What a good, kind girl! Lesson 61

　　Lesson 61

　　Period: The First Period

　　Properties: Pictures of video

　　Teaching Objectives: How to use location words to describe the position of important buildings.

　　Get the students to know how to talk about different ways of traveling from one place to another.

　　Language Focus: the way to ..., on the way home, turn left/right at the second crossing, go along, go up, go down, go across, go through, go on

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　Ⅰ. Organizing the class

　　T: Good afternoon, class.

　　Ss: Good afternoon, Mrs ling.

　　T: Sit down, please. Let's listen to a duty report

　　Ⅱ.Revision

　　T: Give the students a few minutes to draw a map of their school. Pick out a best drawing from the students in class or you draw it on the blackboard with the tape, and give some questions on the black board or ask one of the students to talk about where his house is.

　　Student 1: I live in De Pao Hotel on Xinai street, but I study at Foreign language School. I come out of the main gate of De Pao Hotel. I ride a bike. Then I go southward about one kilometre's drive, past the big post office to the bridge. Then I turn left and go southward this time. Drive a few minutes. I can see the Bank of China in front of me, then turn left towards the traffic lights. Past McDonald, I go across the street, eastward for another two minutes, then I get to F.L.S.

　　Ⅲ.Presentation

　　T: Go back to the beginning of the dialogue and then listen to the whole conversation . While the class listen, get them to complete the chart below. Hang the pictures on the blackboard.

　　Ⅳ. Practise

　　T: Pair work about Part 1 and Part 2.

　　Tell the students, you are somewhere and point to some certain place on the map, Say " You want to get to some place."

　　Now that we have considered types of questioning the ways to some places. Let's talk about the actual buildings. This task gives the students the opportunity to revise words they know already and learn some new vocabulary items.

　　Use the phrases below to help them to practice similar dialogues.

　　For example:

　　1. go along the road/the street...

　　go down the road/ the street...

　　go up the road /the street...

　　go through the road/the street...

　　go across the road/the street...

　　go on the road/the street...

　　2. turn left/right

　　3. take the first turning on the left

　　4. get the second turning on the right

　　T: Now, using the information you have written from the table above, practice the dialogues with the phrases in Part 3.

　　T: Now you are standing at the school gate, how to get to the Beijing Zoo.

　　(two pairs act it out)

　　T: Now, you are standing at the Beijing Zoo, how to get to the Summer Palace.

　　T: Go back and listen to the cassette and copy the way of saying those key expressions.

　　Ⅴ. Exercises in class

　　Complete the missing words.

　　Conversation 1 ( In the hotel)

　　A: Excuse me. Can you tell me the way to the barber's . I'd like to have my hair cut.

　　B: Certainly, sir. Turn right at the lift(电梯).

　　The barber's is at the end of the corridor on the left.

　　A: Many thanks.

　　Conversation 2 (In the street)

　　A: Excuse me. Where is Jian Guo Hotel from here?

　　B: Jian Guo Hotel is quite a long way.

　　How did you plan on getting there ?

　　A: I really don't know. Can you tell me?

　　B: Sure. Walk down the street and turn right. Then turn left at the corner. Take bus No.1, 4 or 5 there. Get off the bus at Da Bei Yao and Jian Guo Hotel is just across the street. Actually, I suggest you take a tube. It's rush hour now, buses are usually very crowded.

　　Ⅵ. Homework

　　1. Practise talking about the ways to school/ work/ hospital in oral English/ orally.

　　2. Make a short dialogue about asking the way.

　　3. Do exercises on page 67.

　　Ⅶ. Summary

　　Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.

　　At, ago, friend, family, house, now, nice, post, when, where, understand, right

　　Mary: Excuse me. Could you tell me 1 the post office is?

　　Sue: Certainly. Go to the corner and turn 2 . The post office is 3 the end of the street.

　　Mary: Thank you. By the way, 4 does the post office open?

　　Sue: At 10:00.

　　Mary: I'm going to 5 a birthday card to my old friend in Australia. My 6 moved here only three and a half weeks 7 .

　　Sue: Do you like to live here?

　　Mary: Yes, I like our 8 house here, but I miss my old 9 .'

　　Sue: I 10.

　　Keys: 1. where 2. right (left) 3. at 4. When 5. post 6. family 7. ago 8. new 9. friend 10. understand

　　Ⅷ. Writing on black board

　　Lesson 61

　　Asking the way.

　　1. Can you tell me the way to ...?

　　2. Can you tell me how to get to ...?

　　3. Can you tell me where's the...?

　　4. Can you tell me which is the way to ...?

　　5. Can you tell me where is the...?

　　6. Can you tell me how I can get to...?