Module 2　Traffic Jam

　　Brief Statements Based on This Module

　　Introduction

　　The topic in this module is "Traffic Jam".This section introduces to us the vocabulary of all kinds of transportation and it includes three activities.To begin with,the teacher may ask the students a few questions,such as "How do you usually get to school?" Or you may present to the class the pictures of all kinds of means of transportation.The teacher may then have a brainstorm of means of transportation in the class with the help of the pictures.To activate the atmosphere of the classroom,the teacher may encourage the students to compete with one another in speaking out the means of transportation they are familiar with.In Activity 2,the teacher may encourage the students to carry out a survey among the class about what kinds of transportation they use in their daily life.The students may use the questions in Activity 3 to make up a dialogue about a traffic jam.Finally,the teacher may ask some good ones to present their dialogue to the class.

　　Reading and Vocabulary

　　The main idea of this passage is about Getting Around in Beijing.First the teacher may ask the students to read the text quickly and grasp the main idea.After reading it,the students may work in pairs exchanging their ideas on the question "Who might find the information useful?" The teacher may then elicit the answers from the whole class.In Activity 2 the students may be encouraged to ask and answer questions in pairs to deepen their understanding of the text.As for Activity 3 the teacher may list the new words or ask the students to find the new words in the course of reading.First make the students guess from the whole context the meanings of these new words,and make some explanations if necessary,which is of great help in deepening their impression of the new words.Then the students may do the exercises on their own.If the class is good enough,the following methods are better:book closed,the teacher speak out the definitions of some new words and the students speak out the new words.In this way,not only the students' listening ability is trained,but also their memorization of the new words is consolidated.Time permitting,some exercises of consolidation are needed.For example,the teacher tells the students a sentence containing a certain new word and encourage the students to retell and at the same time point out the new words in the sentence.

　　Besides,in the teaching of reading,the teacher can organize different reading activities according to the content of the text on purpose to train the above reading strategies and help them develop good reading habits from the very beginning.

　　Function

　　The function of this module is "giving advice".First the teacher may ask the students to read the sentences listed and encourage them to find out the sentence structures of expressing giving advice.In Activity 2 the teacher may first pair the students to discuss the issue,and come up with a list.Finally call back the answers.If several pairs have chosen the same city,try to open a discussion about whether they think the advice is good or not.If everyone has chosen the same city,you may wish to make a board list of the advice and discuss it.To raise the atmosphere of the whole classroom,you may act as the role of a tourist and divide the students into two groups and make them act as the role of the guides.The guides give advice to the tourist and the guide who raises more advice will be the winner.

Listening and Speaking