Teaching Plan
Content: Oxford English S1A
Module 2, Unit 3 A Taste of Travel (First Period)
Presented by:
Teaching Aims:
Language Focus:
1. To help the students review the basic information about each place in the text
2. To help the students review the sentence patterns relevant to describing a place in
the text
3. To help the students acquire some new expressions which can be used in describing
a place
Ability Focus:
1. To help the students learn to describe places from specific aspects
2. To help the students learn to collect information and report to the class
Character-building
1. To arouse the students’ love for their school by collecting information and
describing every school building
Teaching Aids: Multi-media
Teaching Procedures:
I. Pre-task
Aim: to help the students review some expressions learnt in the text
Activity: one student’s giving a daily talk to describe the National Stadium by using
the expressions learnt in the text
II. While-task
1. Aim: to consolidate what students have learnt
Activity: teacher’s asking questions about the basic information on four places
in the text
2. Aims: to help the students review the sentence patterns for describing a
place in the text and help them acquire some new expressions
Activities: 1) Location
a. students’ finding the expressions relevant to describing the location
of the places in the text
b. teacher’ s giving other expressions used to describe the location
of a place
c. students’ using the above expressions to describe the location of the
Shanghai
Museum which hasn’t been mentioned in the text
2) Construction & Completion Time
a. students’ finding the expressions relevant to describing the time of
construction and completion time in the text
b. teacher’s giving other expressions used to describe the construction
and completion time
c. students’ using the above expressions to describe the construction
and completion time of our school by using the given numbers
3) Features
a. students’ finding the expressions used to describe the features of
the four places in the text
b. teacher’s giving another expression used to describe features
c. students’ describing the features of two pictures given by the
teacher
4) Activities
a. students’ finding the expressions used to describe the activities
along the Li River
5) Visiting Time
a. students’ finding the expressions about the visiting time in the text
b. teacher’s asking the visiting time about our school library
III. Post-task
Aim: to help the students consolidate how to describe a place by referring to its
location, construction, features, activities and visiting time
Our school has established a friendly relationship with a French school for many
years and every year some French students come to Shanghai for 5-day trip to
visit our school and our country. As students whose second foreign language is
French, we, students of Class Five are obliged to act as their tour guides to show
them around our school and Shanghai.
Activities: having a group discussion, four students a group
1. students’ giving a general description of their school by using the
given hints
2. students’ giving a detailed description of every school building
IV. Homework:
Design the following four days’ travel arrangement for French students to visit
Shanghai for sightseeing, shopping, knowledge and food