3. How much do the tickets cost? (They cost 168 yuan.)

2. How many tickets does Li Ming need? (He needs four tickets.)

1. Does Li Ming want soft or hard seats? (Hard seats.)

3. Learning ability goal 学能目标

Help the students learn how to express the numerals correctly and also their exciting experience.

Teaching important point 教学重点

Teach the students to express the numerals correctly.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Help the students understand the following expressions:

Please do…! Please don’t run or jump.

-How much for a ticket on the T58 from …to …?

-Forty-two yuan each.

Trains are so fun.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Listening and speaking.

Teaching aids 教具准备

Audiotape, pictures and tickets.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Revision

T: Good afternoon, everyone

S: Good afternoon, Mr. / Mrs. / Miss …

T: Who is on duty today?

S: I am.

T: Class, listen to her carefully and later I will ask you some questions about her report.

After the duty report, ask the students to sing A Plane is Fast.

Step II Lead-in

Word-study

Help the students to understand these words: everyone / ticket / station / hard / soft / money in the following dialogue.

T: Everyone sings well. As we know, Li Ming will go on a trip to Beijing. How does he want to go there?

S: He wants to go by train.

T: That’s right. He wants to take a train. He needs to go to the train station to take a train. (Show a picture of a train station.) Train station.

Train station　　 ticket 　　　　hard seat 　　　soft seat

S: Train station.

T: He needs to buy tickets. (Show a train ticket.) Ticket.

S: Ticket.

T: This ticket is cheap. It is for a hard seat. (Pretend to sit down.) I am sitting on a hard seat. Hard. A hard seat.

S: Hard. A hard seat.

T: This ticket costs more money. It is expensive. It is for a soft seat. (Pretend to sit down and feel very comfortable.) Soft. A soft seat.

S: Soft. A soft seat.

Speaking

Lead the students to the new lesson by answering the questions in THINK ABOUT IT.

T: Do you like to take the train? Why or why not?

Affirmative: cheap / safe / enjoy the beautiful scenery outside …

Negative: slow / too many people…

T: What can you see at the train station?

Ticket office / entrance / exit / train-timetable …

Passenger / policeman and policewoman ..

Step III Text learning A

Listening

Get the students to listen to the text and get some basic ideas about it. And then repeat after the tape.

T: Please listen to the tape and find out the answer these questions:

2. Ability goal 能力目标

Enable the students to buy tickets in English and express their exciting experience.

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 掌握词汇

everyone　 buy　 ticket　 or　 excited　 love　 run　 jump　 down

b. 认知词汇

station　 seller　 soft　 hard　 seat　 money　 time　 fun　 yikes　

c. 句型

Please do…! / Please don’t run or jump.

-How much for a ticket on the T58 from ... to …?

-Forty-two yuan each.

3. Preview Lesson 7.

　Period 7 At The Train Station

Teaching goals 教学目标

2. Practice the dialogue and the chant in this lesson.

1. Finish off the exercises in Activity book.

2.　　 What doesn’t Li Ming need? (He doesn’t need a teddy bear.)

Applying

Get the students to make dialogues in pairs according to this situation: You help your friend to buy something. They must use this / that / these / those in the dialogues. The students can talk from the following aspects: 1. What you need to buy; 2. How many clothes you need to buy; 3. What clothes you like. The teacher walks around to help them.

Sample dialogue:

S1: I need some clothes. I will go shopping this Sunday.

S2: May I help you?

S1: Sure.

(In a clothing shop)

S2: Do you like this jacket?

S1: Yes. But I don’t like the red color.

S2: Oh, look! What about that blue jacket?

S1: That’s nice. Let me try it on. Oh, good. I will take it. I need some socks, too.

S2: How many pairs of socks do you need?

S1: I need one pair.

S2: I think you need more. Do you like these socks?

S1: They are too big for me.

S2: How about those socks?

S1: Those are my favorite. I will take them. Thank you.

S2: You are welcome.

Step IV Chanting

Word-study

Help the students understand these words: near / knee / toe.

T: (Point to a student’s jacket) That’s his jacket. That’s far. (Point to the teacher’s own jacket) This is my jacket. This is near. Near.

S: Near.

T: (Point to my own knees) These are near. They are my knees. Knee.

S: Knee.

T: (Point to the person’s toes in the picture) Those are far. They are his toes. Toe.

S: Toe.

T: Very good. Now let’s learn a chant.

Chanting

Play the tape as the students chant in their student books. And then encourage the students to change the lyrics, chant in group and present their new chant in class.

Sample chant: This is near.　　　　　 That is far.

This is my deer.　　　 That is a car.

I have these. 　　　　　You have those.

These are my keys. 　　Those are your monkeys.

This, that, these, those.　 Near, far, now we know.

Step V Homework