Unit Two Lesson Two

Means of transport

三门中学 刘丽花

Welcome to our English Class ！

means of transport

bus bicycle train plane

coach

taxi

motorcyclelight railunderground

train

ship

maglev

ferry

Let’s review:

fast, cheap,

convenient,

expensive

comfortable

cheap, slow

For example:

A: Which is faster?

B: The train is faster than the coach.

The light rail and

underground are

both

than

the taxi. (cheap and fast)

I think motorcycles are

than them. (convenient)

B: It took people about two hours to get to Shanghai.

A: How long did it take people to get to Shanghai?

B: It takes people about forty-five minutes to arrive in Shanghai now.

A: How long does it take people to arrive in Shanghai now?

Look and say

10 mins

It took him about ten minutes the supermarket.

to get to

How long did it take him to get to the supermarket?

25 minutesCentury Park

her about twenty-five minutes Century Park .

It took to get to

How long did it take her to get to Century Park?

Shanghai Railway Station

Oriental Pearl TV Tower

Jinmao Building

Shanghai Science Museum

Century Park

the BundPeople’s Square

Yu Garden

Hongqiao Airport

Pudong Airport

• Look at the map and work in groups . Talk about the journey to each place from your homes like this:

S1: How did you go to …?S2: I went to … by ___/on foot. It’s （ than ） .

S1: How long did it take you to get to …?S2: It about ___ minutes/hour(s) to get there.

Look and say

The text

Name Means of transport

Why Time

Tom cheaper and

Dick

Peter and faster

Susan faster though( 虽然 )

Listen and fill in the table

a quarter of an hour

an hour and a half

forty minutes

faster

cheaper

more

expensive

You can begin like this:Last Sunday, Dick

, Tom, Peter and

Susan went to

Zhongshan Park.

Tom went there

by---

interesting convenient safe cheap expensive beautiful hot modern crowded comfortable slow fast

1.Which place did you go? How about it ? (to use the comparative degrees of adjectives and adverbs)

2.How did you go there? Why ? (to use the comparative degrees of adjectives and adverbs)

3. How long did you get there?

The photo show:

You can do like this:• A: Where did you go?• B: I went to---. • A: How do you like it?• B: It is more beautiful than Shanghai. The river is

clearer.---• A: How did you go there?• B: We went there by train. It is faster and cheaper.• A: How long did you get there?• B: It took us about minutes/hours to get there.

interesting convenient safe cheap expensive beautiful hot modern crowded comfortable slow fast

Homework:

To make a survey among your classmates or relatives about how to visit the 2010 EXPO and tell us the reasons, then write it down and report it before the class.

Which place will you choose and how will you go there? Why ?

Hongkong

Qingdao