七年级英语-Unit-2-教案人教新课标版.doc

Unit 2 Where is the post office?

Language goals:
l In this unit students learn to talk about asking for and give directions on the street.

New languages:
l Excuse me, is there a bank near here?
l Yes, there is. It’s on Center Street.
l Where is the pay phone?
l It’s across from / next to / in front of / behind the library.
l It’s between the post office and the library.
l Just go straight and turn left.
l Turn left on First Avenue.
l Take a walk through the park on Center Avenue.
l There is a clean / dirty park near my house.

Difficult points:
1. Listening for the information of the names of the neighborhood
Read the tour guide and an e-mail from a friend you’re going to visit.
Write the dialogues about asking the way and giving directions.
2. Where questions.
Affirmative statements
Prepositions of place

Teaching aids:
l A tape recorder
l Some pictures

Teaching periods:
Period 1: Section A1a, 1b, 1c
Period 2: Section A2a, 2b, 2c
Period 3: Section A3a, 3b, 4
Period 4: Section B 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c
Period 5: Section B 3a, 3b, 3c, 4
Period 6: Self Check

Period 1
Teaching aims:
1. Teach vocabulary words.
2. Target languages: Is there a bank near here? Yes, there is. It’s on Center Street.
3. Enable the students to ask for and give directions on the street.
4. Help the students to ask for and give directions on the street.

Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Warming up
Show three pictures prepared before class to the students. There is a cat in a box in picture 1. There is a cat on a box in picture 2. There is a cat under the box in picture 3.
Then ask some students to ask and answer these questions.

Step 2.Match work (2a)
Ask the students to read the picture and the words in the numbered list.
Ask the students to match each word or phrase on the list with one of the pictures.
Then check the answers.
Present the new sentence patterns.
Then ask the students to read the dialogue in the picture.

Step 3. Listening (1b)
Ask the students to listen to the conversations and circle the places in 1a.
Change the roles and do the same again.
Then students ask and answer without the help of the recording.

Step 4. Practice
Point to the different locations shown in the picture. Ask different students to name each one.
Then point to more locations and let the students to practice more.

Homework
1. Practice the conversation in the picture on page 7.
2. Learn the new words and phrases in this period by heart.

Period 2
Teaching aims:
1. Learn the vocabulary words and useful expressions.
2. Target languages:
The pay phone is across from the library.
The pay phone is next to the library.
The pay phone is between the post office and the library.
The pay phone is on Greet Street.
The pay phone is in front of the library.
The pay phone is behind the library.
3. Enable the students to talk about the position of a place.
4. Help the students to talk about the position of a place.

Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision and warming up
Check the homework by talking about the pictures on page 7 with the students or prepare some other pictures with different buildings in it and let the students practice asking and answering questions about the places.
Ask the students to practice more.

Step 2. Presentation (2a)
Introduce the items across from, next to, between, in front of, behind and on.
Draw the following picture on the blackboard.
Park 3 Centre Street
Encourage or help the students to answer: It’s across from the library.
The same way goes with next to, on and in front of.
Ask the students to match each sentence with one of the pictures.
Then ask the students to read the six sentences and match the sentences the pictures.
Check the answers.

Step 3. Listening(2b)
Review the buildings and street names in Activity 1a and the six sentences in 2a.
The read the six sentences in 2b to the class.
Ask the students to listen to the recording and fill in the blanks.
Play the tape. Check the answers.

Step 4. Practice (2c)
Ask the students to repeat the conversations after the recording.
Ask the students to do the Pair work asking and answering questions about the places in 1a.

Step 5.Grammar Focus
Ask the students to read the sentences in the grammar box aloud. The ask them to answer the following questions. Explain some language points if the students can’t understand.

Homework
l Ask the students to practice talking about their neighborhood in pairs.

Period 3
Teaching aims:
1. Teach vocabulary words.
2. Target languages:
Just go straight and turn left.
It’s down Bridge Street on the right.
It’s next to a supermarket.
3. Enable the students to talk about the neighborhood.
4. Help the students to talk about the neighborhood.

Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision
Let the students look at the picture in activity 1a. And ask some students to answer some questions in order to check the homework.
Say, Is there a library near here? Where is it? Is there a bank near here? Where is it?
Put up the picture of activity 2a on the blackboard and ask them to make conversations.

Step 2. Presentation (3a)
Guide the students to guess the meanings of the three traffic signs.
Show the pictures and ask some questions about the pictures.
Then ask the students to hold up their left hands and then their right hands to practice “left” and “right”.
Point to the picture and let the students read the conversation.
Ask the students to read the conversations. Then ask them to find Paul and Nancy in the picture.
Ask the students to role play the conversation then point out the place that Paul wants to get to.

Step 3. Complete the conversations (3b)
Ask the students to make conversations and answer the questions below each picture.
The students point out the place in the picture. And write down the answers on the line in the pictures. Or ask a pair of students to say the conversation, the others point to the speakers’ place.

Step 4. Game
Ask the students to look at the picture in Activity 1a and name all the buildings.
Ask some students to read the conversation in the picture in Activity 4. And then explain the instruction to the student.
Then ask some groups to present their work.

Homework
l Ask the students to make a similar conversation to that in Activity 3a.

Period 4
Teaching aims:
1. Teach vocabulary words.
2. Target languages:
Is there a big supermarket near your house?
Yes, there is.
There is a big supermarket.
No! There is a small supermarket.
3. Enable the students to describe the neighborhood.
4. Help the students to describe the neighborhood.

Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision
Check the homework by asking the following questions.
Say, Look at the picture in activity 3a. Suppose you are standing near the building on the side of New Street. Please answer my questions. Excuse me. Is there a pay phone in the neighborhood?
Ask another student to answer questions.
Give more students chances to practice this dialogue

Step 2.Match work (1a)
Bring in some objects or pictures to the students. (Two rulers, one is old, the other is new. Two boxes, one is big and the other is small. Two bottles, one is clean and the other is dirty. Two pictures of a street, one is busy and the other is quiet.)
Say, Look at the rulers, please. Can you find the difference between them? Yes. This one is old. (Show the old ruler.) And this one is new. (Show the new ruler.) Do you understand old and new?
Ask the students to talk about the picture.
Point to each half of each picture and ask about the difference between the halves.
Go on with the other pictures to teach the language items.
Ask the students to match the words with the pictures.

Step 3. Pair work
Call attention to the conversation in the picture.
Then ask the students to work in pairs and take turns asking each other questions about the things on the list of phrases in activity 1a on page 7.

Step 4. Listening (2a, 2b)
Ask the students to listen to the tape and circle the places in 1a.
Say: Now please listen to the tape again. Listen to it and draw the places in Michael’s neighborhood on the street map. Just listen.
Play the recording.
Play the recording again.
Then have some students show their completed drawing to the class.

Step 5. Pair work
Ask the students to work in pairs talking about drawings to the class.
Then ask some pairs to present their dialogues to the class.
Ask the students to work in pairs, draw a map of their own neighborhood and practice asking and answering questions about the places they live in.

Homework
l Ask the students to make similar conversations to that in Activity 1b.

Period 5
Teaching aims:
1. Teach vocabulary words.
2. Target languages:
Turn left on First Avenue and enjoy the city’s quiet streets and small parks.
Take a walk through the park on Center Avenue.
This is the beginning of the garden tour.
Bridge is a good place to have fun.
3. Enable the students to write a tour guide and draw the rout to somewhere.
4. How to write a tour guide and draw the rout to somewhere.

Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision
Check the homework by asking about the student’s neighborhood.
Ask the students to work in pairs.
Ask the students to work in pairs.
Then ask some pairs to present their conversations to the whole class.

Step 2. Reading (3a, 3b)
Ask the students to read the tour guide.
Divide the whole class into four groups to have a quiz.
Tell the students to keep these words down and make at least two sentences with each word after class.
After that ask the students to look at the pictures and fill in the blanks for this tour guide.

Step 3.Writing
Ask the students to write a tour guide with the students.
Names of buildings and locations.
Description words
Words that talk about positions.
Words that talk about directions.

Step 4. Pair work (4b)
Learn to draw a picture of neighborhood. First ask the students to answer the questions according to the pictures.
Then ask the students to draw a picture according to the following conversation.
Then ask students to present their drawings to the whole class.

Homework
1. Ask the students to talk about the street and buildings in their own neighborhood.
2. Ask the students to make sentences with the description words they kept down in the class.

Period 6
Teaching aims
1. Teach vocabulary words.
2. Target languages:
I know you are arriving next Sunday.
Let me tell you the way to my house.
I hope you have a good trip.
3. Enable the students to write about the neighborhood.
4. Help the students to learn how to write about the neighborhood.

Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision
Check the homework by asking and answering some questions.
Give more students chances to practice.

Step 2Key word check(1)
Ask the students to check the words they know.
Then ask the students to do the some exercises.

Step 3.Vocab-Builders (2)
Expand the students’ vocabulary.
After that ask the students to share their list with other students.

Step 4. Reading
Ask the students to read the letter and draw the rout on the map.
Ask the students to change the letter into a telephone conversation.
Let the students pay attention to the pictures.
Say, Look at the picture of Sally. How old do you think she is? Where do you think she is from? What language do you think she speaks? What do you think she likes?
What do you think she dislikes?
The same step goes with Jim and Julie.
After a few minutes, ask some students to read their descriptions to the class.

Step 5. Just for Fun!
Call attention to the conversation in the cartoons.
Ask the students to read the conversation and then answer the questions.

Homework
l Ask the students to do the following:
1. Suppose your friend is going to visit you. He doesn’t know the way to your house. Write a letter to him to tell him the route from the bus stop to your house.
2. Review the next unit.