外研版高中英语必修一Module3Three My First Ride on a train教案

Module Three My First Ride on a train
Period 4
Teaching Content: Vocabulary
Reading and Speaking
Grammar 2
Step 1 Vocabulary
Read the places and activities. Can you remember the first experience of them? Places: cinema circus kindergarten park playground
seaside sports stadium swimming pool theatre zoo
Activities: learning to ride a bicycle, seeing a wild animal, seeing a film, learning to draw, reading comic books, swimming, playing sports for the first time, meeting your best friend
Step 2 Reading and speaking
a. Lead-in
Do you remember your first visit to the zoo?
Did you see wild animals?
What wild animals did you see?
Brainstorming: ask Ss to say something about their childhood.
b. Read the passage individually and then decide which are happy and which are unhappy.
c. Practice
Tell the others about the first time they did one of the activities.
Put the Ss into groups to talk about their first experiences.
Step 3 Past tense time expressions
a. Find the following time expressions that appear in “My First Ride on a Train.”Recently… A ling time ago…
During the day… A hundred and fifty years ago
One night… Until the 1920s
At (about) midnight In 1925
Which of them can refer to past or present actions?
b. Recently: Alice went on her first long-distance train ride.
During the day: She sat and looked out of the window.
One night at about midnight: She watched the night sky for an hour.
A long time ago: Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country.
A hundred and fifty years ago: They bought some camels from Afghanistan.
Until the 1920s: The camels carried food and other supplies across the street. In 1925: The government passed a law allowing people to shoot camels if they became a problem.
c. Ask students to write down two sentences for during the day and at midnight. During the day:_______________________________
At midnight:_________________________________
d. Practice
1. I first met Tom ten years ago. He _______
in a radio factory at that time.
A. had worked
B. has worked
C. was working
D. has been working
2. His father gave up smoking for only 3
days, but then ______ to his old ways.
A. returned
B. returns
C. had returned
D. has returned
3. I used to drink a lot of tea but these
days I _______ coffee.
A. prefer
B. preferred
C. had preferred
D. am preferring
Suggested answers: C A A
Homework:
Write your description of a trip. Use the past tense and include some expressions, such as “On the first day…”, “After lunch…”, etc.。