Unit 3 How do you get to school.doc

Unit 3 How do you get to school? Period 2 Textbook: Go For ItStudents: Grade Seven (B)Contents: Unit 3 How do you get to school? Period 2 Topic: TransportationStructures: How questions.Target Language: How do you get to school? I take the bus.How long does it take ? It takes 20 minutes.How far is it? Its 10 miles.Vocabulary and Phrases:car ,train, bike,bicycle,bus, subway,bus stop, train station, bus station,subway station,transportation, get to ,how far,take,ride,walk,minute,kilometer,mile, numbersLearning Strategies Personalizing; Inferring vocabularyImportant and difficult points :1. how /how far /how long questions.2.take the bus /subway /train /taxi , ride a bike /walk3.It takes /will take/took sb some time to do sth . Teaching Aims and Demands:Knowledge ObjectsTo learn to use how questions, Words & phrases: get to , how far , bicycle , subway , minute , mile , bus stop .take the bus /subway /train /taxi , ride a bike /walk .Ability Objects:To learn to read and talk about how to get to places To improve the students reading and speaking skillsMoral Objects:To enhance students love to going to school.To let students be careful when going to school and not be late for school.Teaching Methods:Task-based language teaching approachTeaching Aid: CAITeaching Procedures:Step 1 Introduction Step 2 Pre-taskPlay a video and present pictures on the screen to revise the words of transportation.Ask and answer each other how they get to school.Make a survey of how the students get to school.See and guess how others get to school.Well,Lin Fei is a student from Green High School.Lets see how he gets to school.Now please look at 3a on page 21.Step 3 While-task 3a Reading and writing The passage you will learn in this part tells us something about Lin Fei. Please read the questions about him in the speech bubbles. Then read the passage ，underline all the new words and expressions and write the answers to the questions on the line. Check the answers. How does he get to school? By bike and by bus. How long does it take? It usually takes about 35 minutes. How far is it from his home to school?About 10 kilometers. Explain the new words ,expressions and sentences. Read the text again loud.Get students to fill in the blanks. Talk about Lin Feis way of getting to school.4 Info gap raceGroupwork. Now lets play a game: Info Gap Race! This time you work in groups of three. You decide which one is A, which one is B and which one is C. Please read the instruction. You ask each other questions to get information for your chart, and then write the answers on the chart in your book. Dont look at others pages please. The first group to fill in all the blanks is the winner. WhoHowHow longHow far1. Mariabustwenty minutesfive miles2. Johnbiketen minutessix miles3. Liu Peisubwayfifteen minuteseight milesA: How does Maria get to school? B: She takes the bus. A: How long does it take Maria to get to school? B: It takes her twenty minutes. A: How far is it from her home to school?C: Its five miles.Step 4 Post-taskPairwork1.Get students to make conversations using the information in the picture with a partner. Read the example dialogue in the box as an example.2. Get students to make their own conversations about themselves.3.Talk about how they will get to college.Step 5 SummaryStep 6 HomeworkNational Day(国庆节) is coming. What are you doing for the vacation? Where are you going for the vacation? (eg. Beijing) How far is it? How do you get here? Please look up the informati