Unit 2 Where is the post office? Teaching Design吉林省长春市八十七中学 张媛I. Teaching analysisIn this unit, students will learn how to express the location, how to ask and show the ways. In the course of conversations, well also review the usage of prepositions and there be. Improve the abilities of solving problems by doing the tasks. The content of this unit is close to life, and it is very practical, students will be interested in it. But it is also a little hard to some lower students, so teacher should pay attention to the difficulty degrees when designing the tasks, to fit different students.II. Teaching targets1. Knowledge and abilitiesLearn how to ask and show the ways, and can describe the place.2. Process and methodsLearn the prepositions by introducing ones own family district. Practicing asking and showing the ways by imitated asking ways activities. 3. Moral educationLearn asking for help politely. And always get ready to help others.III. Important and difficult pointsImportant points:1. How to ask for and give directions on the street.2. Describe what there is in some place.Difficult points:1. Using the way to ask for and give directions on the street.2. Describe some place.IV. Teaching methodCommunication, and solving task methods.V. PeriodsFirst period: learn to describe the location relationship between one place and other buildings. (Learn the prepositions)Second period: Learn how to ask the location of one place. (Review the prepositions, learn adjectives and asking ways)Third period: Learn how to show the ways to some places. (Review the prepositions, adjectives and showing ways)Fourth period: Can describe places.VI. Task designVII. Teaching stepsThe First PeriodStep 1: GreetingStep 2: Show the new words in 1a.T: If you want to borrow some books, you can go to the library. Do you know what library means? Can you make a sentence with “library”?Step 3: Practice Activity 1a. Make a dialogue in pairs. Sentences: Is there a. in the picture?Where is it?Learn to use “in fount of, behind, next to, cross from”.Step 4: ListeningActivity 2a & 2b.Step 5: GameWhere is my best friend?Let the students describe their best friends and the rest of the students guess who he/she is. (See who has the most friends?)Step 6: HomeworkThe Second PeriodStep 1: Free talkDiscuss you schoolStep 2: Discuss the school. When describing the locations, give them the adjectives.Use: Is there a .? Is it clean?Step 3: Task: I am the headmasterdesign the ideal schoolGroup discussion; introduce the new school that you have designed. Each group chooses the best one to report. And choose the best design in class. The Third PeriodStep 1: Task one: Look at the pictures and learn the sentences of asking the ways. （Section A 3a）Step 2: Task two: Find a student to turn right or left or go straight according to the teachers order, to find the next student that play the game.Step 3: Task three: Listening part of Section B 2a 2bStep 4: Task four: Invite the students to go to your home. And describe the route and draw a map. Mark some of the important buildings in the map.The Fourth PeriodStep 1:Task one: Draw your home district, and introduce your district.Step 2: Task two: Describe the route, Self check 3Step 3: Task three: Make a nice showing route booklet. （Creative tasks）read 3a & 3bchoose one place(park or mall street)write articles.