Introduction

（8 minutes）

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class work.

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1. Students focus their

attention on the teacher.

2. Students read the

passage about the

bicycle safety.

3. Students know about

more information of

the bicycle.

4. Students report some information they collected about

cycling races.

5. Students watch the

video and know about

the cycling race.

6. Students look at the

pictures of 1 and

introduce the events as much as possible.

1. Greet the students and

make them ready for learning. 

2. The teacher asks the students to report their homework. Let them read the passage about the bicycle safety. Let them build the sense of safety.

3. The teacher introduces

more information about the bicycle: The bicycle can be used as an environmental vehicle of transport for travel. More and more people use bicycles as fitness equipment for exercise, bike riding and traveling. The cycling race is a competitive sport which includes road cycling, mountain cycling and so on. We’ll know about something of the bicycle race today.

4. The teacher lets the students report some information they collected about cycling races.

5. The teacher shows the

video of a cycling race to lead to the new lesson.

6. The teacher asks the students to look at the pictures of 1. Encourage the students who know something about the two events and introduce the events as much as possible.

Presentation

(10minutes)

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1. Students skim the

passage of 1 and

mark Q or F.

2. Students check their

answers with the

teacher.

3. Students read the

passage again and

underline the new

words.

4. Students learn and

grasp the new words.

1. The teacher asks the students

to skim the passage of 1

and  mark Q for  the

sentences that describe

the Tour of Qinghai Lake

and F for the Tour de

France.

(1) The race started in 2002. (   )

(2) Today the race covers

2,000 miles.   (   )

(3) The race began in Paris. (   )

(4) It is the largest bicycle road race in Asia. (   )

(5) There are 21 timed 

stages over three weeks, with one or two days to rest.             (   )

2. The teacher asks two students to tell their answers.

3. The teacher asks the students to read the passage again and underline the new words.

4. The teacher asks one student to tell the new words. Teach the new words:

Asia and France by showing their maps. Teach the new word stage by showing a picture of a stage. Teach the new word winner by showing a picture of a champion. Teach the rest words by explaining them in Chinese. 

Consolidation

(10 minutes)

1. The whole

class work.

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3. Group work.

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6. Group work.

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1. Students read the passage after the recording sentence by sentence.

2. Students try to follow the speed, paying attention to the pronunciation and

intonation.

3. Students work in

groups and find out

the difficult points.

4. Students help each

other to understand the passage.

5. Students underline the words, phrases and sentences and make a note.

6. Students read and find

out the key words in

groups.

7. Students retell the

passage based on the

key words.

8. Students evaluate the retelling.

1. The teacher plays the

recording sentence by

sentence.

2. The teacher plays the

recording without

stopping.

3. The teacher asks the

students to work in

groups and find out the

difficult points.

4. The teacher asks the students to tell the difficult points. Ask other students to help them solve the problems.

5. The teacher makes a

summary to explain the key points and difficult points to the students:

(1) among all races

among / between

(2) 21 timed stages

(3) The roads are very difficult to ride on.

(4) without doing sth.

6. The teacher asks the students to read the passage carefully and find out the key words in groups.

7. The teacher asks one student to write down the key words on the blackboard, and then lets the students retell the passage based on the key words.

8. The teacher praises the

students who retell the

passage well.

Practice

(10 inutes)

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class work.

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4. Individual

work.

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6. Group work.

7. Individual

work.

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1. Students read through Sections A-C and understand

the underlined parts in each sentence of the grammar table.

2. Students sum up the

usage of adverbial clauses of condition.

3. Students grasp the usage of the underlined phrases.

4. Students find out more phrases in this topic.

5. Students read and

understand the accident report form.

6. Students discuss in

groups.

7. Students write a passage alone about the accident.

8. Students report their

passages.

9. Students evaluate others’ passage.

1. The teacher asks the students to read through Sections A-C and understand the underlined parts in each sentence of the grammar table.

2. The teacher asks two students to sum up the usage of adverbial clauses of condition. 

3. The teacher asks the students to read through Sections A-C and pay attention to the underlined phrases in the functions table.

4. The teacher asks the students to find out more phrases in this topic.

5. The teacher asks the students to read and understand the accident report form.

6. The teacher asks the students to discuss in groups: How to write a passage based on the content of the accident

report form.

7. The teacher asks the students to write a passage alone about the accident. Encourage them to use more useful expressions of this topic.

8. The teacher lets two students report their passages in class.

9. The teacher asks the students to evaluate others’, passages, and then makes the

summary for the written

work.

Production

(7 minutes)

1. Group work.

2. Group work.

3. Individual

work.

4. Group work.

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class work.

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class work.

8. Individual

work.

1. Students discuss in

groups.

2. Students write the key words for their reports.

3. Students finish the

reports alone.

4. Students change their reports within the group. Learn something useful from their group mates and help others correct something wrong.

5. Students read their

productions.

6. Students evaluate the passages written by others and learn

something useful.

7. Students summarize Section D with the teacher.

8. Students finish the

homework after class.

1. The teacher organizes the

students to discuss in

groups: How to avoid

traffic accidents. Let them make sure of the content they will mention.

2. The teacher asks the

students to write the key

words for their reports.

3. The teacher asks the

students to finish the

reports alone based on

their key words.

4. The teacher asks the

students to change their

reports within the group.

Ask them to learn

something useful from

their group mates and

help others correct

something wrong.

5. The teacher asks the

students from different

groups to read their

productions.

6. The teacher asks the students to evaluate the passages, and then makes the summary for the written work.

7. The teacher shows the

summary to the students.

8. The teacher assigns

homework:

(1) Review the summary

after class.

(2) Write a passage to make

the traffic rules.

(3) Collect some information

of Craig Kielburger to

prepare for the next topic.

Teaching Reflection

The students grasp the knowledge of this topic well after the review of this section. Boys are very interested in the bicycle race. And they can evaluate others’ productions better and learn something useful from them.