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

Step 1 Greetings

Step 2 Lead-in

1. Revise some nouns about buildings in the neighborhood by showing some pictures .很自然地将学生引入到问路的情景中

2. Learn other words : post office, park, supermarket, payphone, street, ...

3. Show a map and let students practice in pairs.

----Is there ...... ？----Yes, there is. /No, there isn't.

Learn the prepositions

Next to, across from, near, between, in front of, behind.

The teacher communicates with the students. Show some pictures about buildings.

T: Is there a / an...?

S: Yes, there is. / No, there isn't .

T: Where is the...?

S: It's near/ next to /across from /... the...

Step3 Practice(1a)

Get the students to practice conversations and communicate with each other.

Is there a / an ... near here ? Yes, there is .

Where's the ... ? It's ... .

Step 4 Listening

(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。)

Play the tape of 1b, get the students to listen and circle the places they hear in 1a.

Step 5 Practice

1c. This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language:

Point to the different locations shown in the picture. Ask different students to name each one.

Point to the question and answer the example conversation and ask the students to ask and answer questions about other places in 1a.

2. 2a. Match the sentences with the pictures. 练习方位介词的用法。

Step 6 Listening

Play the tape of 2b, and get the students to fill in the blanks with the words in the box.

2c. Ask and answer questions about places in 1a. Where is\are the...? It's...

Step 7 Summary :

1. Is there a/an ...near here? Yes, there is.

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?

2. Where is the ...? It's...,

Step 8 Homework

1. Write down the new words in this class.