Unit10 Air travel 1.ppt

Unit 10-1
Getting to the Airport
Teaching steps
Ⅰ. Background information
Ⅱ. Warming-up
Ⅲ. Word study (be omitted)
Ⅳ. Text explanation
Ⅴ. Discussion & Exercises
Background information
During the late 1700’s, people made their first flights into the air using balloons, which were an early form of airship. After the first balloon flights, inventors tried to develop a heavier-than-air flying machine.
History of flight:
Background information
Some inventors experimented with gliders. They studied birds’ wings and discovered that the wings are curved. By building gliders with curved wings instead of flat ones, they could make the vehicles fly hundreds of feet or meters.
Background information
But long distance flight in a heavier-than-air machine did not e possible until the invention of an engine light enough but powerful enough to keep a plane in flight. The first such engines were four-stroke gasoline engines, developed during the 1880’s and initially used to power bicycles, boats and carriages. In 1903, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first essful powered airplane flights in history near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Warming-up
Brainstorming:
Ask the students to think out words or expressions about travel by air
Warming-up
Airline, airport, air terminal, airfares, air tickets, aircrew, pilot, airhostess, steward, stewardess, land, arrive, fly, take off, depart, tourist class, first class, economy class, business class, cabin, board a plane, get into a plane, get off a plane, miss the flight, cancel the flight
Structure of the text
Part 1(Para. 1) Introduction
There are two types of people in this world: the early-airport people and the late-airport people.
Part 2 (Para. 2-29)
There is no justice in this world, the early-airport people are not rewarded for doing the right thing and the late-airport people are not punished for doing the wrong thing.
Structure of the text
Para2-9: The early-airport people are in bad physical condition,