教具准备 1. A tape recorder.

2. Some tapes of different kinds of animals. 板书设计

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.

4. It's not too far from here.

5. I can walk with you. With ----preposition

教学过程 Ⅰ. Lead-in:

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.

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."

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:

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. 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。

3. next to 意为"紧靠着；紧挨着；贴近"

e.g. The little boy is next to his mother. 小男孩紧挨着他的母亲。

4. How can I help you? 需要我帮忙吗？

Homework: 1. Write down the new words in this class.

2. 用今天所的学介词（near, next to, in front of, behind, between...and）来写五个句子，描述一下你生活中常见的单位的位置。