Unit9 Lesson1 Return of the white bikes!People have been enjoying the 1.______________ of cycling in Amsterdam for years. It is a good city for cycling because it is flat and 2.___________ is convenient for bikes. There are also plenty of places for bicycle parking and most streets in the city centre have a bicycle path. Today some people call Amsterdam the “City of Bicycles” because of the 3.________________ for bicycles there.In the 1960s, a group of cycling fans had an idea. They believed that it would be better for everybody if cars weren’t allowed in the city center and only bicycles were. They were hopeful that this would help to save energy, 4.____________ pollution and provide free public transport. The group painted hundreds of bicycles white and 5.__________ them in lots of neighborhoods around Amsterdam for people to use. Anyone was allowed to take them and use them for short journeys. Wherever someone finished a journey they would 6.______________the bike there for someone else to use. The problem was that it didn’t work---thieves took all the bicycles 7.__________ weeks!However, more than thirty years later, the “white bike” is back in town---this time with a computer chip to 8.___________ its every move! To take a bicycle, you have to insert a special card. The new “white bike” is not 9. ___________ white but is an unusual design with bright colours. The bikes are parked at special parking places and people who want to use them have to take them to another special parking place that have enough room.There is already less traffic in central Amsterdam, because both 10. __________ and tourists have been using the white bikes. Indeed, 11.________________ the ideas of lots of people, like the cycling fans in the 1960s, many people around the world have been enjoying city centre streets 12.____________ cars for many years.。
Unit 9 LearningLesson 1 Active Learning 教学设计科目：英语课题：Lesson 1 Active Learning 课时：1课时教学目标与核心素养：知识目标：Students can learn some new words and verb-ing or infinitive.能力目标：Students can have a further understanding of the passage.情感目标：Students can think individually and learn cooperatively.教学重难点教学重点：How to learn the new words and verb-ing or infinitive.教学难点：How to make students have a better understanding of the passage.课前准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔教学过程：一、Pre-reading1. Greeting2. Leading-inACTIVA TE AND SHARE教师活动：教师提问What do active learners do? Think about who may be an active learner in your class.Use the phrases below to help you.to take notes to focus on to ask questionsto reflect on to pay attention to to be curiousto be open-minded to listen to a different point of viewAsk students to think and share their answers.二、While- readingREAD AND EXPLORE1. 学生活动：阅读文章，回答问题。
