2nd period

　　Reading An adventure in Africa

Teaching Aims:

1. Help students improve their reading abilities.

2. Learn and master the following words and phrases

Teaching Important Points:

1. Improve the students' reading ability.

2. Enable the students understand the text better.

3. Get the students to master the tenses used in the passage.

4. Develop the students' creative, comprehensive and consolidating abilities.

Teaching Difficult Point:

1. How to improve the students' reading ability.

2. The use of some useful expressions.

Teaching Aids:

The multimedia, the blackboard

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Ask one or two students to talk about their traveling experiences.

Step 2 Reading Comprehension

1. pre-reading

What do you think of the pictures in the media show? Have you ever been to all these places? Do you like traveling? Yes. Actually, most people are crazy about traveling. With the rapid development of economy, Chinese people are becoming richer and richer. To improve life quality, they will try to find chances to travel. And also the Chinese government has arranged for two golden weeks to that people can have more time to enjoy traveling. As you have seen from the pictures, some places of interest are crowded with tourists. More people are now going out for sightseeing. Then why is traveling becoming more and more popular?

As a matter of fact, many of you have ever been to some places of interest, can you tell us the names of the tourist attractions? Well, all these places are located in China. Have you ever been abroad for a visit? Neither have I. Then it doesn't make any difference. We can