Module 4 Planes, ships and trains一、学习目标:A.单词和短语：road, accident, except, far, far away, crowded, choice, classmate, all the time, journey, book, outside, close, park, however, costB.交际用语：1. What happened?2. Don’t worry.3. —Who lives the closest to school?— Lingling lives closest.4. — What is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?— By taxi.5. —What’s the most expensive way to go to school?— Going by taxi is the most expensive.6. How do you get there?7. What’s the cheapest way?8. What’s the best way to get there?9. —What’s the cheapest way to travel from London to Paris?— The cheapest way is by coach.10. It’s the most comfortable way, but it’s the most expensive.11. He lives farthest from school.12. It is the fastest and the second cheapest.13. The more information, the better.二. 教学目标1. Function: Describing and comparing modes of transportation.2. Structure: Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.3. Skills: 1) Listening and understanding familiar topics (transportation)2) Comparing modes of transportation.3) Reading and finding specific transportation4) Writing a short passage comparing modes of transportation.4. Around the world: The longest railway5. Task: Making a holiday plan for a family trip to a city in China.三、重点及难点:Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.四、教学设计:Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school.ⅠTeaching modelListening and speakingⅡTeaching methodPWP approachⅢTeaching aims1. Key vocabulary: road, accident, except, far, far away, crowded, choice,classmate, close, all the time2. Key structures: superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregularsuperlatives.3. Key sentences:1) What happened?2) Don’t worry.3) — Who lives the closest to school?— Lingling lives closest.4) — What is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?— By taxi.5) —What’s the most expensive way to go to school?— Going by taxi is the most expensive.ⅣTeaching aidsTape recorder, OHP, videoⅤTeaching StepsStep 1 Warming-up1. Work in pairs. Show some pictures and ask “How do you often go to school?”2. Look and say something about the pictures.3. Introduce the new words.4. Learn the new words.5. Read the new words.Step 2 Look and match.1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 1.2. Look at the pictures in Activity 1 carefully.3. Now match the words with the pictures.5. Check the answers with the students.Keys: 1. train 2. ship 3. taxi 4. underground 5. busStep 3 Look, listen and match.1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity2.2. Play the recording and ask the students to listen to the recording carefully. T: Listen and match the words in the box with the pictures in Activity 1. You need to use one word more than once.3. Check the answers with the students.Step 4 Listen and read.1. Show some pictures, and ask the students to talk about them.2. Ask the students to read the conversation silently.3. Play the recording and ask the students to listen the conversation, and then answer the questions.1) How does Lingling go to school? Why?2) How do you think Betty will go to school?4. Read the conversation.5. Act it out.Step 5 Complete the table.1. Ask the students to read the conversation again.2. Now complete the table.3. Check the answers.Keys: by bus (by bike) by underground walks / on foot by bus Step 6 Complete the sentences.1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.2. Read the sentences.1) The _________________ way to go to school is by taxi.2) Tony lives the __________ from school.3) Lingling’s home is the _________ to school, so she always walks.4) For Betty, going to school by bike is the ______ choice.3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.4. Check the answers:Keys: 1. most comfortable 2. farthest 3. closest 4. bestStep 7 Complete the sentences.1. Ask the students to read the words or expression in the box in Activity 5.2. Read through the sentences.1) All the students take the bus to school ___________ Sam.2) The ___________ train in the world is the Shanghai airport train.3) I saw a(n) __________ on the way to school yesterday.4) I do not take the bus to school because it is usually very ___________.3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.4. Check the answers:Keys: 1. except 2. most modern 3. accident 4. crowdedStep 8 Pronunciation and speaking.1. Play the recording once without stopping.2. Play the recording again and ask the whole class to repeat.1) —Who lives the closest to school?— Lingling lives closest.2) — What is the most comfortable way to go to school for Betty?— By taxi.3. Ask the students to listen and mark the intonation.4. Now listen again and repeat.Step 9 Work in pairs.1. Ask the students to read the words or expression in the box in Activity 7.2. Read the example with the class.—What’s the most expensive way to go to school?— Going by taxi is the most expensive.3. Work in pairs.Step 10 Language points1. Maybe I should go to school by taxi. 或许我应该坐出租车去上学。
