江西省吉安县凤凰中学八年级英语上册《Unit 4 How do you get to school》Teaching plan 人教新目标版.doc

江西省吉安县凤凰中学八年级英语上册《Unit 4 How do you get to school》Teaching plan
Functions
Talk about how to get to places
Structures
How questions; Affirmative and negative statements
Target language
—How do you get to school? —I take the bus.
—How long does it take? —It takes 20 minutes.
Vocabulary

get to, how far, bicycle, subway, car, train, bus stop, train station, bus station, subway station, minute, kilometer, mile, transportation, calendar
Learning strategies
Personalizing; Inferring vocabulary
Period 1: Listing, Listening and Speaking (Page 19)
(How do Bob and Mary get to school?)
Objectives
1. To learn to use how questions, affirmative and negative statements
2. To lean to talk about how to get to places
Procedures
1a Looking and writing
Open your book at page19. Study the picture carefully and read the dialogue. Then please write down how the students in the picture get to school in the morning.
1. take the subway 2. ride a bike 3. take the bus 4. take the train 5. walk(on foot) 6. take a boat 7. take a taxi 8. go in a parent’s car
1b Listening and writing
Look at the picture again. How do students get to school? Let’s listen to a conversation between two people talking about this. Listen carefully and write the number of the name in the white box next to the student. Please do it individually. Then let’s check the answer.
1. Bob takes the train. 2. Mary takes the subway.
3. John takes the bus. 4. Paul walks. 5. Yang Lan walks.
Now go to page 86 to read the tapescript. While reading try to find all the how questions and the affirmative and negative statements. Try also to cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all the predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions. That’s grammar study, indeed.
Read the conversation and turn it into a short article.
1c Pairing and speaking
Period 2: Listening, Writing and Speaking (Page 20)
(How long does it take?)
Objectives
3. To learn to use how questions, affirmative and negative statements
4. To lean to talk about how to get to places
Procedures
■Warming up by studying the grammar focus
Hello, class. How do you get to school? How do you get to station? How do you get to post office? How do you get to farm? How do your parents get to work?
To answer these questions let’s go to page 20 and study the grammar focus.
How do you get to school?
I ride my bike.
How does he get to school?
He walks to school.
How do they get to school?
They take the train.
How long does it take?
It takes about forty minutes.
Pay attention to the structure of the sentence. Now make sentences like these.
How do you get to school?
I drive my car.
How does he get to school?
He runs to school.
How do they get to school?
They take the taxi.
How long does it take?
It takes about ten minutes.
2a Listening and repeating
Listen to these numbers and repeat. Please pay attention to the pronunciation.
32, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100
2b Reading and writing
How do we write 46 in English?
Now read the numbers in English on page 20. Write the correct number next to the word.
forty-six 46 thirty-three 33 seventy-two 72
one hundred and five 105 fifty-eight 58 ninety-nine 99
sixty-one 61 eighty-four 84
2c Listening and checking
Now please look at the five pictures of transportation. And we’ll listen to two conversations. The people are talking about how students get to school and how long it takes. Listen carefully and check the kinds of transportation that they talk about.
40 minutes
35minutes

25minutes
10 minutes

Listen carefully again and match the time with the kinds of transportation. Let’s check the answers.
Now turn to page 86. Now read the two conversations. While reading try cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all the predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions.
Useful expressions from the text
get to school, take the train, take around forty minutes, take the subway, take around thirty-five minutes, get to school, ride my bike, take around twenty-five minutes, take ten minutes
Now let’s talk as they do in the conversation. In other words, we are going to talk in imitation of the conversation we have just heard and read.
2d Pairing and speaking
Now in pairs please make your own conversations about how you get to school and how long it takes.
Read the example dialogue first and then make yours with your partner.
A: How do you get to school?
B: Well, I usually run but sometimes I walk.
A: How long does it take?
B: It takes about 10 minutes to walk and 15 minutes by running. What about you?
A: I get to school by taxi, sometimes I take my mother’s car.
B: Oh, how long does it take?
A: It takes around 30 minutes by car and 25 minutes by taxi.
A: How do you get to work?
B: Well, I usually ride my bike but sometimes I take the bus.
A: How long does it take?
B: It takes about 25 minutes to go by bus and 30 minutes by bike. What about you?
A: I get to school on foot, sometimes I take a bus, too.
B: Oh, how long does it take?
A: It takes around 25 minutes to go on foot and 10 minutes by bus.
A: How do you get to Shanghai?
B: Well, I usually go by train but sometimes I take the bus.
A: How long does it take?
B: It takes about one hour to go by train and three hours by bus. What about you?
A: I get to Shanghai by plane, sometimes I take my sister’s car.
B: Oh, how long does it take?
A: It takes around 30 minutes by plane and five hours by car.
Period 3: Reading and Speaking (Page 21)
(How does Lin Fei get to school?)
Objectives
5. To learn to use how questions, affirmative and negative statements
6. To lean to read and speak about how to get to places
Procedures
■Warming up by making a list of how you get to a place
Hello, class. How do you get to school? Let’s make a list of how we get to school.
I walk. I ride my bike. I take the subway. I take the train. I take the bus.
I run. I drive my car. I take my father’s car. I take the school bus.
3a Reading and writing
So far you have learned to talk about how you get to school and how long it takes. 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 and write the answers to the questions on the line. You should complete the activity on your own. OK, now let’s 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.
Now read the text carefully to cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all the predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions.
Useful expressions from the text
about 10 kilometers from school, get up at six o’clock, every day, have a quick breakfast, leave for school at around six-thirty, ride one’s bicycle to the bus station, take about ten minutes, the early bus, take … to school, the bus ride, usually take about 25 minutes
Now read the text again to turn it into a conversation.
3b Pairing and speaking
Look at the pictures on page 21. Can you name each of transportation means? Read the time and distance that goes with each transportation. Pay attention to “mile”. It is a common measure of distance in some western countries. (1 mile=1.6 kilometers).
Read the example dialogue in the box. Now make your own conversations using the information in the picture with your partner.
4 Info gap race!
Well done everyone! Now let’s 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. Don’t look at others’ pages please. The first group to fill in all the blanks is the champion.
Who
How
How long
How far
1. Maria
bus
twenty minutes
five miles
2. John
bike
ten minutes
six miles
3. Liu Pei
subway
fifteen minutes
eight miles
A: 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: It’s five miles.

Period 4: Reading, Writing, and Speaking (Page 22)
(So how do you get to school?)
Objectives
7. To learn to use how questions, affirmative and negative statements
8. To lean to read and speak about how to get to places
Procedures
■Warming up by asking some individuals questions
How do you get to school, Li Hong? How do you come to school, Wang Lin? First, I ride my bike to a bus stop. Then I take an early bus to school. Now tell the class how you get to school.
1a Looking and matching
Look at the four phrases on the top of page 22 and read them loudly. Then match the words with the pictures.
1. b bus stop 2. a train station 3. c bus station 4. d subway station
1b Pairing and speaking
In pairs, read the dialogue in the box first. Then suppose you use two kinds of transportation to get to school. Now make your own dialogues to tell your partner how you get to school, using the phrases in 1a.
A: How do you get to school?
B: Well, I ride my bike to the subway station. Then I take the subway. What about you?
A: First, I walk to the bus stop. Then I take the bus to school.
A: How does your father get to his school?
B: Well, he walks for ten minutes to Bus No. 11. He takes the bus and gets off at Da Ying Pan. Then he walks again for five minutes to his classroom.
2a Listening and checking
OK, now. Let’s listen to a conversation between Tina and Thomas. What does Thomas want to know about Nina? Here is a list of information that Thomas wants to know. I’ll ask some students to read lines to the class. Then listen carefully and put a check in front of each thing that Thomas wants to know.
Thomas wants to know…
√where Nina lives.
how far from school she lives.
how long it takes Nina to get to school.
√how she gets to school.
what she thinks of the transportation.
Now read the conversation on page 86 to cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all the predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions.
Useful expressions from the text
get to school, walk to the bus stop, take a bus to the subway station, take the subway, take a bus to the bus stop on 26th Street
Now let’s talk as they do in the conversation. In other words, we are going to talk in imitation of the conversation we have just heard and read.
2b Listening and checking
Look at the pictures on page 22 with a blank line in front of each. They show the ways of how to get to school. Which one is Nina’s? Listen carefully and put a check next to the picture that shows how Nina gets to school.
9. — to ride a bike to the subway—to take the subway to the bus—to walk from the bus stop to the school
2. √ to walk to the bus—to take the bus to the subway—to take another bus after the subway—to walk from the bus stop to the school.
2c Grouping and speaking
Now make your conversations about how Nina gets to school in groups of four. You can use the pictures in activity 2b. Pay more attention to the sentence starters: She…; Next, she…; Then, she… in the box and use them in your conversation.
A: How does Nina get to school?
B: She walks to the bus stop.
C: Next, she takes a bus to the subway station.
D: Then she takes another bus to the bus stop on 26th street after the subway.
A: Finally she walks to school.
Period 5: Reading, Writing and Speaking (Page 23)
(How do students around the world get to school?)
Objectives
10. To learn to use how questions, affirmative and negative statements
11. To lean to read and speak about how to get to places
Procedures
12. Warming up by imagining how students around the world get to school
Hello, class. How do you get to school? Then how do students in other countries get to school? Try to imagine how they get to school. Make a list of how students in other countries get to school. Now to know more about how students in other countries get to school, go to page 23 to read the text.
3a Reading and writing
Now go over the text to cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all the predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions. That’s grammar study, indeed.
Useful expressions from the text
students around the world, get to school, in North America, most students, go to school on the school bus, ride bikes to school, in other parts of the world, take trains to school, ride one’s bikes, depend on where …, in big cities, usually ride bikes to school, take buses, in places, usually go to school by boat, a lot more fun, take a bus
Now let’s talk as they do in the conversation. In other words, we are going to talk in imitation of the conversation we have just heard and read.
3b Reading and writing
Look at the chart. Then read the article and fill in the blanks. You can find the answers in the chart. Please complete the activity on your own.
How do the students get to Garden High School?
At Garden High