The Second PeriodTeaching Aims:1. Learn and master the following words and expressions:adventure, experience(v.), simply, rafting, vacation, basic, equipment, spider, paddle, poisonous, get away from, instead of, get close to, watch out for, protectfrom,be careful(not)to do sth.2. Train the students reading ability.Teaching Important Points:1. Improve the students reading ability.2. Enable the students to understand the text better.3. Master the following phrases:get away from, instead of, get close to, watch out for, protectfrom,take exercise, be careful(not)to do sth.Teaching Difficult Points:Master the following sentence structures:1. Yet there are other reasons why people travel.2. It is done on rivers and streams where the water moves quickly.3.comes from the fact that the water in these streams and rivers looks white when it moves quickly.Teaching Methods:1. Discussion before reading to make students interested in travel and adventure travel.2. Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.3. Careful reading to answer some detailed questions.4. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.Teaching Aids:1. a computer 2.a tape recorderTeaching Procedures:FStep .GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.FStep .RevisionT: Yesterday we learnt some words. Now lets have a dictation. Please take out a piece of paper and write them on it.(Then teacher asks students to hand in their papers.)FStep .Pre-readingT: Nowadays travel is becoming more and more popular, especially, young people like adventure travel. What about you? Please look at the three questions on the screen and discuss them in groups of four.(Teacher use the multimedia to show the questions on the screen.)1. Do you like travel? Why/ Why not?2. Where would you most like to travel? Why?3. Have you ever tried any adventure travel?(Teacher gives students five minutes to discuss and collects their answers.)Suggested answers:S1:I like travel. Id most like to travel to some places of interest, to the forest or to the mountain. Because I want to see the famous places or enjoy the beautiful scene in nature.S2:I like adventure travel as I watch on TV, such as snowboarding, rafting, climbing mountain and so on, because they are risking and excitingS3:FStep .ReadingT: OK. Today well read a text“Adventure travel”and know something about it.I think you are very interested in it. Please open your books on Page 17.Read the passage quickly to get the general idea and answer the questions on the screen.(Teacher shows the questions on the screen.)1. Why do people travel?2. How many kinds of adventure travel are mentioned in the passage?3. What are hiking and rafting?(Teacher gives students enough time to read the text and collects their answers.)Suggested answers:1. There are many reasons. Many people travel to see some beautiful or famous places. Some people travel to meet friends to experience life in other parts or simply to get away from cold weather. Many of todays travellers want to have a new experience from their travels or wish to have an adventure.2. Two kinds. They are hiking and rafting.3. Hiking is going for a long walk in the mountain, in the forest or in the country. Rafting is travelling on a small flat floating boat made of wood down rivers and streams.T: Now read the passage again and try to get as much information as you can. After a while, well do an exercise.(Teacher gives students five minutes to read the text carefully. After finishing it, students choose the correct answers to the exercise on Page 18.)Suggested answers:1.A 2.D 3.D 4.D 5.BFStep .Study for Language pointsT: Now youve known the general idea of the passage. Now listen to the tape paragraph by paragraph. Meanwhile, find out the important phrases and difficult sentences.(After a while, teacher asks three students to point them out in each paragraph. Teacher writes them on the blackboard.)Bb: get away from, instead of, get close to, take exercise, go for a hike, watch out for, protectfrom,be careful(not)to do sth.(1)Yet there are other reasons why people travel.(2)It is done on rivers and streams where the water moves quickly.(3)The name“whitewater”comes from the fact that the water in these)T: Now put the phrases into Chinese and try to make a sentence with each of them.(Teacher asks students to make sentences before the class and gives the examples on the screen.)T: Please look at the examples on the screen.1. I must get away from this place for a few days.She didnt get away until nine last night.2. Watch out for the man.You must watch out for the traffic here.3. Protect the babys eyes from the sun.These tree belts protect the farmland against shifting sand.4. They go for a walk after supper every evening. go for a drive/a walk/a hiking/a doctor.5. Dont get close to the tiger. Its dang