Unit 12 Travel Teaching Objectives 1. To help students to understand some basic reading terms such as: topic, main idea, supporting details etc. 2. To teach students how to find the main idea in different reading materials. 3. To help students learn to use some useful expressions in this unit.

Focal Points. Text A Travel Around U.S.A.

Difficult Points Reading Skill: Outlining p171 Title: Main Idea: I. … A. B. II. Means of transportation A. B. C. D.

Reading Skill---Outlining (Unit 11-15) 1. Outlines are especially helpful if you want to see how the details explain or develop the main idea, and to put these parts into a whole. 2. To make an outline, you make a list, using a system of numbers and letters to separate important ideas and details. The letters and numbers indicate the importance of the ideas and show their relationship to each other. a. Use Roman numerals for first level details: I, II, III. b. Use capital letters for second level details that support the first level details:A, B, C. c. Use Arabic numbers for third level details that expand the second level details: 1, 2, 3. d. Use small letters for fourth level details: a, b, c. e. Use Arabic numbers in parentheses for fifth level details: (1), (2), (3).

3. To make an outline step by step. First, write a heading that sums up the topic. This heading is the title for the outline. Then write a main idea statement, give Roman numerals to the most important points you found in the passage. Then add the less important supporting details to your list, you may expand on them and list the third level details in your outline too, and use Arabic numbers. 4. The model of outlining: Title:……………………… Main Idea:…………………………… I. …………………………….. A…………………………. B……………………….. 1……………………….. 2……………………………… II. ………………………………………… A……………………………………….. 1. ………………………………. a……………………………………. (1)…………………………………. (2)………………………………… b…………………………………. 2………………………………… B…………………………… C……………………………………. III.…………………………………………………… A………………………………………….. 1………………………………………….. 2……………………………………….. 3…………………………………. B…………………………………………………….. C. …………………………………………..

Useful Expressions check in hunt around for extra security give careful consideration to in a variety of situations something on sale on various sightseeing tours be amazed at a strong cash deposit keep track of

keep an eye on shop around appeal to a wide variety of tastes to name a few at the opposite end of the scale be capable of caring for the needs of for the benefit of in spite of the difficulty of access get a glimpse of

Natural scenery has always been an attraction for tourists. from a commercial point of view be identified as tourists sighn up for a series of pop up get a ride to take a trip to Their golden age of industrial wealth is over.

Homework 1. Topics for Discussion and Reflection in this unit. 2. Finishing Section B out of class. 3. Finishing reading a book in every two weeks. 4. Handing in four reading reports the whole term.