Unit 8 Is there a post office near here ?
Section A 1a---1c
Teaching Aims:
1、Knowledge and Skills:
(1) Students can understand and master words about places in English ,such as post office, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay phone, park.
(2) Students will be able to use simple English to express how to ask and answer about places .
2、Process and Methods :
(1) Make full use of the tape player and pictures,creating scenarios to let students have the desire to participate in learning ,and guide students to actively participate in classroom activities, as the main body of teaching and learning.
(2) Advocates the combination of autonomous learning and cooperative learning to improve the learning efficiency.
(3) Help students to build their own English categories thesaurus to improve the efficiency of remembering new words.
3、Emotion Attitude and Values:
(1) Let students learn about places we often use in life, and know their functions.
(2) Understand some English expressions of places
(3) Cultivate the students’ competitive cooperation through competition and group work.
Teaching Important and Difficult Points:
1、Teaching Important Points:
(1) Words about places: post office, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay phone, park, and so on.
(2) Sentences about how to ask and answer about places:
---Is there a hospital near here?
---Yes, there is. It’s on Bridge Street.
2、Teaching Difficult Points:
How to ask and answer questions about places accurately.
Teaching Methods:
Presentation,integrate listening,reading, and dialogue into the classroom,and combinate the group cooperation learning method and task-based teaching method. Teaching Aids: blackboard, chalk, a tape player,a tape,pictures
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Lead-in
The teacher let students talk about places we are familiar with.
T: Let’s make a discussion about places we often see in our life, OK?
Ss: OK.
T: Who can tell me which places we often use in life? If you don’t know English ,say it in Chinese please.
S1:银行邮局大街付费电话
T: Anything else ?
S2: 警察局医院旅馆.
T: Anything else ?
S3: 餐馆公园
T: Do you know how to express these places in English ?
Ss: Sorry, we don’t know.
(在学生说汉语时把这些汉字写在黑板上)
Step II Presentation
T: Now, look at some pictures in m y hand and let’s guess what places are they, Ok? Ss: Ok!
T: Look at the first picture, Which place ?
Ss:邮局.
T: Now read after me in English, I read one time and you read three times, post office. Ss: Post office, post office, post office!
T: How do you spell post office?
Ss: P-O-S-T ,O-F-F-I-C-E, post office.
T: Very good, let’s write it on the blackboard together, p-o-s-t, o-f-f-i-c-e, post office. Read after me,post office.(I read one time,and you read two times)
T: Now, look at the second picture, Which place?
Ss: 警察局.
…… …… ……
( Present the words: police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay phone, park.)
Step III 1a Match the words with the animals in the picture.
(1)Let the students finish activity 1a and check the answers.
(2)Practice the words
T: Can you read the places in1a?
Ss: Yes/No, I can/ I can’t.
T: Let’s check it. I read the alphabet and you tell me the name of the place it stands for in English ,Ok?
Ss: Sure.
T: Let’s begin, a ?
Ss: Police .
T: b ?
Ss: Hospital.
T: c?
Ss: Bank.
T: d ?
Ss: Park.
T: e?
Ss: Hospital.
T: f?
Ss: Post office.
T: g?
Ss: Pay phone.
T: Wonderful ! You really have done a good job ! Give ourselves some applause. (3)Explain the language points in the picture:
Bridge Street 大桥街Center Street 中心街Long Street 长街on Bridge Street 在大桥街上
Step IV 1b Listen and circle the places you hear in 1a.
The teacher plays the recording and then ask one student to say his(her) answers. At last, check the answers.
Step V 1c Practice
A: Is there a hospital near here?
B:Yes, there is. It’s on Bridge Street.
(1)The teacher read and explain the conversation.
(2)Let the students make their own conversations with their partners and ask three or four pairs to show them.
The teacher can provide some sentence patterns:
S1: Is there a post ofice near here?
S2:Yes, there is. It’s on Long Street.
S3: Is there a pay phone near here?
S4:Yes, there is. It’s on Center Street.
---- Is there a … near here?
----Yes, there is. It’s on ....
Step VI Summary:
The teacher leads students to make a summary about what they learned this class:
T: Today ,we learned some names of places, such as ...
Ss: post office, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay phone, park.
T: Today ,we learned a very important sentence, do you remember?
Ss: ---Is there a hospital near here? ---Yes, there is. It’s on Bridge Street.
T: We also learned some names of streets, such as...
Ss: Bridge Street 大桥街Center Street 中心街Long Street 长街
T: So good! You really have done a good job! Let’s give ourselves some applause.
Step VII Homework:
1、Draw a picture of your neighborhood and mark some places we learnd.
2、Write three conversations according to activity 1c.
Blackboard Design
Unit 8 Is there a post office near here ?
Section A 1a---1c
餐馆restaurant 公园park Bridge Street 大桥街
警察局police station 医院hospital Center Street 中心街
旅馆. hotel 银行bank Long Street 长街
邮局post office 大街street on Bridge Street 在大桥街上
付费电话pay phone
Teaching Reflection: