新目标 八年级上册英语unit 4

U n i t4H o w d o y o u g e t t o s c h o o l?

一短语

b y B i k e/b i

c y c l e/b u s/s h i p/c a r/t r a i n/s u b w a y/f o o t/p l a n e/a i r/t a x i/j e e p

/t r u c k/m o t o r b i k e

r i d e a b i k e(b y b i k e)/w a l k(o n f o o t)/t a k e t h e c a r(b y c a r)/t a k e t h e b u s (b y b u s)/t a k e t h e s u b w a y（b y s u b w a y)/t a k e a t a x i(b y t a x i)/t a k e t h e t r a i n (b y t r a i n)/g o i n a p a r e n t’s c a r

二句型

F i r s t,…t a k e…t o…

N e x t,…g e t t o…b y…

T h e n,

F i n a l l y,

I t t a k e s a b o u t…m i n u t e s/h o u r s.

I t’s a b o u t…k i l o m e t e r s/m i l e s.

T h e b u s r i d e t a k e s…m i n u t e s/h o u r s.

I t o n l y t a k e s y o u…y u a n. T：How do you get to school?

S: I get to school by….

T: This is my friend.

She is in Japan. How does she go to school?

T: She goes to school by train..

Most students in Japan takes the train to school.

How about other parts of the world?

How do students around the world get to school?

To talk about how to get to places;

To cultivate the ability of skimming;

To learn to write a short passage about different ways to school.

A: How do you get to school?

B: I …

A: How far is it from your home to school?

B: It is …

A: How long does it take you to get from home to school?

B: It takes…

How do you get to school? B: I take the subway.

A: How far is it from your home to school? B: It’s 3 miles.

A: How long does it take you to get from home to school? B: It takes 25 minutes. Choosing green travel will make our earth green forever.

How does Tom get to school? He takes a taxi to school./

He gets to school by taxi.

How does Nina get to school? She rides a bike to school/

She gets to school by bike

How do the twins get to school? First, they walk to the bus stop.

Then they take the bus to school

三作文

Hi, I’m Nina. I’m a business woman. I take a ship from the island to the city every day. The ship leaves every 20 minutes and it takes about 35 minutes to get to the city. I then have a short walk to my office. There’s another ship on the other side of the island and it is faster. It takes only 15 minutes, but I have to walk a long way. So I usually take the first ship.

Hello, I’m Maria and I’m a college student. I live on campus (校园). The campus is quite big, and sometimes it takes 15 minutes to get from one building to the next. When I want to go off campus to go out with my friends, I take the bus. There are big buses and minibuses (小型公共汽车). Big buses are cheaper but slower. Minibuses come frequently (频繁地) and are a little more expensive.

My name is Sarah and I’m a teacher. I take the train to school every day. The train is fast and cheap. It only takes 20 minutes from my home to school. At rush hour in the morning and in the evening, the train gets very crowded. But there are hardly ever any delays (延误), and I always arrive on time.

For many years in the desert, camels were the only form(方式) of transportation. Before the age of modern trains, camels were used to carry all the goods for trading between Central Africa and Europe. Traders（商人） sometimes put together 10,000 to 15,000 animals. Each animal often used to carry as much as 400 pounds and it could travel twenty miles a day. This form of transportation used to be so important that camels were called “ships of the desert”.

Now modern trains travel across the desert in a very short time. One engine (发动机)can pull as much weight as 135,000 camels. In addition, trains use special cars(车厢) for their load（装载）. Refrigerator cars carry food; boxcars (棚车) carry heavy goods; stock cars carry animals; and tank cars carry oil.

Air travel is also a modern means of transportation, but it has changed since the early twentieth century. The earliest planes were biplanes (双翼飞机), with two sets of wings. The top speed of this plane was 60 miles per hour. The pilots sat or lay on the wings in the open air. The plane engines sometimes stopped in the middle of a trip. It used to be impossible to fly