Lesson 18
Step 1 Revision
1 Check the homework.
2 Revise the dialogues on SB page 17， Part 2.
Step 2 Presentation
Revise the vocabulary connected with traffic. Ask the Ss What can we use to go from one place to another？
Collect words on the Bb： bike， car， train， truck， plane， etc. Add motorbike.
Teach the word travel， then get the Ss to practise the use of comparatives and superlatives： ask questions like these：
Which do you prefer， to travel by bus or by bike？
Which is quicker， a train or a motorbike？
Which is the quickest/slowest /most expensive of all？etc.
Step 3 Reading
SB page 18. Tell the Ss Today we are going to read a story about a traffic accident. Read the story quickly and find out what happened. Give the Ss a few minutes to find the answer. Draw 7 pictures to show what happens in the story. （See the pictures on P. ） Then ask What can you see in the third picture on the Bb？ Help the Ss to answer The man was travelling too fast. His motorbike hit the bag of rice and he fell off. He was hurt. So a traffic accident happened.
Step 4 Presentation
Ask more questions on the story. Tell the Ss to read the story more slowly. They should feel free to ask you any difficult language items. Teach corner， medicine and library using pictures. Translate crowd， hurry up / off or there may be an accident into Chinese. Get the Ss to guess the meaning of gate keeper， move away， land in the middle of the road， etc. Note that He was not badly hurt means that the man was only hurt a little bit. Notice the position at the beginning of the sentence of clauses such as As quickly as she could， and With the medicine box under her arm.
When the Ss understand the story， let them listen to the tape. Speech Cassette Lesson 18. Listen and repeat. Correct the students' mistakes in pronunciation and intonation.
Step 5 Ask and answer
Wb Lesson 18， Ex. 1. Let the Ss work in pairs. They should make a note of their answers. Check the answers with the whole class.
Step 6 Workbook
Wb Exx. 2 and 3.
For Ex. 2， tell the Ss to work on their own （or in pairs）。 Check the answers with the whole class. The answers for Ex. 2 are： were， leaving， a， bag， of， truck， in， the， middle， of， a， motorbike， was， travelling， hit， fell， off， carried， the， school， gate， keeper's， round， the， the， traffic， moved， away， went， the， accident， medicine， box， hurried， after， telephoned.
For Ex. 3， write the model on the Bb. Show the meaning with a time line：
Revise the meaning of after and not…until. Do the exercise orally with the whole class. If time allows， get the Ss to write the answers in their exercise books. The answers for Ex. 3 are： 1 The children didn't leave school until five. The children didn't leave school until they finished their homework. 2 The man on the motorbike didn't go home until he felt better. 3 The girls didn't let the traffic go again until twelve o'clock. The girls didn't let the traffic go again until the boys moved away the bag. 4 The police didn't know about the accident until half an hour later. The police didn't know about the accident until Li Lei telephoned them.
Ex. 4 is optional.
Homework
Finish off the Workbook exercises.
Revise the story to retell it in the next lesson.
