英语高一上Module 3 Unit 9 Wheels Lesson 36 Car culture教案


Teaching objectives:
To practise making notes of the important information from a reading text.
To talk about traffic and traffic problems.

Teaching procedure:
Step 1: Talking:
①. Does your family have a car?
②.If so, what kind of car is it?
③. How often do you travel in it?
④. What car would you like to have? Why?

Example:
We’ve got a Toyota. My dad uses it for work. I don’t travel much in it.

Step 2: New words

Step 3: Fast reading (11 minutes)
Look at the title and caption; guess the attitude of the writer.
“What are they complaining about?”
Get some information about the traffic in Britain from the text to fill in the table.

Number of cars:

Increase in the last ten years:

Number of road deaths:

Number of deaths caused by air pollution

Proportion of children suffering from asthma


Give some advice about how to solve these problems.

Read the advice from Jenny Trowe and fill in the table.

advantage of using your legs:

advantage of using public transport:

advantage of sharing cars:


Step 4: Detailed Reading
①　Listen to the text and answer the following questions.
1.What are then A10, the M11 and the M25?
2.Why do people make excuses?
3.Dose Jenny Trowe think the adverts on TV are true?
4.According to Jenny Trowe, what are the ways of making streets safer?
5.Did the writer decide to give up his car, after getting these suggestions?

②　Which sentence below best summarises the writer’s attitude to cars?
1.He thinks they have more disadvantages than advantages.
2.He knows what he should do, but uses his car because it is convenient.
3.He thinks it would be easy for us all to use our cars less.

Step 5: Consolidation – fill in a cloze with proper words from the text.
The traffic situation in Britain is not good. Many people often get ___________ in traffic jams on their way to school or work. More and more cars go on the road every year. The number of cars has _________ _______ by 30% in the last ten years. And there are more road deaths as well. Because of the air pollution, one ______ seven children in Britain __________ __________ asthma; some types of _________ are related to traffic pollution too. Traffic can cause global warming and ___________ change too.
Since so many people are ___________ to cars, Jenny Trowe gives six pieces of _________ about how to _________ ________ cars: 1. Use your legs for _________ journeys. 2. Use public transport so that there will be ________ cars on the road. 3. Think before you go, “Do you really need to make that journey?” 4. Share cars ________ others. 5. Don’t believe the adverts. Most of them are not _________. 6. Take action. Don’t just sit around and _________. The advice sounds ___________, however, it is difficult for those who have a deep addiction to cars.

Step 6: Extension—Discuss the traffic in Nanhai.
In groups of four, discuss the traffic in your towns or in Nanhai.

Step 7: Homework

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