Unit 4 How do you go to school ？
Part 1:Teaching design (第一部分：教学设计)

Structures: How questions; Affirmative and negative statements
Target language:
How do you get to school? I take the bus.
How long does it take? It takes 20 minutes.
How far is it? It’s 10 miles.
Vocabulary: get to, how far, bicycle, subway, car, train, bus stop, train station, bus station, subway station, minute, kilometer, mile, transportation, calendar
Learning strategies: Personalizing; Inferring vocabulary
SECTION A
Goals
●To learn to use How questions, affirmative and negative statements
●Lean to talk about how to get to places, how long it takes to go to places, and how far the places are
●To talk about kinds of transportation
Procedures
Warming up by talking
Hello, everyone! What’s the weather like today? It’s a sunny day with a gentle breeze. It’s comfortable. So this morning I come to school by bike. It took me nearly 50 minutes. You know I live far from school. I often take buses to come here. But it takes me more than an hour. What about you? Today, let’s talk about how you go from one place to another. And we will talk about the time it takes to get to places and how far it is between two places.
1a Looking and writing
Open your book at page19. Look at the picture carefully and read the dialogue. Then please write how the students in the picture get to school in the morning in the chart.
Sample answers:
1. take the subway 2. ride a bike 3. take the bus
4. take the train 5. walk(on foot) 6. take a boat
7. take a taxi 8. go in a parent’s car
1b Listening and writing
Look at the picture again. How do students get to school? Let’s listen to a conversation between two people talking about this. Listen carefully and write the number of the name in the white box next to the student. Please do it individually. Then let’s check the answer.
Answers:
1. Bob takes the train. 2. Mary takes the subway.
3. John takes the bus. 4. Paul walks. 5. Yang Lan walks.
Tapescript
A: How do Bob and Mary get to school?
B: Bob takes the train and Mary takes the subway.
A: How does John get to school?
B: He takes the bus.
A: How do Paul and Yang Lan get to school?
B: They walk. Look, there they are waling now!
Now read the tapescript, shadow the how questions and underling the expressions.
1c Doing pairwork
Please read the dialogue on page 19 in the box. And make your own conversations about how the people in the picture get to school with their partner. Then I’ll ask some pairs to say their dialogue.
Sample dialogue
A: How does Bob get to school?
B: He takes the train.
A: Does John take the train to school, too?
B: No. He takes the bus.
A: What about Mary and Paul?
B: Paul walks, and Mary takes the subway.
A: And Yang Lan walks, does she?
B: Yes, she does.
2a Listening and repeating
Listen to these numbers and repeat. Please pay attention to the pronunciation.
Tapescript
32, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100
2b Writing the numbers
forty-six 46 thirty-three 33 seventy-two 72
one hundred and five 105 fifty-eight 58 ninety-nine 99
sixty-one 61 eighty-four 84
2c Listening and checking
Now please look at the five transportation pictures. And we’ll listen to two conversations. The people are talking about how students get to school and how long it takes. Listen carefully and put a checkmark to show the kinds of transportation they talk about. Check your answer.

40 minutes
35minutes


25minutes
10 minutes




Listen carefully again and match the time with the kinds of
transportation. Let’s check the answers.
Tapescript
Conversation 1
Boy: How do you ge
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