Module 3 My First Ride on a Train

Period 3

The General Idea of This Period

In this period, we're going to learn the language points of the passage, I'll explain some difficult sentences, give the usages of some useful phrases, another purpose is to enable the students to grasp the passage better.

Teaching Aims

1. Learn and master the following words and expressions: 

abandoned, a long distance, try doing, Ghan, Afghanistan, be short for, until the 1920s,not...any longer, allow sb. to do, get phrase, look out of, one night, at midnight

2. Train the students' reading ability

Teaching Important Points

1. Improve the students' reading ability.

2. Enable the students to understand the text better.

3. Master the following phrases: 

have one's ride on a long-distance train

long-distance

What a ride!

look like

look out of

try doing

be short for

not until

the 1920s

not...any more

Teaching Difficult Points

Master the sentence structures: 

　　1. Recently, I had my first ride on a long distance train.

2. We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, night in the middle of Australia, more than...away

3. We ate great meals cooked by experts!

4. They didn't need the camels any more.

Teaching Methods

1. Discussion before reading to make students interested in traveling and the first ride on a train.

2. Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.

3. Careful reading to get some detailed information.

4. Explanations to the language points.

Teaching Aids

1. a computer 

2. a tape recorder