Teaching PlanUnit 9Lesson 1On Your BikeType: Reading外国语学院09级本科3班徐兆云Unit 9 WheelsLesson 1On Your BikeⅠ.Background InformationTopic: On Your BikeType: ReadingTime Duration: 40 minsStudents: students of senior high school Grade 1Teacher:XuzhaoyunⅡ. Teaching Methods:Task-based Language teachingⅢ.Teaching Aims:By the end of the lesson, students should be able to learn the following:Knowledge Aim:(1) New words:benefit,flat, hopeful , therefore ,convenient,parking,insert, thief(2) Expressions:save energy,reduce pollution,thanks to(3) Grammar Point:The Present Perfect Continuous Tense(4) Know about the great benefits of using bicycles.Ability Aim:(1) Improve the ability of fast reading, using the reading skills: scanning andskimming.(2) Improve the ability of fast reaction, judgment and imagination.(3) Improve the ability of retelling the text according to the key words.(4) Master the reading strategies: dealing with difficult words to guess the part ofspeech and the meanings from the context.Moral Aim:From the text,we should learn from the people of Amsterdam to do something that can help to save enegy,reduce pollution and thetraffic safety.Ⅳ.Key points: 1.New words (e.g. convenient, hopeful)2.Expressions (e.g. save energy,thanks to)3. Grammar Point: The Present Perfect Continuous TenseDifficult points: The Present Perfect Continuous TenseⅤ.Teaching aids: blackboard、chalks、picturesⅥ.Teaching procedure:Pre-reading (5 minutes)Questions:1.How do you parents go to work everyday?(cars,motorcars,buses,etc.)2.Do you know which country is called “Kingdom of bicycles”and “City ofbicycles”?(Netherland and Amsterdam)(Show pictures about Amsterdam and bikes)3. Most people in Amsterdam travel in their city by bike, and Amsterdam is called the“City of Bicycles ”.While-reading(30 minutes)Ask the students to read the text to find the main idea of the whole passage andeach paragraph,at the same time,give them several questions to help them find the mainidea,as following:1.Why is it a good city for cycling ？(Key:Because it is flat and there are also plenty of places for bicycle parking and moststreets in the city centre have a bicycle path.)2.What idea did the cycling fans have?(Key:They believed that it would be better for everybody if cars weren ’t allowed inthe city center and only bicycles were.)3.Where is the topic sentence of para 3 and 4?(Key:Both are the first sentence in each paragraph.)4.What are the advantages of the bicyckes?(Key:Bicycles can help to save energy,reduce pollution and provide free publictransport.)5.Why did the first white bike plan fail?(Key:Because thieves took all the bicycles within weeks.)6.What are the changes of the new white bike?(Key:They should be inserted a special card,designed with bright colors not white andparked at special places.)With these questions have been cleared,the main idea of the whole passage andeach paragraph are:With the main idea have been cleared, learn the grammar in para.1—The Present Perfect Continuous Tense,and learn some important new words and expressions.1.Explain the grammar:The Present Perfect Continuous TenseStructure: have/has + been +v-ingPeople have been enjoying the benefits of cycling in Amsterdam for years.(In this sentence, the present perfect continuous tense expresses a repeated or continuous activity that started in the past and hasn’t been finished.)2.new words:1）. benefit:profit, advantage n.&vi.好处，得益eg: We can get many benfits of riding bikes2）. flat:smooth, level adj.平的eg: The road is vey flat, so it’s very good for cycling.3）. convenient:giving no trouble or difficulty.adj.方便eg: The dictionary is very conventinent for my studying4）. hopeful:having hope.adj.有希望eg: I’m hopeful about the future.5）. therefore:as a result.adv.所以，因此eg: I studied hard, therefore I passed the final exam.6）. parking:space or area for leaving vehicles.n.停车场eg: There is no parking in front of the hotel.7）. insert:put sth into sth or between two things.vt.插入eg: I insert a key into a lock to open the door.8）. thief:person who stealsn.贼，小偷eg: The thief stole many books from the library yesterday.3.Expressions:1）. save energy 节约能源2）. reduce pollution 减少污染3）.thanks to 由于，因为，多亏了eg:Thanks to his help,I passed the exam easily.Post-reading(5 minutes)V oice your opinions:Ask the study monitor to divide the class into 5 groups,each group should discuss on the following question,and put the results together,then choose a leader to give a lecture.Next class I will hold a speech competition on this topic.Do you think the “white bikes” whould good for our country?Why?Useful Expression:(In my opinion, we should…We can u se … instead of …We had better …In the future, it will be …We can … to improve the present situation.)Ⅶ.SummaryIn this text, we have learned the main idea of the whole passage and each paragraph,and through several questions,to help the students to understand the text better,then we have learned the grammar point—The Present Perfect Continuous Tense and some important new words and expressions.Ⅷ.Homework1. Do the exercise on page 78 to review The Present Perfect Continuous Tense2.Discussion and lecture.Blackboard DesignⅧ.Reflection。