2Where’s the post office

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 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 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, near, pay Phrases post office, video arcade, next to, pay phone, across from, betweenand, 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 strategies 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. Greeting 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 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. 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 down 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 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 i