Unit 1 City and village

Homework

Ex: 4

Date:

Teacher:

Form: VII

Subject: English

Theme: From Italy to China.
Aim:

• to talk about means of transport, travelling and trips

• to revise and practise previous vocabulary about travelling and transport, and the superlative

• to practise reading for gist and main points

• to practise inferring meaning where things are not explicit in the text

Equipment: the map of the Silk Road, dictionary

T h e p r o c e d u r e o f t h e l e s s o n

1. The beginning of the lesson

2.Checking up the homework

T h e m a i n p a r t o f t h e l e s s o n
Warm up

Revise the vocabulary that PP already know for ways of travelling.

Ask PP to say how people can travel and write the answers in two columns on the BB:

By : bus, train, plane, car, trolleybus, tram, bicycle, boat, helicopter, jeep' balloon, metro, ship

On: foot, a horse, a camel, a donkey, an elephant

(This vocabulary was introduced in the 5th and 6th forms.)

Suggestion: With weaker classes you could help them by writing the beginning of words on the blackboard e.g. bicy - - - and leaving a dash for each missing letter.