Warm-up 1.

WC 2' T elicits from the Ss words related to "road" by using pictures. Familiarize Ss with the topic and introduce some related key words, such as highway, pavement, crossroad, pedestrian overpass... 2.

WC 3'

T talks about her personal experience related to traffic and discusses her feelings about traffic in Beijing. T encourages Ss to share their feelings. - Start from personal experiences so that Ss can talk about things they are familiar with.

- Continue introducing some new words naturally. Pre-reading 3. WC

3' Ss listen to a dialogue and figure out how long it took these people to go to work and how they felt. Use the beginning of the text as a lead-in to the topic. 4. WC

2' Ss make guesses about some figures related to traffic in Britain. (see handout) - - Activate Ss' existing knowledge

- - Increase their interest in reading the passage. While-

reading 5. IW

3'

Ss scan the first part of the passage (on page 42) and check their guesses. - - Guide Ss to practice predition and scanning skills in reading.

- - Increase Ss' awareness about problems caused by cars. 6. PW

3' Ss read the first part for the second time and underline all the problems caused by cars and check in pairs. Ss read for specific information and understand better all the problems caused by cards Post-reading 7. WC

5' T erases gradually all the information from the table and Ss try to recall it. Provide opportunity for Ss to internalise the information they extracted. transition

8. WC

3' Discuss the following questions:

a. Why do British people carry on using cars?

b. How can they give up cars? Do you have any advice? Prepare Ss for the second part. Motivate them to learn more in the second part.