高一英语外研版必修4：Module2Period1IntroductionReadingandVocabulary（Module2TrafficJam）.doc

第  PAGE 11 页 共  NUMPAGES 11 页 Introduction The topic in this module is “Traffic Jam”.This section introduces to us the vocabulary of all kinds of transportation and it includes three activities.To begin with,the teacher may ask the students a few questions,such as “How do you usually get to school?” Or you may present to the class the pictures of all kinds of means of transportation.The teacher may then have a brainstorm of means of transportation in the class with the help of the pictures.To activate the atmosphere of the classroom,the teacher may encourage the students to compete with one another in speaking out the means of transportation they are familiar with.In Activity 2,the teacher may encourage the students to carry out a survey among the class about what kinds of transportation they use in their daily life.The students may use the questions in Activity 3 to make up a dialogue about a traffic jam.Finally,the teacher may ask some good ones to present their dialogue to the class. Reading and Vocabulary The main idea of this passage is about Getting Around in Beijing.First the teacher may ask the students to read the text quickly and grasp the main idea.After reading it,the students may work in pairs exchanging their ideas on the question “Who might find the information useful?” The teacher may then elicit the answers from the whole class.In Activity 2 the students may be encouraged to ask and answer questions in pairs to deepen their understanding of the text.As for Activity 3 the teacher may list the new words or ask the students to find the new words in the course of reading.First make the students guess from the whole context the meanings of these new words,and make some explanations if necessary,which is of great help in deepening their impression of the new words.Then the students may do the exercises on their own.If the class is good enough,the following methods are better:book closed,the teacher speak out the definit