Module 4 Planes, ships and trains Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school.教案

Module 4 Planes, ships and trains
Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school.
一、学习目标:
1. 单词和短语：
road, accident, except, far, far from, crowded, choice, classmate, all the time,
journey, book, outside, close, park, however, cost
2. 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. Describing and comparing modes of transportation.
2. Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.
3. 1) Listening and understanding familiar topics (transportation)
2) Comparing modes of transportation.
3) Reading and finding specific information
4) Writing a short passage comparing modes of transportation.
4. Around the world: The longest railway
5. 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:
Teaching Steps
Step 1 New words
Using pictures or sentences to learn the new words.
Step 2 Warming-up
1. Work in pairs. Show some pictures and ask “How do you often get to school ”
“How do you often travel ”
2. Look and say something about the pictures.
Step 3 Listening and vocabulary
1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 1.
bus ship taxi train underground
2. T: Look at the pictures in Activity 1 carefully. Now match the words with the pictures.
3. Check the answers with the students.
4. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 2.
busy cheap expensive modern
5. 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.
6. Check the answers with the students.
7. Listen again and complete the sentences.
1) _____________________ is the most modern train in the world now.
2) _____________________ is the most expensive way to travel around London.
3) _____________________ is the cheapest way to travel around Beijing.
4) ___________________ is the busiest underground in the world.
5) ___________________ is the cheapest way to get from England to France.
Step 5 Listening and reading
1. Ask Ss to talk about problems travelling to school in groups of four.
2. Play the recording and ask the students to find out the problems in the conversation.
3. Play the recording again and ask the students to complete the table.
Betty Tony Lingling Daming
Ways to go to school
4. Check the answers.
5. Ask Ss to read and check the true sentences.
1) Betty and Tony were late for school today.
2) Underground is the most comfortable way but it’s also the most expensive.
3) Betty’s mum thinks bike is a good choice but it’s a bit dangerous.
4) Daming’s home is the farthest from school.
5) Lingling lives the closest to school.
6) Daming and Betty go to school by bus.
6. Ask Ss to read again and answer the questions below.
1) Why was Betty late for school
2) Who else was late for school
3) Why did Betty think she should go to school by taxi
4) Did her mother agree with her
5) How did Betty want to go to school then
6) Did her mother agree with her at once What questions did she ask Why
7) How will Betty go to school later How do you know that
7. Play the video.
Step 6 Pair work
–How do you go to school
–I go to school ___ _____.
–I ____ ___ ____ to school.
–How does he/she go to school
–He/ She goes to school ___ ____.
–He/ She _____ ___ ____ to school.
–How does they go to school
–They go to school ___ ____.
–They _____ to school.
Step 7 Language points
1. What happened 发生什么事了？
【拓展】
①sth. happened+地点/时间状语 某地/某时发生了某事
②sth. happened to sb. (主语为物) 某人出了某事(常指不好的事)
③sb. happen(s)/ happened to do sth. 某人碰巧做某事
= It happens/ happened + that 从句
e.g. The story happened in 2018.
An accident happened to her this morning.
I happened to meet a friend of mine in the street yesterday.
2. There was a road accident, and the traffic was very heavy.
路上发生了一起交通事故，交通很拥堵。
accident n. 交通事故；意外事件
car accident 车祸
road accident 公路事故
traffic accident 交通事故
【拓展】by accident 偶然，无意中
e.g. What a terrible accident!
I met an old friend of mine by accident.
【语境应用】词汇运用/完成句子。
1) A seatbelt can help protect passengers in many car ___________. (accident)
2)今天早上在我上学的路上有一起交通事故。
There was a ___________ ___________ on my way to school this morning.
3. But nobody was late, except me.
但是除了我以外没有人迟到。
except prep. 除……之外
强调被除去的部分不包括在内, 常与all, every, no, nothing等含有整体意义的
词连用, 除去的部分常与整体是同类事物。
e.g. We have an English lesson every day except Sunday.
All the students went to the museum last Sunday except him.
辨析except, besides, but
except 除……之外 整体中不包括除了的部分，含有排除之意；在句子开头时，须用except for 接名词，不可只用except
besides 除了……之外（还有） 整体中包括除了的部分，含有附加之意
but 除了……以外 强调整体性，常用在nothing, all, anyone, nobody, everything, everyone等词之后。
【语境应用】根据句意及所给汉语提示写出句中所缺单词。
1) Everyone else in my class was invited ________(除了) me, and I don’t know why.
选词填空besides, except, but。
2) Everybody is friendly to me ________ you.
3) No one spoke English ________ Jack here.
4) —Is Jack good at basketball
—Yes. ________ basketball, he is also good at table tennis.
5) I haven’t told anybody _______ you.
中考链接
(2020贵州黔东南)
All of us helped to clean up the old people's home ________ Eric. He had a bad cold.
A. besides B. against C. except D. with
4. Maybe I should go to school by taxi.
或许我应该坐出租车去上学。
辨析maybe, may be
maybe 副词，表示大概，只能做状语 常位于句首
may be may是情态动词，与be连用作句子的谓语，意思是“可能是，也许是” 位于句中
e.g. Maybe he is at school.
He may be at school.
by+表示交通工具的名词(名词用单数，前面不加任何冠词) ，表示乘坐某种交通工具，用作方式状语，对其提问常用how。
e.g, — How does you usually go to school.
— By bike.
【拓展】其他表示交通方式：
in/on +限定词+表示交通工具的名词
take + a/an/the + 表示交通工具的名词
walk/drive/fly/ride/… to + 地点名词
on foot
e.g. Dad usually goes to work on his bike.
Let’s take the underground to the zoo.
Lingling always walks to school.
Let’s go there on foot.
5. That’s a good choice, but it’s a bit dangerous.
那是个不错的选择, 但有点儿危险。
choice n. 选择 (可数名词)
make a choice 作出选择
【拓展】choose是它的动词形式，意为“选择；挑选”。
e.g. You have two choices in the club — swimming and running.
I believe you can make a good choice between money and friends.
You'll have to choose whether to buy it or not.
【语境应用】词汇运用
1) It will be a good ________ (choose) to take the high-speed train to Yancheng from Suqian next year.
2) Tony has to make some important ________(choice).
3) Yesterday they _______ (choose) Tony to be the class monitor.
6. There is so much traffic.
交通那么拥挤。
辨析
so much 如此多 修饰不可数名词
so many 修饰可数名词复数
e.g. There is so much food on the table.
So many people are waiting for the bus.
7. He lives the farthest from school, so he takes the underground.
他住得离学校最远，因此他坐地铁去上学。
far from 远离……
far from后面接表示地点的名词和副词。而far away (遥远)后面不能接表示地点的词。
e.g. Mr Smith lives far from the town.
Not far away in the woods, a bird called.
8. Her home is the closest to school, so she walks.
她家离学校最近，因此她步行去学校。
close to 离……近(与far away意思相对)
【拓展】close
adj. (距离上)近的，接近的 The two buildings are close together.
adj. 亲密的 I have got a close friend.
adv. (距离上)接近地 Don’t come too close.
v. 关，关闭 She close the gate behind her.
【语境应用】完成句子
1) The beach is _______ _______ _______ _______ (离我们的宾馆近).
2) The children are _______ _______ (站得近) together.
3) I shared a house with _______ _______ _______ (一个亲密的朋友) from school.
9. He goes by bus too, the same as me.
他和我一样也坐公共汽车去。
the same as 和……一样
e.g. My sister’s watch is the same as me.
【拓展】 由same构成的常见搭配有：
look the same看起来一样 They are not twins, but they look the same.
all the same仍然；照样 Thank you all the same.
at the same time同时 They arrived there at the same time.
the same to you你也一样 –Merry Christmas. –The same to you.
10. But it’s so crowded.
但是它太挤了。
crowded adj. 拥挤的；人数过多的; 充满的；挤满的
可作表语，也可作定语。
be crowded with ... 充满……；挤满……
e.g. We had to stand because the train was crowded.
The road is crowded with cars.
注：表示交通拥挤时用busy/heavy traffic, 不用crowded traffic.
【语境应用】完成句子。
1) 这家超市总是很拥挤。
The supermarket is always very _____________.
2) 那辆公交车上挤满了人。
That bus is _____________ people.
3) 她上了那辆拥挤的公交车。
She got on that _____________.
Step 8 Practice
1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.
close comfortable good far
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.
5. Ask the students to read the words or expression in the box in Activity 5.
accident crowded except most modern
6. 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 ___________.
7. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.
8. Check the answers.
Step 9 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 underline the speaker stresses.
4. Now listen again and repeat.
Step 10 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. Ask and answer questions about the ways of going to school.
Step 11 Summary
Some important expressions in this unit.
far from 远离
be late for school 上学迟到
take the bus / underground 乘公交车/地铁
road accident 公路事故
by taxi / bus / train / car乘出租车/公交车/火车/小汽车
heavy traffic 交通拥堵
by bike 骑自行车
a bit 稍微；有点儿
so much 这么多
be careful 小心点
the same as ... 和……一样
ride one's bike 骑某人的自行车
all the time 一直；不断地
remember to do sth. 记得去做某事
Step 12 Exercises
Ⅰ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺单词。
1. There are lots of car _______ (事故) in this area every year.
2. You should try to be friendly with all your _______ (同班同学).
3. I have nothing to say _______ (除……之外) sorry for my mistakes.
4. The _______ (路) in the city are much wider and cleaner than before.
5. The students in our school have many different _______ (选择) for lunch.
6. The park is always _______ (人数过多的) with people on hot summer nights.
Ⅱ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺内容，每空一词。
1. It rains _______ _______ _______ (一直) in July in this area.
2. I'm sorry. I was _______ _______ (有点儿) rude just now.
3. My mother usually goes to work _______ _______ (乘公交车).
4. You can go to the museum on foot. It's not _______ _______ (远离) here.
5. Amber met with _______ _______ (交通拥堵) on her way to work this morning.
Ⅲ. 根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。
1. Frank上课从不迟到。
Frank is never _______ _______ class.
2. 明天去划船怎么样？
_______ _______ going boating tomorrow
3. Joshua看起来几乎和他在大学时一样。
Joshua looks almost _______ _______ _______ he did at university.
4. 人们在街上骑自行车太快是不安全的。
It's not safe for people to _______ _______ _______ too fast on the street.
5. 记住洗手前不要触摸眼睛。
_______ _______ _______ _______ your eyes before washing your hands.
Step 13 Homework
Do a survey. Ask your classmates how they travel to school and why. Then write some sentences about the results.