1、Unit 6 Going to school Tasks in this unit Talking about means of transport; talking about distances and time taken travelling; talking about indefinite quantities. Period One Language focus: Using prepositions to indicate place e.g., Simon lives near school. Using How questions to find out specific
2、information e.g., How do you go to school? How long does it take? Language skills: Listening Listen for details that support a main idea Speaking Open and maintain an interaction by asking and answering questions Reading Identify details that support a main idea Writing write out a piece of work usi
3、ng appropriate layout an visual support including charts Materials: 1. Students Book 6A page 39 2. Workbook 6A pages 35 and 38 3. Cassette 6A 4. Cassette player Pre-task preparation Review: near/far away from. Give an example in relation to your school: e.g., (place A) is near our school. (Place B)
4、is far away from our school. Ask the students to produce further examples. While-task procedure 1. Give the students time to look at the pictures in Look and read. 2. Play the cassette. The students follow in their books. 3. Give the students time to read the text silently. Ask individual students t
5、o read a sentence each. 4. Ask questions about each of the characters: e.g., Does Simon live near or far away from school? How does he go to school? How long does it take him? 5. Read A survey. In pairs, students practise the dialogue. Select pairs to read their dialogue. Ask individual students the
6、 questions in the dialogue. 6. In groups of three, students complete the table. They then draw a chart of their travelling times. 7.Workbook 6A page 38 a Give the students time to read the page. b Play the cassette. The students listen and write. c Select individual students to read out their senten
7、ces. Consolidation: Workbook 6a page 35 Period Two Language focus: Asking How questions to find out the length of a period of time e.g., Mum, how long does it take you to get to the supermarket? Using noun phrases to indicate time e.g. It takes me about ten minutes to get there. Language skills: Lis
8、tening Listen for specific information Speaking Open and maintain an interaction by asking and answering questions Reading Read written language in meaningful chunks Writing Gather and share information by using strategies such as questioning and interviewing. Materials: 1. Students Book 6A page 40
9、2. Workbook 6A pages 36, 39, and 41 3. Cassette 6A 4. Cassette player Pre-task preparation Write some places known to the students on the board: e.g., park, supermarket, post office, library. Ask: e.g., How long does it take you to get to the park? to elicit: e.g., It takes me 10 minutes. While-task
10、 procedure 1 Play the cassette for Listen and say. The students repeat. 2 In pairs, students practise the dialogues. Select pairs to read a dialogue. 3 Ask questions about the dialogues: e.g., How long does it take Kittys mum to get to the supermarket? to elicit: It takes her about 10 minutes to get
11、 there. 4 In pairs, students practise Ask and answer with the places in the list. Select pairs to say a dialogue. S Give the students time to look at Ask and report. Ask the students to calculate times for their family and relatives and complete the table. They then make a report in class. Post-task
12、 activities Workbook 6A page 41 (for more able students) a The students complete the table about six family members. b The students then write the report. Ask individual students to read a sentence from their report. Consolidation Workbook 6A page 36 and 39 Period Three Language focus: Using connect
13、ives to show the time relationship between two actions e.g., I see when I m walking to school. Using determiners to indicate indefinite quantities e.g., I see some restaurants, a few shops and a lot of people when Im on the bus. Language skills: Listening Understand the connection between ideas by r
14、ecognizing linking words. Speaking Open and maintain an interaction by asking and answering questions Reading Recognize format and language features when reading non-narrative texts Writing Identify details that support a main idea Materials: 1. Students Book 6A page 41 2. Workbook 6A pages 37 3. Ca
15、ssette 6A 4. Cassette player Pre-task preparation Review/Introduce: a lot of, some, a few. Demonstrate using examples in the classroom: e.g., There are a lot of books in the classroom. There are some posters. There are a few picture: Ask the students to produce further examples. Play the cassette fo
16、r Look and learn. The students repeat. While-task procedure 1. Give the students time to look at the pictures in Look and read. 2. Play the cassette. The students listen. Ask individual students to read a sentence each. 3. Ask questions: e.g., How does Simon go to school? What does he see when he is
17、 on the bus/walking to school? 4. In pairs, students continue practising in Look, ask at answer. 5.Ask individual students: How do you go to school? What do you see when you are on the bus/walking to school? Consolidation Workbook 6A pages 37 Period Four Language focus: Using connectives to show the
18、 time relationship between two actions e.g., What do you see when you are walking to school? Language skills: Listening Listening for specific information Speaking Maintain an interaction by replying Reading Read written language in meaningful chunks Writing Gather and share information by using str
19、ategies such as questioning and interviewing. Materials: 1. Students Book 6A page 42 2. Workbook 6A page 40 Pre-task preparation Review transport. Say: How do you go to school? to elicit: I go by bus., etc. List the means of transport on the board. While-task procedure 1 Give the students time to re
20、ad Ask and answer. Ask the students to say the words. Go round the class. 2 Ask one or two students the questions in Ask and answer. In pairs, students continue the practice. 3 Ask other students the questions. 4 Read Draw and write. You may ask the students to write their answers on page 40 of the
21、Workbook. Post-task activities Workbook 6A page 40 a In pairs, students discuss the questions and write some sentences about their journey to school. b The students draw two pictures of the things they see on their way to school. c Select individual students to show their pictures and read out the sentences. Consolidation Copy the new words Recite the passage.
