Module 4 Planes, ships and trains一、学习目标:A.单词和短语：road, accident, except, far, far away, crowded, choice, classmate, all the time, journey, book, outside, close, park, however, costB.交际用语：1. What happened?2. Dont 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. Whats the most expensive way to go to school? Going by taxi is the most expensive.6. How do you get there?7. Whats the cheapest way?8. Whats the best way to get there?9. Whats the cheapest way to travel from London to Paris? The cheapest way is by coach.10. Its the most comfortable way, but its 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. Function: Describing and comparing modes of transportation.2. Structure: Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.3. Skills: 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.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:Unit 1 He lives the farthest from school. Teaching modelListening and speaking Teaching method PWP approach Teaching aims1. Key vocabulary: road, accident, except, far, far away, crowded, choice, classmate, close, all the time2. Key structures: superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.3. Key sentences:1) What happened?2) Dont 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) Whats the most expensive way to go to school? Going by taxi is the most expensive. Teaching aidsTape recorder, OHP, video Teaching StepsStep 1 Warming-up1. Work in pairs. Show some pictures and ask “How do you often go to school?”2. Look and say something about the pictures.3. Introduce the new words.4. Learn the new words.5. Read the new words.Step 2 Look and match.1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 1.bus ship taxi train underground2. Look at the pictures in Activity 1 carefully.3. Now match the words with the pictures.5. Check the answers with the students.Keys: 1. train 2. ship 3. taxi 4. underground 5. bus Step 3 Look, listen and match.1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 2.busy cheap expensive modern2. 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.3. Check the answers with the students.Step 4 Listen and read.1. Show some pictures, and ask the students to talk about them.2. Ask the students to read the conversation silently.3. Play the recording and ask the students to listen the conversation, and then answer the questions. 1) How does Lingling go to school? Why?2) How do you think Betty will go to school?4. Read the conversation.5. Act it out.Step 5 Complete the table.1. Ask the students to read the conversation again.2. Now complete the table.BettyTonyLinglingDamingWays to go to school3. Check the answers.Keys: by bus (by bike) by underground walks / on foot by busStep 6 Complete the sentences.1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.close comfortable good far2. Read the sentences. 1) The _ way to go to school is by taxi.2) Tony lives the _ from school.3) Linglings 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: Keys: 1. most comfortable 2. farthest 3. closest 4. bestStep 7 Complete the sentences.1. Ask the students to read the words or expression in the box in Activity 5.accident crowded except most modern 2. 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 _.3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.4. Check the answers: Keys: 1. except 2. most modern 3. accident 4. crowdedStep 8 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 sc