外研版英语八年级上册Module 4Unit 2 What is the best way to travel(1)教案

Unit 2 What is the best way to travel
【Teaching model】
Reading and writing.
【Teaching method】
Top-down approach
【Teaching aims】
1. Listening and understanding familiar topics (transportation)
2. Comparing modes of transportation.
3. Reading and finding specific transportation
4. Writing a short passage comparing modes of transportation.
【Important and difficult points】
1. Key vocabulary: journey, book, outside, choice, however, cost
2. Keys structure: Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.
【Teaching aids】
Recorder, OHP, video
【Teaching Steps】
Step 1 Warming-up
Learn some new words.
Step 2 Work in pairs.
1. Talk about places you go to and how you get there.
How do you get there
What’s the cheapest way to get there
What’s the best way to get there
2. Show some pictures.
3. Talk something about the pictures.
Step 3 Reading.
1. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully.
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
3. Read the passage by themselves.
4. Read the text together.
5. Read the passage and number the ways of travelling from the most expensive to the least expensive in Activity 2.
6. Check with a partner.
7. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 4 Complete the table.
1. Read the passage again.
2. Complete the table.
Ways of travelling Good points Bad points
Train More relaxing than by coach More expensive than by coach
Car and ship
Coach
Plane
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys;
1. the most comfortable the most expensive.
2. the cheapest, crowded and it takes so long.
3. the fastest and the second cheapest wait for hours at the airport because of bad weather.
Step 5 Complete the passage.
1. Ask the students to the words in the box in Activity 4.
choice cost However journey outside
2. Ask the students to read through the passage in Activity 4.
There are four ways to travel from London to Amsterdam. The first (1) ________ is by train because the (2) ________ takes only four hours. (3) ________, it’s quite expensive. Going by car and by ship, or coach does not (4) ________ as much as going by train. When you go by car and by ship, remember that parking in Amsterdam is not cheap, so it is best to stay (5) ________ the city centre and travel in by bus or by train.
3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys: 1.choice 2.journey 3. However 4. cost 5. outside
Step 6 Work in pairs.
Ask and answer about the ways of travelling. Use the information in the table.
— What’s the cheapest way to travel from London to Paris
— The cheapest way is by coach.
Ways of travelling Cost Time Comfortable Interesting
London- Paris Coach 20 10 hours * **
Plane 80 1 hour ** *
Train 60 3 hours *** ***
Step 7 Writing.
Write a passage about ways of travelling from London to Paris. Use the information in Activity 5 and the passage in Activity 2 to help you.
You can go from London to Paris by coach, plane or train. Travelling by plane is the fastest but also the most expensive.
Step 8 Important and difficult points
1. journey, travel和trip的用法辨析
2. cost 的用法
3. The more information, the better. 信息越多越好。
“the +比较级，the + 比较级”是个固定句型，意为“越… …，就越… …”。
边学边练：
( ) 1. Study hard! ____ you study, _____ results you’ll get.
A. Harder; better B. The harder; better
C. The harder; the better D. Harder; the better
( ) 2. Dear students, please read every sentence carefully. _______ you are, ________ mistakes you’ll make.
A. The more carefully, the fewer B. The more careful, the less
C. The more carefully, the less D. The more careful, the fewer
Keys: 1. C 2. D
Step 9 Do exercises:
中考链接
( ) 1. —What do you think of the traffic in our city (2013菏泽)
—It’s_____ than it used to be, but there’s still a long way to go.
A. worse B. worst C. better D. best
( ) 2. Traveling around big cities by taxi can cost a lot of money, but it’s usually
_____ to take the underground train to most places. (2013菏泽)
A. amazing B. expensive C. convenient D. exciting
( ) 3. Liu Ying is as _____ as her sister. (2013湖南湘西)
A. tall B. taller C. the tallest
( ) 4. I am good at math, but his English is ________ than mine. (2013黄石)
A. much better B. more better C. very better D. pretty better
( ) 5. The world’s population is growing _____ and there is _____ land and
water for growing rice. (2013荆门)
A. more; less B. larger; fewer C. larger; less D. more; fewer
( ) 6. It’s _____ to listen to light music when you feel tired. (2013温州)
A. dangerous B. scary C. relaxing D. difficult
( ) 7.—Which season do you like _______, summer or winter
— Summer. (2013长沙)
A. well B. best C. better
Keys: 1. C 2. C 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. C 7. C
Step 10 Homework
Remember the words of Unit 2 and prepare the text of Unit 3.