教学案例与反思4Part One: Teaching Design (第一部分：教学设计) Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading (JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG) Aims To talk about traveling To read about traveling Procedures I. Warming up 1. Warming up by discussing Good morning, class. Do you like traveling? Why do you like traveling? And why not? Where have you ever been before? How did you get there? If you are given a chance to travel around the world, what kind of transportations will you use and why? Now look at the following pictures and discuss it in pairs. Name of the transportations Means of transportation Reasons by car (in a car) by bike by plane (by air) by train ( on a train) by bus ( on a bus) by ship (by water or by boat) in a hot balloon by motorbike (on a motorbike) by jeep by truck in a plate 2. Warming up by looking and speaking Now boys and girls, what do you need to take with you if you are preparing for a bike trip along the Changjiang River? Look at the pictures and tell the whole class which object you think is the most useful and which one is the least useful. Give a reason why you think so. 3. Warming up by asking and answering Now suppose you live in Qinghai. You plan to spend a holiday with a friend somewhere in Southeast Asia. You have been given a chance to choose three places to visit. Please find out the one-way fare to get there for different kinds of transportation. Perhaps you may not know the exact fare, but you can guess how much the fare is. Please have a short discussion with your partners and then decide where to go. Ok, now Id like you to ask your partner the following questions. II. Pre-reading 1. Imaging and sharing Do you like traveling along a river, a great river? What role does a river play in peoples life? In other words, how do people who live along a river use it? The suggested answers: People can drink the water in a river or wash their clothes. People can swim in a river in summer. People can use a river to irrigate their fields. People can use a river to produce electricity. People can travel along a river. 2. Talking and sharing As we all know, there are a lot of rivers in the world and also there are many great rivers. Now look at the chart. In the left column are names of some great rivers. In the right column are locations where the rivers lie. Please match them. match answer Names of River Location Names of River Location Mekong India Mekong China，SE Asia Rhine France Rhine Germany Ganges Russia Ganges India Seine England Seine France Nile Central Africa Nile Egypt Thames Germany Thames England Congo Brazil Congo Central Africa Niger China, SE Asia Niger West Africa Volga US Volga Russia Danube Egypt Danube Central Europe Amazon West Africa Amazon Brazil Mississippi Central Europe Mississippi US III. Reading 1. Reading aloud to the recording Do you know what countries the Mekong River flows through? Now look at the map of the Mekong River and point out the countries it flows through. (China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma Vietnam) Ok, today were going to read a passage about JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. Please listen and read aloud about the recording of the text JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too. 2. Reading and underlining Now please read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG dream about, take a great bike trip, graduate from, got the chance to do sth., cycle along the river, go for long bike rides, mountain bike, persuade sb. to do sth., grow up, get sb. interested in sth., be stubborn, know the best way of getting to places, the source of the river, care about, give sb. a determined look, change ones mind, at an altitude of, seem to do, the air be hard to breathe, an interesting experience, make up ones mind, give in, a large atlas with good maps, keep doing sth., at first, pass through, be surprised to do sth., half of, at last, the South China Sea 3. Reading aloud and understanding Next we are going to read aloud the text and then answer some questions. 1) Who are Wang Kun and Wang Wei? (They are brother and sister, and both are college students.) 2) What was their dream? (Their dream was to take a great bike trip.) 3) Who are Dao Wei and Yu Hang? (They are Wang Kuns cousins who are at a college in Kunming.) 4) Where is the source of the Mekong River and which sea does it enter?(The source of the river is in Qinghai Province and it enters the South China Sea.) 5) What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?(You can see glacier, rapids, hill, valleys, waterfalls and plains.) 6) Is it a difficult journey to cycle along the Mekong? Why? (Yes. The journey begins at an altitude