Finding your way
Teaching aims and demands:
New words: follow, path, have to, north, west, south, east, trip, kilometer
Teaching methods: task-based approach
Teaching task:
1. To introduce the topic of places and transport.
2. To talk about visits and means of transport using model sentences.
Teaching aids: tape recorder
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warm-up (presentation)
Ask the students on duty to give us a short report about the Sunshine Town.
Ⅱ. Listening
1. Listen to the tape, answer my question, “Did Hobo, in fact, know the way?” Help the Ss to answer.
2. Listen again, Ss read after the tape recorder, then do some True or False exercises. Check the answers with the whole class.
Ⅲ.Language points:
1. follow me
2. go up and down
e.g. Let’s go down the hill together.
3. Don’t be afraid.
e.g. (1) Don’t be late for school.
(2) Don’t play in the street. It’s too dangerous.
4. be afraid to do.
5. be afraid of sth./doing sth.
6.I’m afraid that+从句
e.g. (1) The little girl is afraid to go out in the evening.
(2) Little Tom is afraid of dogs.
(3) I’m afraid that I can’t go with you. I have a lot of work to do.
Ⅳ. Concluition
Introduce the topic of place and transport.
Discussion (task)
Talk about visits and means of transport using the model sentence
‘---Let’s go to the zoo
.---OK. We can go by bus.
Language points:
1. The zoo is north of Beijing Sunshine Secondary School. (north of)
south, west, north-west, south-west
e.g. The library is south of the classroom.
The playground is west of the classroom.
2. ---How do we get there?
---We can go by bus.
by air/bus/car/bike/underground
Ⅴ.Sum-up
Go through the new words and the language points during this lesson.
Ⅵ. Homework
. Review the contents of this lesson.
Finding your way
教学目标：
能掌握冠词的用法。
能运用方位介词来表达物体的位置。
教学步骤：
A Using a, an and the
Step Ⅰ Free talk
What’s this? It’s a book.
Whose book is it? It’s…’s.
Write the sentences on the blackboard: It’s a book. The book is…’s.
Make sentences
eg: This is an apple. The apple is big and red.
Step ⅡPresentation
We use a or an when we mention a person or thing for the first time. We use the before a noun when the person or thing is mentioned again, or when we are talking about a specific person or thing.
Show some pictures and ask students to say something about the pictures:
This is a Panda House. We can see some pandas.
Look, here is panda. The panda is eating bamboo.
Here’s a panda too. What’s the panda doing? (The panda is lying on the grass.)
Here is a baby panda. How cute! It’s so small. But the baby panda doesn’t look like its mother.
Step Ⅲ Practice
Pair work
Have a free talk with your partner, try to use a, an and the.
Finish these sentences with “a, an, the”.
----I can see kite over there.
----Where’s kite? I can’t see it.
There’s famous university in this city.
Everyone has mouth, nose, two eyes and two ears.
Which is biggest, Sun, Earth, or Moon？
Kate is English girl and I am Chinese girl.
---- Who’s man over there?
---- Oh, he’s friend of my father’s.
Text book Page 47: Fun in the zoo
Ask students to complete the conversation with “a, an, the”. Then check the answers.
Read and act out the conversation.
B Prepositions of place
Step ⅠPresentation
Introduce some prepositions of place.
Eg: I often stand in front of you. Where is … sit?
She sits between A and B. She sits in front of C, and C sits behind her.
Ask and answer, try to make students answer with “inside , outside, beside, next to, left and right”.
Teacher says: Look, we have some lights. The lights are above us. We have some books here. The books are on the teacher’s desk. We have a national flag. It’s over the blackboard.
(Make sure that students can use these words correctly.)
Read the sentences on Page 48. Then make a simple dialogue.
Sample conversation:
S1: Where do you sit?
S2: I sit in front of…
I sit between…and…
I sit next to…
S1: I sit beside…
I sit behind…
Tell other students where you sit.
Step Ⅱpractice
In the park
Sandy goes to the park every weekend. Look at the picture and tell me what you can see in it.
Group work: say something about the picture.
Make a conversation.
Sample conversation:
T：Where’s the lake?
S: It’s beside a football field.
T: What are the two boys doing on the lake?
S: They’re rowing a boat.
T: Where’s a bird singing?
S: The bird is singing in the left tree.
Complete the article on Page 48.
Check the answers. Then read the article.
Step Ⅲ Homework
巩固所学词汇、词组、句型及语法内容。
Unit 4 Finding your way
Teaching Aims:
知识与能力：
1. To be able to get information from the listening material
2. To understand the instruction and draw the route, listening skills training
3. To talk about how to reach a particular location.
过程与方法：Task-based method
情感态度价值观：Be ready to help others
Learning aims:
1. To be able to get information from the listening material
2. To understand the instruction and draw the route, listening skills training
3. To talk about how to reach a particular location.
Self-learning
Find out the key points.
Class activities:
Step 1.Revision
1. Free talk:
What does the sign mean? It means it is a bridge.
What about this? It means it is a street.
Does the man walk straight on? No, he doesn't.
Are there traffic lights? Yes, there are.
Is there a zebra crossing? Yes, there is.
2. Write down the new words.
Cross the bridge, the traffic lights, turn right, the first/second turning
Step2.Presentation
1. Show pictures on Page 49, then listen to the tape and tick the correct boxes in A1.
2. Listen and read after the tape.
1a: Cross the bridge and turn left.
1b: Cross the bridge and turn right.
2a: Take the first turning on the left.
2b: Take the second turning on the right.
3a: Cross the road.
3b: Cross the road at the zebra crossing.
4a: Walk past the police station.
4b: Walk to the police station.
Step3. Practice
1.Listen to the instructions and finish A3
2.Read the map on Page 50 together ,Listen to the instructions again and finish A3
Step 4 Pair work
Work in pairs and tell your partner how to get to a place. and use the conversation Part B on Page50 as a model.
IV. Summary
1.The new words and useful expression
2. Listening skills training
Step 5. Exercises
一．选择所给单词的正确形式填空。
1）Jack’s grandfather lives in a (wood/wooden)house in the small village.
2) You can take the (second/two)turning on your right.
3) Walk (across/cross)the bridge and you will see Hill Building.
4) Would you like (to tell/tell)us the story?
5) Mum walks (past/pass)the park to her school every day.
6) It’s easy (to find/finding)the big tree.
二．翻译练习。
1)走过小桥、左拐进入一个公园。
2)沿着靠近河边的一条小路走，你就能看见一座木房子在你右边。
（3)一直走，你将会看见左边的警察局。
4)穿过田野，你会看见前面有棵大树。
5)第三个路口右拐，过桥。你可以看见右边的花园大厦。我就住在507室。
Step 6. Homework
1.Remember the lesson learned vocabulary and phrases.
2.Recide or act the conversation
3. write a dialogue with the information
4. Preview Study skills.
Unit 4 Finding your way
Reading(Ⅰ)
教学目标：
能根据地图识路，掌握方位的基本表达方法。
能了解动物园常见动物的名称及基本习性。
能为别人指路，能对他人指引的路线作出正确的反应。
教学步骤：
Step Ⅰ Free talk
Where’s the…? Do you know the way to the…?
Where’s the…? Is it far from our school? How do you get there?
Show some maps, ask and answer questions.
Step ⅡPresentation
We are going to visit Sunshine Zoo today, what can we see in the zoo?
Show a picture of pandas and say: Look, what are they? Pandas. They’re very cute. Where do pandas live in the zoo? What do they like to eat? (They live in the panda house, and they like to eat bamboo.)
Show a picture of monkeys and ask: Do you like monkeys? Why? (funny/jump around/make people laugh)
Do pandas like to jump like monkeys do? No, they like to lie down all day long. (lie down/ all day long)
Show a picture of lions and say: Monkeys and pandas are very lovely. We all like them. How about lions? Lions are the kings of animal world. They are very dangerous. Don’t go near them. ( king/dangerous…)
Introduce other new words.
Ask students: Which animal do you like best? Why?
Step Ⅲ Practice
Work in pairs, make a conversation like this:
S1: Which animal do you like?
S2: I like pandas.
S1: Why?
S2: Because pandas are very cute.
Part B2 Millie is making some notes about the animals in the zoo. Help her fill in each blank with the correct answer.
Step Ⅳ Presentation
Today, the students are in Sunshine Zoo. They’re seeing many different kinds of animals. Do you know what kinds of animals they are? Listen to the tape and try to find the answers.
Read the passage, then work in groups of four. Let’s complete Part B1. Read the introduce carefully. Try to find each animal’s location in the zoo.
Which animal do you like best in the zoo? Tell us where they are.
Eg. I like monkeys best. The monkeys are north of the World of Birds.
Part B2 “true or false”. If it is false, can you point mistakes? How can we correct them?
Step Ⅴ Games
Game1: Now imagine that our classroom is a zoo. There are different sections for different animals. Please work in groups of four. One of the group members will be the guide. He or she should show the three visitors the way to the different animals. The other three students will ask the way to the sections for their favourite animals.
Game2: Look at the map. Show the way to other people with this map. Please work in pairs.
Step Ⅵ Homework
Reading(Ⅱ)
教学步骤：
Step Ⅰ Free talk
Here are some sentences about animals. I’ll give the sentence to different students. They’ll read the sentence out. The other students will guess which animal it is.
Or: Here are names of animals. I’ll give them to groups of four. One student will read out the name, the other three students will say something about the animal.
Wendy is Millie’s online friend. They’re talking about Sunshine Zoo. Please complete the information in Part B4.
Read and act out the conversation.
Step ⅡPresentation
How to give directions:
Eg: Go straight on, and you will find the Panda House.
Walk along the road. To the north of the Panda House, you will find lions.
Turn left, and to the west of the Lions’ Area, you’ll find the World of Birds.
North-east of the giraffes there is a bridge.
Cross the bridge, and you will see the elephants.
Step Ⅲ Practice
Complete the sentences:
(一直走), (你会找到) the post office.（Go straight on; you will find）
Every day, lots of visitors (来这里看熊猫). (come here to see the pandas)
The birds always (发出悦耳的声音) in the World of Birds. (make beautiful sounds)
Pandas like （整天躺着）, and the monkeys always (上蹿下跳) . (to lie down all day long; jump around)
（紧挨着）the World of birds is （狮子区）。（Next to; the Lions’ area）
Step Ⅳ Homework
熟读课文，争取复述或背诵。
记忆词汇、词组和句型。
Finding your way
Teaching Aims:
Learn to write an invitation letter.
Step 1. Presentation
Present the new words by showing some pictures
Step 2. Lead-in
l. Discuss some questions.
When is your birthday?
Do you have a birthday party?
2. Ask and answer in pairs.
Where will you have the party?
When will you have the party?
What will you have for food?
Who will you invite?
Step 3. Listening
1. Listen and answer
1). Who will have a birthday party?
2). Where will she have the party?
3). When will she have the party?
4). Who will she invite?
2. Read after the tape.
Step 4. Complete the directions according to the map.
Draw the map and find out the way to Suzy’s home.
Complete the directions.
Check the answers.
Step 5. Explanation
1. have a birthday party
举行一个生日聚会
e.g. We will have a birthday party this weekend.
这个周末我们将举行一个生日聚会。
2. invite sb. to … 邀请某人去……
e.g. I’d like to invite you to my party.
我想要邀请你去我的聚会。
invite sb. to do sth. 邀请某人做某事
e.g. I want to invite you to come to my home.
我想要邀请你来我家。
3. prepare…for… 为……准备……
e.g. My parents will prepare lots of food and drink for us .
我的父母将为我们准备许多食物和饮料。
prepare to do sth. 准备做某事
e.g. We are preparing to go on a trip.
我们正准备去进行一次旅行。
4. plenty of = a lot of 大量，充足
e.g. we have plenty of /a lot of homework to do every day .
我们每天有大量的家庭作业要做。
e.g. I have plenty of /a lot of friends.
Step 6. Writing an invitation letter
1. Organize a birthday party.
2. Make an invitation card.
3. Write an invitation letter.
4. Show their letters.
Step 7. Exercises
Step 8. Homework Review all the new words and language points in this unit.
