1、Unit 2 Where is the post office?Language goals: 来源:学优中考网 In this unit students learn to talk about asking for and give directions on the street. New languages: Excuse me, is there a bank near here? Yes, there is. Its on Center Street. Where is the pay phone? Its across from / next to / in front of /
2、 behind the library. Its between the post office and the library. Just go straight and turn left. Turn left on First Avenue. Take a walk through the park on Center Avenue. There is a clean / dirty park near my house. Difficult points: 1. Listening for the information of the names of the neighborhood
3、 Read the tour guide and an e-mail from a friend youre going to visit. Write the dialogues about asking the way and giving directions. 2. Where questions. Affirmative statements Prepositions of place Teaching aids: A tape recorder Some pictures Teaching periods: Period 1: Section A1a, 1b, 1c Period
4、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 1Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Is there a bank near here? Yes, there is. Its on Center Street. 3. Enable the students to ask for an
5、d 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
6、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 sente
7、nce 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
8、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 2Teaching a
9、ims: 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 pa
10、y 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 o
11、ther 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 bl
12、ackboard. Park 3 Centre Street Encourage or help the students to answer: Its 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 pict
13、ures. 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)
14、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
15、some language points if the students cant understand. Homework Ask the students to practice talking about their neighborhood in pairs. Period 3Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Just go straight and turn left. Its down Bridge Street on the right. It s next to a supermarke
16、t. 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 lib
17、rary 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 t
18、he 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
19、 to role play the conversation then point out the place that Paul wants to get to. 来源:学优中考网 xYzKwStep 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
20、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 expla
21、in the instruction to the student. Then ask some groups to present their work. Homework Ask the students to make a similar conversation to that in Activity 3a. Period 4Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Is there a big supermarket near your house? Yes, there is. There is a
22、 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
23、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 st
24、udents. (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 i
25、s 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 st
26、udents 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 stu
27、dents 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 Michaels 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
28、. 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. H
29、omework Ask the students to make similar conversations to that in Activity 1b. Period 5Teaching 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 t
30、he 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 students neighborhood. Ask the st
31、udents 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
32、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 p
33、ositions. Words that talk about directions. Step 4. Pair work (4b) 来源: 学优中考网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
34、 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. 板书设计：Is there a supermarket? Yes, there is./ No, there isnt.Where is the hotel? It is near/ next to/ betweenand来源:xYzKw.Com来源:学优中考网教学反思：本单元的语言目标是学会礼貌的问路并指路，涉及 there be 句型和方位介词的运用。词汇量大，词与词之间容易混淆，尤其是方位介词。因此在课堂上我利用灵活多样的活动方式，设置真实情景，学生练习充分。不足之处：新词组 go straight down 没有拿出来单独练，因此学生掌握不好，如果在处理这一环节时及时总结归纳 go through, go down, go along 的用法，就更好了，还有一些活动练习，可以变化形式让学生填空或画出路线。
