八年级英语上册 Unit 6 Go With Transportation教案 （新版）冀教版-（新版）冀教版初中八年级上册英语教案.doc

Unit 6 Go with Transportation!
Lesson 31 How Do You Travel?
Learning aims:
1. Learn the information about the transportation.
2. Know the transportation history and what the future transportation will be like.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. How many types of transportation are there in the world?
2. Talk about all kinds of transportation.
Learning tools:
audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Learning steps:
Step 1. Leading in
Ask the students to discuss the questions:
How do you come to school every day? Why?
S1: I come to school on foot because my home is near the school
S2: I come to school by bike because I ride my bike well.
S3: I come to school by bus because my home is far away from school.
Step 2. Talking about
Let the students talk about the questions:
1. What do you take if you go on a trip to Beijing? Why?
2. Can you describe your favourite trip to the class?
Step 3. Reading
Read the text quickly and check the answers. Then read the text again and repeat after it. After a while, ask some students to read the text loudly in roles.
Step 4. Practice
Discuss the following question:
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the transportations?
2. If you go on a trip, where would you like to go?
3. How will you go there?
Let the students work in groups of three of four. After a while, present their answers to the class.
Step 5. Come to “LET’S DO IT.”
Ask the students to talk in the class. Then they can give their presentation in dialogues or in composition. Encourage them to report one by one.
Step 6. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Review Lesson 32.
Lesson 32 Trains Go Faster!
Learning aims:
1. Know about the train history.
2. What will the future train be like?
Learning important and difficult points:
1. The invention of the steam engine, the first steam locomotive, railways and the first passenger.
2. Who invented the inventions and when did they invent them.
Learning tools:
audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Learning steps:
Step 1. Leading in
Let the students talk in groups about the question:
“How do you usually travel to other cities?”
After discussing for a while, the students make a report to the class.
Step 2. Let the students read the text then answer how is the text arranged.
Step 3. Listen to the tape
After repeating the text for several times, ask them to retell the story in their own words.
Step 4. Let the students talk more about the trains
They may talk about their experience on trains. They also may talk about the structure of the trains, the use of the trains and the future of them.
Step 5. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Preview Lesson 33.

Lesson 33 Life on Wheels
Learning aims:
1. Learn the history of the cars.
2. Describe one type of transportation in the future.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. Learn about the Danny wheels.
2. Imagine what types of transportation will be like from one hundred years now.
Learning tools:
audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Learning steps:
Step 1. Talking
Let the students talk about something about the planes and the cars. What do they know about the planes and the cars? If they know, let them say their details.
Step 2. Asking
Ask the students to talk about the picture in the text. What do they think about this?
Step 3. Let’s listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
Step 4. Reading
Read the text and check the answers. Then let the students read it loudly in class. After a while, ask the students read the text in roles.
Step 5. Action

Let students act out the dialogue. They can take a circle for Danny’s wheel.
Step 6. Ask some students to make sentences with the following phrases:
At that time, need to, present, you’d better not.
At that time, I was a little girl.
You need to wear warm clothes in cold winter.
Present your invention to the class.
You’d better say it again.
Step 7. Homework
Write a letter to your friend in English.

Lesson 34 Flying Donuts
Learning aims:
1. Stimulate students’ learning interests.
2. Cultivate students’ listening by catching the useful information in the listening process.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. Encourage students’ to increase creative ability.
2. Why is the invention called “flying donuts”?
Learning tools:
audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Learning steps:
Step 1. Play a game
Let some students explain it in English, while the others guess what it is. You must say the transportation. Such as:
A transporter is very long. It can hold many people in it. It can also take goods. What is it?
Step 2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What is Danny’s invention made of?
2. Why is it called “Flying Donuts”?
3. Will Danny’s invention really work?
Step 3. Reading
Read the text and check the answers. Then listen to the tape again and read after it for several times.
Step 4. Asking
Ask the students to read the text in roles. Then act the dialogue in front of the class.
Step 5. Practice
Make sentences with the following language points: on the way to school, turn on, at the front of
Step 6.Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Preview Lesson 35.

Lesson 35 Future Transportation
Learning aims:
1. Review words and phrases for transportation that the students learned before.
2. Encourage the students to find and restate information in personal and imaginative ways.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. How do you demonstrate your invention?
2. Learn about the use of Modal Verbs.
Learning tools:
audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Learning steps:
Step 1. Leading in
Let the students answer the questions and discuss them in pairs.
Step 2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What type of transportation would Sam like to see in the future?
2. What would a hoverboard be like?
3. What types of transportation are in this text?
Step 3. Reading
Read the text and check the answers. Then play the tape for several times. Let the students repeat after it for several times.
Step 4. Asking
Ask the students to have a reading content. Divide the class into several groups. Each group chooses one person every time. The one reads best can get a star. Let’s have a compete to see which group will have the most stars.
Step 5. Talking
Divide the class into several groups. Ask them to talk the future transportation that they would like to see. Use the words and the expressions that we learn in this unit.
Step 6. Homework
1. Finish off the activity book.
2. Preview Lesson 36

Lesson 36 Clean Cars?
Learning aims:
1. Learn about the words and expressions about the transportation.
2. Know about the development of the transportation.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. Grasp the modal verbs
2. Talk about the possibility and impossibility.
3. Modal Verbs
Learning tools:
audiotape, flashcards, drawings
Learning steps:
Step 1. Leading in
Talk about the questions: “What we want to see in the future? Yesterday we leave this as our project. Can you show it to the class now?”
Then let the students show their drawings to the class. Ask the students to explain their invention in English to the class.
Step 2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What did the teacher ask us to think about?
2. What is Jenny’s invention?
Step 3. Reading
Read the text silently and check the answers. Let the students discuss the main idea of the passage in details.
Step 4. Listening
Listen to the tape again. Then let the students tell the main idea in their own words.
Step 5. Talking
Talk about Jenny’s invention. What do you think of her idea? Can you give her any good ideas?
Step 6. Homework
1. Finish off the Ss workbook.
2. Finish off the exercises in Unit Review.

Unit Review
Learning aims:
1. Know about the history of some transporters.
2. Learn about the development of the future transportation.
Learning important points:
1. Giving Advice/Order.
2. Possibility and Impossibility.
Learning difficult points:
Modal Verbs
Learning aids:
audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Learning steps:
Step 1. Talking
Talk about the way of coming to school. Ask the students the questions:
1. How do you come to school? Why?
2. How many students in the class come to school by bike, by bus or on foot?
Make a chart to show the information.

By bike
By bus
On foot
Number

Reason

Step 2. Talk about the main idea of this unit
What advantages and disadvantages do the following transporters have? What do you do with the disadvantages? What’s your good opinion?

By plane
By train
By bus
By car
Advantages

Disadvantages

Advice

Step 3. Think about the main ideas of this unit
Let the students say it in details. Talk about what would they like to see in the future about the transportation?
Step 4. Come to the exercises
Encourage the students to ask questions and discuss them on the blackboard.
Step 5. Practice
Lead the students to talk about the Modal Verbs. Make sentences with can, could, would, may and might.
Step 6. Come to the “Speaking the Language”
Step 7. Come to the activity book
Step 8. Do some review activities