Lesson 14 A Travel Diary

By Shang Lijuan 2002.10.23

Teaching Aims:

1. To master: guide bank village sharp crop price mile （四会）

bone sight （三会 ） wild parrot guitar（二会）

To understand the some sentences. (omitted)

2. To understand the whole text .

3. To talk about the forest travel to South America.

4. To inspire the students to love nature and protect the environment .

Teaching focus:

To understand the whole text.

To find out the main idea of each part and get the general idea.

Teaching characteristic:

Lead the students to the study by themselves, train the students the ability of

reading comprehension by the communicative teaching method“Leading-Reading-Practising”.

Teaching method:

Audio-visual method Reading-instructive method Communicative method

Teaching preparation:

Ss: To preview the new words and expressions.

T: Multi-media computer

Procedures:

Step 1 Pre-reading activity ( 3’ )

1. Lead-in

T: What do you think of Jiu Zhai Gou scenic spot?

(Wonderful! Fairy tales! Magic! Mysterious!)

What about the English explanation? (Good! Beautiful! Fluently…)

Would you like to go traveling? So it is the same with me.

Today we’ll take up a new lesson Lesson 14 a travel diary.

2. Picture-talking

T: First, please look at the picture carefully.

What can you see in the picture?

What are they doing?

Ss: We can see many trees, a river, a boat, a hill and six people…

Five people on the top of the hill are having a rest. They’re talking about something.

Only one person near them is cooking meal.

T: Yes, you are right. The five people are travelers. The man who is cooking supper is

the guide. But where did they go? How did they travel? Let’s come to the text.

Step 2 Preparation for reading ( 20’ )

1、First-reading

Look and listen to the text. After that, please find out the answers to the following questions.

1) Where did they go? (A great forest in South America)

2) How did they travel, by air or by boat? (By boat)

3) What does the writer never eat? (Monkeys)

4) What did the writer want to do? (Go swimming)

5) What sad sight did they see? (A great fire and lots of smoke)

2. Second-reading

Find some key words, the main idea of each part and then get the general idea.

T: Now you see, they are on their travels in a great forest river. It is the famous Amazon River

in South America, you know? Then, what did they see? What did they hear? How are they

feeling in the forest? Let’s read the text again. After that, you will be asked to find some key

words, the main idea of each part and then get a general idea. Now let’s have a competition.

The whole class will be divided into 7 groups, i.e.Group A, B, C , D, E, F & G. This time

Group A is the judge group. Try to finish it as quickly as possible. If you have finished,

just go back to your seat. Are you clear?

Key words: 1. A wonderful time

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go to the forest enjoy the boat trip travel by boat smell the cooking eat chicken, eggs, birds eat fish not monkeys hear strange sounds see parrots flying along the river love sitting by…and playing be about to go swimming stop…dangerous fish

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2. A sad sight

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for miles and miles nothing except a great fire and lots of smoke

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3.The cause

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the growth of the population move…burn…plant…for…

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General idea: The writer’s experience on the forest travel in South America.

Step 3 Re-reading activity ( 15’ )

1. Retell the text according to the key words above.

T: Just now we’ve got the key words, the main idea of each part and the general idea.

So have you understood the whole text?

Ok, now would you please to retell the text according to the key words above?

2. Finish the reading comprehensive questions.

T: There are four questions. Please discuss in groups. Four students a group.

You’d better to find the original sentences.

1) What do you think of the writer? Why? (brave，love life and nature，careful，thoughtful)

2) Why and how do the people come to the forest to make a living?

(no jobs…move…burn…plant…for…)

3) What’s the writer’s opinion on burning the forest?

A. She thinks it right to burn the forest because there are too many people.

B. The air will be polluted by fire and heavy smoke when people burn the forest.

C. That’s wrong to break the balance of nature.

D. Birds, monkeys and so on will disappear, and nobody will come to visit here.

4) What lesson can we learn from the text?

Key words:

destroy protect（保护） control（控制） growth（增长） fire

smoke pollute（污染） chemical factory noise environment（环境）

Possible answers:

1) Don’t pollute the air.

2) Protect the environment.

3) Don’t smoke in the forest.

4) Plant more trees and grass.

5) Stop destroying the forest.

6) Don’t pollute the environment.

7) Don’t make a fire in the forest.

8) Don’t make much loud noises.

9) Don’t throw rubbish anywhere.

10) Wells should be controlled to dig.

11) Develop a new type of agriculture.

12) Control the growth of the population.

13) The chemical plant should be strictly managed.

14) The water and smoke from the factories should be made clean.

15) Protect the animal, such as frogs, snakes, parrots, monkey, lions and tigers and so on.

Step 4 Post-reading activity ( 2’ )

1. Consolidation

You did quiet well. But as an ordinary person, what can we do to protect the environment? …

So from the text, every one of us should realize it is necessary and important for us to protect the

forest, protect the environment and keep the balance of nature. To save the earth is to save ourselves!

If we go out for traveling, we should try our best to protect the environment. Do you agree with me?

2. Homework

1) Try to say something more about what can we do to protect the environment? next class.

2) Write a short passage on the forest traveling within 100 words in your own exercises.

3) Try to solve the language problems in the text.

4) Finish Exx. 1, 2 & 3 in Wb.

5) Preview Lesson 15 and its Exx. in Wb.