Teaching Objectives:
　　Grasp the story and some words and useful expressions.

　　1. It's nice of you. 2. You'd better not talk. 3. As quickly as she could. Miss Zhao got a medicine box.

　　Be able to read the traffic signs.

　　Language focus:

　　1. Some words and phrases

　　cause, traffic accident, round the corner, fall off, land, in the middle of, shout to, not. . . until, hit. lay, luckily, be badly hurt, gatekeeper, crowd round, move. . .out of, move. . .away, choose, take care of, as quickly as she could, hurry- up, with sth. on/in/under somewhere, hurry off, look after

　　2. Some traffic signs

　　 The first sign means you can not drive into this street.

　　 The second sign means you can’t stop your car here.

　　 The third sign means you can’t turn left here.

　　 The fourth sign means you can’t turn right here.

　　Properties:

　　Tape-recorder; Overhead projector; Cards with traffic signs on them; 教学挂图

　　Teaching procedures:

　　Step 1 Revision

　　Revise the vocabulary connected with traffic, such as transport tools: bike, car, train, truck, plane, ship, motorbike, etc.

　　Ask Which is quicker, a train or a motorbike? Which is the most expensive of all? etc.

　　Step 2 Discussion

　　Say: Traffic accident is a crash involving cars, trains, planes, etc. Have you seen any traffic accident?

　　What do you think of those traffic accidents?

　　What do you think often causes traffic accidents?

　　What should you do when you see a traffic accident?

　　Encourage them to express their own ideas.

　　Get the students to tell their own stories of when they have either actually been in an accident or seen one, or know someone who has been in one.

　　Step 3 Reading

　　Tell the students Read the story quickly and find out what happened.(a traffic accident)

　　Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat, and answer the following questions. Or play the video: A traffic accident

　　1. What was in the middle of the road?

　　2. What did the children do when they saw that?

　　3. Why did the motorbike hit the bag?

　　4. How was the man?

　　5. What will happen next?

　　Teach new words (利用教学挂图) suddenly, luckily, etc.

　　Explains the new words and phrases:

　　1.Words ending in –ly are usually adverbs.

　　2.The word gatekeeper is a compound noun that comes from the words gate and keeper.

　　3.He was not badly hurt means that the man was only hurt a little bit.

　　4. Explain Don’t mention it.  Explain the position of clauses such as As quickly as she could, and With the medicine box under her arm. (at the beginning of the sentence)

　　5. Explain the difference between hurry up and hurry off.

　　Play the tape again. Do workbook Ex1. Check the answers with the whole class.

　　Step 4 Practice

　　Draw a few pictures about the traffic accident, and ask the students to retell the story.

　　Show the traffic signs to the students and help them say the meaning of them. Then students talk about some traffic rules. (They may draw some other traffic signs on the blackboard if time is enough.)

Step 5 Exercises

　　Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions.

　　1. We’ll see a film _________ Wednesday.

　　2. When I was coming _________ the corner, I fell _________ the bike.

　　3. The pen landed_________ the floor.

　　4. Don’t shout _________ your parents.

　　5. I often heard the sound _________ a bird.

　　6. He was driving ________ his motorbike.

　　7. Will you please carry the books ________ the library?

　　8. It’s really nice _________ you to help me.

　　9. Don’t crowd ________ the injured person.

　　10. Please move _________ your cases.

　　11. With a big smile _________ the face, she passed me the key.

　　12. Please look _________ yourself.

　　Keys: 1.on  2.round,off  3.on  4.to  5.of  6.on  7.to  8.of  9.round  10.away  11.on  12.after

　　Step 6 Homework

　　1.To draw some traffic signs and write out the meaning.

　　2. To make sentences with the following phrases.

　　 (l)round the comer　(2)falloff　　　(3)in the middle of

　　 (4)shout to　　　　(5)not...until　　(6)be hurt

　　 (7)Luckily. . .　　　(8)crowd round　(9)take care of

　　 (10)with. . .in/under. . .

　　3. Do exercises on page 122. Finish off the workbook exercises.

　　Writing on blackboard

Lesson 98

A Traffic Accident

 Language points　　　　Ask and answer

 1. cause　　　　　　　1. What was in the middle of the road?

 2. suddenly　　　　　　2. What did the children do when they saw that?

 3. luckily　　　　　　　3. Why did the motorbike hit the bag?

 4. gatekeeper　　　　　4. How was the man?

 5. Don’t mention it.　　　5. What will happen next?

 6. not badly hurt

 7. As quickly as she could

 8. With the medicine box under her arm.