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Unit 4 Finding your way

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Language functions and focus 1)Learn about directions. 2)To read and learn about different kinds of transportation and talk about how to travel conveniently. 3)To obtain details about locations. Listening 1)Recognize key vocabulary about directions and locations. 2)Identify specific information about directions and locations from a group of buildings. Speaking 1)To describe directions and transportation. 2)Develop confidence in expressing. Study skills 1)Develop a recording system of grammatical items and structures. 2)Expand grammar-learning strategies for effective learning. Overview of the lesson 1)This lesson is from FUN WITH ENGLISH. It is for Grade 7.In this lesson, Students explore different places, and learn about directions locations and transportation. 2)We should love our hometown and ask friends to visit our hometown. Let them know how to find it in a map and how to get here fast and easily. Teaching procedure 1)Lead in the key subject Tell the Ss my English name by showing them a guessing card. In the card, they will see the following words one by one, “Teacher”, “Anhui”, “Guangxi”, and “Plane”. While showing the card, I tell them, ”I am a teacher. I am from Anhui, which is in the east of China. I arrived in Guangxi two days ago. As we know, Guangxi is in the south of China. The journey is very long, so I came here by plane.” From the red letters, they know that my name is Tina. Greet with them freely. In fact, I revise some old words about locations and transportation. At the same time I mention the new words about directions and let them hear how to say sentences on the means of transport. 2)Do activities around the subject Show the students a map of China. Ask several students to come to the front and point out my hometown and their hometown in the map. As a result, the students will have the basic understanding of locations in a map. After a student clicks on the button of Nanning, they will see a picture of South Lake Park, a famous park in Nanning. And they will also see two lovely dogs Eddie and Hobo. They are on a spring outing. Explain the meaning of “a spring outing”. Show the students what happens to the two dogs in South Lake Park. Students see an animation about the comic strips in this part. They learn about Eddie and Hobo’s spring outing. Explain the new word ”follow” in English. Students read this part and discuss any difficulty in it to make sure they understand it well. Students practise this conversation in pairs for a while and then act it out in front. When they are acting, they may take a map, a backpack or something else they need in a spring outing. In the comic strips, we know that Eddie and Hobo go to the wrong way, so they don’t have a good time. If we want to enjoy ourselves during the spring outing, it is smart to know the directions. Teach the students how to say directions in English. Show them a map of Beijing Sunshine Town, ask the students to help Class 1 Grade 7 students in Beijing Sunshine Town find directions. They find the zoo, the Sunnyside Garden and the Lake Park. Give the students more buildings and let them talk about the positions one by one. 3)Explore our thoughts Give the students an empty block. The students arrange these buildings according to their own blocks. E.g. This is my school. A hospital is north of my school. A hotel is south-west of my school… Then some students come to the computer and pull the icons of the buildings to the right place. The student who is arranging the block introduces his/her block in English at the same time. 4)Expand our thoughts Tell the students that maybe I’ll visit them tomorrow according to their introductions. I like traveling very much. Some students tell me that they like traveling too. I suggest them to travel to some interesting places. Give them six cards, on which there are some tourist instructions. They make conversations like this: A: Let’s go to …. B: OK. We can go by plane/by train…. Or A: Shall we/ Why not/Why don’t we go to…? B: OK. We can go … 5)Combine the key subject and our lives Ask the students to write an invitation letter to my students and ask them to visit Nanning – this beautiful and green city. Show them an example. 6)Value this class Ask the students if they learn something in this class. Do they have any suggestions or ideas? Welcome them

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