外研版高中英语必修1Module3 My First Ride on a train

Module 3 My First Ride on a trainTeaching Aims:Knowledge and SkillTo write down the sentences and passage including the new words, phrases and –ed words.To recall he past experience using the past time; making a dialogue using polite waysEnable the students to improve their reading skills by skimming and scanning.Get the students to know details about Alice’s trip and the origin of the name of the train.Enable the students to improve the abilities of imagination, analysis and thinking in English.2.Emotion and ValuesTo help them describe a trip and arouse their love of their own motherland Make them to feel proud of social achievement3. Cross-cultural awareness:To help them learn about beautiful scenery of Australia.4. Character-building:To help them know the fastest train and encourage them to work hard in order to make great contribution to the societyTo let them know the importance of cooperating with others in a group Difficulties and Importance:Enable the students to understand the passage clearly and learn to describe their own trip.Enable the students to grasp the usage of the –ed form.The usage of past tense time expressions.Teaching Method:Task-based methodologyCommunicative ApproachTeaching Procedures:Period 1Teaching Content: Vocabulary and speakingEveryday English and functionStep 1. List the name of transportation vehicles.on roads: taxis, bicycles, motorbikes, buses, cars, tractors, trucks…on rails: trams, trains…on water: ferries, ships, boats, rafts（筏子）, canoes(独木舟)…in the air: helicopters, planes, aeroplanes, spaceships, rockets…Long distance: planes, train, shipsferry, planeget into/get out of: taxi, helicopter,ride: bicycle, motorbike,drive: taxi, train, bus,take off/land: plane, helicopterStep 4. Describe the first time you traveled a long distance, including the following information such as your age, where you went and who accompanied and so on.Step 5. Everyday EnglishComplete each sentence with one of the expressions.Goodness Definitely!Interviewer: ________, did you enjoy making films?Mary Lennon:_________! It was good fun! Sometimes we made three films in a week.Interviewer:_________! Weren’t you bored?Mary Lennon:___________! It was good fun.Interviewer: ________? But weren’t you tired?Mary Lennon:______________! We were exhausted. We had to get up at 4 a.m. and we didn’t go to bed until midnight.Interviewer:___________. That’s a long time.Mary Lennon:___________! It takes a long time to make a film. Homework:Preview the text “My First trip On a train”.Period 2Teaching content: Reading and VocabularyStep 1 Warming up(brainstorming)Answer the following questions:Situation : If you go to Beijing in 2008, how will you get there? Why do you choose to go by …?(The Ss’ answers are free. After a while, go on asking the following questions:Do you think it is wonderful if we go by train?What do you want to do on a train?)Suggested answers:Play cardsTalk to other passengersEnjoy the food on the trainEnjoy the scenery along the tripRead booksListen to music…Step 2 pre-readingLook at the pictures on page 22, and answer the following questions. 1.Where do you think they were taken?Australia.2. Do you know how many people live there?About 20 million.3. Do you know the name of the capital city?Canberra.4. Where do you think most of the people live, in the central part of the country or on the coast?On the east/ southeast coast.5. What do you think the central part of the country is like?Desert.6. What Australian animals do you know about?Koala bear, duck-billed platypus, kangaroo, dingo…Step3 Detail Readinga. Skimming and scanning: read the text fast, try to find the answers to these questions.1. How old is the writer?2. When was a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they werea problem passed?3. What’s the passage about?Suggested answers:1. 18 2. In 1925 3. Traveling to the central part of Australia.( ) ate meals cooked by experts( ) made friends with other passengers( ) talked to other passengers( )sang songs( )read books( )watched the night skyd. Answer the following questions:What’s Alice’s destination?Was the scenery the same during the whole journey?What did she do while she was on the train?What did the Australians use to travel to the central part of the country? They don’t use camels to deliver goods now, do they?Suggested answers:Her destination was the central part of Australia.No, it wasn’t.She read books and listened to her Chinese cassettes while she was on the train.The Australia used camels to travel to the central part of the country. No, they don’tStep 4 Post readingPara 1：Information about the writer and her train ride.Para 2: What the writer saw on the train.Para 3: What the writer did on the trainPara 4: Why is the train called the Ghan?Para 5: The use of camels.Para 6: What happened to the camels.b. Reading Comprehension1.What means of transportation were used in the Middle part of Australia? _____A. horsesB. camelsC. trainD. all of the above2. Australians used camels instead of horses, because______.A. horses didn’t like the hot weather and sandB. they bought some camels from Afghanistan.C. Camels were much better than horses for traveling a long distanceD. Both A and C3. Australians used to travel on camels for ________.A. businessB. tourC. farmingD. animal training4. The writer talked a lot about camels, because________.A. camels are of great use in traveling and quite helpful for manB. she was planning to travel on a camel with her friend soonC. readers are often interested in stories about animalsD. the writer wanted to explain why the train was called Ghan.5. Which of the following is true?_____A. The police shot the trained camels with the permission of the government.B. The Afghanistan government passed a law to shoot trained animals.C. The writer used to travel long distances on a train alone. Suggested answers: D D A D AStep 5 Key points1. in the distance / at a distanceTrees should not be planted close together but at a distance.He had disappeared in the distance before I could greet him.2. abandonedHe abandoned his house to the new comers.Don’t just abandon yourself to a life of pleasure.Because of the crowd trouble, the match was abandoned3. desert n & vdesert a house/ a village/ one’s wife and children4. exhausted adj.He was totally exhausted after the long ride through the desert.5. supply v & nsupply sth. to / for sb.supply sb. with sth.The company supplies us with electricity and gas.Helicopters dropped supplies (of food and clothing) to the villagers. 6. allow vt. & vi.permit sb to do or let sth happen sth .allow sb. to do sth.They are not allowed to smoke in the office.They don’t allow smoking in the hospital.The doctor allowed him up for two hours only, for he is still in poor health.7. refer toThe expert referred to at the meeting is Dr. Li.The discipline refers only to soldiers.The new law only refers to the camels used for delivering food.8. more than oneMore than one visitor likes the scenery here.9. on the coast ~ off the coast.Soon the ships appeared off the coast.There are some hills on the coast and you can see some islands off the coast.10. be short for.WTO is short for the World Trade Organization.be short of = lackThough they are short of money, his parents managed to send him to college.11. in the 1920s / in the 1920’sin the 20’s / 20sin one’s 20s12. at a speed over 400 kilometers per hourat a / the speed of 1000 meters a second.at full / top / high speedat the top of one’s speedwith speed / with great speed.Homework:Retell Alice first ride on a train.Period 3Teaching Content: Grammar 1 The –ed formFunctionListeningStep 1 PresentationRead the sentences from the passage then answer the questions.Trained camels carried food and other supplies.We saw abandoned fans which were more than a hundred years ago.We ate great meals cooked by experts.Questions: 1. Trained, abandoned and cooked are adjectives, but they are also past participles of verbs. What are the infinitives of the verbs? What is the word order of the underlined parts of the other two sentences? Why is it meals cooked by experts and not cooked meals by experts? Suggested answers:The infinitives of the verbs are : to train, to abandon, to cook.1&2: adjective +noun; 3:noun.+adjectiveThe word “cooked”can’t go in front of the noun “meals” because it refers directly to the phrase which follows it(by experts) –the people who cooked the meals- and we are interested in the information.Step 2 PracticeLook at the sentences, pay attention to the function of “-ed form”. Marry seems worried at the news.The door remained lockedThe teacher felt pleased with the student’s answer.The bottles are broken.Everything is settled now.Step 3 Watch and Compare1. There are many fallen leaves on the ground.This is a book written by a peasant.2. The book is well written.The book was written by a woman.3. The ground is covered with snow.This point has not been covered yet.4. This point has not been covered yet.The enemy was soon surrounded by us.Step 4 Watch and Compare(-ed form and –ing form)They all felt excited when they heard the exciting news.We all felt tired after the work, because the work is tiring.Nobody was interested in the story.The story he told was very interesting.Step 5 Practicepuzzled puzzlingThe problem seems quite _________.The teacher seems _________ about what to do next.interested interestingWhat seemed to me most __________ was that no one thought of his own safety. The students were __________ to hear the news.Step 6 Functiona. Read the conversation between a ticket inspector and a passenger on the train. Then answer the following questions.What does the ticket inspector want?What is happening?b. Discuss the questions.What do you think of the ticket inspector’s attitude?What expressions could you use to change it?c. Pair work.Work in groups to practise the conversation with the polite expressions. Excuse me…Could I (see your ticket)?Could I possibly (see your ticket)?Would you mind (if I say your ticket)?I’m sorry but (This is an old ticket.)The fact is that (it’s out of date.)Add more lines to the conversation. The following sentences may help you. What time does the train arrive at…?Where do I change to get to …?Is it possible to open the window?Is there a dining car on this train?Step 7 Listeninga. Pre-listening: Look at the picture, do you know this great woman?b. While-listening: Play the tape for the first time. Show the questions on the screen.Q1: when did she first go to America?Q2: How old was she?Q3: How did she get there?Q4: What did she do in New York?Q5: How did she get from New York to California?Q6: Where did she stop on the way?Q7: What did she think of Los Angeles?C. Post-listeningMatch the questions and answers.Where were you born?When did you go to America?Were you sick?How did you get to California?Were you and your friends bored?Did your friends go to California with you?a. When I was 19.b. on, I wasn’tc. By train.d. In Londone. No, they didn’t.f. Yes, we were.Homework:Finish the exercises 1,2,3 of page 79.Period 4Teaching Content: VocabularyReading and SpeakingGrammar 2Step 1 VocabularyRead the places and activities. Can you remember the first experience of them?Places: cinema circus kindergarten park playgroundseaside sports stadium swimming pool theatre zooActivities: learning to ride a bicycle, seeing a wild animal, seeing a film, learning to draw, reading comic books, swimming, playing sports for the first time, meeting your best friendStep 2 Reading and speakinga. Lead-inDo you remember your first visit to the zoo?Did you see wild animals?What wild animals did you see?Brainstorming: ask Ss to say something about their childhood.b. Read the passage individually and then decide which are happy and which are unhappy.c. PracticeTell the others about the first time they did one of the activities. Put the Ss into groups to talk about their first experiences.Step 3 Past tense time expressionsa. Find the following time expressions that appea r in “My First Ride on a Train.”Recently… A ling time ago…During the day… A hundred and fifty years agoOne night… Until the 1920sAt (about) midnight In 1925Which of them can refer to past or present actions?b. Recently: Alice went on her first long-distance train ride.During the day: She sat and looked out of the window.One night at about midnight: She watched the night sky for an hour.A long time ago: Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of thecountry.A hundred and fifty years ago: They bought some camels from Afghanistan. Until the 1920s: The camels carried food and other supplies across the street.In 1925: The government passed a law allowing people to shoot camels if they became a problem.c. Ask students to write down two sentences for during the day and at midnight.During the day:_______________________________At midnight:_________________________________d. Practice1. I first met Tom ten years ago. He _______in a radio factory at that time.A. had workedB. has workedC. was workingD. has been working2. His father gave up smoking for only 3days, but then ______ to his old ways.A. returnedB. returnsC. had returnedD. has returned3. I used to drink a lot of tea but thesedays I _______ coffee.A. preferB. preferredC. had preferredD. am preferringSuggested answers: C A AHomework:Write your description of a trip. Use the past tense and include some expressions, such as “On the first day…”, “After lunch…”, etc. Period 5Teaching Content Cultural CornerWritingStep 1. RevisionAsk some student to say something about Alice Thompson’s ride on a train. Ask them to say as much as possible.Step 2 Lead-inAlice Thompson traveled on a train. Do you know the speed of an ordinary train?(Less than 200 kilometers an hour.)Do you want to know a train about two times faster?Step 3 Skimming and ScanningQ1. How long does it take the Maglev to complete the 30-minute journey? Q2. Where does it run between?Suggested answers: 1. In 8 minutes.2. Between Shanghai’s Pudong Airport and Longyang Station in downtown Shanghai.Step 4 Detail readingQ1. What are the main differences between a magnetically levitated train and an ordinary train?Q2. What are the advantages of traveling on a Maglev train?Suggested answers:It is faster, less noisy and uses less energy.You travel very quickly and quietly. The train uses less energy.Step 5. key points of the textat full speedat a speed of 50 milesat the top of one’s voiceper hour; per minute ;per day ;per year…attended the opening ceremony of the train service.attendDid you attend the meeting yesterday?She was sick, so she didn’t attend her class.Step 6 WritingWrite a paragraph about one of these topicsA My first family holiday B. The most unusual journey I’ve madeC. My first train rideD. The best journey of my lifeHomework:Talking about a trip you made to a tourist spot。