Teaching Plan
Unit 3 Travel Journal
The second teaching period：Pre-reading & Fast Reading
阅读（阅读导入和快速阅读）
I. Teaching aims:
1. To arose students’ interest in traveling.
2. To read and understand the passage: Journey down the Mekong
II. Teaching Important points:
Get students to understand the main idea of the reading passage and get the outline of it.
III. Teaching difficult points:
Cultivate students' ability of fast reading, including how to predict the result and how to make a conclusion.
IV. Teaching aids:
A multi-media, a gourd flute and other normal teaching tools.
V. Teaching methods:
1. Task - based teaching and learning. 2. Cooperative learning 3.Discussion
VI．Teaching steps：
Step 1 Pre-reading ( Lead-in)
Discussion: Teacher is going to ask students some questions by using power point. Students will discuss the questions in several minutes and they will show the answers.
1. Travel is very common now. Many people enjoy traveling around the word. What do you think about travel? Is it good to our life? Why? Do you like travel? Why?
2. There are many great rivers in the world. Do you think that river is important to people's life? why? Do you know some of them? And in which country are they?
3. In southeast Asia, there is a great river linking six countries. What is the name of the river and which countries does it flow through?
5. Match the rivers with their locations.
6. Do you know something about the Mekong River?
Step2 While Reading ( read the passage by three steps: fast reading, detail reading and deep reading)
I. Fast Reading
Please go through the passage quickly in five minutes and then answer the following questions:
What's the main idea of the passage? And what about the main idea of each paragraph? What's their dream? Who takes part in the trip? Where are they going? How are they getting there? What can you see along the Mekong River?
II. Debate
Which character do you like,Wang Kun or Wang wei? Why?
III. Discussion
What do you think was right about the trip? Why? Write down your views on it and discuss with your teammates. (This open-up question makes students think about the eco-tour and train their oral English)
Homework:
1. Writing (about 100 words):
Where did you visit? When did you take the trip? How did you get there? How do you think about the tourist attraction? What did you see? Do you have any other plan for tip?
2. Try to tell the classmates the journey which you have taken.