Unit 11 Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?
Part 1: Teaching design (第一部分：教学设计)
Structures: Indirect questions
Target language: Excuse me. Do you know where I can exchange money?
Sure. There’s bank on the second floor. Take the escalator to the second floor and turn right. The bank is next to the bookstore.
Vocabulary: escalator, drugstore, restroom, furniture, department store, shampoo, advantage, disadvantage, exchange money, hang out
Learning strategies: Listen for specific information, Cooperating
SECTION A
Goals
●To learn to use Indirect questions
●To learn to tell about places
Procedures
Warming up by learning grammar
Hello everyone. I am a strange here in this city. Could you tell me how to
get to the supermarket?
All right, I am telling a lie to you. I am not new here. I said so just to help you learn to use the Indirect questions.
Now turn to page 87 first and look at the three sentences in the Grammar Focus.
Do you know where I can buy shampoo?
Could you tell me how to get to the post office?
Could you please tell me where I can get a dictionary?
Have you noticed the word “where” and “how” used in the sentences. The questions introduced by them are called the Indirect questions.
Now in pairs make similar sentences with “where” and “how”.
Do you know where I can go hiking in the mountain?
Could you tell me how to have a good time in a big city?
Could you please tell me where I can find a good English teacher?
1a Matching things with places
On page 86 is a picture of a city. A visitor is asking someone questions about things to do at certain places. Now look at the picture and match each thing with a place.
Where to…?
C buy shampoo
D get some magazines
E make a telephone call
G get a dictionary
D get some information about the town
C buy some writing paper
E buy some stamps
B save money
1b Listening and completing
It is difficult to get around in a new place. Now listen to the recording and complete the dialogue in the picture on page 86.

Tapescript
Conversation 1
Girl1: Excuse me. Could you tell me where I can buy some stamps?
Boy1: Yes. There’s a post office on Center Street.
Girl1: Oh. Can you tell me where Center Street is?
Boy1: Sure. Go past the bank. Center Street is on your right.
Girl1: Thanks a lot.
Boy1: No problem.
Conversation 2
Girl2: Excuse me. Do you know where I can save money?
Boy2: Sure. There’s a bank on Main Street.
Girl2: Oh. Could you please tell me how to get there?
Boy2: Yes... Go straight ahead. The bank is on your left.
Girl2: Thank you.
Boy2: You’re welcome.
Write your words here in the speech bubbles.
A: Could you tell me where I can buy some stamps?
B: Yes. There’s a post office on Center Street.
A: Excuse me. Do you know where I can save money?
B: Sure. There’s a bank on Main Street.
Read the tapescript and try to underline all the useful expressions used and circle the Indirect questions.
1c Doing pairwork
In 1a there are many phrases describing activities. Now use them to make up conversations to talk about your own city. (The Indirect questions are circled.)
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can buy shampoo in this city?
B: Sure. There’s a department store over there.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can get some magazines?
B: Sure. There’s a post office around the corner.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can make a telephone call?
B: Sure. There’s a post office one hundred meters down the street.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can get some information about the town?
B: Sure. There’s a library opposite of the hospital.
A: Ex
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