Module 3 My First Ride on a Train Period 1 Introduction and Speaking
课堂教学设计
海南省海口市琼山中学 陈小旭
The General Idea of This Period
In this period we’ll review the means of transport that we can take to travel. The students will be able to learn some new words and expressions on vehicles. And they will be encouraged to describe their travel experiences. At last the students will talk about their travel plans for National Day.
Teaching Contents: Introduction and Speaking
Teaching Goals
1. 1. Target Language
Important Words and Expressions: helicopter, motorbike, tram, ferry, distance, ride, drive, land, get on, get off, get into, get out of, take off.
1. 2. Ability goals
1. a. Train the students’ speaking ability.
2. b. Enable the students to describe the first time they
travelled to some place or talk about their unforgettable trips. 3. c. Enable the students to talk about their travel plans for
National Day.
4. 3. Learning ability goals
Help the students to learn to describe their travel experiences.
1. 4. Affection and attitudes
1. a. Develop positive life attitudes and the love for our
motherland.
2. b. Cultivate the students’ awareness of cooperation. 3. c. Cultivate the students’ awareness of protecting the
environ- ment when they travel. 4. 5. Cultural awareness
1. a. Enlarge the knowledge of travel. 2. b. Cultivate the awareness of protecting the
environment when travelling.
5. 6. Learning Strategies
a. Cognition: Learn the ways of describing one’s travel experience. b. Control: While doing tasks, watch and listen to other class- mates and learn from them.
c. Resources: Learn about different means of transport and various places of interests through communication with teachers and classmates.
Teaching Important Points
1. Enable the students to learn words and expressions on vehicles. 2. Train the students’ speaking ability.
Teaching Difficult Points
How to improve the students’ speaking ability and to help them describe their travel experiences.
Teaching Methods
1. Answering activity to help the students go through vocabulary. 2. Matching the words to arouse the students’ interest in the names of vehicles.
3. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching aids: CAI facilities.
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
Lead in by talking about how I come to Haikou Experimental Middle School and telling my first trip by plane.
T: Good morning, boys and girls. Ss: Good morning, Teacher.
T: Today is a special day. I feel very much honoured and lucky to come to Haikou Experimental Middle School and to meet so many lovely students here. I’m an English teacher from Qiongshan Middle School. Have you ever heard of Qiongshan Middle School?
Ss: Yes.
T: Do you know where the school is? Ss: In Fuchen.
T: Yes. It’s not far from here. Can you guess how I came here? S1: By bus.
T: Taking a bus is a good way of transport and it is cheap and comfortable. But it’s not convenient for me to take a bus here.
I don’t want to walk for a long way from my home to the bus station and waste a lot of time waiting for the bus coming.
S2: I guess you came here by car.
T: Well. Driving a car is a good choice but it is my dream. I can’t afford to buy a car now. You know, I’m not so rich.
S3: I think you took a taxi.
T: It’s fast and convenient to take a taxi nowadays. But it’s not necessary for me because I have my own vehicle.
( Doing an action of riding a motorbike to help the Ss guess) Ss: By motorbike.
T: Bingo. I came here by motorbike. It took me about ten minutes’ ride. I think it’s convenient to ride a motorbike everywhere and you can enjoy the fresh air and keep a good mood. For traveling in Haikou, I’d prefer to ride my motorbike. And for a long distance, I’d like to take a plane. I still remember the first time I traveled by plane.
Last summer vacation, I together with my fellow teachers, the teachers in Senior 3, traveled to Hongkong ,Singapore and Malaysia. I was very excited and a little nervous because it was my first time to travel a long distance----to travel abroad. We travelled by plane and by bus. The plane took off at Haikou Meilan Airport and about an hour later it landed at Shenzhen Airport. It was also my first time to be on a plane. Everything seemed so fresh to me. I looked out of the window and enjoyed the beautiful scenery. I kept on talking to express my excitement. At Shenzhen Airport we took a bus to Hongkong.
The next day we took a plane from Hongkong to Singapore. It was a long trip and it took more than four hours. Because it was at night, out of the window we could see nothing but darkness. What impressed me most was the service on the plane. The food was delicious and the pretty smiling airhostesses were ready to help us. What a ride! Though more than a year has passed, this experience is still fresh in my memory.
(设计意图：教学之法,贵在启导.通过亲切自然、贴近生活的引入迅速引起 学生共鸣,激发学生参与到一个轻松、愉快的学习环境中.同时,教师对自 己旅游经历的描述扩大了学生的语言输入量,使学生获得表达思想所需要 的大量语言材料,激发他们说的强烈愿望,为后面的学生活动做好了准备 和铺垫.)
Step 2 Ask and answer
Ask some questions about the means of transport.
1. 1. What means of transport can you take to travel in Haikou? 2. 2. What means of transport do you take to go to school ? 3. 3. What means of transport can you take to go to Guanzhou?
T: With the development of society, travel becomes more and more popular, convenient and enjoyable. Many means of transport can be used to travel. Now I will ask you some questions.
Question 1 : What means of transport can you take to travel in Haikou?
T: Means of transport is a means of carrying people and things from one place to another. It also means vehicles. Please answer the question .
S4: By bike, by motorbike, by bus, by car and by taxi.
T: Yes, we can use many means of transport to travel in Haikou. We can also travel on foot.
Question 2: What means of transport do you take to go to school ?
S5: I go to school by bike.
T: Well, riding a bike is good for your health. S6: I take a bus to school.
T: OK, it’s comfortable and cheap. You can even enjoy the cool air conditioning during the hot summer.
S7: By car. My father has a car.
T: You are so lucky. I admire you very much. S8: I prefer to take a taxi.
T: Oh, it’s fast but too expensive. You can’t do that everyday. You can choose a cheaper means if you are not in a hurry.
S9: By “motortaxi”(摩的).
T: My God. Don’t do that. It’s too dangerous. Many traffic accidents are caused by “motortaxis”.
S10: I go to school on foot because it’s good for my health.
T: I agree with you. And remember to get up early so that you won’t be late. Let’s come to another question.
Question3: What means of transport can you take to go to Guanzhou?
Ss: We can take a bus, a car, a train, a ship or a plane.
T: Well done. For traveling to Guanzhou, we have to cross the Qiongzhou Straits and we can travel by bus, by car, by train, by ship or by plane.
(设计意图：围绕交通方式这一主题和内容展开问答.问题贴近生活,容 易调动学生的积极性,激活他们的思维,培养他们的语言运用能力,达到 “师生互动、生生互动”的学习效果.)
Step 3 Presentation
Show some pictures on the screen and get the students to name the means of transport as fast as they can.
T: Well, you know the means of transport very well. Now let’s do an activity. Look at the pictures on the screen and tell the names of transport as fast as you can.
Ss: (Picture 1) We can see a bike and a motorbike. (Picture 2) A car and a taxi.
T: (Pointing to the taxi) We have to pay to use this car. Ss: (Picture 3) A bus and a tram.
T: Exactly. A tram is a public vehicle driven by electricity. From the picture we can see it is connected to electric wires.
Ss: (Picture 4) A train.
(Picture 5) A plane and a helicopter.
T: We seldom see helicopters in Haikou. They often appear on TV and in movies.
Ss: (Picture 6) A ship and a ferry.
T: A ferry is a ship or a boat that goes across the river carrying people and things.
Ss: (Picture 7) We can see a boat in this picture.
T: Going boating is romantic and a good way of relaxing yourselves. (设计意图：利用图片、声像以及多媒体技术使呈现的材料真实,贴进生活;迅速捉住学生的注意力,使学生了解学习的目标;通过对交通工具的学习,
增大学生的语言输入量,为下面的活动打下基础.)
Step 4 Task 1: Asking and Answering (Pair-work)
Get the students to ask and answer the questions in Activity 2 on Page21 inpairs.
Q1: Which of the vehicles in activity 1 travel on roads? Q2: Which of them travel on rails? Q3: Which of them travel on water? Q4: Which of them travel in the air? Q5: Which of them can you use to travel a long distance? T: Among these vehicles some travel on roads, some on rails, some on water, and some in the air. Now let’s classify them by asking and answering the following questions in pairs. S: Which of the vehicles in activity 1 travel on roads? S: Taxis, cars, buses, bikes and motorbikes travel on roads. S: Which of them travel on rails? S: Trams and trains travel on rails S: Which of them travel on water? S: Ferries, ships and boats travel on water. S: Which of them travel in the air? S: Helicopters and planes travel in the air.
S: Which of them can you use to travel a long distance?
S: Planes, helicopters, trains, buses and ships can be used to travel a long distance.
(设计意图：结对问答活动充分体现学生为主体，教师为主导的新课程理念. 培养学生分析信息，处理信息以及合作探究的能力.)
Step 5 Task 2: Practice( Group-work and Competition)
Match the verbs with the means of transport. Get the students to do Activity 3 at Page 21
get on , get off , get into , get out of , ride , drive,
land , take off
bicycle, motorbike, bus, tram, train, car, taxi, plane, helicopter, ship, boat, ferry,
.
T: Now let’s judge what verbs can go with these vehicles. Match the verbs with the means of transport. We can say “ get on a….”
Ss: A bus.
T: Since we can say “ get on a bus”, we can also say “ get….” Ss: Get off a bus.
T: Clever. “ Get off” is opposite to “get on”.
Now you are divided into some small groups. Each group consists of four students. Discuss the answers with your group members.
Then we’ll do a competition between groups. Each group will get one point if you give a right answer.
Call back the answers from the class by doing the competition. (设计意图：合作学习使小组成员之间互相尊重,互相关心,互相欣赏,有利 于形成和谐的学习氛围,培养他们的团队精神和合作能力. 同时竞争意识 的注入,使学生情绪高涨,最大限度地激发了学生的学习兴趣.)
Step 6 Task 3: Speaking (Group-work)
Get the students to describe the first time they travelled to some place or talk about their unforgettable trip.
T: We have finished learning some vocabulary on vehicles. Now let’s do some speaking practice. Describe the first time you travel to some place or talk about your unforgettable trip. We’ll do this activity in fours. Every four students tell their travel experiences to each other. And then we’ll get one member in each group to share his experience to the whole class. You can follow this example:
I first travelled to Sanya by bus when I was ten years old. I went with my classmates and teachers. It was a fine day. The sky was blue and the sun was shining. We got on a bus in Haikou. During the way we got a good view
of the beautiful scenery. There were flowers and green trees everywhere. We were so happy and excited that we kept on talking and singing all the time.…
Then the students do the activity in fours and share their travel experiences with the whole class.
(设计意图：通过语言实践活动去发展英语语言能力.通过营造一个能进行交际实践的学习环境,努力扩大学生的知识面,帮助学生构建自己的自主学习模式.使学生形成以交际能力为核心的英语语言运用素质,在愉快轻松的氛围中达到运用英语交际的能力.)
Step 7 Task 4: Free talk (Group-work)
Get the students to talk about their travel plans for the coming National Day.
T: National Day is coming. Because I like traveling , this National Holiday I have a travel plan. I will travel to Beijing by plane. I have never been to Beijing and visiting the Great Wall has been my dream since I was a child. There is a famous saying,“he who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man. ”This time I will value the chance to enjoy myself and try to be a true man.
And suppose you will go on a trip during the holiday as well. Talk about your travel plan. Say where you will go, who you will go with and what means of transport you would like to use to travel.
Then the students give a free talk.
(设计意图：创设情景,让学生运用所学的知识来执行并完成任务.在这个过程中学习的主体始终是学生.他们用英语做事,在做中探究、学习,在做中体验、交流和实践, 进一步巩固了所学内容.)
Step 8 Summary and Homework
Get the students to write down their travel plans.
T: In this period we have learned some vocabulary on the vehicles , practised describing our travel experiences and talked about our travel plans. You have done a very good job. I really enjoy your performance.
Please write down your travel plans as homework. So much for this lesson. Thank you very much.
(设计意图：概括整个教学过程并用激励性语言评价学生在课堂中的活动， 激发学生学习兴趣，使学生获得成就感，增强自信心，充分享受上英语课 的乐趣.最后布置写作以帮助学生用英语进行思维和准确表达.)
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