Teaching Plan for “My First Ride on a Train”

Teaching periods for Module 3 Book1:

Period 1: Introduction & Cultural Corner &Vocabulary & Reading and Speaking

Period 2: Reading and Vocabulary

Period 3: Language study &Grammar1

Period 4: Function& Pronunciation &Everyday English

Period 5: Listening & Grammar2 & Writing

Period 6: Module File (exercises)

Period 2:

Teaching aims: 1. Enable the students to improve their reading skills by skimming and scanning.

2. Get the students to know details about Alice’s trip and the origin of the name of the train.

3. Help the students to describe a trip .

Teaching difficulty : Enable the students to understand the passage clearly and learn to describe their own trip.

Teaching Procedures:

Step I Leading in.

Situation : If you go to Beijing in 2008, how will you get there? Why do you choose to go by …?

Do you think it is wonderful if we go by train?

What do you want to do on a train?

Play cards

Talk to other passengers

Enjoy the food on the train

Enjoy the scenery along the trip

Read books

Listen to music

…

(First, get Ss to predict their trip to Beijing, and guide them to use the expression “ I go to Beijing by …” in order to review the words of transportations and compare the use of different transportation. Second, ask the Ss what they like to do on the train in order to lead in the passage. )

Step II Reading

1. Pre--- reading task: How much do you know about Australia?

Work in groups and discuss the following questions:

1) How many people live there?

2) Do you know the name of the capital?

3) Where do you think most of the people live, in the central part of the country or on the coast?

4) What do you think the central part of the country is like?

(This helps the whole class prepare background knowledge and get motivated and the students learn to work together.)

2. While---reading.

1) Did Alice think it was wonderful on a train? ( If yes, find some sentences to prove it.)

( Ask the students to read paragraph1---3 and check)

2) Read Para1—3 again

Fill the table

Alice’s Trip

Name of the train

Place
From _________ to____________

Time

Scenery
 

Tick out what Alice did on the train:

( ) ate meals cooked by experts

( ) made friends with other passengers

( ) talked to other passengers

( )sang songs

( )read books

( )watched the night sky

Sum up the main idea of these three paragraphs.

3) Read the rest part of the passage.

Choose the best answer:

1.What means of transportation were used in the Middle part of Australia? _____

A. horses B. camels C. train D. all of the above

2. Australians used camels instead of horses, because______.

A. horses didn’t like the hot weather and sand

B. they bought some camels from Afghanistan.

C. Camels were much better than horses for traveling a long distance

D. Both A and C

3. Australians used to travel on camels for ________.

A. business B. tour C. farming D. animal training

4. The writer talked a lot about camels, because________.

A. camels are of great use in traveling and quite helpful for man

B. she was planning to travel on a camel with her friend soon

C. readers are often interested in stories about animals

D. the writer wanted to explain why the train was called Ghan.

5. Which of the following is true?_____

A. The police shot the trained camels with the permission of the government.

B. The Afghanistan government passed a law to shoot trained animals.

C. The writer used to travel long distances on a train alone.

Ask and answer:

Why is the train called Ghan?

Sum up the main idea of this part

Guide the Ss to sum up the main idea of the whole passage

4) Pose-reading: Retelling Alice’s trip

Cover the following information:

Who, when , where, how ,what

(The students may first practice in pairs, then report to the whole class.)

Step III Practice

Talk about your own trip

I can remember my first trip to ________ by _____. I went there with _______. It took us_______, but we didn’t feel very tied. On the contrary, I think it was quite _____ .

I could ________________________.It was wonderful.

(First the students do it by themselves ,and then teacher ask them to report it.)

Step IV Homework

Write a short passage about your first trip to some place, covering “ who, when, where, how, what”