Leon Plan for Travel Journal（first period） Grade: Grade 10 Analysis of the students: After at least six years of English study, the students are already have the ability to expre, to think in English.Teaching Objectives 1.knowledge objective Learn the following new words and their pronunciation： journal，transport，Laos，Cambodia, Vietnam，Mekong，finally，cycle，persuade，stubborn， atlas，glacier，Tibetan，rapids，valley，waterfall，plain，delta.2.Ability Objective ⑴Learn how to expre their vacation activities. ⑵Grasp some reading skills.3.Emotional objective Stimulate Ss’ love for nature by getting them to know the greatne of a river.Teaching Important Points 1.Learn the words listed above.2.Get students know to choose appropriate transportation and why.Teaching Difficult Points 1.Understand the new words and try to use them correctly.2.How to help the students understand the paage better.Teaching Procedures
step 1.warming up (7 minutes) 1.warming up by presenting pictures of some places of interest and asking some questions .This step helps to arise students’ interest and attention.Asking them questions like: do you like traveling? where have you ever been before? What can you benefit from traveling? If you are given a chance to travel around the world, what kind of transportations will you use and why?(2 minutes) Now look at the following pictures and discu it in pairs.Some transportation means: 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, then complete the chart on screen .( 3 minutes)
2.warming up by looking and speaking .look at the pictures and tell the whole cla which object you think is the most useful and which one is the least useful.give a reason why you think so.(2 minutes) step 2.Pre-reading(10 minutes) 1.Imaging and sharing that whether you like to travel along a river, a great river? what role does a river play in people’s 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 travel along a river.(5 minutes) 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 screen, there are some pictures of some famous rivers , try to gue which rivers they refer to.(5 minutes) Step 3. While-reading(23 minutes) 1.scanning: Ss read quickly and answer: Where is the Mekong River originate from? How many countries does it flow through and what are they? (china, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam) Then complete the route of this river on the screen.(6 minutes) 2.skimming: read again and answer the questions: Who will go on a trip along Mekong River? How will they get there? Where should they start their trip? How did they prepare their trip? (5 minutes) 3.Students read and get the main ideas of each paragraph.(6 minutes) 4.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.Then the teacher will play the tape twice and students shall read aloud twice, too.(6 minutes) Step 4. Post-reading（3 minutes）
Closing down by answering questions :what should you do before traveling? (before traveling, we should make good preparations, that is, to make a plan, decide the place to visit and get enough information about the place.with full preparations we’ll have a good time during the trip.) Which type of transportation will you choose and why? (Students are supposed to make a comparison among different transportations) Step 5 Refection and Homework (2 minutes)
Imagine you are going on a travel, try to make a plan.you should write down which types of transportation you will take and destination data.You may tell us why are you going there.(you should write at least 60 words) Reflection: This leon plan was based on the interactive modal of reading.Different from the Bottom-up model and Top-down model, Interactive model strees on the new vocabulary and structure as well as on the whole background knowledge.In this leon plan, the teaching of new words and phrases are involved in the whole course of this leon, For example, at the beginning of this leon, the students are asked to gue the topic according to the pictures presented.The new word \"transportation\" is introduced after presenting pictures of car, plane, train and so on.In this leon plan, the three stages, namely, Pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading, are involved..
