1、Unit 3: Could you please tell me where the restrooms are? Period 5: Reading, Writing and Speaking (Eat, have fun and learn in Watertown!) Objectives ● To learn to understand and use indirect questions ● To read, write and speak asking for information politely Procedures ■Warming up by looki
2、ng and saying Hello, class. Do you like to travel? Look at the photo and say something about it. This is a watertown in south China. It was built around 1,700 years ago. It lies to the south of the Yangtze River. The watertown is easy to get to because it is only one hour by bus from Shanghai. Th
3、is watertown has many places of interest for the eyes. There are many Ming and Qing buildings, old stone bridges and small streets. To visit a watertown, please go to page 90. 3a Reading and filling Go to page 90, please. While reading, try to cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all th
4、e predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions. That’s grammar study, in deed. After reading fill in the chart on page 90 on the right. Kids Teenagers Parents Eat Uncle Bob’s Farmer’s Market Have fun Clown City Café Water slides Dance lessons Learn Scie
5、nce Museum Sports Museum History Museum Useful expressions from the conversations have fun, a great place, take a vacation, visit the world’s largest water slides, eat at Uncle Bob’s, a different rock band, play at Uncle Bob’s, enjoy the Clown City Café, organize games, dress up as clown, love g
6、ood food, delicious and cheap, take the dance lessons on the beach, spend many happy hours walking through… Now read the text again to turn it into a conversation. 3b Reading and completing On page 90 is an unfinished tour guide to Sunville. Now turn back to 2a and 2b for information to finish i
7、t. SUNVILLE has something for everyone. If you’re looking for museums, you will find several here. History museums are fascinating to parents. But kids may find them boring. In a science museum you can learn lots of things. Children’s museums are more fun. An art museum is interesting to people wh
8、o like arts. If you go to the computer museum you will find a lot of fun things for children there. They can learn all about the history of computers, as well as learn about science. IN SUNVILLE there are a lot of good restaurants, too. They are nice places to eat. You can find vegetarian food and m
9、eats, too. Green Land offers delicious salads. Public restrooms around SUNVILLE are clean and beautiful. You’ll find some easily at the corner of Market and Middle Streets. 3c Write a guide to your city or town MY HOMETOWN: TAIYUAN Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi Province, lies in the north p
10、art of Middle Jin and crosses the River Fen. The city area has three parts, one smaller city and five counties. The history of the city can go back to over 2,400 years ago. It was set up in 497 BC, the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and was named Jinyang, the northern bank of the Jin River. In
11、Chinese, the northern bank of waters is called yang. In 982, Song Taizong, Zhao Kuangyi, the second emperor of the Song Dynasty burned and flooded Jinyuan City. After that, he ordered one of the officials, Pan Mei to build Taiyuan City in Tangming Town, north of Jinyuan City. Thus, came the present
12、Taiyuan City. Taiyuan, in Chinese, means the greatest plain. In fact, around it there are many high mountains and hilly areas. Only one-fifth of the whole area is plains. Taiyuan has coal and iron, so it has the name, "the home of coal and iron." Taiyuan is nice in climate. It is not dry and cold in
13、 winter, not hot and rainy in summer, not dusty and windy in spring. But it is cool and comfortable in autumn. 4 Grouping and speaking One of the group members is to role play the information booth worker, and the others are the tourists. The tourists are asking about your city. Tourist: What is
14、 Taiyuan? Information booth worker: It is the capital city of Shanxi Province. Tourist: Where is Taiyuan? Information booth worker: It lies in the north basin of Middle Jin (Jin is another name for Shanxi Province) and crosses the River Fen. Tourist: How many districts are there in Taiyuan? In
15、formation booth worker: The city area administers three districts, one subdivided city and five counties. Tourist: How old is the city? Information booth worker: The history of the city is as old as 2,400 years. It was established in 497 BC, the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (the slavery Period in China). What was its old name? Tourist: Information booth worker: It was named Jinyang, the northern bank of the Jin River. In Chinese, the northern bank of waters is called yang. …






