Golden week happiness. Why is traveling becoming more and more popular? Brainstorming.

golden week happiness

Why is traveling becoming

more and more popular?

Brainstorming

Reading

An adventure in Africa

Scan the whole text to find

the route of the adventure.

Morocco and Sahara the Nile

Kenya

TanzaniaKilimanjaro

The route and destinations in Africa

What will they be doing in Morocco?

Finding information:

What is necessary for long-distance

desert traveling?

Read and think:

Nile

1. What will they be doing?

2. What do you have to wear while

rafting?

3. Why do you think they will have to

wear these things?

white-water rafting

special clothing, a helmet and life jacket

dangerous

Finding information

Since rafting is dangerous and may hurt you badly, will you risk rafting?

What will they be doing in Kenya?

Finding information:

Should Toby drink cow’s blood?

Further thinking

1. What do you think of mountain climbing?

tiring but challenging2. What problems do some people have

while climbing? feel sick as the air gets thinner

Mount KilimanjaroMount Kilimanjaro

If you feel exhausted in climbing

mountain, should you give up half way?

Discussion

Morocco and Sahara the Nile

Kenya

TanzaniaKilimanjaro

The route and destinations in Africa

traveling on camels;camping in tents;sleeping in bags

the Nile

Kenya

TanzaniaKilimanjaro

The route and destinations in Africa

Traveling on camels;camping in tents;sleeping in bags

white-water rafting

Kenya

TanzaniaKilimanjaro

The route and destinations in Africa

traveling on camels;camping in tents;sleeping in bags

white-water rafting

seeing wild animals and living with the local people

TanzaniaKilimanjaro

The route and destinations in Africa

traveling on camels;camping in tents;sleeping in bags

white-water rafting

seeing wild animals and living with the local people

climbing mountains

The route and destinations in Africa

Dear Toby,

How are you? I’m glad to

……………….……………

………………………………

…………..……

Best wishes to you!

Love,

Aihua

greetings

body

closings

signature

An Informal letter sample

1. look forward to sth./ doing sth. They are looking forward to the sum

mer vacation. Jim is looking forward to having the h

ouse to himself.拓展 : lead to; be used to; devote to;

stick to; object to; pay attention to

Language Focus

2. get bored; get excited; get trapped;

get caught in; get injured; get

changed; get lost; get paid ;

get noticed

On my way home I got caught in

the rain.

She wore a red coat that day in

order to get noticed.

3. be closed to; come close to

My home is close to our school.

Don’t get close to the machine.

I went so angry that I came close to

hitting her.

close/closely adv.

Come close so that I can see you.

Watch closely everything they are doing!

4. be (well) worth doing…

It is worth (one’s) while to do/ doing

The problem is well worth discussing.

Whatever is worth doing at all is

worth doing well.

It is worth you while to visit (visiting)

that beautiful city.

be worthy of sth/ of being done;

be worthy to be done

The problem is worthy of discussion.

The problem is worthy of being discus

sed.

The problem is worthy to be discussed.

5. remind sb. of sth…

remind sb. to do sth…

remind sb. that…

This picture reminded them of the

days when they were in the army.

Be sure to remind her to come back

early.

I had to remind myself that being

confident is not the same as being

perfect.

6. supply

supply/ provide sth. to/for sth

supply/ provide sb. with sth.

supply/ meet/ satisfy one’s need for

sth.

c.f.: offer sb. sth. = offer sth. to sb.

It is hard to supply the demand for

more and better house.

The media supplies us a lot of

information every day.

The water company cut off the supply

of water for no good reasons.

7. in case; in case of; in no case; in any

case

In any case, I won’t help the people

like him.

I shall stay in the hotel all day in case

there is news of the missing child.

The sign reads “In case of a fire, break

the glass and push the red button.”

In no case can you cheat in the exams.

8. mean sth;

mean doing sth;

mean to do…;

mean sb. to do …

mean sth. to sb….;

had meant to do…

be meant for sth…

I’m sorry to hurt your feelings, but

I didn’t mean to.

I meant to have called on you, but I

was so busy.

Language FocusLanguage Focus

一 . 考点聚焦 : 语法 ( 将来进行时与过 去将来时 )

I. 将来进行时 :

1. 表示将来某一时间或某个时间段正在进行的动作。

He’ll be arriving at about eleven o’clock

tonight.

At 10 o’clock tomorrow, she will be in

her office. She will be writing a report

for the manager.

2. 表示说话人设想好的计划 , 已经安排好的事 , 特别是与旅行有关的事。

We’ll be spending the winter in Austr

alia.

Will you be visiting your uncle in Tan

zania?

3. 表示客气 , 委婉的口气 , 尤其是当提出问题而又不想迫使对方做出明确的答复。

When will you pay back the money?

( 说话人似乎在粗鲁的讨债 )

When will you be paying back the

money?( 说话人暗示还钱是将来的要做的事情 )

1. would do…

He said he would come back the next

day.

We never imagined that he would

become a doctor.

II. 过去将来时：

2. was/ were going to do…

He said he was going to live in the

country when he retired.

He was going to play tennis that

afternoon.

3. was/ were to do…

As I was to leave the next day, I went

to bed early on Thursday evening.

On his first day in London he met

Jane, who was to be his wife.

4. was/ were about to do…

I was about to go to bed when he

called me up.

Homework

You are supposed to write a letter to

Toby telling him your plan for the

oversea travel. Pay attention to the

style of the letter.