1. Senior English 3 Unit 9 Wheels
By Xiang Ya-li from Guangdong Bowen International School

2. Unit 9 Warm-up
People move from place to place. Have you ever noticed how people travel? The means of transportation vary from time to time or from people to people.
Wheels

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

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

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

6. Put the words in the right place.
Aero plane ballroom bicycle boat bus car coach ferry helicopter hovercraft lorry motorbike ship train the underground van yacht
Ways of traveling
Tools of transportation
Do you know them?
On land
By sea
In the air

7. Which way do you think is convenient when you travel to the following places? Talk about it in you group.
Ways
Tools
Advantages
Disadvantages
In your city
To other cities
Abroad
To outer space

8. Make a survey among your classmates in your group to see how they often travel and what they think of the means of transportation. The following questions are for your reference.
Where do you often travel?
In what way do you often travel?
Do you think your means of transportation good?
Why do you travel in such a way?

9. Listen and guess what he/she is?
Someone
What is he/she?
who rides a bicycle
who drives a car
who regularly travels a long way to work
who travels on foot
whose job is driving a lorry
cyclist
motorist
commuter
pedestrian
lorry driver

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