Unit 5 Travel-Topic Talk 教学设计 2025-2026学年北师大版英语八年级上册

Unit 5 Travel-Topic Talk Unit 5 Travel of the Beijing Normal University Edition (2024) English textbook for Grade 8 focuses on the theme of travel. The Topic Talk serves as an introduction to the unit, aiming to arouse students' interest in travel and activate their prior knowledge related to it. It covers various aspects such as travel destinations, transportation means, travel plans, and cultural experiences during travel. Through a series of pictures, short dialogues, and discussions, students will be exposed to relevant vocabulary, expressions, and sentence patterns about travel, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent learning of the unit. 教学目标 1. Knowledge Objectives Students will be able to master key vocabulary and phrases related to travel, such as "travel", "trip", "journey", "tour", "destination", "transportation", "plane", "train", "bus", "subway", "hotel", "resort", "sightseeing", "guidebook", etc. Students will learn common sentence patterns used to talk about travel, like "I plan to...", "I'm going to...", "How are you going to...?", "Where are you going...?", "What do you want to do...?". 2. Ability Objectives Students can listen to and understand simple conversations about travel, and extract key information accurately. Students are able to express their own travel experiences, plans, and preferences in oral English fluently and clearly. Students can read short texts about travel and understand the main ideas and important details. Students can write a simple travel plan or a short passage about a past travel experience with correct grammar and spelling. 3. Emotional Objectives Foster students' interest in traveling and exploring different cultures. Cultivate students' cross - cultural communication awareness and the ability to respect and understand different customs and traditions. 教学重难点 1. Teaching Key Points The acquisition and application of key vocabulary and phrases about travel. The correct use of sentence patterns for expressing travel plans and experiences. Improving students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the context of travel. 2. Teaching Difficult Points Helping students to use vivid and accurate language to describe their travel experiences and feelings. Guiding students to understand and appreciate the cultural connotations behind different travel destinations and experiences. Training students to integrate various language skills and use them flexibly in real - life communication. 1. Key Vocabulary Travel - related nouns: travel (n. & v. the activity of traveling, especially to places far away) trip (n. a journey to a particular place and back again, usually for a short period) journey (n. the act of traveling from one place to another, especially over a long distance) tour (n. a journey during which you visit several places for pleasure) destination (n. the place where someone is going or where something is being sent) transportation (n. the movement of people or goods from one place to another using vehicles) plane (n. an aircraft with wings and one or more engines) train (n. a long vehicle that moves along metal tracks and is used for carrying passengers or goods) bus (n. a large vehicle that carries passengers, usually along a fixed route) subway (n. an underground railway system in a city) hotel (n. a building where people stay and eat, paying for their rooms and meals) resort (n. a place where a lot of people go for holidays or rest) sightseeing (n. the activity of visiting interesting places as a tourist) guidebook (n. a book that gives information about a place for tourists) Adjectives: exciting (adj. causing great enthusiasm and eagerness) amazing (adj. causing great surprise or wonder) interesting (adj. attracting your attention because it is special, exciting, or unusual) beautiful (adj. pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically) historical (adj. connected with the past or with history) 2. Key Phrases go on a trip/travel/journey/tour 去旅行 plan to do sth. 计划做某事 decide on 决定 look forward to 期待 by plane/train/bus/subway 乘飞机 / 火车 / 公共汽车 / 地铁 stay in a hotel 住在酒店 do some sightseeing 观光 take photos 拍照 3. Key Sentence Patterns I plan to go on a trip to... 我计划去…… 旅行。 I'm going to travel around... 我打算环游…… How are you going to get there? 你打算怎么去那儿？ Where are you going to stay? 你打算住在哪里？ What do you want to do there? 你想在那儿做什么？ I had a great time on my trip to... 我去…… 的旅行玩得很开心。 It was an amazing experience. 那是一次很棒的经历。 教学过程 1. Warming - up (5 minutes) Greet the students as usual. Then show some beautiful pictures of famous travel destinations around the world on the PPT, such as the Eiffel Tower in France, the Great Wall in China, the Statue of Liberty in the US, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, etc. While showing the pictures, ask the students some simple questions, like "Do you know where this place is?", "Have you ever been there?", "What do you think of this place?". Encourage students to express their opinions briefly. This step can quickly arouse students' interest in the topic of travel and create a relaxed and active classroom atmosphere. 2. Pre - listening (10 minutes) New Vocabulary Introduction Present the key vocabulary about travel on the PPT one by one. Explain the meaning, pronunciation, and usage of each word or phrase with examples. For example, when teaching "travel", say "Travel can broaden our horizons. I like to travel to different countries during holidays."; when teaching "plane", show a picture of a plane and say "We usually take a plane to travel long distances. It's fast." After introducing the words, let the students read the words and phrases aloud several times to practice pronunciation. Then play a simple word - matching game. Divide the new words and their explanations into two columns on the PPT, and ask students to match them as quickly as possible. This can help students better remember the new words. Prediction Tell the students that they will listen to a conversation about travel. Show some pictures related to the conversation content in advance, such as pictures of a train station, a hotel, and a famous scenic spot. Ask the students to predict what the conversation might be about according to these pictures. For example, "Look at these pictures. What do you think the two speakers might talk about? Maybe they are discussing their travel plan, right?" This step can train students' ability to predict listening content and improve their listening efficiency. 3. Listening (10 minutes) First Listening Play the recording of the conversation for the first time. Ask the students to listen carefully and get the general idea of the conversation. After listening, ask some general questions, like "Who are talking in the conversation?", "What are they mainly talking about?". Let several students answer the questions. Second Listening Play the recording again. This time, ask the students to listen more carefully and take notes of the key information, such as the travel destination, transportation means, accommodation, and activities they plan to do. Provide a form on the PPT for students to fill in while listening. The form can include columns like "Destination", "Transportation", "Hotel", "Activities". Check the Answers After the second listening, ask students to stop taking notes. Invite several students to come to the front of the class and fill in the form on the PPT with their answers. Then play the recording one more time if necessary to check the answers together. Make sure all students understand the key information in the conversation. 4. Speaking (10 minutes) Pair - work Divide the students into pairs. Ask each pair to make up a similar conversation about their own travel plans according to the model conversation they just heard. They can choose any travel destination they like. Encourage them to use the new words, phrases, and sentence patterns they have learned. Walk around the classroom to monitor and offer help when necessary. Role - play Select several pairs of students to come to the front of the class and perform their conversations in front of the whole class. After each pair finishes the performance, ask other students to give some comments, such as what they did well and what could be improved. This can not only give students a chance to practice oral English but also improve their confidence and performance ability. 5. Reading (5 minutes) Fast Reading Present a short text about travel on the PPT. It can be a passage introducing a popular travel destination. Ask the students to read the text quickly within 2 - 3 minutes and find out the main idea of the text. After they finish reading, ask some students to summarize the main idea in their own words. Careful Reading Let the students read the text carefully again. This time, ask them to answer some detailed questions related to the text, such as "What are the special attractions of this place?", "What kind of transportation is convenient there?". Write these questions on the PPT in advance. After the students finish reading and answering, check the answers together and explain some difficult sentences or new knowledge points in the text. 6. Summary and Homework (5 minutes) Summary Summarize the key vocabulary, phrases, and sentence patterns about travel that have been learned in this class with the students. Write them on the blackboard again and emphasize the important points. Also, summarize the main content of the listening, speaking, and reading parts, and review the skills and strategies used in these processes. Homework Ask the students to write a short passage about their dream travel plan. They need to include the destination, transportation, accommodation, and activities they want to do. The passage should be at least 80 words. This homework can help students further consolidate the knowledge they have learned in class and improve their writing ability. Encourage students to search for more information about their favorite travel destinations on the Internet or in books, and share it with the class in the next class. This can expand students' knowledge and interest in travel. 教学反思 After teaching this class, I have the following reflections. In the warming - up part, showing pictures of famous travel destinations successfully attracted students' attention and made them actively participate in the discussion. However, in the future, I can also ask students to share some of their own travel photos to make the introduction more personalized. During the vocabulary teaching, the word - matching game was well - received by students, which effectively helped them remember the new words. But I should pay more attention to the individual differences of students. Some students may need more time and different ways to master the vocabulary. In the listening part, most students could understand the general idea of the conversation after the first listening. But for some students with weak listening skills, they still had difficulty catching the key information during the second listening. In the future, I will design more targeted listening exercises for different levels of students, and also teach them some more effective listening strategies, such as how to predict and how to take notes quickly. In the speaking part, students actively participated in pair - work and role - play. However, some students' expressions were still a bit stiff, and they lacked the ability to use vivid and natural language. I need to provide more real - life scenarios and encourage students to think independently and express freely. The reading part achieved the expected teaching goals. Students could master the main idea and important details of the text. But I can further guide students to analyze the structure and writing style of the text to improve their reading comprehension ability comprehensively. Overall, this class laid a good foundation for students to learn the unit. But there are still many aspects that need to be improved in my teaching methods and strategies to better meet the learning needs of students. 2 / 37 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $