Unit 3 Travel journal
Period 4: A Night In the Mountains
说课稿

一、教材分析
本单元的中心话题是旅游，通过旅游日记的方式描绘旅行见闻，围绕本单元的中心话题“Journey Down the Mekong”分七个部分贯穿本单元始终：
PartⅠ:Warming up & speaking
PartⅡ:Reading
PartⅢ:Learning about language
PartⅣ:Extensive Reading
PartⅤ:Using Language
PartⅥ:Listening
PartⅦ:Summing up
二、教学定位
（一）教学目标
knowledge aims：
1、Get the students to learn the new words and expressions: wool, as usual, reliable, view, pillow, midnight, flames, beneath.
2、Get the students to know how to write journal.
Ability aims:
1、Develop the students’ reading skills by extensive reading
2、Enable the students to learn to use different reading strategies.
Emotional aims:
1、Enable the students to love and enjoy nature.
2、Develop the students’ senses of group cooperation.
教学重点：
Develop the students’ reading skills by extensive reading.
教学难点：
Enable the students to learn to use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning and so on.
教学方法：
Task-based teaching & learning
教学过程：
Step 1 Revision & Lead-in
1、What do you know about the Mekong？
2、Where does it begin？
3、What’s the weather there？
以提问的方式复习旧知识，引出本文的话题。
Step 2 Discussion
If you travel in such circumstances, what tools will you take? Why？
（通过携带工具讨论，激发学生谈旅游的兴趣）
Step 3 Reading
1、Scanning
Find out: What items are Wangkun and Wangwei carrying with them？
How is the journal arganizal？
2、Skimming
What happened daring these 3 periods of time？

see
hear
do
Feel
In the late afternoon




In the early evening




At midnight




How does Wangkun feel about the trip now？What do you think changed his mind？
目的：通过采用不同阅读方式，锻炼学生的阅读技巧
3、Reading aloud
Step 4 Language points.
Explain the language points with Ss.
Step 5 Homework.
Read the passage in WB
Ex 1 2 in page 56