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授课题目（教学章、节或主题）： Unit 2 Happy Holidays |
教学目的、要求（分掌握、熟悉、了解三个层次）： 1、Let the students know the important information about travel, such as time, place and price 2、Help the students get to know the vocabulary concerned with activities during holidays 3、Help the students express their ideas about trip plan or related experience |
教学重点及难点： In the English news, the description of the tree-lighting ceremony is talked about in a high speed |
教 学 基 本 内 容 |
方法及手段 |
• Warm-up • Listening for Content • Speaking for Communication • Follow-up |
理 论 课 |
作业、讨论题、思考题： Group discussion: Where do you want to go on vacation? |
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Unit 6 Happy Holidays
Warm-up
Listen to a television commercial for popular vacation places. Complete the following chart with the information you hear.
Vocabulary
charter flight: an aircraft flight that has been arranged and paid for by an individual or a group for a specific trip. 包机
Bermuda n. A British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 1,070 km (665 mi) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; 1,236 km (768 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia; and 1,759 km (1,093 mi) north of Cuba. The capital city is Hamilton. Bermuda is self-governing, with its own constitution and its own government, which enacts local laws, while the United Kingdom retains responsibility for defence and foreign relations. 百慕大群岛
Amazon n. A river in Northern South America. It is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and either the longest or second longest. 亚马逊河
Skills to practice: listen for specific information
Listen to the short passage for the first time to get to know the general idea of it.
Fly with International Airlines
Fly away with us to your dream vacation place. Fly with International Airlines, and leave your worries behind.
If you like mountain climbing, you can take our fabulous 2-week charter flight to Switzerland for only $850, including hotels and meals.
Or perhaps you would rather relax on a beach in Bermuda, and enjoy swimming in the clear blue-green waters of the Atlantic. Our special price until June 1st is only $579, for a marvellous 9-day vacation in the sun.
If you are adventurous, you can fly with International Airlines to the Amazon Jungle. South America is waiting for you. Our special excursion fare for a thrilling 3-week expedition along the Amazon River, complete with an experienced guide, is only $1,199, but hurry, this price can only be offered for a limited time.
Don’t miss a fantastic opportunity. The world is waiting for you. And the wild wonderful wings of International Airlines are waiting to welcome you aboard for an unforgettable vacation. Fly away with us. Fly away with International Airlines.
Detailed listening, and explain the passage to the students.
Listen to the passage for a third time and then check the answers.
Discuss the following questions.
Apart from TV commercials, what else will you turn to for tour information?
How do tourism advertisements affect your vacation decision?
II. Listening for content
1. Listening to a conversation
Vocabulary
mow v. to cut grass,etc. With a tool or a machine 割，修剪
spaghetti n. It is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. Spaghettoni is a thicker form of spaghetti, while capellini is a very thin spaghetti. It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine. Like other pasta, spaghetti is made of milled wheat and water and sometimes enriched with vitamins and minerals. Authentic Italian spaghetti is made from durum wheat semolina, but elsewhere it may be made with other kinds of flour. Typically the pasta is white because refined flour is used, but whole wheat flour may be added. 意大利细面条
Tower of London n. Officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, it is a historiccastle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. 伦敦塔
Listen to the conversation for the first time to get to know the general idea of it.
Philip: Hi, Lorraine! Did you have a good holiday?
Lorraine: Hi, Philip! All right, thank you. We went to Spain.
Philip: Oh? What was it like?
Lorraine: We enjoyed ourselves very much. The weather was fine and we just lay on
the beach all day. I felt really marvellous being thoroughly lazy for a change.
Philip: Well, you’re certainly looking brown. We toured around Italy. We saw a lot of
interesting places. We ate spaghetti in Rome, drank coffee in Venice, and took a lot of
pictures.
Lorraine: Sounds terrific! What was the weather like there?
Philip: The sun was shining every day, but not as hot as in Spain, I suppose.
Fascinating country! I’d never realized how beautiful it was.
Lorraine: Yes, I’ve always wanted to go there. What about you, John? Where did you
go?
John: Oh, I stayed at home and mowed the lawn.
Philip: That doesn’t sound like much of a holiday.
John: Well, with two small children, it’s a bit of a problem to get away. Hotels are
impossible and even camping’s difficult, so we decided to stay at home and just go
out for day trips.
Lorraine: That sounds sensible.
John: It’s surprising how little one knows of one’s own country. Do you know I’d
never been to the Tower of London before?
Philip: Are you serious?
Listen to the conversation in detail, and explain the difficult sentence structures to the students.
Let the students do the exercises in part A, and then check the answers while listening to the passage for a third time.
Listen to the conversation for a fourth time, Let the students do the exercises in part B.
Listen to the conversation for the last time, and check answers.
（Key: T T T F T T）
Listening to a passage
Tourism
Tourism is really a big business these days. It’s amazing. It involves hotels, transportation, shops, and thousands of people. The tour companies keep telling us what a good thing it is... about how much we can learn about people and customs, but sometimes I wonder if this is really true.
A couple that I know went abroad last summer. They travelled with a tour group. It’s interesting to compare their experiences with some of the experiences of other people in the same tour group. My friends, fortunately, had some...some acquaintances, or friends, actually, along the route of their tour. In some of the cities they were going, they knew of the...they knew some local people and they could eat some of the local food and maybe see some of the local sights.
Other members of the tour group, however, never got out of the group at all. They... they never went out and did a thing on their own. Of course the tour company leaves it pretty much up to the people to do whatever they want.
I understand why people wouldn’t go out on their own because of the language problems and being a little bit afraid. It seems to me that the more tourists can mix with local people, the better off everyone is. If tour companies emphasized that, everyone really would learn about other people and other customs.
Explain the passage to the students and then check the answers while listening to the passage for a third time.
（Key: B D A）
Listening to English News
Listen to the news about the annual tree-lighting ceremony in New York City and fill in the blanks with what you hear.
Vocabulary
rehearsal n. the act of practising in preparation for a public performance 排练
spruce n. an evergreen tree that has thin, sharp leaves that do not fall off in winter and produces hard brown fruits called cones. It is a large tree, from about 20-60m (about 60–200ft) tall when mature, and have whorled branches and conical form. 云杉
centrepiece n. an ornamental object put in a central position 占中心地位的装饰品
dazzling a. shining intensely 耀眼的
topper n. the ornament put on the top of Christmas trees 圣诞树顶端的装饰物
skills to practice: listening for selective information & exchanging information by asking and answering questions
Listen to the English news for the first time to get the general idea of it.
Tree-lighting Ceremony
Last-minute rehearsals, and the final touches are taking place before tonight’s tree-lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Centre.
This year, the Norway spruce soars nearly 9 storeys and it is the centerpiece of Rockefeller Centre during the holidays.
Hours before the televised tree-lighting ceremony begins, people from all around the country are starting to carve out a viewing spot.
“It’s a bit early, but I think it’s worth it.”
“With what her friends told her from work, come early so we can get a good spot, so...”
“It’s great, it couldn’t be any better.”
Debbie Moore travelled all the way from Dallas to see the tree light up in person.
“It’s been..., one of my wife’s longtime dreams to come and see this, so we finally made it happen. Wish we wouldn’t have to stand here for several hours.”
And when the switch is turned on, more than 30,000 lights carefully wrapped on the branches by crews over the past two weeks will signal the start of the holiday season.
“Got a dazzling crystal star topper measures nearly 10 feet in diameter and is made up of 25,000 crystals. This year’s Christmas tree comes from a home in Connecticut about 60 miles from the mid-town Manhattan spot where it now stands. In New York, Michelle Freads, NBC News.”
Detailed listening, and explain some words and sentence structures to the students.
Listen to the news for a third time and then check the answers.
Listen to the news again and discuss the questions in part B.
III. Speaking Communication
Talking it up
Sightseeing: an activity in which people visit and see places or objects of interest. While sightseeing, people would introduce, describe or respond to scenic spots.
Listen to the short dialogue first, and underlines expressions about sight descriptions and tourists’ responses. Then practice the dialogue with your partner. (NB: try to use words and expressions of prediction in formal scientific context)
Group work
The class should be divided into 5 or 6 groups to do pair work. The students are to practice what they have learned in Parts A and B, and they are expected to talk freely with their own established knowledge about the topic. In the end, one student is to present the results of their discussion in a set time.
Talking it through
Free discussion about the topic by making use of the information learned in Listening for Content.
Read the given information and then discuss the questions given with your group members.
IV. Follow-up
1. Listening to short conversations
Listen and get the answer from the given 4 choices. (Key: A D D B A)
1)
W: Can we really afford a holiday? We're paying for this house and we have a loan for
the furniture.
M: Listen. You work hard and I work hard. We’re not talking about whether we can
have a vacation. We’re talking about where and when.
Q: What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
2)
W: You look tired. Why not take a vacation for a change?
M: A vacation for a change? Don’t you know “no man needs a vacation so much as
the man who has just had one”?
Q: What does the man mean?
3)
W: I’ve packed clothes, toiletries, a sleep mask and a camera. Is there anything special
I have to take?
M: Oh, I’ll give you a list of necessities to take. Of course, the coach space is limited.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
4)
W: What kind of holiday have you had?
M: Terrible. Quite, quite terrible. We certainly won’t go on a bus tour again.
W: What exactly was the matter?
M: The bus itself for a start. It was so old and battered. The only place it was fit for
was a museum.
Q: What do you learn from the conversation?
5)
W: What’s the time for your flight?
M: I will leave Tokyo on May 21 at 5:30 p.m. on Northwest Airlines Flight 255. It
will arrive in Hong Kong SAR at 835 p.m.
W: I’ll meet you at the airport.
Q: How long is the flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong SAR?
2. Listening to a longer conversation
Vocabulary
cub n. the young of a wild animal, such as a bear, wolf, or lion 幼兽
ranger n. 国有树林护林员，国家公园管理员
Yellowstone National Park: an American national park located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1,1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful geyser, one of its most popular features. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. (美) 黄石国家公园
Old Faithful: A spring located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming,
United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first spring in the park to receive a name. It is a highly predictable geothermal feature, and has erupted every 44 to 125 minutes since 2000. The spring and the nearby Old Faithful Inn are part of the Old Faithful Historic District. 老忠实（间歇泉）
Listen to the conversation for the first time to get the general idea.
Camping at Yellowstone
Bart and Janet are father and daughter. After seeing a programme about Yellowstone National Park, they decided to spend their vacation there this year. They bought a large tent and other equipment, and drove to a camping area on the bank of the Yellowstone River. After supper, they sat around a campfire and talked.
Janet: This place is so peaceful! Look at all those stars!
Bart: Yeah, when you get away from all of the noise and pollution in the city, you feel
a lot closer to nature, don’t you?
Janet: That’s for sure! I’ve never seen so many different kinds of animals. I wish I
could take a little bear cub home. The one that ate part of my hamburger was so cute!
We should at least have taken its picture.
Bart: Fortunately, you’re not allowed to take them out of the park, and you’re not
supposed to feed them either, Janet. You shouldn’t have given that bear food. Remember what the park ranger told us this morning: the bears here are wild animals and can be very dangerous—it might have bitten your hand instead of your hamburger. Don’t do it again! I mean it!
Janet: OK, I won’t do it again. What are we going to do tomorrow? How about hiking
in the woods?
Bart: Hiking would be good, but would you like to go fishing at the lake?
Janet: I’d rather go sightseeing again. We haven’t seen Old Faithful yet. I wonder if it
really shoots hot water at regular intervals.
Bart: In that case, maybe we can go horse-riding. That way we can see lots of things.
Janet: That’s a great idea! I love horses!
Bart: Well, we’d better get some sleep. The fire is almost out and to be safe, I’ll throw
some water on it. We don’t want to start a forest fire.
Listening to a passage
Vocabulary
transition n. the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another 转变，过渡
Spaniard n. a native or an inhabitant of Spain 西班牙人
Space... out : to arrange objects or events so that they have equal spaces or periods of time between them 把……间隔开
blow v. to waste an opportunity 浪费机会
ease into sth.: to start doing something gradually 逐渐开始做（新事物）
Spaniards Have Post-vacation Blues
Post-vacation blues affect 35 percent of Spain’s younger workers, with symptoms including sleeplessness, loss of appetite, irregular heartbeat and feelings of despair, researchers reported. As their summer vacations come to an end, Spanish workers of all ages would fall into a depression, but the most vulnerable are those aged between 25 and 40. They tend to go right back to work after returning from their holiday, with no transition period, according to the experts. As most Spaniards get a month off per year, one trick is to space that time out over the course of the year rather than blow it all at once in the summer, the study said. Also, besides spending a few days at home before going back to work, it is a good idea to avoid returning on a Monday. “This can worsen the situation,” said experts. “We should go back on some other day of the week, thus reducing the psychological impact of returning to work.”
In a separate study, other experts find the symptoms of the post-vacation blues also include tiredness, stomachache, breathing trouble, anxiety and nervousness. Its tips for getting over it are to ease back into one’s job, be aware that such blues are temporary, not make important decisions while under the influence of them and, finally, this: “Look at the return to work as a new period in life in which you can do new activities leading to personal growth.”
Detailed listening, and explain some words and sentence structures to the students.
Listen to the passage for a third time and let the students fill the blanks.
Listen to the passage again and check the answers.