Teaching Plan for Unit3 Travel Journal
Part2 A Night in the Mountain
——By Li Junjun
Teaching Goals:
1. Language goals:
Phrases: children dressed in long wool coats/in the setting sun/ colorful butterflies/ yaks and sheep eating green grass
Sentences: (simile)
1) Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ice.(so…that…/feel like…)
2) Have you ever seen snowmen riding bicycles? That’s what we looked like.
3) However, the lake shone like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful.
2. Ability goals
Students will learn how to describe what they see and feel during their trip so as to get them prepared for the task in next class---writing a travel journal
3. Emotional goals
Students will learn to appreciate the beauty of the English language through reading and describing the beautiful pictures using beautiful words and expressions.
Key points and teaching difficulties:
1. How to write sentences of similes to describe the beautiful views during the journey
2. How is a good travel journal organized
Teaching method: Task based approach
Teaching procedures:
1. Lead in : to enjoy a beautiful song “Qinghai-Tibet Plateau”
2. Think: Is it a good travel journal? Structure and language.
3. Read and find the phrases in the passage to describe the pictures.
4. Game: Describe and guess.
5. Read and underline the sentences of similes.
6. Write some similar sentences to describe the beautiful pictures.
7. Conclusion.
Homework:
1.Write 4 sentences to describe the pictures using similes.
2. Find some beautiful photos of your travelling, write a short passage and share them through your Wechat moments.
Unit3 Travel Journal
Part2 A Night in the Mountain
Exercise: writing sentences
1.________________________________________________________________
(flowers/butterlies)
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(waterfall/the Milk Way)
3._______________________________________________________________
(stars/diamonds)
Homework:
1. Write 4 sentences to describe the pictures using similes.
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(glacier/crystal)
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(rapids/_____)
__________________________________________________________________(trees/______)
__________________________________________________________________(moon/______)
2. Find some beautiful photos of your travelling, write a short passage and share them through your Wechat moments(微信朋友圈）.
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