2.　　　 Talk about your recent journey to the class. What gave your most expression?

Step6. Practice

1.　　　 What do you usually do in your spare time? How do you usually go there? Why?

2.　　　 Use the modal verbs.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Grasp some words and patterns: be late for, get out of, you’d better not

Teaching Preparation: pictures

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Listen to the tape first. Feel the charming of the music.

Step2. Ask the students to read the lyric line by line. Divide them into several groups to practice the song.

Step3. Explain the Chinese meaning of the song. Your translation must be like poem in order to take them to a beautiful situation.

Step4. Listen to the tape for several times and repeat with it.

Step5. Work in groups. Talk about the questions:

1.　　　 Sing the foreign songs together.

2.　　　 Know what the people in the foreign countries do in their spare time.

Teaching Important Points:

1.　　　 Feel the charming of the music.

2.　　　 Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

Encourage students to make a survey about the old transportation. How did our grandparents go to a big city in the old days? How long did it take? While, we think hard to invent new transportation. What’s its advantages and disadvantages? We can make a detail about it.

Lesson 36: Let’s Take a Drive

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: drive, countryside, ride

Oral words and expressions: drove, driven, highway, rode, ridden, park, afar

Teaching Aims:

1.　　　 Finish off the activity book.

3.　　　 Make a detail about your future transporation.

Step8. Homework

2.　　　 Talk in groups of three or four. What do you hope the future transportation will be like? Can you invent some useful invention? Report to the class.