Lesson 36
Step 1 Revision
Give the Ss some more puzzles for the map on colour page iv . Get some Ss to make up puzzles as well.
Step 2 Word families
SB page 36, Part 1. Speech Cassette . Play the tape for the Ss to listen and repeat. Practise the individual sounds, then show flashcards randomly and get the Ss to pronounce the words written on them.
Do Wb , Ex. 1. This exercise contains unknown words . Ss must work out their pronunciation with the spelling rules they know.
Step 3 Practice
Revise briefly the dialogues in SB page 33, Part 2. Ss work in pairs, asking and answering about places on the map.
SB page 36, Part 2. Speech Cassette . Books closed! Play the tape: Ss try to draw a map as they hear the first dialogue.
Play the tape again. Ss listen and repeat. Practise the dialogues with the class . Then Ss work in pairs： those giving directions should draw a simple diagram as they speak.
Ask some pairs to act out their dialogue. The student giving directions could draw the map on the Bb.
When the Ss practise the second dialogue, they can substitute post office and policeman with other words.
Step 4 Checkpoint 9
Go through Checkpoint 9 in the usual way.
Discuss any problems that the Ss may raise.
Step 5 Presentation
Present these dialogues, using appropriate gesturcs：
1 A： I'm hungry. I need to buy some food.
B： You'd better find a fruit/ food shop.
2 A： I'm a student. I need to buy some books.
B： You'd better find a bookshop.
Say these dialogues again. Get the Ss to listen and repeat. Get the Ss to give suitable responses to：
T： My shoes are broken. I need to buy some new ones.
I am going to Beijing/ Shanghai. I need to catch a train.
I am going shopping. I need to catch a bus.
Ask some Ss to make up similar sentences for the class to give suitable responses.
Step 6 Test
Dictate the following dialogue：
A： Excuse me. * Where's * the nearest * fruit shop, * please?
B： Take* the second turning* on the right. * It's next to* the post office.
A： Thanks very much .
B： You're welcome.
Step 7 Workbook
Wb , E. 2 and 3 are oral exercises, to be done in pairs . Ex. 3 is optional. Discuss. the answers with the whole class and tracs the routes on the map. There are about five ways to the school.
Homework
Write down two of the dialogues for Wb Ex. 2.
Learn the contents of Checkpoint 8.