Language Focus:

1. Functional and notional items

Talk about how to get to a place

2.       Language Materials

Word: least

Sentences: She said the fastest way to travel was by plane.

Grammar: 宾语从句（二）主句为过去时，从句要用过去相应时态

Teaching Objectives

1.    Learn to combine an indirect speech orally and talk about the way to travel.

2.    Finish the exercises in this lesson and master the use of the Objective clause (2)

3.    Master the word: least

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; Pictures  

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing aims

Have the students know what they will learn in this lesson and what they will do in this class:

1. Revise some useful expressions in Unit 4.

2. Train the students’ listening ability by doing listening work.

3. Revise the grammar: the Object Clause.

4. Write a short passage to train the students' writing ability.

II. Revision

Have a dictation. Dictate some useful expressions. Then ask the students to make sentences using the useful expressions:

1. as soon as possible;

2. That would be fine;

3. Keep doing something;

4. Hurry up;

5. Fall fast asleep;

6. Wake up.

For example:

1. Please come back as soon as possible.

2. Let’s go. That would be fine.

3. He kept me reading the passage for a long time.

4. Hurry up, or you will miss the train.

5. He listened to the light music and fell fast asleep.

6.I woke up early this morning.

My mother woke me up early this morning.

III. Listening

Listening Cassette. Books closed. Play the tape once or twice for the students to listen and do Exercise I in the workbook. Make sure the students can understand them. Show one or two students’ passage on the slide, check with the whole class.

IV. Practice

Part 2. Jim travelled to Chengdu by train. When you travel, how can you get to a place?

By air\bus\car\train\bike\water\on foot.

Here we’ve got some places in Part 2, how can we get there?

Talk about the how to get to those places in Part 2 . Ask and answer in pairs and ask some to do it in class.

V. Write

Part 4. We can fill in the form in class. Get the students to give out their ideas about the travelling.

If there is no time, we can leave the writing work as homework.

VI. Game

Part 5. Play this game in class if time permits. Get one student to say a sentence, and he can't let all the students hear clearly, then one student may say: I can't hear him, another student may repeat the sentence, Begin with: He says that…

VII. Checkpoint 4

Go though Checkpoint 4 in the usual way. Explain any problems that the students may have. Get the students to go over the grammar notes. Make sentences using the useful expressions.

VIII. Workbook

For Exercise 2, have the students read the long sentences, first listen to the teacher, then get them to read individually .Pay attention to the sentence stress, pause and intonation.

For Exercise 3, have the students make up the sentences, see who can make the most sentences, and make correct sentences.

Do Exercise 4 as homework.

IX. Homework

A.    Finish all the exercises in the workbook

B.    Go over the whole lesson and get ready for a dictation.