By Liu jing

Xuzhou No.1 Middle School

TaskPlanning a holiday

for your family

Skills building 1: Recognizing dates and place names

30 November 2012

30th November 2012

30/11/2012

What’s the date today?

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd

• 11th, 12th, 13th

• 21st, 22nd, 23rd

Festival Date

A quiz about your knowledge of festivals A quiz about your knowledge of festivals in 2012in 2012

Valentine’s Day

April Fool’s Day

Thanksgiving Day

Halloween

Christmas Day

22 November 2012/22nd November 2012/(22/11/2012)

25December 2012/ 25th December 2012/(25/12/2012)

31 October 2012/31st October 2012/(31/10/2012)

14 February2012 / 14th February2012 /(14/2/2012)

1 April 2012 /1st April 2012/(1/4/2012)

On April Fool’s Day, the first of April 2012/ April the first 2012, it is acceptable to play all sorts of tricks.

Listen to dates and names of places

(1) 25 June (2) museums

(3) Rome (4) churches

(5) 8 July (6) villages

Step 1 : reading travel leaflets(P33)

Travel Planes (P34)

Mount Heng

Fenghuang

Zhangjiajie

Mengdong River

Mount Tianzi

take a night train

by bus

Travel plan 1 (1) night train(3)modern Chinese writer(5)Mount Tianzi

Day 1&2Day 1&2

Day 3

Day 4

Ji’nan

Tai’an

Qufu

Baotu SpringDaming Lake

The Yellow River

Mount TaiSouth Heaven

Gate, Dai Temple,

Travel plan 2 (7)the City of Springs (9)the next morning(10)the foot of the mountainConfucius

by busDay 1

Day 2&3

Day 4

B Travel plan 1(2) town(4) best(6) 1,200

B Travel plan 2

(8) six(11) teacher(12) 1,300

2.Greet the person by first name or whatever you usually call him/her, e.g. Dear Dad

3. Start the e-mail with a friendly greeting, e.g. How are you doing?

4. Type your first name at the end.

5.You can use contractions, e. g. I’m fine .

1.Type in the e-mail address and the subject

Points to note (P36) :

Skills building 3:writing an e-mail

Ways of ending an informal e-mail, e.g. Love Yours

Hello Ellen

How are you? Have you finished your exams yet?

I’m in Singapore! I …

CU soon! Love Connie

2.greeting

1.addressTo :

Subject :

5.contraction

I’m

ellen@com.com

Singapore 1.

3. start with a friendly greeting

4. type your name

Write an e–mail to your father, and tell your father about your holiday destination.

Step 3 : e-mailing your father

Group 1:

Group 2:

Step 1: Work in group of four and have a discussion of

your travelling plan.

Step 2: Decide who in your group will write the e-mail.

Step 3: Make sure every group member has a chance

to speak.

Step 4: Make sure every member has to check the e-

mail at least once, correct any mistakes and

add any new ideas you can think of.

Step 5: Present your e-mail to the class.

You need to mention:

• where you plan to go and why• when you plan to travel• what activities you can do• what you can see• the length of time• the cost

Key points

1 Underline some useful expressions by yourself.

2.Finish Ex.on Page 101.