2.　　　 What would a hoverboard be like?

1.　　　 What type of transportation would Sam like to see in the future/

2.　　　 Learn about the use of Modal Verbs.

Teaching Difficult Points:

the use of Modal Verbs

Teaching Preparation: pictures

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”.

Let the students answer the questions and discuss them in pairs.

Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:

1.　　　 How do you demonstrate your invention?

2.　　　 Encourage the students to find and restate information in personal and imaginative ways.

Teaching Important Points:

1.　　　 Review words and phrases for transportation that the students learned before.

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

Summary:

Let the students create more useful inventions. When one group thinks of a good idea, the others can add their useful information to it. Instruct them to speak in timeline.

Lesson 38: Let’s Invent Hoverboard!

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: smooth, second, space, sound

Oral words and expressions: Sam, hoverboard, skateboard, float, transportation, show, spaceship, all the time, go through

Teaching Aims:

3.　　　 Will Danny’s invention really work?

Step3. Read the text and check the answers. Then listen to the tape again and read after it for several times.

Step4. Ask the students to read the text in roles. Then act the dialogue in front of the class.

Step5. Make sentences with the following language points: on the way to school, turn on, at the front of

Step6. Let’s come to “PROJECT”.

Divide the class into small groups of three of four students. Each group chooses a type of transportation for the students. Instruct students to begin collecting information about that type of transportation. They will prepare a comic strip or timetable of important dates in its development.

Groups present their work to the class. Depending on class size and the length of presentations, you may wish to divide up the class. Groups would then present their projects to one portion of the class.

If the project cannot be finished in one class, it can be continued in the next lesson.

Step7.Homework

2.　　　 Why is it called “Flying Donuts”?

1.　　　 What is Danny’s invention made of?