1、Unit 2 What is the best way to travel?Teaching modelReading and writing.Teaching methodTop-down approachTeaching aims1. Listening and understanding familiar topics (transportation)2. Comparing modes of transportation.3. Reading and finding specific transportation4. Writing a short passage comparing
2、modes of transportation.Teaching Objectives1. Key vocabulary: journey, book, outside, choice, however, cost2. Keys structure: Superlative adjectives and adverbs (-est, most); irregularsuperlatives.Teaching aidsRecorder, OHP, videoTeaching StepsStep 1 Warming-upEnjoy some pictures of Dalian.Step 2 Wo
3、rk in pairs.Talk about the ways to get to Dalian.How do you get there?Whats the cheapest way to get there?Whats the best way to get there?Step 3 Fasting Reading.1. Ask students to read through the passage and answer questions.2. Look at the map and guess how to reach Amsterdam from London.3. Read qu
4、ickly and find out the answers to the questions.Step 4 Extensive ReadingRead the passage again and number the pictures from the most expensive to theleast expensive.Step 5 Intensive Reading1. Read paragraph1 and answer the questions. Then try to retell para 1.2. Read paragraph2 and answer the questi
5、ons. Then retell para 23. Read paragraph 3 and complete the table and then retell it.4. Read paragraph4 and fill in the blanks.Step 6 Complete the passage1. Ask students to read through the passage in Activity 4.choicecostHoweverjourneyoutsideThere are four ways to travel from London to Amsterdam. T
6、he first (1) _ is bytrain because the (2) _ takes only four hours. (3) _, its quiteexpensive. Going by car and by ship, or coach does not (4) _ as much asgoing by train. When you go by car and by ship, remember that parking inAmsterdam is not cheap, so it is best to stay (5) _ the city centre and tr
7、avel inby bus or by train.2. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.3. Check with a partner.4. Call back the answers from the whole class.Step 7 Group WorkAsk and answer about the ways of travelling. Use the information in the table. Whats the cheapest way to travel fro
8、m London to Paris? The cheapest way is by coach.Ways of travellingCostTimeComfortableInterestingLondon-ParisCoach2010 hours*Plane801 hour*Train603 hours*Step 8 Writing.Write a passage about ways of travelling from London to Pairs. Use the information inActivity 5 and the passage in Activity 2 to help you.
