2) Students answer teacher’s questions and practice the sentence pattern "I dream about traveling in/to…"
1). To arouse students’ interest
2) To practice a sentence pattern
1). Show the title of the reading passage
2). Ask the students whether this passage is about the whole process of the journey.
3). Ask the students how to skim.
4) Tell the students the skill of skimming on the screen
1) Students answer the question after they read the subtitle of this part.
2). Students tell how to skim.
1) To make the students pay attention to the subtitle, which can tell the main idea of the passage.
1) Ask the students to skim more—to find out the main idea of each paragraph.
1) Students tell the main idea of each paragraph
1) To practice how to skim
With four questions, teacher asks the students to scan paragraph 1
Ask students how the scan
Show the skills of scanning on the screen
Students scan paragraph 1, and answer the four questions
Students tell how to scan
1) Ask the students to scan paragraph 2 and find out what different attitudes Wang Kun and Wang Wei have, and then finish the table
1) Students scan paragraph 2 and finish the table
1) To practice how to scan
1) Provide the students with a picture which describes a geographic word as well as a few sentences about the flow of the Mekong river on each slide and ask them to read the sentences.
2) Ask the students to match each geographic word to the proper meanings
1) Students read the sentences loudly together and look at the pictures and the related geographic words in the meanwhile.
2) Students do the matching work
1) To better know how the Mekong river flows
2) To help the students better learn the geographic words which are new to them
3) To check how the students understand the new words
Review the structure of the passage together with the students and show some key words on the screen
Provide the students with some words and phrases which are the new words in this unit
Ask them to retell the main content of the passage in groups
With the teacher, students review the structure of the passage
Retell the main content of the passage in groups
To help students form the schema of the passage by reviewing the structure of it
To know the content of the passage better as well as to create more chances for the students to use the new words
1) Ask the students what they learn from the story
2) Give the students some useful and related proverbs
1) Students share their opinions with the group members what they have learned from the story.
2) Students read the proverbs loudly together.
1) To encourage students to form their own views and share them with others
2) To learn some useful proverbs
1) Summarize this class by showing the learning goals again
1) Students review what they have learned by reading the learning goals on the screen.
1) To help students review what they have learned in this class