Senior English 3 Unit 9

Unit 9 Warm-up People move from place to place. Have you ever noticed how people travel? There are various means of transportation from time to time or from people to people.

When we are babies, we crawl to get to Mum or to get something we want. crawl

As we are growing up, we walk on our feet to school, to work or to some places we’d like to. Walk

With the development of science and technology, we travel on bikes, in cars, in trains or on planes. In a word, we move from place to place on wheels. on wheels

plane balloon bicycle boat bus car ferry helicopter lorry motorcycle ship train the underground minibus Ways of travelingTools of transportation Travel On land Travel By sea Travel In the air Pre-listening: 1.Types of transport bicycle, bus, car, lorry, motorcycle, train, minibus, the underground plane, balloon, helicopter ferry, ship, boat

Have got wheels plane, boat, bus, car, ferry, helicopter, lorry, motorcycle, ship,train, minibus, the underground cause pollution bicycle, bus, car, lorry, motorcycle, minibus,

2. Work in pairs. Say which types of transport: 1.you have travelled in or on, 2.you use regularly, 3.you would like to travel in or on. 4.Do you think your means of transportation good? 5.Why do you travel in such a way?

3. Match the key words with definitions. Guess what he/she is? Someone What is he/she? who rides a bicycle who drives a car who travels on foot whose job is driving a lorry cyclist motorist pedestrian lorry driver

While—listening Task 1: Listen and identify the four speakers in exercise 3. Keys: 1. lorry driver (start work, not long distance, drive all day, traffic jams) 2.pedestrain (cross the road, hit us) 3.cyclist (ride to school, quicker than the bus) 4.motorist (car)

Task 2: Listen and answer the questions. 1. Speaker 1: How does the driver feel when at working? And why? He feels stressful because sometimes he has to drive all day and the traffic is bad. 1.Well, I usually start work at about ____ in the morning. I don’t usually __________— the______________ I drive is about a hundred miles. It’s very ___________,know what I mean? Driving all day. And the traffic’s really bad __________, ___________ than when I started. ___________ everywhere… six do long distances furthest stressful nowadays much worse Traffic jams

2. Speaker 2: What problems did the pedestrian talk about? She talked about how dangerous it was when crossing the road and the pollution. 2. Look at them. Cars _______ everywhere. And _______________ is really dangerous. People drive so fast. I was going across the road ____________ with my grandson, and suddenly this big _________came along and nearly _____ us. And the pollution, it's really _______these days… parked crossing the road the other day lorry hit terrible

3. Speaker 3: Why does the cyclist like to ride? It’s quicker and can keep her fit. 3. People say I’m _____ because I always _____ to school. I love it and ________it’s much quicker than the bus or even a car because the traffic’s so bad these days. And it ___________, doesn’t it? mad ride actually keeps me fit

4. Speaker 4: Why does the motorist need a car? The public transport is terrible and she needs to go shopping, to go to work, to take the kids to school. 4. I know I use it too much, but _______________is terrible ___________. We live ____________, and I need the car to go shopping, to go to work, to ______________ to school. public transportwhere I live out of town take the kids

Make a survey about how people you are familiar with often travel, write a report and read your report in your group tomorrow.