1、Unit 2 Where’s the post office? Teaching Goal: 1. General aims: A. Ask for directions on the street B. Give directions on the street 2. Particular aims: A. Language Focus. (1). Ask the way on the avenue. (2). Show the directions on the street. B. Language goals (1). Is there a
2、bank near here? Yes, there’s a bank on Center Street. (2). Where’s the supermarket? It’s next to the library. (3). Is there a pay phone in the neighborhood? Yes, it’s on Bridge Street on the right. (4). Go down off the Fifth Avenue. (5) . Take a walk straight. C. Language structures
3、 (1). Special question with where (2). There be …. (pay attention to be singular or plural) (3). Preposition with position (4). Sentence with yes. D. Useful words and phrases: Words: hotel, bank, park, supermarket, street, avenue, new, clean, quiet, big, small, dirty, old, busy, left, right
4、 near, pay Phrases: post office, video arcade, next to, pay phone, across from, between…and, turn left /right, go straight, take a walk, excuse me, go through, take a taxi, arrive at/in E. Grammar language: (1). There be … (2). Where is the place? (3). Position preposition F. Learning st
5、rategies: (1). Using what you know (2). Inferring content G. Interdiscipinary: (1). Geography (2). Art (3). Society H. Emotion and manner: (1). Expression (2). Help others Teaching time: 6 periods Teaching procedures: Period One (p7) Step 1: Warming up 1. Gr
6、eeting First wish the class have a happy, healthy new year. 2. Warming up What do you do during the Spring Festival? Step 2 Presentation 1. Leading-in For example: (say to myself) I go to Nanping Park. I go down the Shanhu Avenue, There is a hotel, a bank, two pay phones and so. Turn
7、left and go straight to the Jiefang Street. It’s on my right. Draw a picture and write down some places on the blackboard as I am talking. 2. Teaching the new words. Post office, video arcade, pay phone, bank, supermarket, hotel, library, street, straight, turn, left, right Step 3: Practice 1
8、 Ask students to act out about turn left/right. (each team every time, at last only one who wins gets a award.) 2. Section A 1a reading Ask Ss to read the places and match the words with the pictures. 3. Guess the place where I am. For example: I am standing here. (point to the picture) Go dow
9、n Bridge Street and turn left at the first crossing. Go along Fifth Avenue. It’s on my right. It’s next to library. Where am I going? Show them in the screen. 4. Ask Ss to follow the conversation above and complete the conversation. 5. Have the line in the classroom as the street and desks as the
10、 buildings and practice the conversation above. (1). Teacher tells four students each time to act out, others judge if they walk in the street correctly. (2) Ask Ss to judge “wrong” or “right”. 6. Section A 1b listening Play the recorder, ask Ss to circle the place they hear on the picture in
11、1a. 7. Pairwork: Have Ss ask and answer the question following 1c about other places in picture. Step 4: Homework 1. Copy the words in 1a. pay phone 2. Make a conversation like 1c. ShangHu Street A Jiefang treet supermarket library H
12、otel Post office Video arcade New park School bank Step 5: Classwork: Translation: 1. 图书馆在超市的对面。 2. 公园在银行的旁边。 3. 超市在第五大街上。 4. 投币电话在电子游戏中心和超市之间。 Design Blackboard: Unit 1. Where’s the post office? 1. Is there a …near here? between … and… 2. Where’s the …? n
13、ext to It’s on /across from … on the left /right Teaching note after class: Period Two (P8) Step 1: Revision Revise the words of 1a using the following pictures. next to supermarket Video arcade Sixth Avenue across from hotel between and bank c
14、inema library Step 2: Presentation 1. Teach these words using the pictures: across from next to between…and on 2. Help them make sentences with these words. The hotel is across from the bank. The cinema is between the hotel and the library. Video arcade is next to the su
15、permarket. Step 3: Practice 1. Section 2a reading Get the students to read the sentences in the box first. Then match each sentence with one of the pictures. 2. Section A 2b listening and understanding First read the words in the box together. Play the recording twice for the students to
16、 write down the words they hear. Play again, let the class know these conversations: ---Where is …? --- It is … ---Is there a …? ---Yes, … 3. Section A 2c oral practice Let the students look at the picture of Page 1. Ask and answer in pairs (or in a T-S way) Then ask several
17、 students to repeat some of their conversations for the class. Step 4 Homework 1. Copy and master the sentences in 2b. 2. Finish sentences in 2b Step 5 Classwork 1. Choose the best answer: (1). My best friend sits next _____ me. A. to B. on C. in D. beside (2). Is _____ a bank
18、 near the library? A. have B. There C. has D. there (3). ---Is there a bike in the supermarket? ---_______. A. Yes, it is B. No, it isn’t C. Yes, there isn’t D. Yes, there is 2. Translation: (1). 附近有一个公园吗?是的,在旅馆和邮局之间有一个。 (2). 公用电话在哪里?在学校的对边。 Teaching note after
19、 class: Period Three (p9) Step 1 Revision 1. Using a map of our school to revise the words of 2b. 2. Revise the conversation: ---Where is the …? ---It is …. book shop Jiefang Street bank my school supermarket East Street post office New Pa
20、rk Step 2 Presentation 1. Say: The post office, bank, supermarket are in my school’s neighborhood. I am at school. I want to go to the bank. How can I get there? Teach the students to describe directions using the following: go/ walk straight, turn left /right, on the left /right, go /wa
21、lk down the street Fore example: Go straight and turn right. It’s on the Jiefang street. It’s on the left. The bank is next to the supermarket. 2. Practice: Ask the students to practice more description of directions. Make sure they learn it well. Step 3 Practice 1. Section A 3a reading H
22、ave the students read the conversation together. Ask one of the students to put the conversation into Chinese. Remind the students of the expressions in the table. Draw the route pointed by Nancy and find out the position where Nancy and Paul are standing. 2. Section A 3b writing Tell
23、the class these three pairs are in the picture above and find them in it. The first pair is on the corner of the New Street. The second pair is across from the first. The third pair is on the corner of the Bride Street. Ask the students to have a discussion first and then make sentences after the
24、 model of 3a. Step 4 Game Practice using the target language: ---Is it + position + place? ---Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t. Let students look at the picture of P1 Ask and give directions in groups of four. Step 5 Homework 1. stabilities of the words. 2. make the sentences according the pic
25、ture in 1a. Step 6 Classwork 1. Complete the conversation A: Excuse me, Is there a bank ____(1) the neighborhood? B: Yes. Just _____(2) straight and ______(3) left. It’s down the Second Avenue _____(4) the right. It’s next _____ (5) a post office. A: ____(6) there a supermarket near it? B:
26、 Yes. It’s _____(7)from the bank. A: Thank you very much. B: You’re ______(8) 2. Make a sentence. (1). the, neighborhood, is, a, post, office, in, there __________________________________________________? (2). next, the, to, it, is, library ____________________________________________? (3)
27、 bank, is, a, pay, there, the, park, between, phone, and, the ________________________________________________________? Teaching note after class: Period Four (pp10-11) Step 1 Revision 1. Revise the conversation of Section A 3a 2. Make sure they can use these phrase correctly. go/wal
28、k straight, turn left /right, on the right /left Step 2 Presentation 1. Teach the following description words by the picture of Section B 1a. big /small, clean /dirty, busy /quiet/ noisy, new /old 2. Section B 1a Read the words aloud. Say each word’s meaning. Then ask students to matc
29、h each word or phrase on the list with one of the pictures. Step 3 Practice Section B 1b First, read the dialogue together. Second, work in pairs according to the model. Ask some students to present their dialogues for the class. Step 4 Listening 1. Play the recording the first time, a
30、sk students to circle the places they hear in 1a. Check answer. (shorten) 2. Play it again. This time draw a map of Micheal’s neighborhood in the box. Step 5 Pairwork 1. Let students show the maps of their family houses. Then tell their partners where they live. 2. Ask one or t
31、wo students to talk about their family locations in class, the other students draw maps of their families 3. Check if the maps are correct. Step 6. Reading 1. Reading the passage by themselves and find out the new words or the points they can’t understand. The new words: garden district take
32、 a walk through pass beginning tour 2. Read the passage together. Ask them to circle the description words. 3. Read after the tape and then read it together. Step 7. Homework 1. Use the old words to describe your own house 2. complete the passage in 3b Step 8. Classwork 1. Write the fol
33、lowing forms (1). dirty(opposite) (2). beginning (v) (3). tour(job) (4). pass (past form) (5). old(opposite) (6). visit (gernous) 2. Change into English 1.玩得高兴 2. 在长椅上 3. 一家古老的旅馆 4. 在你住的附近 5. 一条繁忙的街道 6. 散步 3. Written Des
34、cribe your neighborhood and draw a map of it Teaching note after class: Period Five (pp11-12) Step 1 Check Check the students’ dialogues and maps. Step 2 Reading and writing 1. Students look at the picture of 3b. Ask them to describe the picture. 2. Let students read the passag
35、e of 3b and fill in the blanks. Show the correct answers (shorten) 3. If necessary, explain some difficult points: have fun =have a good time busy be busy v-ing sth or with sth enjoy sth, enjoy v-ing sth, enjoy oneself if Step 3 Revision Shelf check 1 1. Read aloud together
36、 Then talk about their meaning one by one Find out their opposite of the words in 1 2. Reading and drawing Have the students read the e-mail by themselves. Find out the new words in the passage. Words: airport, pass, arrive, yours taxi Phrase: take a taxi, turn left, on you
37、r right, go through Try to understand the meaning of the e-mail Get the students to draw the route from the airport to Mike’s house. Check answers. Ask the students to read e-mail together. Step 4 Just for fun Read the dialogue in two halves. Question: who breaks the mobile phone? Step 5 Homework Do the study guide in Chongqing Teaching note after class: Period Six Testing (Weekly paper and Nan’an paper) And Enter Famous School Note:






