一、Teaching materials:
Unit 2 It’s the fastest train. (Module 7 Planes, boats and trains)
二、Targets for this period:
To get information from the reading material about traveling times
To be able to match headings with paragraphs, find specific information and match words with meanings
To transfer information from a table to sentences and to give results with “so”
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary-airport, bus stop, ferry terminal, station, distance, fare, international, journey, passenger, travel
Key structures -It goes from Shanghai Station to the Pudong Airport in eight minutes.
The same journey takes about 30 minutes by car.
四、Teaching methods:
Interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Reading material, blackboard
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Revision
1. Students answer the questions orally
Teacher’s Questions Students’ possible answers
How do you go to school? By bus
Where do you take the bus? At the bus stop
How do you go to the Queshe Park? By ferry / ship
Where do you take the ferry? At the ferry terminal
Which is the most cheapest way to Guangzhou? By train
Where do you take the train? At the train station
Will you go to Beijing in 2008? Yes, I will.
How are you going to Beijing? By plane
2. Students use the given words to describe the picture. (Activity 1)
Step Two To pronounce some new words and expressions of Unit 2
1. Students read the words after the tape.
2. Students practice pronouncing the words by themselves.
3. Help some students correct the pronunciations of some words.
4. Match the words with their meanings. (Activity 4)
Step Three Fast reading (Activity 2)
Students match the paragraphs with the headings
A British Airways – Paragraph 2 B The Greyhound Bus – Paragraph 4
C The Shanghai-Pudong Express – Paragraph 1 D The Star Ferry – Paragraph 3
Step Four Careful reading (Activity 3)
Read the passage, check the true statements and correct the false sentences.
1. A taxi from Shanghai to the airport is cheaper than the train for two people. (√) 2. A taxi from Shanghai to the airport takes eight minutes. ( ) 3. British Airways uses the Boeing 747 for long journeys. (√) 4. The Boeing 747 travels longer than other planes. (√) 5. You can take the Star Ferry from Hong Kong to the island. ( ) 6. Americans like to travel by bus because it’s safer than going by car. (√)
Correction: 2. A taxi from Shanghai to the airport takes thirty minutes.
5. You can take the Star Ferry from Hong Kong to Kowloon.
Step Five Language points
1. Travelling times times 算数复数形式指“时代,时期”，指“时间”时是不可数名词。
2. take
1) take sb to a place 带某人去某地
2) take sth with sb 随身携带某物
3) take + means of transport 搭、乘交通工具
4) take (sb) some time 花（某人）时间 it takes sb some time to do sth
e.g. The work will take us two hours. = It will take us two hours to finish the work.
3. The train is the fastest way to go, but it’s also the most expensive; with two passengers, it’s more expensive than a taxi.
乘火车是最快的方式，但也是最贵的；两名旅客乘这样的火车比租一辆出租车更贵。
4. one of + pl. 作主语时，谓语动词用第三人称单数形式；若名词前有形容词，用最高级
e.g. One of the nurses is his mother.
Changjiang is one of the longest rivers in the world.
5. It goes from London to Beijing, a distance of over 8,000 kilometres in 91/2 hours.
1) a distance of over 8,000 kilometres in 91/2 hour 补充说明from London to Beijing
2) over = more than
3) 91/2 hours = nine and a half hours = nine hours and a half
e.g. 31/2 years = three and a half years = three years and a half
11/2 days = one and a half days = one day and a half
6. The fares aren’t expensive and you can buy a ticket at the bus stoop. 不可以用buy fares
e. g. Fuel fares are going up again.
Step Six Reading aloud
Step Eight To use the data to answer the questions (Activity 5)
1. Ask some of the students to write the answers after the example on the blackboard, while others finish it in their exercise books.
2. Check the answers and ensure they use “so” to express the result.
1) The train takes about eight minutes, the taxi takes about 30 minutes, and the bus takes about 45 minutes so the quickest way is by train.
2) The bus fare is 70, the plane fare is 80, the train fare is 120, so the cheapest way to get from London to Paris is by bus.
3) The ferry fare is HK$2, the taxi fare is HK$120, the bus fare is HK$11, so the cheapest way to get from Hong Kong to Kowloon is by ferry.
4) The train journey has three stars, the taxi journey has two stars, and the bus journey has one star, so the most comfortable way is by train.
5) The ferry journey has two stars, the taxi journey has one star, and the bus journey has one star too, so the most interesting journey is by ferry.
6) The bus journey has two stars, the plane journey has one star, the train journey has three stars, so the most interesting way is by train.
3. Have the students ask and answer the questions in pairs.
Homework:
1. To write some sentences about local journeys they know in the same way with Activity 5
2. To finish Unit2, Module7, 点中典
Blackboard designing
Unit 2 It’s the fastest train.
1. take
1) take sb to a place 带某人去某地
2) take sth with sb 随身携带某物
3) take + transport 搭、乘交通工具
4) take (sb) some time 花（某人）时间 it takes sb some time to do sth
e.g. The work will take us two hours. = It will take us two hours to finish the work.
2. one of + pl. 作主语时，谓语动词用第三人称单数形式；若名词前有形容词，用最高级
e.g. One of the nurses is his mother.
Changjiang is one of the longest rivers in the world.
3. It goes from London to Beijing, a distance of over 8,000 kilometres in 91/2 hours.
1) over = more than
2) 91/2 hours = nine and a half hours = nine hours and a half
e.g. 31/2 years = three and a half years = three years and a half
11/2 days = one and a half days = one day and a half
4. The fares aren’t expensive and you can buy a ticket at the bus stoop. 不可以用buy fares
e. g. Fuel fares are going up again.