Key points:

Students are able to use the descriptive words and understand the diaries by some reading strategies.

Difficult points:

Students are able to make a conversation according to the diaries and use the past tense correctly.

Teaching Methods

Task-based teaching method

Situational teaching method

Teaching procedures

Step1 Warming-up

Task: Students use as many descriptive words as possible to describe their trip.

Intention: to lead in the topic and to stimulate students' interest; to present the new words.

Step2 Pre-reading

Task 1: Students classify the descriptive words in 2a.

Intention: to personalize the target language and prepare Ss for the subsequent reading activity.

Task 2 Prediction: Ss look at the pictures and read the instruction of 2b, then predict what the passage is about.

Intention：to learn to predict by pictures and prepare for reading.