2. F(the :family enjoys hiking and swimming)

1. F(the family wants an inexpensive hotel and wants to save money by cooking)

6. How long would they like to be away?

(About three weeks.)

After they’ve all finished reading, get some students to answer these questions.

Encourage them to ask questions on what they don’t understand about the e-mail.

Ask one student to read the letter to the class. Help him or her with the pronunciation. Then let all the students read the passage several times.

Answers

5. What does S. T. Zhang want the travel agency to do?

　(Give them some suggestions for vacation sports and let them know if it’s best to travel by plane, train or bus.)

4. What does S. T. Zhang say about the hotel they want to live in?

　(They need to stay in an inexpensive hotel. And they wish their hotel had rooms with kitchens so that they could save money by cooking their own meals. The room needs to be big enough for three people. And they’d like to stay at a place with a big pool or somewhere near the ocean.)

3. What exercise do they especially love doing?

　(They especially love hiking and swimming.)

2. What kind of place do they want to go to?

　(An exciting place where they can do lots of exercise.)

1. Where do S.T. Zhang and the family want to take a trip?

　(Somewhere in the east of China.)

2. Check their homework. First, choose some students to read the phrases on Activity 1. Second, ask several ones to read the conversations they wrote to the the class. Correct the mistakes that they may have made with the whole class. Get them to work in pairs to help each other. Tell them to show their homework to each other, and help correct any mistakes they may have made.

Step Ⅱ 3a

This activity provides reading practice using the target language.

At first, introduce the key vocabulary words. Show the key vocabulary words on the screen by a projector.

Teach students to read the words and expressions several times. Then ask several to read to the class. Make sure that they can read the words fluently and correctly.

Read the instructions to students. Do some explanation. Make sure that each student knows what they will have to do.

Go over the statements about the e-mail message with the whole class. Make sure that they can understand all the six sentences in the box. And tell them to put the six statements in their minds while they scan the e-mail below.

Say, Boys and girls, please scan the e-mail in Activity 3a now. Try to get the main idea of the letter and find out the answers to the statements. Ask them to scan the letter individually, and write T,

F or DK before each statement.

After they’ve all finished scanning, check the answers with the whole class. Elicit why the false sentences are false at the same time.

After checking the answers, tell the children to read the passage more carefully and prepare to answer the questions on the blackboard.

Write the questions below on the blackboard:

Step Ⅰ Revision

1. Revise the conversation in Activity 2c on page 55 by making a conversation with one student like this,

T: Where would you like to go?

S_s: I’d like to go somewhere relaxing.

T: What else can you tell me?

S: I don’t want to go to big noisy cities.

After that, ask them to practice in pairs.

Ask several pairs to share their conversations with the whole class.