Reading

Let the students read the dialogue and answer the following questions:

1. How does Li Ming want to go to Beijing? (He wants to go to Beijing by plane.)

2. Does Li Ming’s mother want to go by plane too? (No, she doesn’t. She wants to take a bus.)

3. How do they want to go to Beijing after their discussion? Why? (They want to take a train because a train is slower than a plane but faster than a bus. And it is cheap, too. )

Listening

Get the students to listen to and repeat after the tape.

Practice

Ask the students to make dialogue in pairs and show in class. They can talk from the following aspects: 1.How you like to go on a trip and why; 2.Which kind of transportation is fast and cheap.

Write the patterns: … is faster than ... / … is slower than ... / …is cheap and… is expensive on the blackboard and let the students practice using them in their dialogues. Give an example first.

T: Do you like to go on a trip by bike?

S: No, I don’t.

T: Do you like to take a train?

S: Yes, I do.

T: Do you like to go on a trip by plane?

S: No.

T: Why? (Help the student to answer)

S: A bike a cheap, but it’s slower than a bus. A plane is faster than a bus, but it’s expensive.

T: That’s right.

Step III Singing