Unit 2 Travelling Around-Listening and Speaking & Listening and Talking

 

【教学目标与核心素养】

1. Instruct students to get main facts by listening and motivate them to talk about the topics about how to prepare for the trip and make reservations by listening and ultimately can make travel arrangements and reservations.

2. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.

3. Develop students’ different listening skills to solve different listening comprehensive problems.

4. Help students to understand how to use the structures “the present continuous tense (be doing) is used to express future plans.

【教学重难点】

1. Teach students how to focus on key words, not on single words or grammar.

2. Prompt Ss to talk about the related topics, such as how to prepare for the trip and make a travel plan.

【教学过程】

Step 1: Listening and Speaking

Lead in

The teacher is advised to talk with their students about the places that they want to travel most both at home and abroad: boys and girls, if you have a chance to travel around the world, where will you go? After their small talk, the teacher can move on by finishing the following listening task:

Before travelling, what do we need to prepare for the trip?

After finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to play Conversation 1 which is about Paul and Meilin’s conversation about coming holiday and after finishing listening for the first time, the students need to solve the following task.

1. Circle the two places Meilin is going to for holiday.

A. Germany.              B. England.         C. Iceland.          D. France.

2. How is she going to get there?

A. By sea.                 B. By air.                    C .By train.

3 How is she planning to get around after she arrives?

A .By car.                  B. By train.                C. On foot.

Listening tip:

Focus on key   words： Do not try to   catch every word in a conversation. Instead, listen for key words and   phrases. You should focus on getting the main idea, not on single words or   grammar.

After finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to play Conversation 2 which is about where and why Paul is visiting with his family and after finishing listening, the students need to solve the following task.

Listen to Conversation 2. Then answer the following questions:

1. Where is Paul's family going over the holiday?

2. Why are they going there?

After finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to play Conversation 3 which contains the whole conversation and solve the following task.

Fill in the table below:

Travel   preparations
Meilin	Paul
·Get her   passport ·_________________for   her visa ·_________________air   tickets online ·_________________a   car	·____________________________a   few light sweaters and a   coat ·___________________a   guidebook

Finally, after finishing the task above, the teacher is expected to instruct students to work in groups to finish the following project:

Speaking Project

Work in pairs. Choose a travel destination and discuss how to prepare for the trip.

Pronunciation

Have the Ss listen and repeat. Then try to add more words to each group.

Then listen to the sentences below. Let the Ss notice the pronunciation of the letters in bold.

Step 2: Listening and Talking

Teacher talks with their students about the related topic: Boys and girls, do you know how to make reservations for a trip? Let’s listen and find out:

Play the listening and answer the following questions:

1. What are the two speakers talking about?

2. What is the relationship between the two speakers?

Listen again and complete the table with the words you hear.

Making reservations

Talking project

Work in groups.

Imagine you are making plans for the holiday. Choose one of the situations below and role-play a phone call with a partner.