Unit 1 Where did you go on vacation?

1a Match the words with the pictures below. 1. f delicious 2. expensive 3. exciting 4. cheap 5. terrible 6. Boring a e b c d

Where do you want to go? Why?

Where did they go on vacation? went to the beachwent to the museum went to the mountainswent to New York City went to the Great Wall

B: It was delicious. A: How was the hamburger?

A: How were the strawberries? B: They were delicious.

A: How was the apple? B: It was terrible.

﹩ 300,000 expensive( 昂贵的 ) How was the car last year?

﹩ 50,000cheap ( 便宜的 ) How is the car now?

How were the T-shirts last year? cheap expensive 15RMB 200RMB

RMB100,000,000 fantastic expensive

How was the water three years ago? clean

dirty How is the water now?

Did you enjoy your vacation? She watched a football match. It was exciting.

She went to the library. It was interesting.

They went to summer camp. It was great.

They went to the restaurant. It was delicious.

1b. Write words on the left. Write words on the right. words ______________ _______________ ______________ delicious terrible exciting cheap boring expensive

1e Ask and answer questions about Lisa’s vacation. Begin your questions with: Where did …? What did…? Did she …? How was…? How were…?

1.What do people usually do on vacation? 2.What activities do you find enjoyable? 2a Discuss the questions with your partner.

2b Read Jane ’ s diary entries about her vacation and answer the questions. Did Jane have a good time on Monday? What about on Tuesday?

2c Read Jane ’ s diary entries again. Fill in the chart. Things Jane did or saw Did she like it? (yes/ no) why or why not? Tried paragliding They were delicious. Walked around Georgetown Went to Penang Hill It tasted great because she was hungry. yes It was so exciting. had lunch It had a long history. They were wet and cold because of the rain. yes no Had rice and fish

2d Complete the conversation using information in the diary entries. Anna: Hi, Jane. Where did you go on vacation last week? Jane: I _____to Penang in__________. Anna: who _____ you go with? Jane: I went with my ________. Anna: what did you do? Jane: The weather was hot and _________on Monday, so we went __________ on the beach. Then in the afternoon, we _____ bicycles to Georgetown. Anna: Sounds great! Malaysia went did family sunny paragliding rode

Jane: Well, but the next day was not as good. My ________ and I went to Penang Hill, but the weather really bad and rainy. We ______ a long time for the train and we were _______ and cold because we forgot to bring an _________. Anna: Oh, no! Jane: And that ’ s not all! We also didn ’ t bring _________ money, so we only had one bowl of fish and rice. father was waited wet umbrella enough

2e Imagine Jane went to Penang Hill again and had a great day. Fill in the blanks in her diary entry with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Thursday, July 18 th Today _________ (be) a beautiful day. My father and I _________ (go) to Penang Hill again, but this time we _______(want) to walk to the top. was went wanted

We_________ (start) our walk at 9:30 a.m. we _________(see) lots of special Malaysian flowers along the way. About one hour later, we _________(stop) and _________(drink) some tea. Then we _________(walk) for another two hours before we _________ (get) to the top. I _________ (be) quite tired, but the city (look) wonderful from the top of the hill! started saw stoppeddrank walked got was

3b Answer the questions to make notes about a vacation you took. 1.Where did you go? 2. Did you go with anyone? 3. How was the weather? 4. What did you do every day?

5. What food did you eat? 6. What did you like best? 7. Did you dislike anything? 8. How did you feel about the trip?

How to write an English diary? 写日记的格式： 在左上角写上日期, 先星期 (week) 再日期 (date) ， 在右上角写上天气 (weather) 。 然后另起一行, 就可以写下你想要写的事情或感想了。 注意写日记时, 要使用正确的时态, 如果你 记叙的是已经发生的事情, 一般都应用过去 时态。如果写的是感想等, 就可以用一般现在时。

3c Write a travel diary like Jane ’ s on page 5. Use your notes in 3b. ____________________________________ ___________________________________ _____________________________________

Imagine you are an American student on vacation in Beijing.Write a Travel diary. the Great Wall the Palace Museum Tian’an Men Square a Beijing Hutong

Thursday, August 1st Today I went to the Palace Museum. It was cool. Then I went to visit the Great Wall. How great it is! I took many photos there. In the afternoon, I went to Tian’an Men Square. The square is very large. Today is Chinese Army Day. So there were many people there and it was very crowded. We had great fun playing there! At last, we traveled around Beijing Hutong on three-wheelers. The Chinese people are very friendly. I felt very happy today, but I was really tired.

Oh, I went to Beijing. Did you do anything special in Nanjing? 4. Imagine you are all of foreigners on vacation in China. You meet each other at the airport on your way home. Talk about what you did on your vacation. Hi, my name ’ s Paul. I went to Nanjing. Hi, Paul. I ’ m Anna. Where did you go on vacation?

1. …so we decided to played tennis. 1) decide to do sth. 决定干某事 e.g. They decided to go to Hainan on vacation. I decided to go to Shandong for summer holiday. 2) decide not to do sth 决定不做某事 e.g. 我决定再也不去那里度假了． I decided not to go there for a holiday again. Language Points

2. And because of the bad weather, we couldn ’ t see anything below. 此句中 because of 为副词，后接短语，它引 导原因状语从句，而我们学过的 “ because ” 是连词，其后接句子。例如： I did it because they asked me to do it! 我做这事是因为他们请我做啊！ we stopped the match, because it was raining. we stopped the match, because of the raining. 由于下雨我们停止了比赛。