Teaching Objectives:

Vocabulary: lift  up and down  busy  team

Grammar: revise the comparison of adjs and advs

Revise the expressions of showing the way

All things in their being are good for something. Work hard in your own position and try to do everything best.

Develop the students’ abilities in expressing in English.

Property: Tape recorder

Teaching Procedures:

   Step 1 Leading-in

We’re now in this nice classroom. Which floor is it on? It’s on the third floor.

What about your classroom? We go up and down by stairs.

Note: culture difference: In England, the first floor is called the ground floor.（呈现视频：楼层的表达法.asf）

Which floor do you live on?

Is your home far from here? Can you tell me the way to your home?

Where do I live? Behind Xingdu Hotel. Do you know that hotel? It’s a tall building. How many floors are there? If you live on the 15th floor, will you go up and down by stairs? Then what do we use?

Step 2 Presentation

Show the picture of a lift. Discuss how to use a lift.

When I am on the first floor, I need to go to the 10th floor. I press the button “up” and then the door opens, I get into the lift and press the number 10, the door closes. It takes me up to the 10th floor. The door opens. I get out of the lift. We use a lift to go up and down.

Note: a lift is called an elevator in America.

Step 3 Read and answer

Look at the picture in the book and describe it

Where is Paul?

What is he doing?

What does he look like?

What impressions does he give you?

Give the students 3 minutes to skim the text for the main idea. Ask: How does Paul go to work? Which bus does he take?

Then answer True or False. Hold a competition.

Play the tape and have the students listen and repeat.

Teach the new words and phrases: up and down, busy and team.

Guess why doesn’t he use the lift for the last three floors?

The students may have different answers. But the best is: Paul is short and can only reach the 12th button on the elevator.

Step 4 Discussion

Discuss the answers to the last question.

What do you think of Paul? Is he a good man? Why?

Are you busy every day? Do you feel happy?

What about your parents?

Sum up: All things in their being are good for something. Work hard in your own position and try to do everything best. You and your life will be better and better. You will feel happy every day.

Step 5 Listening

A few years later, most of you are going to college or university. Maybe you’ll live with people from different countries. Here is passage about it. Listen and fill in the blanks.

Show the pictures. Find the right floors for these people.

Step 6 Exercises in class

Fill in the blanks with proper words and formations

Canada, fifteen, do, busy, late, short fast, twelve

    Mr. Paul is a ____ who lives in Toronto. He likes ____ sports after work and he is on the city basketball team. He is the ____ in the team, but at the same time, he’s the ____, His ____ time is weekends and he usually gets home a little ____ than usual. Mr. Paul’s home is in a tall building with eighteen floors. He lives on the ____(fifteen) floor, but he always gets out of the lift on the (twelve) floor and walk up 3 floors. Is it funny?

Key: Canadian, doing, shortest, fastest, busiest, later, fifteenth, twelfth.

Step 7 Homework

1.Finish off the workbook exercises.

2.Write a passage: My day