Discuss the situations in group. (Group work)

Step 4 Practice

Task Watch the map and say 设计意图：贴近生活，充满幻想

T: Suppose you are at the Ocean Park of Hong Kong now.

Which part will you try? Tell about your reason and the way.

(Teachers design a map for the talk or copy a similar one from the internet)

Step 5 Homework

T: Surf the Internet and find some information about theme parks, the Ocean Park of Hong Kong, Walt Disney and Disneyland, and so on. Then write a few sentences about what you’ve got. Make a copy of 10 wonderful pictures that you find about theme parks, and your copies will be shown to others before the following lesson.

Period 3 Reading

Goals:

1. Learn some expressions about theme parks.

2. Read through the material and have a good understanding of theme parks.

Step1 Pre-reading

Task Watch and discuss

Activities: Check the students’ homework and show the finest copies of theirs to the whole class. After the class watch the nice pictures on the screen, the teacher gets students to discuss the following:

1. What do you think you can see in a theme park?

2. What do you think about adventure sports?

3. Do your town or city have an amusement park? What can you do there?

4. Is a theme park different from a traditional park? Why?

Step2 Reading

The Main Task Students learn about theme parks.

Lead-in:

T: What is a theme park?

Ss: As we all know, a theme park is a wonderful park. It has its own theme. It has a collection of rides, exhibitions and other attractions.

T: What are the activities based on?

Ss: The activities are based on a common theme.

Task 1 Skimming

Question 1. How many theme parks does the writer tell us?

What are they ? Where are they?

Question 2. What are the themes about?

Task 2 Scanning

Question: What attract people in these theme parks?

Individual Work Read through the first three paragraphs.

Then fill in the form below.

Title

Par. Parks Themes Attractions

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Group Work T : Exchange your ideas and prepare to report.

Suggested answers:

Title Theme Parks (People can have fun and experience sth. different.)

Par. Parks Themes Attractions

1 The World Park To teach visitors sth…

to help experience sth Buildings, castles, statues,

customs of Chinese minorities,

cartoon characters, animals

2 The Ocean Park To get visitors to know more about the idea..

to help people to explore the past. Thrills and entertainment;

Rides, opportunities to learn about life in the ocean,

a conversation center,

the dinosaur exhibition,

the two giant pandas…

3 Disneyland Walt Disney and his characters. Cartoon characters, rides, games, exhibitions; Universal

4 New theme parks are being built.

Notes: About the new phrases, words and sentences.

Entering one of the attractions at Universal Studios is like steeping into the world of your favorite film.

It seemed like people just cannot get enough of scary rides and exciting adventures.

The parks are becoming more advanced and new technology allow us to experience almost anything without actually being in danger or risking injury.

Ask certain questions to check students’ understanding to these sentences.

Task 3 Discussing (Think, write and then discuss.)

1. Which of the theme parks mentioned in the text will you visit? Why?

2. Why are theme parks so popular throughout the world ?

这是一个大话题，可集思广益。

Step3 Designing

Task Design a theme park and exchange ideas in class by interviewing.

Activity: Students think up ideas about building a certain theme park, write and report the design, the place, the building time, the reason, hope...

Name Theme Attractions Others’ Ideas For This Park

(Attention: One form is for your ideas while the rest is for others’.)

Step4 Homework

1.Finish the reading part of the workbook.

2.Get on line to search the information of a certain theme park that one is interested in and write a short description about that.

3.List ideas for an “English-Speaking World Park”, using the form of Page67.

Period 4 Language Study

Goals:

1. Revise the words.

2. Learn to use the –ing form: used as an adverbial.

Step 1 Revision

Activity1: Suppose you are the manager of the World Park of Beijing, the Ocean Park of Hong Kong, or Disneyland in California. Please tell about your attractions to the visitors.http://www.dakao8.com/

Activity2: Check the homework.

Students form groups to discuss their ideas for an “English-Speaking World Park”, then get several students to report theirs.

Step 2 Word Study

Activity 1.

Write the following words on the blackboard :

statue entertainment minority collection attraction

advanced rocket amusement ancient explore

Ask the students to write about their meanings and then one tells the class.

Activity 2.

T: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words.

Finish the part of Page 68.

Checking:

1. statue 2. explore 3. collection 4. rocket 5.amusement

6. advanced 7. attractions 8.ancient 9. entertainment 10.minorities

Activity 3.

Fill in the blanks of the following (suggested answers):

When you come to a wonderful theme park, you are sure to enjoy yourself. You can find a collection of rides, exhibitions and other attractions. They are based on a common theme. On one hand , people can have fun / thrills and entertainment. On the other, theme parks are designed to teach people something. Those who come for thrills will also know more about a certain subject, such as life in the ocean, the discovery of the ancient world, and life in the future. What’s more, you may imagine much new things if you think you cannot get enough of scary rides and exciting adventures. Then there will be new designs, and new theme parks will be coming.

Step3 Grammar

Task Learn the use of –ing form as an adverbial.

Activity 1. Study the example:

He was ill and didn’t attend the meeting. →

Being ill, he didn’t attend the meeting.

Activity 2. Compare with another example:

After they enjoy the rides at the Headland, visitors can take a cable car to the Lowland. →

Having enjoyed the rides at the Headland, visitors can take a cable car to the Lowland.

Summary: This Having enjoyed …means the subject has finished an action before he does another. The form is used to emphasize two actions that happen in different times.

Suggested answers for part1:

1. Hearing a sound, the baby stopped crying.

2. Living far from school, he is often late.

3. Having been told that her daughter got sick, she hurried to the school to take her home.

4. Cutting off the electricity quickly, he prevented an accident.

5. Having lived in the country for many years, she knows how to grow vegetables.

6. Not having received any news from home for a long time, she is becoming more and more homesick.

7. Having found that her handbag was missing, she went to the police for help.

8. Having won the game, all of them sang and danced all night.

Suggested answers for part2:

Notes:The –ing form is used to tell about the result or aim of the main character.

1. Jack and Jane have just returned from their trip to Walt Disney world, saying that they had a wonderful time.

2. Kids have great fun in this world-famous theme park, discovering many cartoon characters seen on TV.

3. He only paid half of the price for the seven-day ticket, having much saved.

4. Having worked as a guide in her part time for 2 months, Sandy has made enough money to buy a five-day ticket to three water parks. (as in Part1)

5. They went to visit Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park right after breakfast, arriving at 9:00 .

6. Having heard there would be a magic show, Jim decided to visit the World of Magic Theme Park instead of Universal. (as in Part1)

Step4 Homework

Finish the word study and grammar part on the workbook. Read more passages about theme parks.

Period 5 Integrating Skills

Goals:

1. Read through the text live to ride.

2. Understand “live to ride”.

3. Learn to write a description.

Step1 Warming up

Task 1 Report about the passages found the day before.

T: Yesterday we have the work --- to find and read a few passages about theme parks. So now please describe the thing you have got in hand.

Students may talk more about rides, skiing, rafting, surfing, skydiving, adventure travels or other adventure activities.

Task 2 Read the information below and make up a dialogue.

Notice: This is taken from a website of the U.S. It’s about a kind of roller coaster. Students will find much detail in it.

设计意图：以生活实际例子为引导，可操作性强。

Ant Farm Express

Type: Steel - Mine Train Height: 41 Feet Train Type: 30 Passengers

Designer: Arrow Dynamics Drop: 32 Feet # of Trains: 3

Year Built: 1971 Top Speed: 37 MPH Elements:

Ride Time: 3 Minutes Length: 2,350 Feet # of Inversions: 0

Color: yellow G-Force: Other:

Comments: Operated at Dollywood 1989-1998 as the Thunder Express. Also operated as one of two mine train tracks called the River King Mine Train at Six Flags St. Louis from 1971 to 1988. Relocated here in 2002.

Photos: ……

Students may raise questions as follows:

What’s the name?

When was it built?

How many passengers can it take at a time?

What is the length?

How high can it go ?

What about the top speed?

Are there any comments about it? … …

Step2 Reading

Task 1 Skimming

Question:

What attraction can be found important in theme parks?

→ Rides, the “thrill ride” …

Task 2 Scanning

Questions:

1. How do people ride roller coasters nowadays?

2. What is a thrill ride like?

Answers:

1. Rides are wider and scarier than ever.

The cars run faster, the tracks are higher, and people go through twists, loops, and drops. Some let people race against their friends. Some ride through darkness inside a mountain and a building.

2. Very exciting and scary.