unit 3 travel journal period 2 important language points 从容说课 this is the second teaching period of this unit. we first check the students’ homework and offer chances for the students to review what they learned during the first period. the emphasis in this period will be placed on the important new words, expressions and sentence patterns in the parts warming up and reading. in order to make the students understand these points thoroughly, we can first get the students to understand their meanings in the context, then give some explanations about them, later offer some practices to make the students master their usages. some words and expressions, such as persuade, insist, care about, give in, are very useful and important. so is the sentence pattern “it is . . . that/who. . . ”. we ought to pay more attention to them