2. Ability goal 能力目标

Enable students to make a plan for their trip.

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 掌握词汇

　 　Sunday　 Monday　 Tuesday　 Wednesday　 Thursday　 Friday　 Saturday　 plan　 make need　 home　 week

b. 认知词汇及短语

stay　 wall　 the Great Wall　 whole　 parent　 tell　 interesting　 place　 change　 shop museum　 Palace Museum　 back

c. 句型

They stay with Li Ming’s family for two days.

　 　I made a plan for ...

　 　What do you think of …?

3. Preview Lesson 5.

　Period 5 Planning a Trip

Teaching goals 教学目标

2. Finish off the exercise in Activity book.

1. Practice the dialogue and the song.

3. How do they want to go to Beijing after their discussion? Why?　 (They want to take a train because a train is slower than a plane but faster than a bus. And it is cheap, too. )

Listening

Get the students to listen to and repeat after the tape.

Practice

Ask the students to make dialogue in pairs and show in class. They can talk from the following aspects: 1.How you like to go on a trip and why; 2.Which kind of transportation is fast and cheap.

Write the patterns: … is faster than ... / … is slower than ... / …is cheap and… is expensive on the blackboard and let the students practice using them in their dialogues. Give an example first.

T: Do you like to go on a trip by bike?

S: No, I don’t.

T: Do you like to take a train?

S: Yes, I do.

T: Do you like to go on a trip by plane?

S: No.

T: Why? (Help the student to answer)

S: A bike a cheap, but it’s slower than a bus. A plane is faster than a bus, but it’s expensive.

T: That’s right.

Step III Singing

Language points

T: It’s about two hundred seventy-eight kilometers from Shijiazhuang to Beijing? How much does a plane cost? Do you know?

S: Two hundred yuan.

T: How much does a train cost?

S: Forty yuan.

T: That’s right. A train doesn’t cost as much.

S: A train doesn’t cost as much.

T: Hooray. (Use gestures to understand the meaning of this word.)

S: Hooray.

Singing

Get the students to learn to sing this song.

Step IV Homework

2. Does Li Ming’s mother want to go by plane too? (No, she doesn’t. She wants to take a bus.)

1. How does Li Ming want to go to Beijing? (He wants to go to Beijing by plane.)

3. Learning ability goal 学能目标

Help the students learn to talk about means of transportation.

Teaching important points 教学重点

Teach the students to talk about means of transportation.

Learn the usage of comparative form of adjective.

Teaching difficult points 教学重点

Usage of the following sentences:

That is how I want to go. / But it doesn’t cost as much. / A train is just right.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Listening, speaking and singing.

Teaching aids 教具准备

Audiotape and some pictures.

Teaching procedures - ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Lead-in

Show some pictures to the students and help them review and learn some vehicles.

T: Good morning, class

S: Good morning, Miss /Mrs. / Mr.…

T: Look! What do I bring to you?

1　　　　　　 2　　　　　　　 3　　　　　 4　　　　　 5　　　　 6

Get the students to talk about and get familiar with the above means of transportation.

T: Well done!

Step II Speaking

Help the students learn to talk about means of transportation, and the usage of the following expressions:

take a ... / go by bus/train/plane… / be faster/slower than … / cheap / expensive

Language study

T: (To a student) How do you come to school?

S: I come to school by bike.

T: Would you like to take a bus?

S: Yes.

T: So you can ride a bike to school. And you can also come by bus. But bus costs one yuan. A bike doesn’t cost any money. A bike is cheap. Say cheap.

S: Cheap.

T: Do you want to come to school by taxi?

S: No.

T: A taxi is expensive. Expensive.

S: Expensive.

T: But a taxi is fast. (Write the speeds of a taxi, a bus and a bike.) Say fast.

S: Fast.

T: A bike is slow. Say slow.

S: Slow.

T: A bus is faster than a bike. Faster.

S: Faster.

T: A bus is slower than a taxi. Slower.

S: Slower.

Explain faster, slower are the comparative forms of fast and slow respectively.

Notes: 一般情况下比较级是在词尾加er构成。例如：cheap-cheaper

Reading

Let the students read the dialogue and answer the following questions:

2. Ability goal 能力目标

Enable the students to talk about means of transportation.