Unit 4 How do you go to school ？Part 1:Teaching designSECTION AGoals●To learn to use How questions, affirmative and negative statements ●Lean to talk about how to get to places, how long it takes to go to places, andhow far the places are●To talk about kinds of transportationProceduresWarming up by talkingHello, everyone! What’s the weather like today? It’s a sunny daywith a gentle breeze. It’s comfortable. So this morning I come toschool by bike. It took me nearly 50 minutes. You know I live farfrom school. I often take buses to come here. But it takes me morethan an hour. What about you? Today, let’s talkabout how you go from one place to another. And we will talk aboutthe time it takes to get to places and how far it is between twoplaces.1a Looking and writingOpen your book at page19. Look at the picture carefully and readthe dialogue. Then please write how the students in the picture get to school inthe morning in the chart.1b Listening and writingLook at the picture again. How do students get to school?Let’s listen to a conversation between two people talkingabout this. Listen carefully and write the number of the namein the white box next to the student. Please do it individually. Then let’s check the answer.Answers:1. Bob takes the train.2. Mary takes the subway.Now read the tapescript, shadow the how questions and underling the expressions. 1c Doing pairworkPlease read the dialogue on page 19 in the box. And make your own conversations about how the people in the picture get to school with their partner. Then I’ll ask some pairs to say their dialogue.walks, does she?B: Yes, she does.2a Listening and repeatingListen to these numbers and repeat. Please pay attention to the pronunciation. Tapescript32, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 1002c Listening and checkingNow please look at the five transportation pictures. And we’ll listen to two conversations. The people are talking about how students get to school and how long it takes. Listen carefully and put a checkmark to show the kinds of transportation they talk about. Check your answer.Listen carefully again and match the time with the kinds oftransportation. Let’s check the answers.twenty-fiveThey take the train. It takes about forty minutes.”“Take the train” means to ride the train. And we also use “take” to talk about a length of time. For example, it takes me 20minutes to get to school. So we use the same word, take, in two different ways.Now read the tapescript, shadow the how questions and underling the expressions. 2d Doing pairworkNow please make your own conversations about how you get to school and how long it takes. Read the example dialogue first then make yours with your partner.B: It takes about 25 minutes to walk and 10 minutes by bus. WhatSo far you have learned to talk about how you get to school and howlong it takes. The passage you will learn in this part tells ussomething about Li Lei. Please read the questions about Li Lei in thespeech bubbles. Then read the passage and write the answers to thequestions on the line. You should complete the activity individually.pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation of the native readers and try to imitate them.homes from school? What time do you get up? How do you get to school? Let’s ask some students to say something about you.3b Doing pairworkLook at the pictures on page 21. Can you name each form of transportation? They are easy to you. Read the time and distance that goes with each form of transportation. Pay attention to “mile”, which is a common measure of distance in some western countries. (1 mile=1.6 kilometers).Read the example dialogue in the box.Now make your own conversations using the information in the picture with your4 Talking and writingWell done everyone! Now let’s play a game: Info Gap Race! This time you work in groups of three. You decide which one is A, which one is B and which one is C. Please read the instruction. You ask each other questions to learn information for your chart, and then write the answers on the chart in your book. Don’t look at others’(using the useful information learned in this part)*How do you get to school?*I usually walk, but sometimes I take the bus.*How long does it to take you to get from your home to school?*It takes 25 minutes.*How far is it from your home to school?*It’s around 4miles. A bus stationSection BGoals●To learn to use: bus stop, train station, subway station●To learn to talk about how to get to places further.ProceduresWarming up by asking some individuals questionsHow does Li Lei get to school? First, he rides his bicycle to the bus station. Thenhe takes the early bus to school. Do you know the bus station? It’s a place wheretrains stop here. Today we’ll study some other “stations”.1a Looking and matching Look at the four phrases on the top of page 22 and read them loudly. Then match theRead the dialogue in the box first. Then suppose you use two kinds of transportationto get to school. Now make your own dialogues to tell your partner how you get toschool, using the phrases in 1a.B: Well, he walks for ten minutes to Bus No. 11. He takes the bus and gets off at2a Listening and checkingOK, now. Let’s listen to the conversation between Tina and Thomas. What does Thomaswant to know about Nina? Here is a list of information that Thomas wants to know.I’ll ask some students to read lines to the class. Then listen carefully and puta checkmark in front of each thing that Thomas wants to know.Look at the pictures on page 22 with a blank line in front of each. They show theways of how to get to school. Which one is Nina’s? Listen carefully and put acheckmark next to the picture that shows how Nina gets toschool.1.— to ride a bike to the subway—to take the subway tothe bus—to walk from the bus stop to the school2.√ to walk to the bus—to take the bus to the subway—totake another bus after the subway—to walk from the busYou may turn to the tapescript to read it, underlining theexpressions and shadowing the how questions.2c Doing groupworkNow make your conversations about how Nina gets to school in groups of four. You can use the pictures in activity 2b. Pay more attention to the sentence starters: S he…; Next, she…; Then, she… in the box and use them in your conversation.s ask some of you to say your descriptions to the class.Now you can say something about how you get to school.Do you want to know how students around the world get to school? Read the article on page 23, and then decide if the statements are true or false in your exercise book.Check the answers:T 1. In North America, not all students take the bus to school.T 2. Other parts of the world are different from the United States.F 3. In Japan, the three most popular ways of getting to school are bus, train and bike. (Students take trains, or walk, or ride bikes)F 4. In China, bikes and buses are the most popular means of transportation. (It depends on where you are)T 5. Students in Hongshanhu and Kaishandao have to take a boat to get to school. Read the article once again, this time, to slash/ the sentences, underline the usefulexpressions in it and shadow the connectives. After school, you are going to writestudents/ take trains to school, although others also walk/ or ride their bikes. In China, it depends on /where you are. In big cities, students usually ride bikes to school/ or take buses. And in places/ where there are rivers and lakes, like Hongshanhu and Kaishandao, students usually go to school/ by boat. That must be aLook at the chart. Then read the article and fill in the blanks.You can find the answers in the chart. Please complete the activityindividually.Just now we filled in an article about how students get to Garden High School. What about you? How do students in our class get to school? Let’smake a survey and list your ideas on the board. You can use thewords and numbers to write a passage about how students in ourclass get to school.Sample passage:In my class, most students ride their bikes to school. Many students go to school on foot. Some students live far from school, so they go to school by bus. A few students take their parents' car to school.At Taiyuan Wuzhong, most students live at school. They just walk to their classroom. So they don’t ride their bikes to school. Many students play on the playground in the early morning. Some students play football. Some read aloud their English texts. But at the same time, other students in other schools have to take the bus, ride the bike, to hurry to their schools.4 Making a surveyNow turn to page 82, please. Look at the chart. Read the heading and the phrases listed below. Please complete the chart in ten minutes. You can go around the class and ask questions to find out the answers. Look at the dialogue in the box next to the chart. You can ask questions like this.Do you remember Nina? How does she get to school? How do students around the world get to school? Please tell me in your own words. And I will also ask some of you to say something about themselves. Who will be the first to have a try?SELF CHECKGoals●To revise the vocabulary introduced in the unit●To practice writing skillProcedures1 Filling the blanks and making sentencesLook at part 1 on page 24. Fill in the blanks with the words given to you. Change the form of the word if necessary.Check the answers:1.How do you get to school in the morning?2.What do you think of the transportation in yourtown?3.When it rains I take a taxi.4.How far do you live from the bus station?5.I like to ride my bike on the weekend.Now make your own sentences with the words. I’ll ask some students to write the answers on the board. And then we shall correct their mistakes together if they get2 Planning schedulesOn page 18 is a schedules planned for tourists to your city. Finish the schedule.Just for fun!Let’s sing a song in English.Three Blind MiceThree blind mice, see how they run!They all ran after the farmer's wife,Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a thing in your life,As three blind mice?Part 2: Teaching resourcesI. Background reading1.Traffic in EnglandWhen you are in England, you must be very careful in the streets because the traffic drives on the left.Before you cross a street, you must look to the right first and then the left. If the traffic lights are red, the traffic must stop. Then people on foot can cross the road carefully.If the traffic lights are green, the traffic can go. People on foot mustn't cross. In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come from work, the streets are very busy. Traffic is the most dangerous then.When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, too. Always remember the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. Have a look first, or you will go wrong. In many English cities, there are big buses with two floors. You can sit on the second floor. From there you can see the city very well. It's very interesting!III. Word studies （词语学习）1.takev.1.抓住拾起get hold of something or someone; pick something up: Pleasetake my hand. 请拉住我的手。
