3.Queenstown　 take a River cruise, have a Maori dinner

Explore Shandong Province

2.Greymouth

1.Christchurch　　　　 go White-water rafting

2. If you have a chance to visit some place with your family, which place would you like to travel most?

Step 2

A Here are two wonderful places for you to choose. Open your book turn to page33. Read these two leaflets and circle the names of the places mentioned and underline some new words that you don’t know.

Adventure on South Island, New Zealand

1. What will you do on the coming New Year’s Day? Would you like to travel?

2.Review words and phrases in this unit.

Good staying with you!

Thank you for your cooperation!

Unit 2 Wish you Were here

　　 　Task: Planning a holiday for your family ---教案

Teaching aims:

Train the students’ listening and speaking abilities.

Get the students to talk about planning a holiday.

Get the students to write an e-mail.

Teaching important points:

Finish the task of listening to improve the students’ listening ability.

Finish the task of choosing a holiday destination to train the Ss’ speaking ability.

Finish the task of writing an e-mail.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 lead in　 3 mins

1.Do Parts D1 and D2 on page 91 in Workbook.

5. Try to find out the sentences used to describe the beauty of Shangri-la.

• …from a beautiful picture that will make any viewers speechless.

• …a beautiful kingdom where three rivers joined together, snow-capped mountains reached to the sky, and fields of long grass covered the earth.

• Lakes, surrounded by vast grasslands, look like jewels. Sheep, cows and horses feed freely on the green grass and the forests around are home to lots of birds and animals.

Step 3 　Read the passage again and find out the writing features of a travel leaflet.

• brief introduction of the place

• history and specialities

• description of the scenery of the place

• how to get to the place

• what the weather is like

(1)　 Introducing the project:

(2)　

Make a travel leaflet about the place you would like to visit most.

(2) Planning

Ask students to work in small groups. First let them answer the questions in this part to discuss the place to be designed in the leaflet. Then they should discuss the layout of the leaflet, and divide the work each group member will do to collect the information needed. At last they are to decide when they will finish what they should do.

(3) Preparing

Students meet, discuss and choose the information each group member has collected. Then they should find photos and artwork to illustrate the leaflet they had made.

(4) Producing

Students each write a section of the leaflet. They should put what they have written together and add photos or illustrations. They must proofread the story to correct mistakes if there are any. New ideas can be added. Now the leaflet is finished.

(5) Presenting

Students present their leaflets to the whole class by taking turns to talk about each section of their leaflets. Everyone in each group should have a chance to speak. Ask students to display the whole leaflet for the rest of the class to see. They can put up their leaflets on the walls in the classroom.

Step 4　 Homework

4. Where is Shangri-la?

It is in the southwest of China, 659 kilometers away from Kunming.

3.What does the word Shangri-la mean?

It means the sun and the moon in one’s heart. Today it has become a common English word, meaning heaven on the Earth.