Goals:
1. Learn some expressions about theme parks.
2. Read through the material and have a good understanding of theme parks.
Task Watch and discuss
Activities: Check the students’ homework and show the finest copies of theirs to the whole class. After the class watch the nice pictures on the screen, the teacher gets students to discuss the following:
1. What do you think you can see in a theme park?
2. What do you think about adventure sports?
3. Do your town or city have an amusement park? What can you do there?
4. Is a theme park different from a traditional park? Why?
The Main Task Students learn about theme parks.
Lead-in:
T: What is a theme park?
Ss: As we all know, a theme park is a wonderful park. It has its own theme. It has a collection of rides, exhibitions and other attractions.
T: What are the activities based on?
Ss: The activities are based on a common theme.
Task 1 Skimming
Question 1. How many theme parks does the writer tell us?
What are they ? Where are they?
Question 2. What are the themes about?
Task 2 Scanning
Question: What attract people in these theme parks?
Individual Work Read through the first three paragraphs.
Then fill in the form below.
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Group Work T : Exchange your ideas and prepare to report.
Suggested answers:
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Theme Parks (People can have fun and experience sth. different.) |
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The World Park |
To teach visitors sth… to help experience sth |
Buildings, castles, statues, customs of Chinese minorities, cartoon characters, animals |
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The Ocean Park |
To get visitors to know more about the idea.. to help people to explore the past. |
Thrills and entertainment; Rides, opportunities to learn about life in the ocean, a conversation center, the dinosaur exhibition, the two giant pandas… |
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Disneyland |
Walt Disney and his characters. |
Cartoon characters, rides, games, exhibitions; Universal |
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New theme parks are being built. |
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Notes: About the new phrases, words and sentences.
Entering one of the attractions at Universal Studios is like steeping into the world of your favorite film.
It seemed like people just cannot get enough of scary rides and exciting adventures.
The parks are becoming more advanced and new technology allow us to experience almost anything without actually being in danger or risking injury.
Ask certain questions to check students’ understanding to these sentences.
Task 3 Discussing (Think, write and then discuss.)
1. Which of the theme parks mentioned in the text will you visit? Why?
2. Why are theme parks so popular throughout the world ?这是一个大话题，可集思广益。
Step3 Designing
Task Design a theme park and exchange ideas in class by interviewing.
Activity: Students think up ideas about building a certain theme park, write and report the design, the place, the building time, the reason, hope...
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(Attention: One form is for your ideas while the rest is for others’.)
Step4 Homework
1.Finish the reading part of the workbook.2.Get on line to search the information of a certain theme park that one is interested in and write a short description about that. 3.List ideas for an “English-Speaking World Park”, using the form of Page67.
Period 4 Language Study
Goals:
1. Revise the words.
2. Learn to use the –ing form: used as an adverbial.
Step 1 Revision
Activity1: Suppose you are the manager of the World Park of Beijing, the Ocean Park of Hong Kong, or Disneyland in California. Please tell about your attractions to the visitors.
Activity2: Check the homework.
Students form groups to discuss their ideas for an “English-Speaking World Park”, then get several students to report theirs.
Step 2 Word Study
Activity 1.
Write the following words on the blackboard :
statue entertainment minority collection attraction advanced rocket amusement ancient explore
Ask the students to write about their meanings and then one tells the class.
Activity 2.
T: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words.
Finish the part of Page 68.
Checking:
1. statue 2. explore 3. collection 4. rocket 5.amusement
6. advanced 7. attractions 8.ancient 9. entertainment 10.minorities
Activity 3.
Fill in the blanks of the following (suggested answers):
When you come to a wonderful theme park, you are sure to enjoy yourself. You can find a collection of rides, exhibitions and other attractions. They are based on a common theme. On one hand , people can have fun / thrills and entertainment. On the other, theme parks are designed to teach people something. Those who come for thrills will also know more about a certain subject, such as life in the ocean, the discovery of the ancient world, and life in the future. What’s more, you may imagine much new things if you think you cannot get enough of scary rides and exciting adventures. Then there will be new designs, and new theme parks will be coming.
Step3 Grammar
Task Learn the use of –ing form as an adverbial.
Activity 1. Study the example:
He was ill and didn’t attend the meeting. →
Being ill, he didn’t attend the meeting.
Activity 2. Compare with another example:
After they enjoy the rides at the Headland, visitors can take a cable car to the Lowland. →
Having enjoyed the rides at the Headland, visitors can take a cable car to the Lowland.
Summary: This Having enjoyed …means the subject has finished an action before he does another. The form is used to emphasize two actions that happen in different times.
Suggested answers for part2:
Notes:The –ing form is used to tell about the result or aim of the main character.
Step4 Homework
Finish the word study and grammar part on the workbook.
Read more passages about theme parks.
Period 5 Integrating Skills
Goals:
1. Read through the text live to ride.
2. Understand “live to ride”.
3. Learn to write a description.
Step1 Warming up
Task 1 Report about the passages found the day before.
T: Yesterday we have the work --- to find and read a few passages about theme parks. So now please describe the thing you have got in hand.
Students may talk more about rides, skiing, rafting, surfing, skydiving, adventure travels or other adventure activities.
Task 2 Read the information below and make up a dialogue.
Notice: This is taken from a website of the U.S. It’s about a kind of roller coaster. Students will find much detail in it.
设计意图：以生活实际例子为引导，可操作性强。
Ant Farm Express
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Type: Steel - Mine Train |
Height: 41 Feet |
Train Type: 30 Passengers |
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Designer: Arrow Dynamics |
Drop: 32 Feet |
# of Trains: 3 |
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Year Built: 1971 |
Top Speed: 37 MPH |
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Ride Time: 3 Minutes |
Length: 2,350 Feet |
# of Inversions: 0 |
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Color: yellow |
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Comments: Operated at Dollywood 1989-1998 as the Thunder Express. Also operated as one of two mine train tracks called the River King Mine Train at Six Flags St. Louis from 1971 to 1988. Relocated here in 2002. |
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Students may raise questions as follows:
What’s the name?
When was it built?
How many passengers can it take at a time?
What is the length?
How high can it go ?
What about the top speed?
Are there any comments about it? … …
Step2 Reading
Task 1 Skimming
Question:
What attraction can be found important in theme parks?
→ Rides, the “thrill ride” …
Task 2 Scanning
Questions:
1. How do people ride roller coasters nowadays?
2. What is a thrill ride like?
Answers:
1. Rides are wider and scarier than ever.
The cars run faster, the tracks are higher, and people go through twists, loops, and drops. Some let people race against their friends. Some ride through darkness inside a mountain and a building.
2. Very exciting and scary.
Thrill rides use speed, motion, and special effects to give you a thrill.
Some let you feel what it is like to fall through the air.
Some rides send you through caves and even rivers.
Thrill rides can also send you into space or deep down in the ocean.
Task 3 Discussing
Group Work Question : What else can we do in a thrill ride?
S1: We can dash through the snow during the ride.
S2: We will ride together with some animals.
S3: The car rides in a desert.
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Summary:
We can imagine so many ways, but it’s still not enough.
The only limit to the fun is the imagination of the designers of the thrill rides. It seems to be endless.
Quote:
The great progress in science roots in completely new and brave imaginations of the human beings.
----- Dewey
“科学的伟大进步源自于崭新与大胆的想象力。”
----- 杜 威
Step3 Designing
Activity1: Design the scariest and most exciting ride in the world.
Tips: What should your ride look like?
How large is it? What is the length? How many people can it take?
How fast should it be?
How would you design the loops, corkscrews and other features?
How much should it cost? What about the ticket for each? …
Activity2: Design a new theme park.
What is the name of your park?
What is the theme of the park? Any attractions?
What do you want to show visitors, give visitors, and teach visitors?
How much will it cost to visit the park?
T: Write down your ideas and then talk with your partners.
Activity3: Some students describe theirs and then others may raise questions after that. The reporters try to get their designs much more wonderful.
Step4 Tips
Task Learn how to describe the thing one is writing about.
Use the questions when thinking.
1. What does it look like? How big is it? What color is it?
2. What does it sound like?
3. What does it feel like?
4. What does it smell like?
5. What does it taste like?
6. How does it work?
Step5 Checkpoint
Activity: Students go through the Checkpoint and do the exercise.
The –ing form can be used to modify verbs.
Exercises:
1. The old man smokes a great deal, only his health worse.
2. the host into the meeting room, we found many new faces.
3. the Film Jurassic Park III, we walked out of the cinema.
4. in the heavy rain, the pupils got all wet through.
5. Visitors leave the museum more about nature.
6.Dr Wu replied to the invitation, .
Step6 Assessment
Students do individual work for self-assessment.
Step7 Homework
Write about an unforgettable place.
Go over the whole unit and revise the words and expressions…
五、补充材料 (Reference for teaching)
1、Bungee jumping
The Physics of Bungee Jumping
Bungee jumping is a sport where people attach themselves to a long strong cord, and jump off of high places such as bridges. There are many physics concepts in this sport. The physics of bungee jumping involves primarily the conversion of gravitational potential energy into the elastic energy of a stretched cord.
Since it's inception in the late 1980's, bungee has been and remains the biggest rush on the planet! It is still king of the adrenaline participatory sports.
2、A passage for reading:
3. "Swimming in Clouds"
I arrived at "Skydive Chicago" right on schedule. There were about 8 or 9 other people there in the hanger. I sat down on a picnic bench and watched the video that was playing. Across from me sat a guy alone. I asked him if he was nervous and he said no. I believed him as I wasn't feeling nervous and he seemed calm, and tired really. I suspect he was feeling the same thing I was……By: Robert D. Conn II
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