Go for it 8A Unit 4 How do you get to school
go to school
go to the park
by subway
by bus
by motorbike
25 minutes
15 minutes
30 minutes
3 miles
7 kilometers
20 kilometers
step 5 listening (section b 2a)
listen and check the things that thomas wants to know.
step 6 listening (section b 2b)
check 1 or 2 how nina gets to school.
step 7 groupwork (section b 2c)
ask the students to tell how nina gets to school, using the words “ first, next, then, finally, ...”
(steps 5 to 7: these activities check students’ understanding of the target language in spoken conversations.)
step 8 have a test i
use the real problems of test for high school to help the students know about test in the future and master the target language.
1. — _______ is the school? (天津）
—only a few kilometers.
a. how far b. how much c. how old d. how many
2. — _______ are you going to london? (鹽城）
—by air.
a. how b. when c. where d. why
3. — _______ is it from your home to the school? (南寧）
—it’s five miles.
a. how far b. how often c. how long d. how many
4. i’ll finish the job, no matter _______ it takes. (寧夏）
a. how soon b. how often c. how long d. how far
5. — _______is it from your home to the cinema (電影院）?
—it’s about twenty minutes’ walk. (長(zhǎng)沙）
a. how far b. how often c. how long
6. it is over _______from shijiazhuang to beijing. (河北）
a. three hours’ drive b. three hour’s drive
c. three hours’ drives d. three hours drive
step 9 have a test ii
complete the following sentences.
1. most students go to school on the school bus.
= most students ______ ________ _______ _______ to school.
2. many students take trains to school.
= many students ______ to school ________ ________.
= many students ______ to school ________ ________ ________ .
3. some students ride their bikes to school.
= some students _______ to school ________ _________.
= some students _______ to school ________ _________ ________.
4. some students walk to school.
= some students _______ to school ________ _________.
5. it’s 5 minutes’ walk from my home to school.
= it ______ me 5 minutes ______ _______ ________ school.
6. dave spends two hours playing football every day.
= it _______ dave two hours _______ _______ ______ every day.
in this part, i use 4 sentences from section b, 3a and 2 from harbin’s test and yancheng’s test in .