Unit 8 Is there a post office near here ?

Section A 1a---1c

Teaching Aims:

1、Knowledge and Skills:

(1) Students can understand and master words about places in English ,such as post office, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay phone, park.

(2) Students will be able to use simple English to express how to ask and answer about places .

2、Process and Methods :

(1) Make full use of the tape player and pictures,creating scenarios to let students have the desire to participate in learning ,and guide students to actively participate in classroom activities, as the main body of teaching and learning.

(2) Advocates the combination of autonomous learning and cooperative learning to improve the learning efficiency.

(3) Help students to build their own English categories thesaurus to improve the efficiency of remembering new words.

3、Emotion Attitude and Values:

(1) Let students learn about places we often use in life, and know their functions.

(2) Understand some English expressions of places

(3) Cultivate the students' competitive cooperation through competition and group work.

Teaching Important and Difficult Points:

1、Teaching Important Points:

(1) Words about places: post office, police station, hotel, restaurant, bank, hospital, street, pay phone, park, and so on.

(2) Sentences about how to ask and answer about places:

---Is there a hospital near here?

---Yes, there is. It's on Bridge Street.

2、Teaching Difficult Points:

How to ask and answer questions about places accurately.

Teaching Methods:

Presentation, integrate listening, reading, and dialogue into the classroom, and combinate the group cooperation learning method and task-based teaching method.

Teaching Aids: blackboard, chalk, a tape player, a tape, pictures