Task: Planning a holiday for your family

The general idea of this part:

The aim of this part is to train Ss' to get information about dates and places through listening; The activities are designed to train the Ss' speaking skills; The Ss will write an e-mail about the family travel plan to the father.

Teaching aims:

1. Train the students' listening and speaking abilities.

2. Get the students to talk about planning a holiday.

3. Get the students to write an e-mail.

Teaching important points:

1. Finish the task of listening to improve the students' listening ability.

2. Finish the task of choosing a holiday destination to train the Ss' speaking ability.

3. Finish the task of writing an e-mail.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Greeting

Step 2 Presentation: Skills building 1

1.Help the students review how to express time by asking them to say days, the year in English.

2.Have the Ss read the guidelines on page 32, get the Ss to know how to recognize dates and names of places.

4. Let the Ss listen to the tape. When listening, ask them to pay attention to some listening skills:

a. make a quick note of dates in Latin numbers;

b. take down important information by using simple symbols or marks;

c. learn to capture important information;

d. guess the tune of the text or dialogue according to the tune of the speakers .

Step 3 Listening: Listen and fill in the table.

Step 4 Reading travel leaflets

1. Ask the Ss to read the first travel leaflet in Part A on page 33,and circle the names of all the places mentioned while reading.

Have the Ss fill in Travel Plan 1 on page 34.