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                                         Project
Teaching objectives:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Help students to learn the features of a travel leaflet
3. Encourage students to make a travel leaflet by imitating the one about traveling to Shangri-la.
Important teaching points:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Help students to have a good command of the features of a travel leaflet
Difficult teaching points:
Learn to design a travel leaflet by imitating the one about traveling to Shangri-la.
Teaching Methods:
Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
The multimedia and the blackboard
Procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Show a video about Shangri-la to students
2. Show some travel leaflets of Shangri-la to students and ask them the following questions:
1) Do you know what these pictures including introductions about some place are?
2) Have you ever read travel leaflet before?
3) What is a travel leaflet?
Step 2 Reading
Have students listen to the recording and answer questions one part by one part.
Part one: Shangri-la   
a place of ___________and_________ in ______________________________
Part two: How to get there
Route 1:Start from Dali to Zhongdian by _______along_____________________
Route 2: Start from Kunming to Zhongdian by _____ because there are regular ________between the two cities.
Part three: The world-famous Chinese Shangri-la
1. Where did the word ‘Shangri-la’ first appear?
______________________________________________________________
2. What does the word Shangri-la mean?
______________________________________________________________
3. How did James Hilton describe Shangri-la?
______________________________________________________________
Part four: What you will see in Shagnri-la
1). Please choose the sights you can see in Shangri-la according to the passage:
□mountains       □Skyscraper(摩天大楼）      □lakes
□heavy traffic     □animals   □haze(雾霾）    □local people
2). Fill in the blanks
①Three mountains are _______(cover)with snow, tower over the land, the ______(snow) mountaintops will leave you at a _____(lose) for words.
②Below the mountains, the sunshine reflects on the many lakes, ________(make) them shine like diamonds against the rich countryside.
③Sheep, cattle and horses wander on the green grass, and the _______(surround) forests are home to many birds and animals.
④In this peaceful land, people live in perfect harmony ______ nature, far away from the noise and worry of the outside world.
Part Five: What the weather is like
True or False
1. The weather in Shangri-la changes slowly
2. People can experience four seasons in one day.
3. The best time to visit Shangri-la are summer and winter.
Conclusion:
Summarize every part of Shangri-la and have students think about the features of a travel leaflet according to the reading passage.
Step 3 Making a travel leaflet
Have students make a travel leaflet by imitating the one about traveling to Shangri-la.
Task 1:  Mount Shunhuang
Mount Shunhuang , a __________ place, is a famous tourist attraction.( think about adjectives as many as possible)
Task 2: How to get there
Start from the county(县）of ____________ in ________ province and drive _______along the road to the town of ________. It is very convenient for you to get there because there are regular _____ between the two cities.
Task 3: Ancient tale
Long time ago, Emperor Shun_______(visit) Yongzhou________ he climbed mountains to gather herbs(草药), observed the flood and encouraged local peasants(农民）to  harvest their crops.________________(unfortunate), he fell ill with tiredness and died in Yongzhou at last. Some people believe that Mount Shun is the place where Emperor Shun __________(bury：埋葬).
Task 4: Imitative writing(仿写)
    舜皇山上，奇峰高耸，绿草遍野。
    阳光照在瀑布上，如钻石般闪耀璀璨。
    周边的森林则是众多鸟类和动物的家园。
    在这片宁静的土地上，人们和大自然和谐相处_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Task Five：Local food
Which food would you like to recommend to foreign visitors?
I would like to recommend__________________________________________
because __________________________________________________________.
For your reference:
vinegar-pepper chicken of Dong’an 东安鸡   duck in vinegar blood 血鸭
stir-fried smoked pork 炒腊肉              stewed fish 炖鱼
fermented bean curd 霉豆腐                chilli sauce  辣椒酱
Step 4 Summary
The writing features of a travel leaflet:
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Step 5 Homework
Please finish the whole travel leaflet of Mount Shunhuang according to the
features we have learned today.