Unit 7 Holiday postcardsTask objectivesUnderstand more complex or a series of instructions and act accordinglyUnderstand simple role-playsParticipate in simple role-playsProvide information by using tablesLanguage focusNow I’m in Canada.Where did Mark go?He went to the mountains yesterday.What did he do there?He skied all day.Requirement:Topic vocabularyThe UK / visit Grandma and Grandpa, the US / climb a mountain, Canada/ ski and skate, Australian / play volleyball on the beach.Requirement:Throw-away wordsSound and rhyme words : Spell, playschool, bucket, spade, shadeRubrics : Choose a city. Find out what you can do there. Make alist of things to do. Choose a greeting and an ending for your postcard.Here’s an idea. Write on the back of your postcard. Follow the example第 1 页


on page 66. Send it to a friend.Poem words : London, palace, Big Ben, queen, hope, Sydney,koala, kangaroo, snake, crocodile, Niagara Falls, Toronto.Pre-task stageA Mark is going on a long holiday. Look at the map and his travel plan.Listen, say and act.Presentation1.(Books closed) Write on the board a brief travel plan with dates foryourself, following Mark’s sample in the book. Tell the students, I’mgoing to travel soon. Fist I’m going to … I’m going to be in …from… to…2.Then rub off the place names. Ask the students Where would you liketo travel? Write their suggestions up in the spaces.3.Ask individual students to tell you about their travel plans for differentdates. 4.Show Transparency. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette and point to thespeech bubbles. Ask the students to repeat after the cassette.Practice1.(Books open.) Show Transparency. Point to Mark’s travel plans. Askthe students Where is mark going to go? When is he going to be there?2.Point to the places on the map. Ask the students What is Mark goingto do in the places?第 2 页


3.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette. Tell the students to repeat theconversation.More to doWhile displaying the map, ask the students what other country countrynames they know. Fill in the names on a piece of transparency.B1 Pat an Koko are talking about the postcards from Mark. Listen andread.[来源:Zxxk]Presentation[来源:ZXXK]1.(Books closed.) Write on the board your travel plan again. Write onthe board the question words Where? When? What?2.Tell the students that now your holiday is finished. You came backyesterday. Point to the first part of your travel plan. Ask the studentsWhere did I go? Write the past tense form of the question on theboard, highlighting the auxiliary did and the stem form of the verb toin contrasting colours. Ask the students to answer your question.Check that they are using the past tense form of the verb in theiranswer. Write their answer on the board under the relevant question.Check that they are using the past tense form of the verb in theiranswer. Write their answer on the board under the relevant question.[来源:Z,xx,k]3.Repeat the procedure with When did I go? And What did I do there?4.Ask the students to ask you questions about the rest of the travelinformation第 3 页


Practice[来源:]1.(Books open.) Ask the students to read the postcards. Draw Mark’sroute on transparent film laid over the top of the Transparency forpage 61.2.Check that the students know what the present tense verb form forflew is (fly.) 3.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette and ask the students to read thepostcards after the tape.4.Tell the students to role-play Pat and Koko and talk about thepostcards.5.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette again for the students to check theiranswers.More to do Play Hangman with the names of countries. Write on the board thecorrect number of dashes for a country name you have thought of. Askthe students to tell you a letter. If they guess correctly, write the letter onthe appropriate dash. If they guess wrongly, draw one line in thehangman drawing. At any time, they can guess the whole word. If theyguess correctly, it is their turn to come up and draw the dashes on theboard.B2 Look at the pictures. Read Ann’s postcard and circle the correctwords.第 4 页


Practice1.(Books open) Show Transparency. Tell the students to look at thephotos of Ann’s holiday. Ask them What did she do on holiday?Check that the students are using past tense verb forms in theiranswers.2.Tell the students to read the postcard and to circle the correct wordswhere there is a choice by checking with the photos.[来源:学#科#网]3.Ask individual students to read aloud the sentences of postcard tocheck the answers with the whole class.More to doAsk the students to read the postcard again. Tell them to pretend theywent on Ann’s holiday. They should underline the activities they did onholiday. Tell them to work in pairs to ask questions to find out what theirpartner did.[来源:Z.xx.k]B3 Pat is talking to Tim about an email from Ann. Listen and circle thecorrect answers.1.Read the rubric to the students, Remind them that they; shouldfamiliarize themselves with the words on the page in the time theyhave before listening. They should listen and circle the words theyhear. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette.2.Ask the students to listen to the tape once more to check their answers.第 5 页


C A poster: Turtle Mountain1.Tell the students to look at the picture of Turtle Mountain and askthem Why is it called Turtle Mountain? What can you do at TurtleMountain?2.Led the students read the text silently and unaided the first time. Playthe pupil’s Book Cassette for the students and ask them to say thesentences after the cassette.D Read the poster again. Answer the questions.1.Ask the students to read the poster again. Answer the questions.2.Check the answers with the students by asking individual students toread aloud their answers.E Read the symbols and say the words.1.Write the symbols on the board. These combinations of sounds arecalled blends. They often cause problems for the students. Make surethat the students are not adding extra vowel sounds between theconsonants. The consonants should be said together. If the studentshave problems with this, try backchaining,i.e. chunking the wordsbackwards. For example, for school, ask the students to repeat afteryou ? /-ool/, them /kool/. Write the words on the page under eachsymbol. Ask the students to tell you other words with the same soundsand add them to the list.2.Play the Pupil’s book Cassette and ask the students to listen to the第 6 页


sounds and the words.3.Say the words slowly and clearly. Check that the students are makinga distinction between the sounds correctly.4.Point to the pictures and check that the students can say the wordswithout your model.5.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette again. Ask the students to listen to therhyme.6.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette again. Ask the students to join in withthe words of the rhyme this time.7.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette. Ask the students to listen to the wordsand then write them under the correct symbols.While – task stageF Write a holiday postcard. [来源:]1.Ask the students to do some research on the cities before they come toclass. They should find out what they can do in those cities.[来源:Z+xx+k]2.Ask the students to choose a city and make a list of things they cando there.3.Tell the students to think of someone they want to send their postcardto. Explain that if they are very friendly with the person they canchoose Hi there! or Hello! as greeting, and Take care or Love for anending. If they do not know the person very well, then they shouldchoose How are you? And See you soon.第 7 页


4.Ask the students to choose one of the pictures on pages 83 and 85 andto cut it out and stick it on a piece of card. This will be the front oftheir postcard. Tell the students to make sure they know what are theactivities they can do in that place.5.Tell the students to draw a line down the center of the card and towrite the address on the right-hand side. Ask them to write themessage for their postcard in rough. Remind them to use the use thepast tense forms of the verbs.[来源:ZXXK]6.When the students finish tell them that they should check theirsentences are in a god order. They should mention where they wentfirst, when they were there and after that what they did there. This iscalled editing. It is the reason why the students should write their wrokin rough first.7.Then the students there is one more step called proof-reading. Tellthem to check their work for any errors. Ask them to exchange theirwriting with a partner to check for errors.8.Tell the students to write their message neatly on the left-hand side ofthe back of the postcard. This can be done for homework..G Listen the say the poem1.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette for the students to listen to the poem.2.Play the cassette again and encourage the students to join in with thewords.第 8 页


H Think about it![来源:] Ask the students to look at the diagram which shows why when it issummer in Australia it is winter in China and vice versa. Ask thestudents to complete the table about the seasons in the differentcountries.Post-task stageThe students could buy or make postcards showing the things that can bedone in the area in which they live. These could be written on with afriendly message and went to another school in the same city, but adifferent area, or to classes in schools in other countries. Addresses forthese can be found on the Internet at Europa-pages or at iys.fi ( there is asmall charge for this service).I Further reading1.Arouse interest in reading by asking the students How many days doesit take to go round the world? Explain that they are going to readabout a book written in the days before aeroplanes. Ask them to finout how many days it took for Philieas Fogg to go round the world.2.Tell the students to read the passage again and then circle the correctanswers.3.Ask the students Did Phileas go around the world in 80 days? Theanswer to it is Yes. The students can find the original 1873 translationof the story at jv gilead.org.ji/pg/80day/.第 9 页


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