Unit 3 How do you get to school?（Section A 1a-3c）

Unit 3 How do you get to school? The First Period (Section A 1a—2d) Teaching Aims 1. Knowledge Objects (1) Function: Talk about how to get to places. (2) Key vocabulary: subway, train, sixty, seventy, ninety, eighty, hundred, far, minute, by, far, kilometer, new (3) Target language: ①—How to get to school?—I ride my bike. ② –How long does it take? –It takes about forty minutes. ③ –How far is it from your home to school? –It’s 10 kilometers. (4) Structure: “How”questions. “How long”questions. “How far ”questions.” 2. Ability Objects To learn to talk about : --—How to get to school? –How long does it take? –How far is it from your home to school? 3. Moral Objects Help students establish the concept of time, and form a habit of punctuality. Teaching key points 1. To learn to ask ways of getting to school with “how” questions. 2. To talk about the time to get to some places. Teaching difficult points The difference between “I take the subway to school” and “I get to school by subway”. Teaching methods Listening and writing methods; Pair-work; Group-work. Teaching aids A tape recorder. Some pictures. Teaching procedures Step 1 Leading in (about 10 minutes) In these days, there are many ways of transportation, so it is very easy and convenient to go from one place to another. In this class, let’s learn Unit 3 “How do you get to school? ” Step 2 Presentation (about 10 minutes) 1. Show students some pictures. And ask the students that how many means of transportation there are in it. What are they? The look at the pictures and learn the new words “subway”, “train”. 2. Show own pictures of the means of transportation and say: “ I take the bus to school.” Ask: “How do you get to school?” Let students answer the questions. Step 3 Practice in pairs or in groups (about 15 minutes) 1. Make conversations like this: “How do you get to school? I take the bus to school. ” Pay attention to “how questions”. 2. Then let the students say: “ How other students in the picture get to school” Give them some help if necessary. Like this: “—How does he get to school?” “—He takes the subway to school.” 3. (1) Let’s look at the book P13, 1a. Then check the answers. (2) Book P13, 1b. Listen and do the exercises. Then check the answers. Ask one student to say the answers, the others say their own ideas. 4. Show some pictures to the students and say “ My home is far from school, so it takes me about 25 minutes to get to school.” Let students pay attention to the numbers. And listen to 2a to master the new words. Then ask the students “ How long does it take you to get to school” “How far is it from your home to school?” Listen to 2b and 2c to get some information, then practice the conversations in pairs. 5. Guessing games (1) Give the pictures with covering a part of them; let students guess how somebody gets to some places, and how long it takes. (2) Write: let students write how he or she goes to school. Step 4 Summary ... ...