Unit 8 Is there a post office near here?

Section B 2 (2a-3b)

Ⅰ. The teaching aims:

1. To master the important words and expressions of this part. Be able to use them properly and flexibly.

2. To improve the abilities of getting information and the abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

3. To learn the ways of asking and giving directions. Try your best to help others sincerely.

Ⅱ. The teaching emphasis & difficulties:

1. the ability of general reading and acquiring information

2. the cultivation of communicative ability

Ⅲ. Teaching procedures:

1. leading-in: 5'

Let students enjoy a short video about asking and giving direction to create a good atmosphere of studying English.

　T: What are they doing?

　S: They are asking and giving direction.

T: I also have some similar problems, but who can help me? You know that I am new here and everything is strange for me. I can not wait to go shopping after this class. I want to buy some beautiful clothes and all kinds of fruits. But I don't know where the clothes store and the supermarket are. So who can you help me now?

(Dialogues between teacher and Students)

2. Reading:

　1) Fast reading: 5'

T: Before coming here, I have written to my best friends Anna, John and Lisa to ask them about their neighborhood and how to get to their favorite places. Each of them wrote me back with a map. Do you want to see? Now let walk into their neighborhood together. But it is a pity that mixed the passages and the maps together. Can you match