江苏省东海县晶都双语学校八年级英语下册：Unit 1 welcome.ppt

* 8B Unit 1 Past and present Comic strip and welcome to the unit 1.How did you come to school yesterday? 2.where did you go during the winter hoilday? and how did you go there? horseback riding row a boat electromobile bike coach It is a comfortable bus for carrying people over a long way. different kinds of transport It is the fastest way of traveling to a place far away, but it will cost a lot of money. plane Thousands of people go to work on it every day. It is fast and it is under the ground. underground It runs above the ground on railways over a long way. train It has many stops to let people get on and off. bus It is a car with a driver, and you have to pay the driver to take you somewhere. taxi Transport at different times Please complete PartA coach bus taxi underground train plane Read the following sentences and guess which form of transport they are describing: 1. Its faster and more expensive than bus, if you are in a hurry, you prefer it. ( ) 2. There are many of them in our cities. Each one has four or more wheels and takes you to many places in and around your city. ( ) taxi bus 3. It is the fastest way of travelling and was introduced to Beijing in 1958. ( ) 4. Thousands of people travel to work on it every day, it is faster than a bus but not expensive. ( ) plane underground 5. It is a kind of bus, but it is used for carrying passengers(乘客) over long distances(距离). ( ) 6. It is the safest way of travelling. It travels on the railway and has some carriages(车厢). ( ) coach train Listen and answer the following questions: 1.How did her dad go to school when he was a student? 2.Why didnt he take a bus? 3.What about Millie? He used to go to school by bike. Because there were always too many people on the bus,and it took a long time to wait for the next one. She g