Language Focus:

1.       Functional and notional items

Learn to talk about booking air tickets

2.       Language materials

Words: cost, one-way, round-trip, flight, book, straight, instruction, whom

Phrases: go straight along

Sentences: Could you tell me how much it costs to fly to Hainan?

Grammar: The object clause (3)&(4)从句由特殊疑问句及一般疑问句充当。

Teaching Objectives

1.    Learn to talk about booking air tickets orally

2.    Try to understand the whole lesson and read it fluently, the pronunciation and intonation should be right.

3.    Master the following materials:

Words: cost, one-way, round-trip, flight, book, straight, instruction, whom

Phrases: go straight along

Sentences: Could you tell me how much it costs to fly to Hainan?

Grammar: The object clause (3)&(4)从句由特殊疑问句及一般疑问句充当。

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; Pictures

Teaching Procedures:

1.       Organization of the class

We are going to talk about David’s flight to Hainan

Ⅱ. Revision

Revise Lesson 18. Get some information about Hainan. See if the students can use the expressions correctly, and see if the students can know Hainan Province.

Ⅲ. Presentation

Present a short dialogue with a student as example get the other students to practice.

T: Could you tell me how I can get to Hainan?

S: Oh, by plane.

T: By plane? Could you tell me how much it costs to fly to Hainan?

S: Where are you flying from?

T: From Beijing.

S: The price of a ticket from Beijing to Hainan is 1000 yuan.

T: Oh, could you tell me what time the flight is?

S: There is a flight at 7:30 in the morning.

T: Great. I’d like to book 3 tickets.

Have the students practice this dialogue in pairs. Make sure they can make dialogues freely. Get the students to guess the meaning of the words: flight; book.

Ⅳ. Read and act

Part 1. Speech Casette. Play the tape twice for the students to listen and repent.

Note: one-way trip (that is a flight only one place to another.)

Round-trip (that is a flight from one place to another, then return.)

Ⅴ. Practice

Practice the dialogue of Part 1 in pairs. Give the students a few minutes to prepare to act it out. Get two students to act out the dialogue in front of the class.

Ⅵ. Ask and answer

Read through the instructions with the whole class. Have the students ask and answer in pairs. Then ask the students to write a short passage about the Smiths’ trip.

Ⅶ. Practice

Make a surrounding of the airport. One student cuts as Mr. Smith. The other one cuts as a woman. Mr. Smith asks the woman for help, make up their own dialogues in pairs, and get some of them to perform their dialogues to share with the whole class.

Ⅷ. Workbook

Do Exercise! In pairs. Get the students to talk about the Smith family’s trip to Haikou in pairs, with the help of the passage in the text.

Discuss Exercise 2 with the whole class. Then make them ask and answer in pairs.

Exercises for class

Write a short dialogue about a flight. (at least 8 sentences)

For example:

A: Could you tell me what time the first flight is from Beijing to Guangzhou?

B: At 7:30.

A: And can you tell me how much it costs to fly from Beijing to Guangzhou?

B: 900 yuan one-way.

A: Great! I’d like to book tickets, please.

B: Will that be one-way or round-trip?

A: Round-trip. We’ll return next Monday.

B: OK.

Ⅸ. Homework

Read the dialogue again, learn to read the flight timetable, and learn to ask for help.

Homework

1.Finish the Exx. In the workbook.

2.Try to retell the text in lesson 18.