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必修一 Unit 3 Travel Journal
Language points
Teaching goals
一、Knowledge goals
1. Important words and phrases
stubborn, determined, persuade, cycle, waterfall, valley, rapids, plain, glacier, canyon
2. Important sentences
Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip properly.
She gave me a determined look – the kind that said that she would not change her mind.
Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it.
We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China.
二、Ability goals
Enable the Ss to learn some important patterns.
三、Emotional goals
Enable the Ss to find the importance of Travel Journal.
Teaching difficult and important points
The use of some important words, phrases and patterns.
Teaching methods
Learn the language points through situations given and practice,
Cooperative learning and speaking
Class-exercise
Language points
1. insist vt to declare that a purpose cannot be changed. In this case the clause is often used in the so-called subjunctive mood to express one’s strong suggestion. The verb is often used in the form of “should + do” or “do”.
e.g. I insisted that he should come with us.
The teacher insisted that a meeting be held immediately.
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2. In the sentence “ the Kind “ means “ the kind of the face”
3. dream about to see in a dream
e.g. The soldier often dreamt about home.
4. It was my sister who had the idea …
This is a n emphatic drill. Its pattern drill goes like this: It is / was + the emphatic part + that/ who + clause.
e.g. It is light that travels faster than sound.
It was the headmaster who gave us a talk on how to learn a foreign language well.
5. persuade vt to cause sb by reasoning (to do sth )
e.g. The doctor has persuaded him to give up smoking.
6. cycle vi to ride a bike
7. stubborn adj difficult to deal with; not easily giving way to persuasion
e.g. The girl is so stubborn that nobody can persuade her to change her mind.
8. properly adv in a suitable manner
9. care about be inte rested or be concerned
10. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows. In the sentence, make means become.
11. once conj. even for one time, as soon as
e.g. Once yo u understand this rule you will have no further difficulty.
Once you show any fear the dog will attack you.
12. give in to surrender
e.g. Liu Hulan would rather die than give in.
Comprehending
Get the Ss to do the exercises in this part.
Consolidation
Listen to the text again to appreciate it.
Translation:
一、根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母或汉语提示,写出该单词的正确形式。
1. He is planning his work ________ (进度表) for the following week.
2. They took many pictures of the _________ (瀑布) yesterday.
3. What is the _______ (海拔) of this mountain?
4. I think you don’t know your own s___________. In fact, no one is perfect.
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5. He is so s________ that nobody can change his mind.
6. Do you know where the s______ of the Chang Jiang River is?
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