1. 外研版
高中英语
第一册
MODULE 3
My first ride on a train

3. Get on
Get off
Get into
Get out (of)
Ride
Drive
Take off
land

4. Describe the first time you traveled a long distance.
How old were you?
Where did you go?
Who did you go with?

5. Speaking e.g. I first traveled a long distance
by train when I was six years old.
I went with my parents from
Shanghai to Beijing.

6. Vocabulary
1. an area of land where
it is always dry
desert
2. valuable stones
diamonds
3. people who travel on
a train, bus or plain
passengers
4. you find this on beaches
sand
5. where plaints grow
soil

7. Reading

8. Discuss 1.What sort of people do you think travel on the Ghan train?
2.What kind of towns and villages do you think the train passed?

9. Pair work
Tell the man’s story using these phrases:

10. took a train broke down
rush hour traffic jam
missed the plain got on another flight
bad weather landed in Bangkok
arrived 12 hours late

11. Learning to learn
Reading in English is one of the fastest ways of improving your English. When you read, the most important thing to do is to understand the main ideas. Look at photos, titles and the first sentences of each new paragraph. These usually contain some or all of the main ideas.

12. Grammar 1: The –ed form 1.Trained camels carried food and
other supplies.
2.We saw abandoned farms which
were more than a hundred years
ago.
3.We ate great meals cooked by experts.

13. √ The computer center, _______ last year, is very popular among the
students in the school.
A. open B. opening
C. having opened D. opened √

14. √ 2.The dog, ________, will be made a good watchdog.
A. to train properly
B. being trained properly
C. properly to train
D. trained properly √

15. √ 3. — How long has he been away, do you know?
— Sorry, I can’t tell exactly when he
_________, though I know he has
already been away.
A. was leaving B. has left
C. would leave D. left √

16. Complete the table by putting the means of transport in the correct column.
bicycle bus camel ferry helicopter horse motorbike ship plain taxi train tram

17. bicycle ship helicopter bus ferry plain camel horse motorbike taxi
LAND
SEA
AIR
bicycle
ship
helicopter
bus
ferry
plain
camel
horse
motorbike
taxi
train
tram

18. Vocabulary
Places:
cinema circus kindergarten seaside sports park playground stadium swimming pool theatre zoo

19. Activities:
learning to ride a bicycle … seeing a wild animal seeing a film learning to draw swimming meeting your best friend

20. Grammar 2
Past tense time expressions

21. Which of them can refer to past or present actions?
Find the following time expressions that appear in “My First Ride on a Train.”
Recently… A ling time ago…
During the day… A hundred and fifty years ago
One night… Until the 1920s
At (about) midnight In 1925
Which of them can refer to past or present actions?

22. Use similar time expressions to complete these sentences.
People first started traveling by train
_________.
in 1925
A hundred a fifty year ago
_______________________, there was a huge railway station in the middle of the city, but it isn’t there any more.

23. √ Choose the best answer: I first met Tom ten years ago. He _______
in a radio factory at that time.
A. had worked B. has worked
C. was working D. has been working √

24. √ 2. His father gave up smoking for only 3
days, but then ______ to his old ways.
A. returned B. returns
C. had returned D. has returned √

25. √ 3. I used to drink a lot of tea but these days I _______ coffee.
A. prefer B. preferred
C. had preferred D. am preferring √

26. √ 4. — Who’s the man over there? — It’s Jack. — Oh? ______ in Italy.
A. I think he is
B. I’ve thought he’s been
C. I thought he was
D. I’d thought he’d been √

27. Listening and speaking
Listen to part of an interview and answer the questions.

28. Listen to the tape and try to put the pictures in the correct order.

29. Everyday English
Interviewer Mary Lennon
Tell me… Oh yes!
Is that right? Not at all!
Oh, I see Absolutely!
Goodness! Definitely!

30. Homework
Write your description of a trip. Use the past tense and include some expressions, such as “On the first day…”, “After lunch…”, etc.