The Human Traffic Signal1.ppt

1、Welcome to my class!,1.Train the students reading skills 2.Train the students speaking ability through individual and pair work 3.Make sure the students make sense of the passage 4.Make the students master some new words,The Human Traffic Singnal,Look at the picture and answer the questions. 1.Where

2、 is the man standing? 2.What is he holding? 3. How is the road? 4. Why is the man standing there? 5. Is his work dangerous? Is it helpful?,On a bend on a road in the mountains.,A large circular board.,The road is very narrow and dangerous for traffic.,He is directing the traffic.,Yes. His work is da

3、ngerous but very helpful,Vocabulary and Reading 2 skimming,Read the passage and match the headings Part1 The man Part 2 The road Part 3 The reason why he does it,Vocabulary and Reading 4 scanning,Read the first paragraph and answer the questions. 1. Where is La Paz? 2.Which road is the most dangerou

4、s there? 3.Are there any rules of using it? Do people respect them?,It is in Bolivia and is the highest capital in the world,The road going north from La Paz,Yes Few drivers respect the rules.,Vocabulary and Reading 4 reading,Read the last two paragraphs and choose the correct answers in part 4. Key

5、s: c, b, a, a, c, b Read the whole passage again and judge the statements.,The mountains make communication easy. Many roads are in bad condition and accidents are unfrequent. Timoteo has an unusual job. He climbs up to the bend with a large square board in his hand. Some one asked him to do the job

6、. He felt that it was others mission to do it.,Vocabulary and Reading-4. True or False(4m),Listen to the text and fill in the blanks.,1.Many roads are _(处于不好的状态) and accidents are frequent. One road _(尤其）, which goes north form La Paz, is _(被认为）the most dangerous road in the world. 2. Although there

7、 is not a lot of traffic ,_ (平均）,one vehicle _(驶出） the road every two weeks. 3._(在理论上）,the road can be used by trafficbut _(在实践中）, few drivers respect the rules.,in bad condition,in particular,considered,on average,comes off,In theory,in practice,1.Then one day while he was working as a lorry driver

8、 he _ (与死神擦肩而过) . 2 .This last experience _ _(对产生重大影响) Timoteo. 3.And so every morning _,_ _ , (一周又一周 ) from dawn to dusk, Timoteo _ (站好位置以备)his place on the bend and directs the traffic.,had a close encounter with death,had a profound effect on,week in,week out,takes up,suppose that you are a journ

9、alist and your name is Mike and your partner is Timoteo Apaza,Now six people in a group to make up a dialogue. one plays the journalist mike,one plays Apaza,one plays a villager, please interview him by asking the following questions, for example:I give you 5 minutes to prepare it and then choose 3

10、persons to come up to stage to perform your dialogue. How old are you? When did you start directing the traffic? Why do you choose to do so? How do you direct the traffic? What makes it difficult for the lorries to get through the road? Now six people in a group to make up a dialogue.,Discussion and

11、 Role-play (5m),How old are you? 45 When did you start directing the traffic here? in 1998 when I worked as a lorry driver,I had a close encounter with death.my lorry came off the road,so I fell three hundred metres down the mountain,but miraculously I survived,since then I volunteered to work for t

12、he traffic. Why do you choose to do so? since my escape from the Devil,I realised that I was lucky to be alive,I felt that It is my mission in life to help others,and I like to do so ,I like my job.God gives a chance the help those people in trouble, How do you direct the traffic? la curva del diabl

13、o means the Devils Bend is the most dangrrous part of the road,so every day I stand at the bend part to direce the traffic with a circular board, What makes it difficult for the lorries to get through the road? The drivers driving on the opposite directions cant see each other.so they frequently get

14、 stuck at the bend point,or sometimes they crashed and came off the cliff.,villager Mr apaza is very kind ,he is a volunteer, No one asks him to do the job,and no one pays him for it. villager:I like him so much.he is very friendly,What makes it difficult for the lorries to get through the road? If you were Timoteo Apaza , were you willing to direct the traffic in the dangerous area? Suppose that ten years have passed, and Timoteo Apaza is too old to direct the traffic . So please help him find good ways to repl