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Unit 4 Finding your way
A. Period 1 Comic strip & Welcome to the unit
Teaching goals
● To introduce the topic of places and transport
● To activate existing vocabulary and identify the meanings of new words related to the topic
● To guess meaning from pictures
● To talk about visits and means of transport using model sentences
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Presenting
1. (show them a picture about the birds flying to the south)
T: Where do birds fly in autumn?
S: They fly to the south.
T: Where do they fly in spring?
S: They fly back to the north.
Get them ready for the words about directions.
2. Show them the chart about directions.
north-west, north, north-east, west, east, south-west, south, south-east
T: Can you say the directions out with correct words?
S:…
T: Now please read these words after me for two times.
S:…
3. T: Now I want you tell us something about your living community. You can tell your partners about your own community. You must use some words about directions. You can draw a picture first.
(a hospital, a restaurant, a supermarket, a school, a bus stop, a hotel, a shopping mall…)
S:…
Step 2 Presenting
1. Take one picture from the student and ask the others.
T: Where is the hospital/restaurant/hotel…?
S: The hospital is north/east/… of my house.
2. The students can work in pairs and ask each other some questions. e.g.
S1: Where is the supermarket?
S2: The supermarket is …
3. Ask several pairs to do the dialogue.
4. T: Now I have a question. How do you usually go to school?
S: I usually go to school by bike/ by bus / on foot…
1. Ask students to make up new dialogues using different transport means, then ask them to role-play it.
Step 3 Presenting
1.T: The Class 1, Grade 7 students are planning a spring outing. Read the instructions. Look at the map and find the places they plan to visit. Then write the numbers in the boxes. (The teacher read the three sentences to them and let them write down the correct numbers)
2. T: How can we get to the Park Lake/ the Zoo/ the Sunnyside Garden?
S: Let’s go there by bus/underground…
T: We also can use other expressions to give suggestions.
Why don’t we…?
What about …?
Why not…?
T: Now please work in pairs and make up a new dialogue, and then ask them to role-play it.
S:…
Step 4 Practicing
1. Show them a picture and ask them work in a group of four students.
S1: Where is the park/…?
S2: The park/… is …
S1: Let’s go to the park/…
S2:OK.
S1:How can we go there?
S2:We can go there by bus/on foot/…
2. Ask some pairs to practice the dialogue.
Step 5 Presenting
1. Ask the students to look at the comics on page 42.
T: Hobo and Eddie are going to a spring outing. Now please listen to the tape and answer the questions.
Where are Hobo and Eddie standing? (On top of a hill.)
How does Hobo go down the hill? (Hobo jumps down.)
What does the sign say? (It says ‘Dogs this way’.)
Do they have to go up the hill again? (Yes, they do.)
2. T: Now please listen to the tape.
3. T: Ok, let’s read the dialogue together.
S:…
4. T: Now, I’ll give you 2 minutes to read the dialogue with your partner. Then I’ll invite some of you to come to the blackboard and role-play it.
Step 6 Doing homework
1. Read the dialogue after class.
2. Recite the new words and the structures today.
3. Finish the exercises on the workbook.
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