Unit 8 Is there a post office near here?
Section A (1a-2d)
一、教学目标： 1. 语言知识目标：
1) 能掌握以下单词：post, office, post office, police, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay, near, across, across from, front, in front of, behind, town, around 能掌握以下句型：
1. ① —Is there a hospital near here? —Yes, there is.
② The pay phone is across from the library.
③ The pay phone is between the post office and the library. 2) 能了解以下语法：
—— Where 引导的特殊疑问句及其答语。
——学会There is / are…。Is/are there..的句型及用法。 2. 情感态度价值观目标：
① 通过运用简单的问路和引路的交际用语，学会相互合作，培养乐于助人的精神。
② 通过运用问路和引路的交际用语，帮助各个层次的同学树立自信心，敢于用英语进行交际. 二、教学重难点 1. 教学重点：
①Where 引导的特殊疑问句。
②there be 句型的肯定式、一般疑问句及其回答方式。 ③方位介词的用法。 2. 教学难点： 方位介词的用法。 三、教学过程 Ⅰ. Lead-in:
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T: Hello, everyone, please think about prepositions for position S: in, on……
T: Good, today we are going to learn other prepositions for position and several nouns. Please look at the following new words.
post, office, post office, police, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay, near, across, across from, front, in front of, behind, town, around
At first, ask a few students to try to read them, then the teacher corrects their pronunciations. Ⅱ. Presentation:
1. T: Hello, class, how to ay about a general question and negative of “there be” S: When it is a general question, “be” should be put in the first word of a sentence. When it is negative, it should add “not” behind “be”.
T: T: Excellent, then please think about What a positive answer and a negative answer are?
S: A positive answer is “Yes, there is “or “Yes, there are.” A negative answer is “No, there isn’t “, or “No, there aren’t.”
T: Good. Now please finish the following exercises:
1) There ______ (be) a lot of books on the desk.
2) There ______ (be) a bank and two ________ (library) on the street. 3) ______ ________ (有) a post office near here? Ⅲ. Listening:
T: Now let’s listen to the tape, and circle the places you hear in 1a.
(听力指导：做好听力题的两个关键：一是听前看图片或者文字材料；二是听时抓住关键词。)
Listen again: finish the following dialogues:
Conversation 1: A: Is there a restaurant _______ on Bridge Street? B: Yes, _________ ________.
Conversation 2: A: _______ there a post office ________ here?
B: Um, Yes, there ______. ___________ one on Long Street. Conversation 3: A: Is there a ______________ on Center Street?
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B: No, __________ _______. IV. Listening: 1. Work on 2a;
T: Now, look at 2b, listen and fill in the blanks with the words in the box. The students check the answers. 2. Check the answers: Ⅶ. Pair work
1. Ask the Ss to ask and answer questions about the places in 1a on page 43. Ⅷ. Role-play
1. Ask Ss to look at the conversations in 2d. Then Ss read the conversations by themselves and try to find out difficulties and suspicious. 2. T:
1. across from 意为“在……对面” e.g. The bank is across from our school. 银行就在我们学校对面。
【拓展】 across 作介词，意为“从一边到另一边；横过”。 e.g. Can you swim across the river? 你能游过这条河吗？
2. in front of 意为“在……前面”（在某范 围之外）
e.g. There is a car in front of the house. 在房子前一辆小汽车。 【辨析】in the front of “在……前面”（在 某范围之内） e.g. There is a table in the front of the classroom.
在教室的前面有一张桌子。 3. next to 意为“紧靠着；紧挨着；贴近” e.g. The little boy is next to his mother.
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