Unit 4 The first underground in the world

Reading 1

Teaching aims:

1. get some information about the first underground in the world;

2. know how to get general idea of each paragraph with the help of some key words;

3. know how to read tourist brochure;

4. use what they have learned to talk about the things around themselves.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1: Lead-in

(1) Begin the class by asking students "If you want to get some information about the place where you want to go, what can you do?"

Show the picture of a tourist brochure and ask students what a brochure is used for. (ppt.4)

(2) Help students to list information they will get from the brochure of the first underground in the world. (ppt.5)

Allow students two or three minutes to read the first or the last sentence of each paragraph, and then summarize the main idea of each part with the guidance shown on the screen. At the same time, ask students to pick out some key words which can help them summarize the main idea. (ppt.6)

Step 3: Scanning

2. Help students get the information of how the underground developed by filling in the diagram. (ppt.8-9)

3. Ask students to answer the following questions so that they can get some details about Charles Yerkes (ppt.10)

Who made great contributions to improving the system?

Charles Yerkes

What did he do?

Undertook improving the system by obtaining ownership of many different lines and setting up the Underground Electric Railways of London.

Why did he do so?

Travelling on these lines was not convenient, though, as each line was possessed by a different company, many were far from each other.

4. Help students to know the unusual function of the underground during the Second World War by doing the multiple choices? (ppt.11)