Unit 9 Car culture
Lesson 3 Clean Machines
Students: Class16, Grade 1
Time: March 26, 2016
1.Background information about cars.
2.Teaching Objectives:
To read an interview about solar cars and understand the main points.
3.Teaching procedures:
Pre-reading
Questions: 1. Do you like cars
How many kinds of cars do you know
(Show pictures about cars)
The number of the cars is more and more.
The car has an important effect on our life .
Can you talk about it including its disadvantage.
2.In your opinion , How should we improve the car
While-reading
What kind of the car it is
Where do the cars get their power from
When did the scientists start developing the car
It is slow or fast
Maybe one day you can drive a car like this.
What do you want to know anything else about solar cars
Now let’s read the text.
(ask some students to read out the interview. Pay attention to their pronunciation.)
Task1 Skim the text and choose the answer
1.Marie Logan began designing cars after he graduated.
2. She has won most of her races.
3. The team has nearly finished building “Rainbow”.
4. Marie has written a book about solar energy.
5. Solar cars can work even in cloudy weather.
Task2 Find out the main idea of the interview.
Read the passage and circle the best answers.
Task3 Language points.(explain them by giving some examples.)
be worried about so far persuade…of reach
Task 4 Grammar. We use the Present Perfect to talk about a finished activity (achievement) and the Present Perfect Continuous to talk about an unfinished activity.
We use the Present Perfect to focus on a result of an activity, especially when we give a number or quantity. We use the Present Perfect Continuous to focus on the activity itself, especially to explain visible consequences of it.
Grammar Practice
Homework
1 Finish the exercises in page 41
2 Preview use of Present Perfect Continuous