安徽省长丰县下塘实验中学八年级英语上册 Module 4 Planes, Ships and trains Unit 2 What is the best way to travel教案 （新版）外研版.doc

unit 2 what is the best way to travel教案teaching modelreading and writing. teaching method top-down approach teaching aims1. 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.teaching objectives 1. key vocabulary: journey, book, outside, choice, however, cost2. keys structure: superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregular superlatives.teaching aidsrecorder, ohp, videoteaching stepsstep 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?whats the cheapest way to get there?whats 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 travellinggood pointsbad pointstrainmore relaxing than by coachmore expensive than by coachcar and shipcoachplane3. 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 outside2. 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) _, its 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. outsidestep 6 work in pairs.ask and answer about the ways of travelling. use the information in the table. whats 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 points1. 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 youll 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 youll make. a. the more carefully, the fewer b. the more careful, the lessc. the more carefully, the less d. the more careful, the fewerkeys: 1. c 2. dstep 9 do exercises:中考链接 ( ) 1. what do you think of the traffic in our city? (2013菏泽) its_ than it used to be, but theres 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 its 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. tallerc. 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 worlds population is growing _ and there is _ land