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Unit 3 Diverse Cultures
Reading and Thinking
Li Lan's Travel Journal
夏扬丽
1. Get some key information of the travel journal such as, time, places, feelings and so on and know the diverse cultures in San Francisco.
2. Cultivate some reading skills such as scanning for specific information, getting the feelings of the author by reading between lines and improve students' ability to process information in text .
3. Understand and respect cultural diversity and describe some cities with diverse cultures.
Learning objectives
Lead-in
Which country do you want to visit most?
Atlantic
Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Canada
Rocky Mountain
Mississippi River
Mexico
Pre-reading
Describe the geographical location of San Francisco.
Pre-reading
What do you know and want to know about the San Francisco?
Prediction
A Chinese girl, Li Lan,has taken a trip there, and she wrote a travel journal.
What do you think she might write about in her journal?
What kind of the text is it?
A. News report
B. Letter
C. Travel guide
D. Travel journal
Who: _________
Where: visit ________________
When:______________________
What: Li Lan recorded_______________________________
How the author develops the travel journal: in _____ order.
Li Lan
San Francisco, US
Wednesday, 21 June
what she saw and did and how she felt.
time
Today In the afternonn This evening
Tomorrow evening
Fast reading
Scanning
Scan Li Lan’s travel journal and find out the
places that she has been to or plans to visit.
Tip: scan for the names of places(place names will be capiltalised)
Redwood Forest
Napa Valley
Mission District
local museum
Chinatown
jazz bar in the Richmond District
Jigsaw reading
(Home group)
Student A: Paragraph 1
Student B: Paragraph 2
Student C: Paragraph 3
Student D: Paragraph 4&5
Before coming to SF
In the morning
In the afternoon
In the evening
Tomorrow evening
GroupA
GroupB
GroupC
GroupD
Activity1
Read the travel journal again and complete the time