Unit 9 The Joy of Travel

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Unit 9 The Joy of Travel
Teaching Objectives In this unit students are
required to 1. Practice listening skills 2. Get
to know some useful information concerning the
topic of this unit 3. Do some preparation
activities such as discussion, group work to
enhance their spoken English and communicative
skills 4. Learn new words and phrases to further
broaden students scope of vocabulary 5. Read
the in-class reading passage within limited time
for a general idea of the passage and then do
detailed reading for a command of useful
expressions 6. Do post-reading exercises and
some after-class reading to test how far they
have gone in grasping reading skills and language
points 7. Translate some key sentences in the
unit to upgrade students translation abilities
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Teaching Methodology Communicative
approach Multi-media teaching Teaching process
Pre-task------Task cycle------Post-task Time
Distribution Listening Speaking 2 periods
In-class Reading 2 periods Exercise
After-class Reading 2 periods Further
Development Writing 2 periods.
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Period 1 2 Listening and Speaking

• I?Teaching Focus
• 1.Background information introduction
• 2.Preparation
• 3.Listening to tapes
• II?Teaching steps
• Background Information
• Since the beginning of civilization, man has
  traveled to hunt for food, to trade with other
  people and explore or conquer new
  territories.Travel in the modern world is still
  motivated by the desire to expand ones horizons,
  to experience other cultures, and to connect with
  other peoplewhether they are friends, relatives
  or business partners.
• People travel to be with their family at
  Christmas time in the West or during the Spring
  Festival in China.People travel to resort areas
  to relax in the sunpeople travel to see
  beautiful scenery, to visit famous places, to
  taste different foods,and to learn new things. In
  many ways,traveling is a manifestationof
  mansfundamental curiosity.
• However, whether one goes by car,bus,train,plane
  or boat, traveling costs money. The richer you
  are,the more choices you have in your mode of
  transportation, your accommodation,and your
  destination.

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Touring or traveling as a leisure activity is
usually referred to as tourism.In many parts of
world, tourism constitutes a major part of the
economy. Some areas in certain countries are
almost exclusively dependent on income from the
tourist trade.Such is the case, for instance, for
the islands in the Caribbean Sea (e.g. Aruba,
Jamaica, Cuba, Martinique) and many parts of
Spain and Portugal. Thousands of tourists want to
escape their cold winter for a couple of weeks,
so they travel to these sunny destinations where
they can relax on the beaches and swim in the
warm coastal waters. Other tourists prefer to
spend their vacations sightseeing in famous
cities like Paris, London and Vienna, where there
are innumerable beautiful historical buildings
and museums to visit. Over one million overseas
and 12 million Chinese people, for example,
travel every year to Xian to see the
extraordinary sight of the terracotta warriors.
Even more tourists visit the Forbidden City in
Beijing and the Great Wall. Some people travel on
their own and other people join an organized
tour. In the latter case,the tour company takes
care of everything including transportation,
accommodation, ans the sightseeing itinerary.
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• In recent years, the environmental movement has
  sparked new trends in tourism. Instead of
  visiting crowded and polluted cities, many people
  now look for clean destinations where they can
  breathe fresh air and admire nature in its
  unspoiled state. Young families, in particular,
  like to go wilderness camping. They travel by
  canoe to the remote areas in parks, they sleep in
  tents and they cook their own food on campfires.
  The children benefit from the healthy environment
  and they can see deer, rabbits, squirrels, and
  other wildlife in their natural surroundings.
• Birds-watching has become anther very popular
  form of tourism. People of all ages travel far
  and wide to see different species of birds. The
  result of their observations are often used to
  measure the effects of pollution and industrial
  development on the survival of various species.
  For over a century, families have traveled in the
  winter to various regions in North America and
  Europe to ski resorts in the mountains. Since the
  1970s, other types of sports and adventure
  holidays have gained in popularity. Young people,
  especially, look for new and exciting activities
  to try in a clean and beautiful environment.
  Heliskiing, skydiving, kayaking and bungee
  jumping are typical examples of this new trend in
  tourism.
• 2. Preparation
• 1. Word association
• Hotel, motel, bus, boat, airport, phrease book,
  entertainment, places of interests, guide,
  railway station, scenery, travel agent, camera,
  photograph, passport, visa, food, telescope,
  jouney, picnic, sleeping bag, touism, skating,
  cable car, airfare, luggage, ,knapsack, foreign
  exchange, etc.
• 2. Means of transportation
• 3. Listening to tapes

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Period 34 Reading

• I?Teaching focus
• Practice students reading skills and help them
  learn new words and phrases
• II?Teaching steps
• Pre-reading
• Words, phrases and grammatical points
• 1 A few days later I found myself unemployed and
  unattached, excited by the freedom, yet terrified
  about what to do next.
• I found myself???????????.
• e.g. We went to sleep soon after we got on the
  train and woke up to find ourselves(when we woke
  up we were)in Calais.
• Youll soon find yourself without any
  friends(have no friends) at all if you keep on
  being so rude to everybody.
• Once or twice I found myself doubting my own
  judgement.
• Then Ifound myself myself surrounded by half a
  dozen boys.

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2 (Probably most important of all,Iforced myself
to get out get out of my room and go to meet
people. ??????of all?????most important of
all??,??first of all, most of all, worst of all
?????. e.g. First of all, answer these
questions. Worst of all, he had no hope of
shaking her resolution. She said she wanted most
of all to be fair. 3 therapy,session,
appointment In this passage, the word therapy
means the treatment of someone with mental
illness or problems and a sessiom is a period
of time spent with a therapist. Therapy may
involve a nvmber of swssions and last a few
months or even years. An appointment with a
doctor is a formal arrangment to meet the doctor
at a particular time. 4 I acted in unfamiliar
ways just to see how it felt. In this sentence,
to see how it feltmeans to find out what
feelings I would have.The word feel means to
give you the feeling especially when you touch or
experience something. e.g. Her skin felt cold
and rough. The metal felt smooth and cold.
The ten-foot oars felt heavy and awkward.
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5 There were times when I wanted to avoid doing
those things I found most frightening. There are
times when means sometimes. e.g. There are
times when she makes me despair of the whole
thing. 3 Exercises
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Period 56 Post-reading and Exercise

• I?Teaching focus
• Test students reading skills the their command
  of new words and phrases.
• II?Teaching steps
• 1 Fast reading for exercises
• 2 Questions for discussions

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Period 78 Further Development and Writing

• I. Teaching Content
• Further enhance students communicative abilities
  and writing abilities
• II. Teaching Steps
• 1. Identifying Landmark(?????)
• STEP ONE
• 1)a. the Eiffel Tower in Paris
• b.Big Ben in London
• c.the opera House in Sydney
• d. the Statue of Liberty in New York City
• e.the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
• f.the canals in Venice
• g.Taj Mahal in India
• h.the Pyramis in Egypt

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• 2)Possible answers
• a. beautiful, mamagnificent,ramance, fashions
• b. time,tradition,English culture, Queen,
  gentleman
• c. graceful architecture, the Olympic Games,
  beautiful
• d. freedom,beauty, Frech Revolution
• e. great architecture, excitement,cable car, hill
• f. romance, beauty, water, rich, culture
• g. peaceful, quiet, luxury, splendid
• h. ancient, mystery, hard work, amazing
  architecture
• 3)Open
• STEP TWOSample
• In order of importantce, they are the Great
  Wall, the Changjiang River,the Yellow River, the
• Tai Mountain, the West Lake,the oriental Pearl TV
  Tower in Shanghai, Summer Palace, Forbidden City,
  Xian (terracotta warriors), Guilin.
• _The Great Wall, over 6,000 km, is a magnificent
  relic of ancient Chinese cilizations. There is a
  famous saying in China He who does not reach
  the Great Wall is not a true man.
• _The Changjiang River is one of the most
  important rivers in China. It is famous because
  of its importance for water conservation and
  water traffic and its beautiful scenery.
• _The Yellow River has a history as long as that
  of the Chinese Nationlity and thus is the symbol
  of China. It is considered to be the Mother
  River of China.
• _The Tai mountain, one of the Five Highe
  Mountains in China, is extremely beautiful and is
  associated with many famous poets.
• _The West Lake is situated in the heart of
  hangzhou. It is surrounded by beaytiful trees and
  gardens and adds considerable charm to the city.

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• _Summer Palace, formerly an imperial garden of
  the Oing Dynasty, is now the largest park in the
  Beijing.
• _Forbidden City, also known as the Palace Musuem,
  was formerly the imperial palace of the Ming and
  the Qing Dynasty. It is the biggest and best
  preserved group of ancient buildings in China and
  embodies the unique style of Chinese
  architecture.
• _Xian is the site of a Qin dynasty tomb that was
  discovered in 1974. Hundreds of terracotta
  warrior statues, each with its own likeness,
  stand guarding the emperors tomb.
• Guilin is perhaps the site of the most famopus
  landscape in china. A series of finger mountains
  that rise from the plains have attracted
  painters, poets and tourists for centuries.
• 2. The Challenges of a tour Guide
• STEP ONE
• At this stage, ask students to remember to
  calculate the time required to get from one place
  to
• another. The place to visit might be Beijing
  (for three days), Shanghai (for two days),
  Hangzhou (for two days ), Xiamen (for two days ),
  Chengdu (for one day ),Guilin (for two days ),
  Xian (for two days ), etc. The trip might also
  including famous parks,mountains or seaside
  locations depending on the right season.
• STEP TWO

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• The advice might include such things as
• _bring a camera(you fan buy film anywhere in
  China )
• _bring medicine for upset stomachs and other
  illnesses
• _keep a dairy
• _bring a dictionary or phrase book
• _bring good walking shoes
• _how to bargain in a night market
• _what foods and dishes to taste
• _things about Chinese culture and history
• _how to avoid pickpockets, etc.
• 3. Describe Your hometown
• Sample
• Hangzhou is my hometown. It is famous for
  the West LakegtWith rolling hills around it, the
  West Lake is beautiful in all four seasons. There
  are many interesting sites to see such as
  general Yues Tomb, Lingyin Temple, Pagoda of Six
  harmonies, the Botanical Gardens,Yellow Dragon
  Cave, the broken Bridge. Hangzhou is also famous
  for its silk, fans,lotus root starch, etc.
• Writing
• 1).Traveling Is wonderful
• 2). I Like Traveling