

People can travel along a river.

2. Talking and sharing

As we all know, there are a lot of rivers in the world and also there are many great rivers. Now look at the chart. In the left column are names of some great rivers. In the right column are locations where the rivers lie. Please match them.

match  answer

Names of River Location  Names of River Location

Mekong India  Mekong China，SE Asia

Rhine France  Rhine Germany

Ganges Russia  Ganges India

Seine England  Seine France

Nile     Central Africa  Nile     Egypt

Thames Germany  Thames England

Congo Brazil  Congo Central Africa

Niger China, SE Asia  Niger West Africa

Volga US  Volga Russia

Danube Egypt  Danube Central Europe

Amazon West Africa  Amazon Brazil

Mississippi Central Europe  Mississippi US

III. Reading

1. Reading aloud to the recording

Do you know what countries the Mekong River flows through? Now look at the map of the Mekong River and point out the countries it flows through.

(China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma Vietnam)

Ok, today we’re going to read a passage about JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. Please listen and read aloud about the recording of the text JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.

2. Reading and underlining

Now please read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.

Collocations from JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG

dream about, take a great bike trip, graduate from, got the chance to do sth., cycle along the river, go for long bike rides, mountain bike, persuade sb. to do sth., grow up, get sb. interested in sth., be stubborn, know the best way of getting to places, the source of the river, care about, give sb. a determined look, change one’s mind, at an altitude of, seem to do, the air be hard to breathe, an interesting experience, make up ones mind, give in, a large atlas with good maps, keep doing sth., at first, pass through, be surprised to do sth., half of, at last, the South China Sea

3. Reading aloud and understanding

Next we are going to read aloud the text and then answer some questions.

1) Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? (They are brother and sister, and both are college students.)

2) What was their dream? (Their dream was to take a great bike trip.)

3) Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? (They are Wang Kun’s cousins who are at a college in Kunming.)

4) Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?(The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.)

5) What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?(You can see glacier, rapids, hill, valleys, waterfalls and plains.)

6) Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why? (Yes. The journey begins at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.)

4. Discussing

We have got the general meaning of the passage, and we know Wang Wei and Wang Kun have some similar and different attitudes about the trip. You may have a short discussion with your partners and then fill in the chart.

Similar attitudes about the trip Different attitudes about the trip

Both Wang Wei and Wang Kun thinks:

1). taking this trip is a dream that comes true.

2). that they will enjoy this trip a lot.

3). they should see a lot of the Mekong.

4). that most of the Mekong will be found in Southeast Asia. Wang Wei believes:

1). they must start in Qinghai where the river begins/see all of the Mekong.

2). that they don’t need to prepare much.

Wang Kun believes:

1). it is too cold and high to start in Qinghai.

2). that using an atlas is very important.

IV. Closing down

Closing down by answering questions

What should you do before traveling? (Before traveling, we should make good preparations, that is, to make a plan, decide the place to visit and get enough information about the place. With full preparations we’ll have a good time during the trip.)

What will your family and your fiends say when you leave home to travel? (When we leave home, my family and my friends will say, “Have a good trip. /Have a good journey. /Have a good time.”)

Closing down by translating

In the last few minutes you are asked to translate some difficulty sentences in the passage.

Assignment

Revise the contents of the passage

Complete the passage on Page 56 in Workbook

Do exercise 2 on page 57 in you exercise books.

Period 2: A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language

(The Present Continuous Tense for future action)

Aims

To learn about the Present Continuous Tense

To discover and use some useful words and expressions

Procedures

I. Warming up

Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions

Hello everyone. After reading the passage, we have got to know the usage of the words and expressions, but we should do more practice. Now turn to page 20 to find the correct words and expressions from the passage to finish the sentences. You are given two minutes to finish them and discuss with your partners. Two minutes later, check in pairs and then check with the whole class.

II. Learning about language

1. Reading and finding

Good, you have mastered these words and expressions. Let’s turn to page 17 and look at the questions in Warming up 4. Underline the verbs in the questions, and pay attention to the verb forms and do some explanations by yourselves.

2. Learning Grammar

We can see that the verbs are all used in the “-ing” form. They are “the present continuous tense”, but they express future actions or plans. The Present Continuous Tense may be used to denote an action that can be pre-planned or prearranged instead of the future indefinite in colloquial English. But please note that, not all verbs can be used in the “-ing” form to express future actions. Such verbs as come, go, leave, fly, walk, ride, drive, stay, meet, die, see, have, arrive etc. are mainly used in the “-ing” form to express future actions.

3. Doing exercises No. 2 and 3 on page 21

Now turn to page 21 and do exercise 2. In the dialogue a newspaper reporter is interviewing Wang Wei about her plans for the trip along the Mekong River. However, they are not sure about some of the verb tenses. Can you help them complete their conversation?

Let’s continue to do exercise 3. Do you have any plans for the future yourselves? If you have any, please use the Present Continuous Tense to express your future actions. Give as much information as you can.

III. Ready used materials for the present continuous tense for future actions or plans

be + v.-ing与表示将来的时间连用，表示不久的将来，含义是“预定要做”。(这种结构中常用动作动词或去向动词：go, come, leave, start, arrive, travel, fly等，不适用于状态动词)

I’m leaving for Beijing this Friday.

My friends came over last night, and they are coming over this evening, too.

We are going to Laoshan this May Day holiday.

We had an English class this morning, and we are having another English class tomorrow.

We took six subjects last term, and we are taking seven subjects next term.

I have arrived in Beijing. I’m visiting the Great Wall tomorrow morning.

After class we are playing football on the playground.

We are flying to Shanghai next Friday.