Module 4 Planes, ships and trains Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school
I. Teaching model
Listening and speaking
II Teaching method
Communicative approach
III Teaching aims
To understand the conversation with superlative adjectives and adverbs
To ask and answer questions about transportation and travel
3. To use the superlative adjectives and adverbs to talk about vehicles
4.To learn to make a plan of traveling
5.To learn to report the results of their discussion
IV Important teaching contents
The new words and expressions in this passage.
key structures—the superlative and adverbs
V Teaching difficulties
To help students to get useful information from listening
To help students to express themselves with the useful expressions.
To help students to get the skills of listening and speaking
To learn cooperative learning
Teaching aids
Whiteboard and recorder
VII Teaching procedures
Task 1 Warming-up & Lead-in (3m)
Show some pictures of different vehicles to warn them up. And guide them to say as many vehicles as they can .
Brainstorming
Tell them in our life, there are many different vehicles .Now let’s look at them. Get them to revise the new words.
Lead-in
Tell them that I go to school on foot every day. How do you go to school Get their answers.
Task 2 learning(4m)
Show them three pictures of vehicles. and get the Ss to compare them.
The bus is fast. The taxi is faster. The train is the fastest.
The bus is expensive. The taxi is more expensive. The train is the most expensive.
Task 4 Practice(8m)
1).Show them some more pictures, and help them to discuss which is the fastest/cheapest /busiest of all Teach them to answer: I think it’s by…..Then give them other structures:
Which is the most expensive/comfortable/modern way of all
I think it’s by….
2).Tell them Miss Yang is going to Xi’an for the meeting .Have them to discuss and give me some advice on how to get there for meeting. Call back their answers.
Task 5 Activity 1 Listening(7m)
Show them some pictures and some adjectives .Get them to listen and match.
Task 6 Activity 2(5m)
Tell them that Betty and her mother are talking about the ways to get to school. Get them to listen and answer a question: How do most of Betty’s classmates go to school Check their answers.
Task 7 Activity 3.(5m)
Watch a video, and complete a table. Get the Ss to find out how the children go to school.
Task 8 Activity 4(6m)
Read the conversation by themselves and complete the small passage with the adjectives in the box. Check their answers.
Task 9 Read again
Task 10 Practice(6m)
Work in groups. Ask and answer questions about the ways of going to school, and report the results.
Homework
1. Read the dialogue and act it out.
2. Write a small report about how your classmates go to school.