Where is the post office

unit 1 where’s the post office?
no. 110 middle school of chongqing  by cao yi
teaching goal:
1. general aims:
   a. ask for directions on the street
   b. give directions on the street
2. particular aims:
  a. language focus.
  (1). ask the way on the avenue.
  (2). show the directions on the street.
b. language goals
(1). is there a bank near here?
   yes, there’s a bank on center street.
(2). where’s the supermarket?
   it’s next to the library.
(3). is there a pay phone in the neighborhood?
   yes, it’s on bridge street on the right.
(4). go down off the fifth avenue.
(5) . take a walk straight.
c. language structures:
(1). special question with where
(2). there be …. (pay attention to be singular or plural)
(3). preposition with position
(4). sentence with yes.
d. useful words and phrases:
  words: hotel, bank, park, supermarket, street, avenue, new, clean, quiet, big, small, dirty, old, busy, left, right, near, pay
  phrases: post office, video arcade, next to, pay phone, across from, between…and, turn left /right, go straight, take a walk, excuse me, go through, take a taxi, arrive at/in
e. grammar language:
 (1). there be …
 (2). where is the place?
 (3). position preposition
f. learning strategies:
 (1). using what you know
 (2). inferring content
g. interdiscipinary:
 (1). geography
 (2). art
 (3). society
h. emotion and manner:
 (1). expression
 (2). help others
teaching time: 6 periods
teaching procedures:

                   period one (p1)
step 1: warming up
1. greeting
  first wish the class have a happy, healthy new year.
2. warming up
  what do you do during the spring festival?
step 2 presentation
1. leading-in
  for example: (say to myself)
  i go to nanping park. i go down the shanhu avenue, there is a hotel, a bank, two pay phones and so. turn left and go straight to the jiefang street. it’s on my right.
  draw a picture and write down some places on the blackboard as i am talking.
2. teaching the new words.
post office, video arcade, pay phone, bank, supermarket, hotel, library, street, straight, turn, left, right
step 3: practice
1. ask students to act out about turn left/right. (each team every time, at last only one who wins gets a award.)
2. section a 1a reading
ask ss to read the places and match the words with the pictures.
3. guess the place where i am.