1、Unit 3: Could you please tell me where the restrooms are? Period 4: Writing, Listening and Speaking (What’s the problem?) Objectives ● To learn to understand and use indirect questions ● To write, listen and speak asking for information politely Procedures ■Warming up by reading to the recor
2、ding First let’s read aloud the texts while listening to the tape. 1a Reading and ordering On page 89 is a list of words and a box with places. Now go over them and put in words beside the place, the most important quality words first. Places Qualities 1. restroom Clean→safe→uncrowded 2. mu
3、seum Fascinating→interesting→beautiful 3. restaurant Delicious→uncrowded→inexpensive 4. park Big→interesting→clean 5. subway Convenient→safe→ 6. mall Uncrowded→inexpensive→ 1b Pairing and speaking You are familiar with the words in 1a. Now use them to talk about your city. A: The Fine Ar
4、ts Museum is really interesting. B: Yes, and it’s beautiful, too. A: The Computer Room is really big. B: Yes, and it’s convenient, too. A: The Dining Hall is really clean. B: Yes, and the food is cheep, too. A: The Bus Station is really safe. B: Yes, and it’s uncrowded, too. A: The Centr
5、al Square is really fascinating. B: Yes, and it’s not far away, either. 2a Listening and writing Some tourists are going around your city. They are asking about things. Now listen to them talking and write what they ask about. Do you know what the tourists are asking about? The tourists ask ab
6、out… Conversation 1 Restaurants Conversation 2 public restrooms Conversation 3 a good museum Now go to page 134. While reading, try to cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all the predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions. That’s grammar study, in de
7、ed. Useful expressions from the conversations a good place to eat, delicious salads public restrooms. around here, at the corner of … history museums, go to a science museum, go to a children’s museum, too old for a children’s museum, go to an art museum, go to the computer museum, a lot of fun
8、things for children, learn all about …, learn about science, a great idea Now read the conversations again to make your own conversations in imitation of them. 2b Listening and writing Now you are to listen to the conversations for the second time. Listen for where the man says the tourists shoul
9、d go. The tourists should go to… Conversation 1 Green Land Conversation 2 The corner of Market and Middle Streets Conversation 3 The computer museum 2c Pairing and speaking For fun and for learning let’s role play the conversations between the man and the tourists. Who will be the man? Al
10、l right, it’s you, Zhao Hongtao. A: Can you tell me where there’s a good place to eat? B: Of course. What kind of food do you like? A: I like vegetarian food. B: There are a lot of good restaurants in Sunville. Why not go to Green Land. They have delicious salads. A: Can you tell me if there a
11、re any public restrooms around here? B: Yes, there’s one at the corner of Market and Middle Streets. A: Are they clean? B: Oh, no. They’re very dirty. A: Could you tell me if there is a good museum in Sunville? B: There’s a computer museum at the corner? There are a lot of fun things for both children and parents. A: That’s a great place! Let’s go to the computer museum. How do we get there? B: Take Bus 11.






