Unit 8 Is there a post office near here
Section A 1 (1a-1c)
I. Teaching aims:
1. Knowledge and Skills:
a. Learn to ask for and give directions (方位) on the street.
b. New words about some places
c. Learn the sentence pattern:
Is there a/an… Yes, there is. / No, there isn’t.
2. Emotional attitude and Values
a. Let students learn about places we often use in life, and know their functions.
b. Cultivate the students’ competitive cooperation through competition and group work.
c. To make Ss get happiness by giving help to others.
II. Teaching important and difficult points:
1. Teaching important points:
a. Words about places: post office, police, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay phone, park and so on.
b. Sentence about how to ask and answer questions about places:
Is there a/an… Yes, there is. / No, there isn’t.
2. Teaching Difficult Points:
How to ask and answer questions about places correctly.
III. Teaching Methods:
Presentation, listening, speaking, communication, cooperation learning method and task-based teaching method.
IV. Teaching Aids:
Blackboard, chalk, Multimedia, a postcard
V. Teaching procedures:
Step1. Greetings and Lead-in
Show a postcard to Ss and tell them: I want to post the card but I can’t find the post
Step2. Presentation
1. Show some pictures to teach the new words.
2. Ask Ss to read them loudly and try to remember them, then do a matching exercise.
Step3. Guidance
1. Finish 1a.
a. Ask one student to write his/her answers, then check.
b. Do some exercises to learn the sentence pattern “There be”
2. Finish 1b.
a. Listen to the tape, and circle the places you hear in 1a. Then check the answers.
b. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
1). A: Is there a restaurant ____ Bridge Street
B: Yes, _____ _____.
2). A: Is there a post office _____ here
B: Um, yes, there is. There's one____Long Street.
3). A: Is there a __________on Center Street
B:No, there______.
Then check the answers with the whole class.
3. Finish 1c
Make up the conversations with your partner about the places in 1a like this: A: Is there a hospital near here
B: Yes, there is. It’s on Bridge Street.
Step4. Group work
Show a picture of my “Dream House”, and give them a simple introduction about it. Then Ss will make their own “Dream House” by discussing in their groups. And then report their “Dream House” to the whole class.
Step5. Blackboard design
Unit 8 Is there a post office near here
Section A 1 (1a-1c)
post office
police station
hotel
--- Is there a restaurant near here
bank
hospital
pay phone
park
--- Yes, there is. It’s on the Bridge Street.