Teaching Plan
for Unit 2, Module 4, Book 3

What is the best way to travel?

 By Manli He
Foshan Fenjiang Middle School

• Lesson Type: Reading

• Approaches: Interactive approach

• Objectives: To understand the passage on travel and transportation
  To be able to understand specific information in a text

• Purpose: To help students know more about travel and transportation

• Tools: OHP, handouts
   

• Teaching Procedures:

1. Revise the dialogue in Unit 1

2. Work in pairs. Talk about the ways to go to a city that you like to visit.

1. Where are you going at weekends or on holidays?

2. How do you get there?

3. What’s the cheapest way to get there?

4. What’s the best way to get there?

5. 晓丹老师的mindmap不错，可以引用一下--严静    Brain-storm: Talk about the best way to travel

   我感觉这里换一种更直观的mindmap更好--十四中叶丽冰

1. Show the map of the railway from London to Paris and Amsterdam

2. Have students write down the means of transport below the pictures in Activity 2

3. Have students guess what way is the most expensive and what is the least expensive

 第三个问题可以考虑让学生做oral practice

1. Analyze the structure of the passage

2. Ask students to read the passage quickly and underline the means of transport when they find it. Then number the pictures from the most expensive to the least expensive.

3. Read the passage again and complete the table in Activity 3 on Page 29.

4. Complete the thinking map according to the passage. 此处有没有为学生提供概念图模板呢？学生自己能否成功画出概念图？

5. Answer the following questions

1) How many ways are there to travel from London to Amsterdam?这里可以加多一个问句What are they?

2) What’s the most comfortable way to get from London to Amsterdam?
3) What’s the cheapest way to get from London to Amsterdam?
4) How long does it take from London to Amsterdam by coach?

5) Which is the fastest way?

补充需要学生深层思考的问题，如：

1. How can I buy a cheaper train ticket?

2. Should I book my hotel or my ship ticket first?

3. Is it good to drive my car into the city centre?

     What should I do to save money? --严静

  6. Decide the sentences True or False according to the passage

1) Travelling by train from London to Amsterdam is more relaxing than by ship.

2) You must buy your ticket a long time before your travel by train.

3) Taking a train from London to Amsterdam is the cheapest.

4) A journey by coach is the cheapest and the most comfortable.

5) It takes you about twenty hours to get to Amsterdam by coach.

6) You must book your ticket before you book your hotel.

7) You may have to wait for hours at the airport because of the bad weather.

1. Discussion
   1) What do we need to pay attention to when we decide to travel by train from London to Amsterdam? Why?
   2) If we travel by car and by ship across the North Sea, what should we do? Why?(这里用思维导图呈现会让学生清晰——袁淑艳）

2. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box. (Activity 4)

3. Retell the passage with the help of the thinking map. （最好把PPT呈现的图也呈现在教案里--严静）

4. Decide the following sentences Facts and Opinions

1) A journey by train is more relaxing than by coach.

2) A journey by train is more expensive than by coach.

3) It is usually cheaper to buy a ticket before you travel.

4) It is the most comfortable way to travel by car and by ship.

5) Parking in Amsterdam is very expensive.

6) In summer, the coaches sometimes get crowded.

7) It takes about twelve hours to get there by coach.

8) Taking a plane is the fastest and the second cheapest.

1. Can you read simple passage on travel and transportation?

2. Complete the passage

A journey by train is _____ relaxing ______ by coach, but a lot ______ expensive. You can go by _____ and by _____ across the North Sea. This is the most __________ way to travel but also the most expensive. The third choice is by _______. This usually the _________, but sometimes get crowded. Finally, you can _____. It is the fastest and the second cheapest.

Write a short passage including:

1. The ways to Amsterdam from London

2. Their good points and bad points

3. Your own opinion on the best way to travel from London to Amsterdam and the reason

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