Unit 8 Is there a post office near here
单元整体分析
◆重点词句梳理
Section A
单词卡片
名词： post, office, police, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay, front, town, north
动词： pay 形容词： north
副词： across, around
介词： near, across, behind, around
短语归纳
介词短语： across from, in front of
名词短语： post office, police station, pay phone
句型再现
1. Is there a post office near here?
2. It's on Bridge Street.
3. The pay phone is across from the library.
4. I'm new in town.
5. Where's Center Street?
6. It's not too far from here.
SectionＢ
单词卡片
名词：right, left, crossing, neighborhood, road, air, sunshine, money
动词：turn, spend, climb, enjoy
形容词：free 副词：right, left, often, easily
介词: along
短语归纳
动词短语： go along, turn right, spend time, enjoy reading
句型再现
1. Go along Long Street and it's on the right.
2. The best things in life are free！
3. I love to watch the monkeys climbing around.
4. You can get to the library easily.
5. I like to spend time with my grandparents on Sundays.
6. When I read books, time goes quickly!
7. To get to the park, you just have to cross Center Street.
◆教材内容解读
本单元的中心话题是“问路与指路”。Section A 部分有三个方面的内容：一是与社区环境和设施相关的词汇bank, library, restaurant, post office, police station等；二是表示方位的介词across from, next to, in front of等；三是there be句型的一般疑问句及其回答。通过三者的结合，运用正确的方位介词来描述各种社区设施的地理位置。Section B 部分的重点是用得体的语言问路和指路，并描述自己的街坊邻里、社区环境。常用的问路用语：Excuse me. Is there…? 常用的指路用语：go along, turn
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right/left, on your right/left, at the first crossing等。
◆功能话题应用
Is there a restaurant near your house?
Yes, there is. It’s on Center Street.
Where’s the supermarket?
It’s next to the library.
Where are the pay phones?
They’re in front of the post office.
◆语法结构点击
1. 用there be句型询问或描述事物的所在位置。
2. where引导的特殊问句询问事物的具体位置。
3. 表示方位的介词。
背景知识链接
◆采用新教案P154话题相关链接。
Section A
新课备课素材
◆ 素材一 新课导入设计
导入一 图片导入： show some pictures about some places. Show the new words with the pictures ; then lead to the new lesson.
导入二 猜词游戏导入：Let students guess the places. For example: if I want to buy a piece of stamp, where can I go? -- Post office. Then lead to the new lesson
导入三 Watch the video：Watch the video about the place preposition, and then lead to the new lesson.（见PPT）
导入四 采用P156 话题导入 导语二。
◆ 素材二 新课活动案例
活动 1 采用新教案P155活动设计
活动 2 Role-play（分角色表演，强化巩固以问路和指路为话题的情景对话。）
Step 1 Teacher shows some key words and phrases; Ss use them to make their own conversations with partners.
library post office Green Street next to across from far from
Step 2学生自己提供有关人物、地点、事件，让其他小组进行现场对话练习。
活动 3Who is the fastest? (详见PPT)
◆ 素材三 听说强化训练
采用P155 听说训练。
◆ 素材四 语法突破建议：
（一）【观察】How can I help you?
【探究】 表示向他人伸出援手，主动提出帮助的意思，此句还可说成：How can I help you?或How may I help you?
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类似的句子还有：
May I help you?
Do you need any help?
Is there anything I can help (you) with?
What can I do for you?
（二）【观察】It’s across from the park.
【探究】across from 意为“在……对面”
across 与through
across 作介词，从表面“穿过；越过”，是横向穿越；
through 指从内部“穿过”，是纵向穿越。
e.g. 1. You must go across the bridge and then turn right.
2. Go through the park, and you will see a house with a garden.
（三）【观察】Is there a bank near here.
【探究】(详见PPT)
新课教学典案
Section A Period1 (1a-1c)
Step1. Warming up and Lead-in:
1. Guessing game. Ask all Ss close their eyes and the teacher hide a pen. Guess: Where is the pen? Who guess right can get the pen. The pen is in the teacher’s desk. → in, on, under
Step2. Presentation:
猜词游戏导入：(1). Let students guess the places. For example: if I want to buy a piece of stamp, where can I go? -- Post office.
Lead other words like this way:
post, office, post office, police, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street
（2）. At first, ask a few students to try to read them, then the teacher corrects their pronunciations.
Ss have six minutes to remember these words.
(3). Play a game: Who is the fastest? (详见PPT)
(4). Work on 1a. Match the activities with the pictures.
Step3. Listening:
1. Listen to the tape, and circle the places you hear in 1a.
2. listen and match.
a restaurant on Long Street
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a post office on Center Street
a hospital on Bridge Street
3. Listen and repeat.
Step4. Pair work.
Practice the conversation with your partner. Then ask and answer questions about the places in 1a.
A: Is there a hospital near here?
B: Yes. There is. It’s on Bridge Street.
Ss work in pairs. Ask and answer about the weather in the cities.
Step5. Homework.
Remember these words we learned today.
Section A Period 2 (2a-2d)
Step1. Warming up and Lead-in:
1. Have a dictation about these words we learned today.
2. Watch the video：Watch the video about the place preposition, and then lead to the new lesson.（见PPT）
Step2. Listening:
Work on 2a;
1. Look at the pictures in 2a and read the sentences.
2. Match the sentences with the pictures. Write each number in the box.
3. Check the answers:
Work on 2b
1. Look at 2b, listen and fill in the blanks with the words in the box.
2. Check the answers:
Step3. Pair work
1. Ask and answer questions about the places in 1a on page 43.
2. Prepare with your partner for five minutes.
3. Ask some Ss to act out.
Step4. Role-play
1. Look at the conversations in 2d. Then Ss read the conversations by themselves and try to find out difficulties and suspicious(可疑的).
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2. Ask Ss to read the conversation and answer the questions:
① Where does Tony want to go?
② How do they get there?
Ss read the conversations and answer the questions. Then check the answers together.
3. Let Ss role-play the conversation in pairs.
Step5. Language points. （详见PPT）
1. How can I help you?
2. It’s across from the park.
3. Is there a bank near here.
Step6. Exercises
Step7Homework:
1. 用今天所的学介词（near, next to, in front of, behind, between…and）来写五个句子，描述一下你生活中常见的单位的位置。
2. Remember 2d.
Section A Period 3 (Grammar Focus-3c)
Step1. Warming-up and Lead-in:
1. Brainstorming: Write down the words as many as possible about the places and the place preposition words ; Two minutes.
2. Ask some pairs to role-play the conversation in 2d.
Step2.Grammar focus and Revision
1. Read Grammar Focus and understand the meanings of the sentences.
2. Reading tasks: there be 句型和where 引导的特殊疑问句询问……在哪里？
3. 探究乐园
探究学习there be句型
⑴ There be ...句型表示的是“某处有(存在) 某人或某物”，其句式结构：
1. There be (is，are) +名词+地点状语
否定句：There isn’t / aren’t…
一般疑问句：Is/ Are + 主语 +…?
肯定回答：Yes, there is/are.
否定回答：No, there isn’t/aren’t.
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⑵ There be 句型中的主谓一致原则
There be句型中be动词的形式要和其后面的主语在人称和数上保持一致。
如果句子的主语是单数的可数名词，或是不可数名词，be动词用“is”。
如果句子的主语是复数名词，be动词就用“are”。
如果有两个或两个以上的名词作主语，be动词要和最靠近它的那个主语
在数上保持一致，也就是我们常说的“就近原则”。
4. Give Ss six more minutes to try to remember the sentences.
Step3. Practice:
Work on 3a.
1. Look at 3a, pay attention to the questions in the box. Ask students to read it out loud.
Look at the map and answer the questions.
(1). Where is the bank?
_____________________________________
(2). Is there a restaurant on North Street?
_____________________________________
(3). Where’s the pay phone?
_____________________________________
(4). Where’s the post office?
_____________________________________
(5). Is there a hospital near the pay phone?
______________________________________
2. Check the answers.
Work on 3b.
1. Look at 3b. Ask the students to pay attention to the picture of 3a and write
three sentences.
2. Ask some Ss to show their sentences.
Step4. Guessing game:
Ask the students to the picture in 1a on page 43. Then ask students to name all the buildings in the picture. Have the students work in groups. One person chooses a building in the picture of 1a, but doesn't tell anyone which building it is. The others ask questions like those in the activity 3c until they guess which building it is. Several students can take turns to choose
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the building, the others will guess.
Step5.Exercise (详见PPT)
Step6: Homework:
1. Remember the sentences in the Grammar focus.
2. 用所学的介词描述在你所在地周围这些场所的位置。
post office, police station, school, bus station
Section B
新课备课素材
◆ 素材一 新课导入方式参考
导入一 图片导入：采用P161话题导入 导语一。
导入二 复习导入： 1.创设场景,学生分角色表演，强化巩固以问路和指路为话题的情景对话。
2. Have a dictation about the places and place preposition.
导入三 Play the video：Giving directions. (见PPT)
◆ 素材二 新课活动设计参考
采用新教案P161 活动设计
◆ 素材三 听说强化训练资料
采用P161 听说训练。
◆ 素材四 阅读突破建议
突破一任务教学 2b Read the passages. Match each passage with a map.
突破一任务教学2b Read the passages again and answer the questions.
◆ 素材五 语法突破建议：
（一）【观察】Turn right at the first crossing and the restaurant is on your left,…
【探究】1. turn right/left 意为“向右/左拐”；
【拓展】常见的指路表达方式：
（1）go along/ down/ up… 沿着……走
（2）go/ walk across the bridge 穿过桥
(3)take the second turning on the left=turn left at the second turning
在第二个拐弯处向左拐
2. on the right/left “在右/左边”
（二）【观察】 It is very quiet and I enjoy reading there.
【探究】enjoy喜欢；享受 (近义词love/like)后跟名词、代词或动名词。
enjoy oneself=have a good time
e.g. I always enjoy going to the cinema. 我对看电影总是兴致勃勃。
(三) 【观察】To get there, I usually walk out and turn right on Bridge Road.
【探究】 “to get there”在句中作目的状语，位于句首时，常用逗号隔开。
e.g. To catch the early bus, he usually gets up early. 为了赶上早班车，他通常起得很早。
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Section B Period 1 (1a-1d)
Step1. Warming up and revision
Make a dictation of the new words and phrases of Section A.
Step2. Presentation
1. Show some pictures about traffic signs.
T: What does this mean? (出示左转图片)
Ss: It means “turn left”.
…
Lead the following phrases this way:
1）turn left 向左转 2）go straight 直走
3）turn right 向右转 4）on the left 在左边
5）on the right在右边
2. Work on 1a. Match the words in the box with the signs.
3.Check the answers.
Step3. Listening.
Work on 1b and 1c.
1. Listen and write the correct place for each letter in the picture.
2. Listen again. Fill in the blanks. Check the answers.
Step4. Group work
Look at the picture of 1b.
1. Divide the Ss into four groups. Each group has two students.
2. Imagine you and your partner are the two people in the picture in 1b. Ask and answer questions about the places.
A；Excuse me. Is there a supermarket near here?
B: Yes, there is. Go along Bridge Street and…
Step5. Homework.
Practice asking and pointing the way with your partner.
Section B Period 2 (2a-2c)
Step1. Warming up and revision
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Play the video：Giving directions. (见PPT)
Step2. Free talking.
Work on 2a.
1. Ss to check the places near your home. Tell your partner where they are.
2. Tell other Ss where they are.
Step3. Reading
1. Fast Reading:
Read the passages and match each passage with a map.
Ss read and match. Then check the answers.
2. Careful Reading
Work on 2c:
1. Ask a student to explain the five questions.
2. Ss read passages again and answer the questions.
3. Check the answers with the class. Choose the best student’s answer, and then read them in class.
4. Ask Ss to translate the passages into Chinese. And then read the passages.
Step4. Explanation:
1. Explanation:
1). in my neighborhood 在我家附近
2). I like to spend time there on weekends. 我喜欢周末在那里度过时光。（提示：spend 后跟动词的ing形式）
3) I love to watch the monkeys climbing around. 我喜欢观看猴子们在周围爬树。
观看某人正在做某事 watch somebody doing
4) To get there, I usually walk out and turn right on Bridge Road. 为了到达那里，我通常走出去在Bridge Road向右拐。
To get there 在本句中为目的状语。
5) You can get to the library easily. 你可以容易地到达图书馆。
Easily 是副词，在这里修饰动词get.
2. Ask the Ss to read aloud the passage, and learn the important sentences by heart.
Step5. Homework
1. Write down the new words and sentences.
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2. Write a composition about your family address and buildings around
Section B Period 3 (3a-Self Check)
Step1. Warming- up and revision
Show a map of your town and review how to ask and point the way.
Step2. Presentation
Work on 3a. Ask the Ss look at the map of Cindy’s neighborhood and fill in the blanks. Then check the answers.
Step3. Writing
Work on 3b. Ask the Ss to draw a map of your neighborhood and write about it with the
help of the following sentences. After writing it, correct the answers in groups, choose
the most excellent answers to read in class at last.
① Where do you live?
② What is your favorite place in your neighborhood? Why?
③ How do you get there from your home?
Step4. Self check 1
1. Have a competition:
1). Ask a student to explain the four words in the box.
2). Ss complete the passage.
The teacher see who will finish the passage with the words in the box at first.
3). Ask a student to correct the answers: free, enjoy, climbing, spend.
2. Ask the Ss to find out difficulties in the passage, and then the teacher explains them.
a) My grandma makes the foods I like. 我奶奶做我喜欢吃的食物。本句中的I like 为后置定语从句，修饰先行词foods, 此句只要求学生理解即可。
b) We sometimes watch the neighbor’s cats climbing the trees.
观看某人正在做某事，watch somebody doing something 观看某人做事的全过程应为watch somebody do something
Step5. Self check 2
Tell the Ss to write five sentences about your school using “there is /are, there are some trees in my school.” Then check and correct them in groups.
Step6. Writing:
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Imagine you are one of the two people in the picture on page 46. You have to tell others how to get to the supermarket of library, please write a composition.
Step7. Homework
1. Review the new words and sentences of this unit.
2. Make a conversation to introduce your favorite places.
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