Unit 3

Going places

Teaching Aims and Demands

Words and Phrases
consider means experience vacation nature basic equipment
simple normal excitement separate get away from watch out
protect sb/sth from see sb off on the other hand as well as
transportation board simply tip poisonous handle combine
Spoken English:
1.Intention and plans:
What would you prefer going ?
When are you going off to?
How would you like to go to?
How are you going to?
2.Wishes:
Have a good trip.
Have a nice/pleasant trip.
Grammar:
Using the Present Continuous Tense for future actions
1. Adventure travel is becoming more and more popular.
Look! He is waiting at the gate.
2. Bob is coming with me to the airport.
How are you getting there?
How long are you staying in xian?
Use of Language:
(1) Help the students to finish the tasks of listening, reading,
writing, speaking presented in the book and the exercise
book through using what the students have known. Learn
the text about traveling. Finish the exercise in their books.
(2) Get the students to learn some skills about giving
intentions and wishes.
Important points: Grammar and learning about the basic

skills and the purpose while traveling.

Difficult points: Using the Present Continuous Tense for
future actions
Teaching aids: computer tape-recorder
Way of Teaching:
communication way of teaching,
discussion and group work.

Lesson 1
Step 1 Warming-Up
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures and write down the
people are doing wrong.
(a).He is driving too fast.
(b).He is littering./He is throwing rubbish on the ground.
(c).The man is smoking where he shouldnt . / The sign says
that smoking is not allowed, but he is smoking anyway.
(d).The car is parked where no parking is allowed./ The car is
parked in the wrong place.
2. Show the students pictures of different places. Ask them to
choose the best way of transportation.

3. The students will discuss the advantages and

disadvantages of different means of transportation.
Step 2 Listening
(a) Because when you are traveling, you need to listen
to announcements to get enough information. Ask the
student to listen to the tape and fill out the charts in 1
and 2.
(b) Finish the listening part in the workbook as well.
Step 3 Speaking
Imagine that you have a machine that lets you travel in
time. With this machine you could travel to the past or

the future. Then make a dialogue using the questions

in the form as a guide. Here the teacher may first give
an example as a guide.
Encourage more students to practise the dialogue.
Useful Expressions:
I would like to travel to the year
I would like to know what life was like years ago.
I want to know what like will be likeyears from
now.
To which year do you want to go?
Do you want to travel to the future or to the past?
Step 4 Homework
Ask the students to get previewed the reading material
in the listening part.
Lesson2
Step 1 Introduction
Ask the students to close their books and ask
individual students to answer the questions in Prereading.
1.Do you like traveling? Why or why not?
2.Where would you most like to travel? Why?
3.Have you ever heard about adventure travel? What
do you think of it?
Divide the student into groups. Ask them to prepare a
trip to the place they like. Encourage the students/the
leader of a group to give reasons why they think their
plan is the best.
Step 2 Fast-reading
Tell the students that there are kinds of travels. And
get them give their idea of the possible variation of

travel.
Then ask the students to read paragraph 1quickly and
answer the following questions first:
Why do people travel?
Why do people want adventure travel?
What are the two examples of adventure travel?
Step 3 Careful-reading
1.For part one, give the students the following
questions and ask them to read paragraph 1 carefully.
1).What is hiking?
2).Why is hiking a kind of adventure travel?
3).Where can you go hiking?
Deal with the language points if there is any.
2. For paragraph 2, give the students the following
questions and answer the following questions:
1).What is rafting?
2).Where is rafting done?
3).Why is rafting a kind of adventure travel?
Deal with the language points if there is any.
Step 4 Post-reading
Ask the students to listen to the tape while getting the
exercise 1 done.
The answer is: a b d d c
Ask the students to read the text carefully and fill in
the chart in exercise 2. Then check their answers.
Step 5 Homework
Get the students to be prepared for the talking part in
their workbooks.

Lesson 3
Step 1 Revision
Check the students homework by asking several of them to
report what they have done.
Step 2 Word-study
Give the students several minutes to finish the exercise in
word-study. Then check the answer with them.
Step 3 Grammar
First give the students a brief explanation of Using the
Pressent Continuous Tense for Future Actions.
1. When the present tense is used of the future in the main
clause, there is often an indication of time. The action is
usually regarded as having been dicided upon beforehand.
Verbs that are often used in this way are go, come, leave, get,
arrive, meet, see off, take off, return, start, fly, stay, etc.
e.g. Im leaving at seven tonight.
2. The present tense is used of the future in a clause
introduced by when, if, before, till/untill,
everytime, by the time, as soon as, the moment etc.
e.g. We shall not go out for a hike if it rains tomorrow.
Step 4 Consolidation
Ask the students to read the dialogue and underline the verbs
that express future in exercise 1.
For exercise 2 encourage the students to give as many answers
as possible.
Step 5 Workbook
Get the students to finish the exercise 3 in the students
workbook. Check the answers with the students.
Step 6 Homework
Finish the exercises 1 and 2.

Lessson 4
Step 1 Revision
Check the homework
Step 2 Discussion
First explain to the students what an Eco-travel is. Then divide
the students into groups of four. Ask the students to decide
where they will go and why. Here you may add more
examples of destinations, so the student may have a larger
choice.
At last ask each group leader to report their decisions while
giving their reasons.
Step 3 Writing
Before the students start to write the passage, get them to read
the requirement carefully. And make sure that they understand
what they are asked to do.

Sample letters
Dear Mum and Dad,
We have just arrived at the hotel. We ate unpacking our bags
and we will go to the park this morning. We are going to have
a picnic in the park and eat sandwiches. After the picnic, we
will go back to our hotel. In the afternoon we will go for a
walk and maybe sing songs in the evening. On Sunday, we are
going to play volley-ball on the beach and then go hiking.
When we get back from hiking. When we get back from
hiking, we will pack, go to the train station, and go home. This
is our first day and we are very excited. I think we will have a
great time.
Love
Sue

Dear Mum and Dad,

We are playing volleyball on the beach. Yesterday, we went
swimming and played volleyball in the morning. We had
lunch at our hotel and then went for a walk and sang songs in
the evening. On Friday, our first day here, we arrived at the
hotel and unpacked. We went to the park and had a picnic and
ate sandwiches. After the picnic, we were tired and went back
to the hotel and watched a film. We will go hiking today and
then pack and go to the station. We are having a great time,
but it will be nice to get back home.
Step 4 Homework
Finish the exercises in the workbook