Teaching goals
1. Talk about amusement parks
2. Practice asking and giving directions
3. Learn to use the -ing form (3) as adverbial
4. Write a description
Period 1 word study
Word study
Period 2 listening
Step 1 Warming up
1. Show some pictures on the screen about some extreme sports or fun
2. Questions:
Where can you experience such activities?
Have you ever been to an amusement park?
Have you ever tried sitting a roller coaster or a Bungee jumping or something else like these?
How did you feel?
Do you like it ? why?
3. Fill in the blacks. (individual work). Then share the answer on the screen.
4. Students tell about other activities, such as rock-climbing, rafting, skiing,
surfing, skydiving and so on.
5. There are such thrilling activities in some parks. You may experience some of
them if you are interested. I hope all of you can experience what you like.
Step 2 Listening
1. A theme park must have a special theme.
2. Pre-listening: Go over the questions or sentences that have something to do
with the listening materials at P.64 and P65 and guess
3. While-listening:
1). Listen for the first time with the book closed
2). Listen again with the book open and individually answer the questions
and complete the sentences at P.64 and P.65.
4. Check the answers in pairs. Then with the class.
5. Which of the parks do you think is better?
Name Theme Your reason and ideas
Lots of fun company The environment 1.have entertainment
2.visit museums and exhibitions
3.learn about environment
4.learn how to protect
environment
Merry Rides Limited The ocean 1.Perople have jobs
2.Learn about life in the ocean
3.Have fun and learn
Step 3 Summary
1. Summary:
T: In this period, we have talked and heard a lot about amusement parks. You may realize what amusing activities mean to people.
Talks of amusement parks should accompany you all the way in life, not just limited in class. Do you think so?
2. Homework
a. Recall all the new words and expressions that occur in this period.
b. Write about your own experiences in a theme park
c. Oral homework: talk about one of your experience in a theme park.
Period 3 Speaking
Step 1 Revision & Warming-up
1. Review the new words
2. Check oral homework: a report about your experience to a theme park.
3. If you want to go to a theme park, how can you get there?
Step 2 Listening
Listen to 2 dialogues and answer the following: (book closed)
(Bb) Where is she/he going?
How to get there?
Step 3 Speaking
1. Pre-speaking
1.T: Suppose we are at the main entrance of this theme park and we want to go to some places: the Ocean world, the History Land, the Bungee Jumping…
Please write about how we can get there, according to page 65.
2.practice: Make up dialogues, using the information above.
Make up dialogues, talking about their own destinations.
Step 4 Homework
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 4 Reading
Step 1 Revision
1. New words
2. 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?
Step 2 Reading
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?
2. Scanning
Question: What attract people in these theme parks?
3. Then fill in the form below.
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.
4. Check the reading comprehension on the screen.
5. Dictate these sentences and explain their structures and meanings:
(1) What they all have in common is that they combine fun with the opportunityto learn something.
這些公園所擁有的共同特點是把娛樂和學習的機會結合在一起。
(2) But theme parks also try to make sure that visitors leave knowing more about the idea behind the park.
但是主題公園也盡力保證游客們在離開時已對公園主題有更深的了解。
(3) .Having enjoyed the rides at the Headland, visitors can take the shuttle to the Lowland.
游客在高地車乘之后，可以坐穿梭車去低地。
（4）Entering one of the attractions at Universal Studios is like stepping into the world of your favourite movie.
走進Universal Studios其中一個吸引人的場地就象步入你最喜愛的電影中的一個畫面。
Entering one of the attractions at Universal Studios是動名詞結構作主語；
stepping into the world of your favourite film是動名詞結構作賓語。
（5） Visitors can go on exciting rides where they can feel what is it like to do the things they have seen their heroes do in the movie.
游客們可以乘車參加令人刺激的兜風，感受他們在電影里看見的主角所經歷的感覺。
Where they can feel …是rides的定語從句
What it is like to do the things 是feel的賓語從句
They have seen their heroes do in the movie 是things的定語從句
(6) The parks are becoming more advanced and new technology allows us to experience almost anything without actually being in danger or risking injury.
主題公園越來越先進，新的技術保障我們幾乎能經歷一切，但又不必冒受到傷害的危險。
Step 3 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 Page 67.
Period 5 language study
Step 1 Revision
1. Words
2. Have a dictation about the text
Step 2 Exercises about words
Step 3 Grammar
1. Study the example:
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 part 2:
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)
Step 4 Homework
Finish the word study and grammar part on the workbook.
Read more passages about theme parks.
Period 6 Integrating Skills
Step 1 Revision
Step 2 Reading
1.Question:
1).What attraction can be found important in theme parks?
→ Rides, the “thrill ride” …
2) How do people ride roller coasters nowadays?
---- 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.
3). What is a thrill ride like?
---- Very exciting and scary.
Thrill rides use speed, motion, and special effects to give you a thrill.
Some let you feel what it is like to fall through the air.
Some rides send you through caves and even rivers.
Thrill rides can also send you into space or deep down in the ocean.
2． reading comprehension exercises
3. Summary:
We can imagine so many ways, but it’s still not enough.
The only limit to the fun is the imagination of the designers of the thrill rides. It seems to be endless.
對于這種樂趣的唯一限制是驚險車乘的設計者的想象力。設計工作是無窮無盡的。
（這2句話表明一個事實：個人的想象力是有限的但又不斷發展變化的，想象活動是無止境的，想象是創造的基礎。）
Quote: The great progress in science roots in completely new and brave imaginations of the human beings. ---- Dewey
“科學的偉大進步源自于嶄新與大膽的想象力。” ----- 杜 威
Step 4 Tips
Step 5 Exercises:
1. The old man smokes a great deal, only his health worse.
2. the host into the meeting room, we found many new faces.
3. the Film Jurassic Park III, we walked out of the cinema.
4. in the heavy rain, the pupils got all wet through.
5. Visitors leave the museum more about nature.
6.Dr Wu replied to the invitation, .