Destinations

Tasks which should be achieved in this unit:

a. Talk about travel and cities;

b. practise making complaints and apoligies;

c. Review Nonefinite Verbs: -ing, -ed, to do;

d. Write a description essay.

Teaching procedure:

Period 1.

Contents: Warming up & reading comprehension

Task: Get to know something about travel and some world-famous tourism resorts.

Step 1.Warming up

Aim: Make students familiar with the topic.

Discussing the questions:

Which countries or which cities have you traveled to?

Step 2. Pre-reading

1. Show some photos of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil and Kitzbuhel in Austria.

2. group work:

Describe some of the pictures shown on the screen.

3. Activities:

Ask some of the students to give a description of the picture they like.

Step 3. While-reading

1. Scanning: Ss read quickly and answer the following question:

What gained the world fame in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil?

What’s Kitzbuhel in Austria famous for?

(Brazilian Carnival; Ski resort)

2. Intensive reading to know some details.

Step 4. After-reading

Finish the post-reading Ex on P36.

Step 5. Assignment

1. surf the internet and get more information about Rio De Janeiro and Kitzbuhel using search engines like yahoo or baidu. ( or just input the key words into the address column of IE)

2. additional passages:

(a bit of news from Rio---- which can remind the Ss that Rio is a city which has the highest murder rates in the world.)

1)A 20-year-old handyman confessed to the bludgeoning death of a Shell Oil executive and his wife in the bedroom of their high-security, luxury condominium last year, saying he was upset about an alleged racial insult.

But the confession by Jociel Conceicao dos Santos at a police news conference Thursday added confusion to a case that had sparked intense media coverage in Brazil for months, with police speculating on suspects ranging from the couple's children to a contract killing ordered from overseas.

Police are suspicious about the motive dos Santos provided and planned to investigate further, said Rio state security chief Anthony Garotinho.

"The crime is partially cleared up," Garotinho told reporters at the news conference with dos Santos at his side. "We have the killer. He confessed. We found the weapon, but the motive is not totally clear."

The victims' relatives in the U.S. state of Utah said the motive made no sense because the executive, Todd Staheli, was not racist and spoke little or no Portuguese.

At the news conference, a surprisingly relaxed dos Santos admitted using a rusty crowbar that sat on the table before him to beat Staheli and his wife, Michelle, in their bed of their condominium on Nov. 30.

"It was me, yes sir, I did it with this weapon. A crowbar," dos Santos said after Garotinho asked him if he was responsible.

The news conference, with the suspect present and freely answering questions, was odd even by Brazilian standards of justice.

Dos Santos, who is black and who worked for a neighbor of the Stahelis, told reporters he was called one of the worst racial slurs for Brazilian blacks in fluent Portuguese by Todd Staheli.

But Todd Staheli's father, Zera, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Utah that his son "was not a racially prejudiced man in any way, and as far as I know he did not speak any Portuguese."

2)The lights are blazing from the world’s largest floating Christmas tree -- a gigantic metal structure as tall as a 27-storey tower block set on a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro.

With the mountain-top Christ the Redeemer statue looking down on it, the 82-meter tree stands as a brightly flashing symbol of peace in one of the world’s most violent cities.

"We’re competing with all the violent news from Rio to show the world what a marvelous city it is," Roberto Medina, the project’s creator, told reporters during a boat tour on the Rodrigo Freitas lagoon on Tuesday night.

The tree features moving images of church bells and doves flickering from nearly 3 million lights.

The Christmas tree, first erected in 1996, constitutes Rio de Janeiro’s third biggest tourist event after the pre-lenten Carnival and New Year’s Eve on Copacabana and other beaches.

Some 100,000 people came to watch on Saturday night when the lights were switched on and more than a million are expected to view the structure before the lights are turned off on Jan. 6.

"It’s beautiful. Rio isn’t just shootings and killings," said Sandra Gomes de Faria, a 51-year-old retired telephone operator.

Around 1,300 workers were hired to assemble the tree, constructed from 410 tons of metal scaffolding supported by 11 barges.

Bradesco Seguros e Previdencia, Brazil’s largest insurance company, spent 2 million reais on the project.

The Guinness Book of Records lists it as the world’s largest floating Christmas tree.

In comparison, the Christmas tree in New York’s Rockefeller Center is 71 feet tall and has 30,000 lights, although it is a real Norwegian spruce.

Rio, which has one of the world’s highest murder rates, was rocked by violence last week as rival drug gangs fought for control of drug distribution points in city slums.

Period 2.

Contents: difficulties in the passage.

Task: Learn some language points:

Step 1. Warming up

Ask some Ss to present their homework.

Step 2. Learning about the language:

Play the tape for students to follow.

Teacher explain some language points in the text on page 35-36.

The following may be of a little help .

1. Should you feel the urge to pack your bags and explore what the world has to offer you may want to consider one of the destinations below.

Should you feel…. = if you should feel…, should 用于多種人稱，表示未來的情況，可譯為“萬一”等。

Should I be free tomorrow, I will come.

Feel the/an urge to do sth. “感到有。。。 的沖動或欲望”

He just felt a sudden urge to travel last year.

I felt an urge to hit him.

2. Even though the altitude of the city and its surroundings alps is not enough to guarantee snow, the good weather and breath-taking scenery make kitzbuhel a world-class ski resort.

Guarantee 用作及物動詞，意為“保證，確保”，后接名詞，不定式和從句做賓語。

They all guarantee his good behaviour.

We guarantee to be here tomorrow.

I can guarantee that you will be satisfied with the result.

3. There is no need to worry if you have ever skied before.

There is no need to do ….

There is no need to cry about it.

Step 3. Practice

Ss finish Ex on page 37 by themselves and then check the answers.

Step 4. Assignment

1. Learn the useful expressions by heart.

2. Finish Ex1 –3 on page 111--112 on WB

3. read the whole passage aloud.

Period 3.

Contents: Grammar; talking and speaking

Task: Learn to use Nonefinite Verbs.

Step 1. Revision

Check the answers of Ex 1 -- 3 on page 111-112.

Step 2. questions and answers:

1. Do Ex 1 on p38 orally, translating the answers into Chinese if necessary.

2. Ex 2&3 on the same page is good for improving fluency in using different Verb forms.

Step 3. Talking

3. Ss four in one group and have a discussion about the topics on page 34, encouraging every student to speak.

Useful expression in expressing complaints and apologies:

I’m sorry to say….

I hate to have to say this, but….

I will look into it immediately.

What seems to be the problem?

Step 4. Speaking

Guide the Ss to talk according to the direction on p 110

Step5. Assignment

Writing on page 115.

Period 4.

Contents: Integrating skills:

Task: To improve reading skills and get familiar with Travel.

Step 1. Warming up

Ask Ss to scan the passage on P38-39 and raise some questions:

Explain some difficulties if necessary:

Step 2. Reading

1. Ss read the passage :

2. Help Ss to understand the passage entirely.

Step 3. Writing

Finish the writing task on p 40.

You can give Ss some strategies for writing a short essay, or give them an outline if necessary.

Step 4. Assignment:

Read the passage on P113.

Period 5.

(Listening)

Task: Improve listening skills and got familiar with the topic.

Step 1. Listening

1. Ss finish the listening task on page 33.

2. Ss listen to the tape again and check the answers.

Step 2. dealing with the Ex 1-2 on p 109 of Workbook.

Step 3. Listening skills

Give the students some tips on how to improve listening while checking the Ex.

a. make notes while listening;

b. grasp the most important information

Step 4. listen and reading:

First listen and then read the passage on p113.

Period 6.

Revision:

Go over the important points in this unit once again, and give Ss some additional reading materials if possible.

Period 7.

Teachers can use this period freely.

Suggestion : Teachers can use this period to let Ss sum up what they have learned and explain what Ss couldn’t understand very well in this unit. Teachers can also add more practice in this period to consolidate what the Ss have learned. Finally, ask the Ss to finish Assessing on page 115. It is very important to improve their learning and let them have a sense of achieving gradually.