八年级英语上册 Module 4 Planes, Ships and trains Unit 2 What is the best way to travel教案

Unit 2 What is the best way to travel教案

ⅠTeaching model

Reading and writing.

ⅡTeaching method

Top-down approach

ⅢTeaching aims

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.

ⅣTeaching Objectives

1. Key vocabulary: journey, book, outside, choice, however, cost

2. Keys structure: Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular

superlatives.

ⅤTeaching aids

Recorder, OHP, video

ⅥTeaching Steps

Step 1 Warming-up

Learn some new words.

Step 2 Work in pairs.

1. Talk about places you go to and how you get there.

How do you get there?

What’s the cheapest way to get there?

What’s the best way to get there?

2. Show some pictures.

3. Talk something about the pictures.

Step 3 Reading.

1. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully.

2. Ask the students to read through the passage.

3. Read the passage by themselves.

4. Read the text together.

5. Read the passage and number the ways of travelling from the most expensive to

the least expensive in Activity 2.

6. Check with a partner.

7. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Step 4 Complete the table.

1. Read the passage again.

2. Complete the table.

Ways of travelling Good points

Bad points

Train More relaxing than by coach

More expensive than by coach

Car and ship

Coach

Plane

3. Check with a partner.

4. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Keys;

1. the most comfortable the most expensive.

2. the cheapest, crowded and it takes so long.

3. the fastest and the second cheapest wait for hours at the airport because of

bad weather.

Step 5 Complete the passage.

1. Ask the students to the words in the box in Activity 4.

choice cost However journey outside

2. Ask the students to read through the passage in Activity 4.

There are four ways to travel from London to Amsterdam. The first (1) ________ is

by train because the (2) ________ takes only four hours. (3) ________, it’s quite

expensive. Going by car and by ship, or coach does not (4) ________ as much as going

by train. When you go by car and by ship, remember that parking in Amsterdam is not

cheap, so it is best to stay (5) ________ the city centre and travel in by bus or

by train.

3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.

4. Check with a partner.

5. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Keys: 1. choice 2. journey 3. However 4. cost 5. outside

Step 6 Work in pairs.

Ask and answer about the ways of travelling. Use the information in the table.

— What’s the cheapest way to travel from London to Paris?

— The cheapest way is by coach.

Step 7 Writing.

Write a passage about ways of travelling from London to Paris. Use the information

in Activity 5 and the passage in Activity 2 to help you.

You can go from London to Paris by coach, plane or train. Travelling by plane is

the fastest but also the most expensive.

Step 8 Important and difficult points

1. journey, travel和trip的用法辨析

2. cost 的用法

3. The more information, the better. 信息越多越好。

“the +比较级，the + 比较级”是个固定句型，意为“越… …，就越… …”。

边学边练：

( ) 1. Study hard! ____ you study, _____ results you’ll get.

A. Harder; better B. The harder; better

C. The harder; the better D. Harder; the better

( ) 2. Dear students, please read every sentence carefully. _______ you are,

________ mistakes you’ll make.

A. The more carefully, the fewer B. The more careful, the less

C. The more carefully, the less D. The more careful, the fewer

Keys: 1. C 2. D

Step 9 Do exercises:

中考链接

( ) 1. —What do you think of the traffic in our city? (2013菏泽)

—It’s_____ than it used to be, but there’s still a long way to go.

A. worse B. worst C. better D. best

( ) 2. Traveling around big cities by taxi can cost a lot of money, but it’s

usually

_____ to take the underground train to most places. (2013菏泽)

A. amazing B. expensive C. convenient D. exciting

( ) 3. Liu Ying is as _____ as her sister. (2013湖南湘西)

A. tall B. taller C. the tallest

( ) 4. I am good at math, but his English is ________ than mine. (2013黄石)

A. much better B. more better C. very better D. pretty

better

( ) 5. The world’s population is growing _____ and there is _____ land and

water for growing rice. (2013荆门)

A. more; less B. larger; fewer C. larger; less D. more; fewer

( ) 6. It’s _____ to listen to light music when you feel tired. (2013温州)

A. dangerous B. scary C. relaxing D. difficult