2013-2014学年湖南省蓝山二中高二英语教学教案：M7 U4《Welcome to the unit》（牛津版）.docVIP

Aims and requirements ? Read a tourist brochure about the London Underground and read a notice about road safety ? Listen to instructions and a telephone call ? Talk about transport and ask for travel information ? Write an e-mail to give information ? Make an action plan of how people can prevent traffic accidents Procedures ● Welcome to the unit Step 1: Brainstorming T: Boys and girls, if you want to go to the park or the museum, or you want to pay a visit to your classmates, which means of transport will you choose? S: Buses or the underground. T: If you want to pay a visit to your relatives who live in a nearby city, which means of transport will you choose? S: Coaches. T: Right. But if you want to go travailing to a far-away city, which means of transport will you choose? S: Maybe I will consider trains or planes. T: And if you want to go abroad, how will you go? S: We can only go by plane then. T: Quite good. According to different purpose, we’ll choose different means of public transport. Now let’s look at some pictures and get to know about them. Step 2: Sharing information Now let’s study the seven pictures one by one. After that, make a comparison among all the means of transport mentioned in this section and fill in the table: Means of transport Advantages Disadvantages buses or coaches cheap and convenient easily trapped in traffic jams; not so comfortable during peak hours because they are usually very crowded; cause pollution underground fast and convenient; produce fewer traffic accidents; comfortable expensive to build the maglev train extremely fast and convenient very expensive to build ships comfortable not comfortable for those who are seasick; relatively slow; the safety of the trip would be affected by storms aeroplanes fast and convenient; relatively the safest way of travel relatively expensive Step 3: Discussion: Look at the three questions below the pictures on page 49. Work in groups of four to