Unit 2 They’re waiting for buses or trains

Unit 2 They’re waiting for buses or trains.
ⅠTeaching model
Reading and writing.
ⅡTeaching method
Interactive approach
ⅢTeaching aims
1. To get information from reading material about what people are doing in different places.
2. To get to know how to write a postcard.
ⅣTeaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: drive, off, get off, leave, restaurant, moment, place, things, most, still, star, run, study
2. Key structures:
1) They’re waiting for buses or trains.
2) At this moment, in different places of the world people are doing different things.
3) They’re working.
4) People aren’t having dinner.
5) Some people are still working and some are going home from work.
6) They are eating hamburgers or hot dogs and drinking coffee or cola.
7) Some people are seeing friends, calling home or shopping.
ⅤTeaching aids
Recorder, OHP, video
ⅥTeaching Steps
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Review the text of Unit 1.
2. Show some pictures, ask the students to look at the pictures, then talk something about the pictures.
3. Introduce the new words.
4. Read the new words.
Step 2 Language practice
1. Look at the pictures in Activity 1.
2. Read the words in the box in Activity 1.
3. Ask the students to match the words and expressions from the box with the pictures
4. Say what the people are doing..
Step 3 Read the news report and match the paragraphs with the pictures in Activity 1.
1. Read the news report.
2. Ask the students to match the paragraphs with the pictures in Activity 1.
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 4 Reading.
1. Play the recording.
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
3. Choose the correct answer in Activity 3.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys: 1. b 2. b 3. b 4. a 5. b
6. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box. in Activity 4.
7. Check with a partner.
8. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys: 1. things 2. moment 3. restaurants 4. most 5. still
9. Read the passage together.
10. Learning to learn
Step 5 Work in pairs.
1. Show a map of the world.
2. Tall the students the time in different places of the world
全世界共分24个时区，每15度为一个时区，英国的格林威治为零时区，北京为东8区。推算方法：东加西减。
3. Ask and answer: What time is it in different places of the world?
4. Work in pairs.
Step 6 Writing
Find out what time it is now in London, Moscow, New York AND Los Angeles. Write sentences about what people are doing or aren’t doing. Join sentences with and or so.
In London, it’s… and people are leaving…. In Beijing, it’s… so people aren’t…
Step 7 Reading
1. Read the postcard
2. Check (√) the true sentences.
3. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys: 1. √ 2. √ 3. × 4. √
Step 8 Writing
1. Write Betty’s postcard to her grandma from the Great Wall.
Start like this: Dear Grandma, Say what she’s enjoying
Say what she’s doing now Finish like this: Love, Betty
2. Write the postcard by yourself.
Dear Mom and Dad,
Greetings from the Great Wall!
I’m standing on the Great Wall of China and writing this postcard to you. We’re on a school trip and we’re having a good time. At this moment, Wang Hui is taking lots of pictures and Lingling is buying some presents and postcards. We’re enjoying the school trip a lot. See you soon!
Love, Lingling