Teaching aims:

Make the students learn more interesting places in China.

Talk about different countries in Asia.

Learn some Chinese things.

Teaching difficult and important points:

Help the students learn to introduce some famous things in Beijing in English

Talk about different countries in Asia..

Teaching procedures

Step 1: Presentation

Step1 Lead-in

Talking about the places of interest in Beijing.

1. Show some pictures to the students. Get them to guess what it is.

2. Encourage the students to describe them.

Step II Listen and read

Tell the students that Eddie and Hobo are visiting the Great Wall.

a. Get the students to listen to the tape and find out what happened.

1）What happened to Hobo’s feet?

2）What was he doing then?

3）What did Hobo advise Eddie to do?

4）What was Eddie’s decision?

. Get the students to read and practice the dialogue and then act the dialogue out.  

Step III  Presentation

Get to know the countries in Asia.

1. Say “what country is east to China”.

Show some pictures about the country. (Japan)

2. Say “what country is northeast to China”.

Ask:How does Mille learn about the world?why?

    How does Simon learn about the wwrld? Why?

Work in pairs to practice the dialogue.

Sample conversation :

S1:How do you learn about the world?

   Show some pictures about the country. (Korea)

3. Say “what country is north to China”.

Show some pictures about the country. (Mongolia)

4. Say “what country is southwest to China”.

Show some pictures about the country. (India)

Encourage the students to say something about these countries.

Step IV Showing and discussion

Get to know Chinese things.

1. Show the pictures about Chinese things such as: dragon dance, Chinese opera, chopsticks, Chinese knot, Chinese paper cut and Chinese kung fu.

2. Encourage the students to talk about the pictures.

3. Encourage the students to say more about Chinese things.

4. Get the students to talk about some famous Chinese things.

Step V Practice

Finish the exercises in Part A.

Talk about the places of interest in China.

Step VIConsolidation

Write a short passage to describe one of the famous places in China and choose a piece of writing to read in class.

Step5:Homework1 recite the comic strip