初中英语人教版七年级下册Unit 3.doc

Unit 4: How do you get to school？Section ATeaching aims Learn some words about transportation Learn to talk about how to get to some places Learn to talk about distanceTeaching points How do you get to school?I ride the bike to school.How far is it?Its three miles.How long does it take?It takes 20 minutes.Difficult points Learn to use “ride the bike to school” and “get to school by bike”Teaching methods personalizing Inferring vocabularyListening for key wordsTeaching tools multi- mediaTeaching steps:Step 1 Lead in Show some nice pictures to the students then asks them, “Do you want to go there?” Possible answer is “Yes”T: (teacher) Most of students want to go there. But how do you get there?Possible answer: take the plane; take the bus; ride the bike and so on T: Yes, we need bus, bike, plane and so on. They are all transportation. They are important for us. So, today, lets talk about the transportation.Step 2: Introduce some kinds of transportation.Show some pictures of transportationFirst ask students to tell what they see, using whatever words they can. The teacher gives some encourage evaluation to students answers.Then teacher supplies the words or sentences and ask the class to repeat. e.g. T He rides the bike to work.They walk to some place.Step 3 Introduce language goalsFirst play a game: let students guess how the teacher gets to school, how far it is from the teachers home to school. And how long it takes.Then the teacher asks these questions and students try to give the right answer one by one. At the same time the teacher write the questions and answers on the blackboardThe teacher gives some encourage evaluation to students answers.How do you (does he/she) get to school?I ride(He/She rides) the bike to school.How far is it?Its 3 milesHow long does it take?It takes 15 minutes.Step 4: Ask and answer in pairsShow students some pictures. Ask student to ask and answer in pairs using the information in the pictures. Then ask some pairs to present their conversations in front of the class. The teacher gives some encourage evaluation to students answers.Step 5: Make a survey NameHow How far How longAsk students to work ing in group of eight .First, ask these questions each other, and then write down the answers in the chart. Finally, ask some students to make a report.Step 6: Listening Ask students to listen to the tape carefully. Then fill in the blanks.Finally, check the answers one by one.1) Marias home is about 3 miles from school. She takes the bus to school. It takes her 10 minutes to get to school.2) Jills home is 2 miles from school. It takes her 20 minutes. She walks to school.3) How do you get to school? I take the subway. How far is it from your home to school? Its 5 miles.How long does it take? It takes 35 minutes.Step 7: Fast reading Lin Feis home is about 10 kilometers from school. He gets up at six oclock every day, showers, and has a quick breakfast. Then he leaves for school at around six-thirty. First, he rides his bicycle to the bus station. That takes about ten minutes. Then the early bus takes him to school. The bus ride usually takes about 25 minutes.How does he get to school? By bike and by busHow long does it take? 35 minutesHow far is it from his home to school? 10 kilometersShow students the short passage, then ask students to read the passage quickly. Try to find the answers and write them down.Finally, check the answers quickly.Step 8 pairwork Show students a picture, tells them that Jim is an exchange student in Xian, he doesnt know how to get to Bell Tower. Please help him.Ask students to look at the pictures and make their conversations in pairs.A few minutes later, ask some pairs to act out their conversations Step 9: Homework 1: Try to imagine new transportation2:Write a short passage, how do your family go to school/work?Teachers advice and hopeIn our daily life, transportation is very important. We need it. But at the same time, it makes the traffic very busy today. Traffic accidents (交通事故)become more and more. So when we go to school, Be careful. And we must obey the rules. Lets make our city