学情分析
本单元是让学生能够学会礼貌地向他人询问信息，能够准确描述地理位置、给他人指路或提供帮助，能够熟练运用where，how和if引导的宾语从句，所以课堂教学任务要充分调动学生的积极性，活动设计要低起点、多层次，满足不同学生的需求，通过多媒体课件和教师亲和力的语言，增强兴趣和注意力，让每个学生都体验到学会知识的快乐。
效果分析
本节课利用多媒体课件，教会学生英语单词及语法知识的同时，还教会了学生如何用英语有利貌的询问信息和请求帮助。既训练了学生的口语表达能力又训练了学生的写做能力。
教学反思
本节课的重点是学习疑问词引导的宾语从句以及宾语从句在写作中的使用。从句的语序和时态是学生们容易犯的错误，对于学生所犯错误要及时地发现并纠正，使学生能够准确地辨识和灵活地运用宾语从句，提高语言表达能力。
Unit 3 Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?
Grammar and writing
梁山县第二中学 秦瑞丽
Teaching Plan
Teaching goals:
1.Knowledge goal:
A.Learn new words:grape、mail 、central…。
B.：Master the following drills
Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?
Excuse me,do you know how to get to …?
2.Ability goals:
A.Learn to summarize and make conclusion by learning grammar and reviewing 。
B.Finish writing by learning the ways of writing。
3.Emotional goal:
Let students ask for information and help politely by learning this unit。
Teaching procedures;
Step 1 Learn new words
Grape, mail, central, nearby, mail, pardon me..
Step 2 Learn how to ask for information politely (Practise in four groups)
Where can I buy some medicine? (impolitely)
Excuse me ,do you know where I can buy some medicine? (politely)
Sure. There's a supermarket down the street.
How can I get to the post office? (impolitely)
Could you please tell me ﹛ how I can ∕ how to﹜get
to the post office? (politely)
Sorry, I'm not sure ﹛ how you can ∕ how to ﹜ get there.
When does the band start playing this evening? (impolitely)
Could you tell us when the band starts playing this evening? (politely)
It's starts at 8:00 pm.
Where should we go next? (impolitely)
Pardon me,I wonder where we should go next. (politely)
You should try that new ride over there.
Step 3 Grammar learning
1. Compare the word order of each sentence
A.Where can I buy some medicine?
Excuse me,do you know where I can buy some medicine?
B.When does the band start playing this evening?
Could you tell us when the band starts playing this evening?
C.Where should we go next?
I wonder where we should go next.
疑问词：疑问代词(what、whom、who、whose、which)、疑问副词(when、where、why、how)
Word order (语序):
无论主句是陈述句还是疑问句, 也无论主从句间是什么引导词, 宾语从句一律用陈述语序, 即“引导词 + 主语 + 谓语 + 其他”。如：
Could you tell me where Wei Fang lives??
Tense(时态)
（1.）如果主句是一般现在时或一般将来时, 宾语从句的时态不受限制, 可根据实际表达的需要来确定。
You will understand why I did it one day.
总有一天你会明白我为什么那样做。
Bill wonders whether they will have zongzi again next year.
比尔想知道是否他们明年再吃到粽子。
（2.）如果主句是一般过去时，宾语从句用一般过去时的某种形式
I thought (that) he had gone to the town that day.
我以为他那天进城去了。
He told me where he was going this summr vacation.
他告诉我今年暑假他要去哪里度假。
（3.）如果宾语从句叙述的是客观事实、自然现象或科学真理等，从句不受主句时态的限制，用一般现在时。如：
He said (that) time is money.?
他说时间就是金钱。
2.Practise:
4a Rewrite the questions to make them more polite.
1. Where can I buy some grapes or other fruit?
2. How does this CD player work?
3. Is the Italian restaurant nearby open on Mondays?
Possible keys:
1.Could you tell me where I can buy some grapes or other fruit?
2.Excuse me, would you mind telling me how this CD player works?
3.Excuse me, would you mind telling me if the Italian restaurant opens on Mondays?
4b What should each person ask in the following situations?
Practise in pairs.
1. Sally needs to mail a letter.
2. Helen needs to know when the bike shop closes.
3. Ben is wondering if there’s a bank in the shopping center.
For example;
A. Could you please tell me where the nearest post office is?
OK.Go down this street...
Step 4.Writing
I.While writing
Imagine you are going on a short study vacation at a school in an English-speaking country. What would you like to know before you go? Ask some polite, indirect questions about the following topics,and ask students to finish 3a
The course you will study
2.The time of the course
3. Where and what you can eat
4. Where you will stay
5. What activities you can do
6. Travel to the school
II.Writing
Write a polite letter to the school asking for the information you want to know. Use your notes in 3a.
I.Write outline
In your letter, you should:
﹡introduce yourself
﹡say when you are coming
﹡politely ask for information
﹡thank the person for helping you
Structure:
Dear Sir or Madam,
My name is…and I’m from…I like….I’ll be coming to your school for….I would like to know about…
Could you tell me what course I will study…….
…………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………..
I would like to thank you for ……….I’m looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
II.Ask one student to read his composition, and help him correct the mistakes.
Step 5 Self check
Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.
corner direct polite rush suggest plan
A: Could you tell me where the library is?
B: It’s on the ______ of Main and Center Streets.
2. A: I wonder why you don’t wake up earlier in the morning. You’re always in a ______ to get to school on time.
B: Yes, you’re right. I need to _____ my time better.
3. A: I want to buy some winter clothes. Could you tell me which place would be a good choice for me to go to?
B: I _______ Jenny’s Clothes Store in Century Shopping Mall. It’s convenient to get to.
4. In many countries, it is often not _____ to ask very _____ questions when you meet someone for the first time.
2. Write questions and answers using the words given.
1. buy a magazine/ bookstore on third floor
Q: Could you please tell me where I can
buy a magazine?
A: There’s a bookstore on the third floor.
2. get some stamps / post office on
Green Street.
Q: Could you please tell me where I can get some stamps?
A: there’s a post office on Green Street.
3. shopping center opens / 10:00 a.m.
Q: Could you please tell me when the shopping center opens?
A: It opens at 10:00 a.m.
4. get to the Japanese restaurant / go along Main Street and turn right on Lake Street
Q: Could you please tell me how to get
to the Japanese restaurant?
A: Sure! Go along Main Street and turn right on Lake Street.
Step 6 Summary: Summarize the lesson with mind map
Step 7 homework
Write some questions that a tourist might ask about your town/city. Then role-play conversations with your partner.
