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Module 4 A Social Survey – My Neighbourhood Introduction & Function and Speaking

designed by Zhang Xu from Wanda high school of Guang Yuan City

I Teaching Goals:

(1). Target Language : Enable the students to be familiar with the words and expressions related to buildings: apartment, apartment block, countryside, five-storey, high-rise building, local, mile, (second) floor, suburb, stone

(2). Ability Goals:

a. Get the Ss to learn some words to describe buildings; b. Let the Ss know how to show position and direction; (3). Affective Goals:

a. To arouse students’ interest in learning about neighborhood;

b. Develop the students’ love for their home and neighborhood. II Teaching Important Points:

a. knowing and remembering the words and expressions which can be used to describe buildings. b. knowing how to show position and direction; III. Teaching Difficult Point: Planning a presentation to do a survey of your neighborhood. IV. Teaching Methods：Task-based learning; Questioning-and-answering learning. V. Teaching Aids: blackboard, learning plan and textbook.

Teaching Procedures: Introduction Purpose: To arouse Ss’ interest in learning about neighborhood. Step 1 Greetings and Lead-in

T: Good afternoon, class. Ss: Good afternoon, Miss Zhang.

T: In our daily life, we have all kinds of buildings, especially some tall buildings and they extend themselves into the sky. We can see many of them around us, right? Can you use one word to describe tall building? Ss: high-rise building, skyscraper…

Step 2 Introduce some names of buildings and learn how to express the number of storeys of a building. T: Besides high-rise buildings, can you bring out some other kinds of buildings?

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For example, I live in an apartment in a six-storey building. If a lot of apartments get together in the same building, we call this building apartment block. Do you know other names of building. S1: ... S2: ... S3: ... T: Ok, very good. When we talk about buildings, we may usually mention skyscraper, landmark, villa, courtyard house, apartment(美)/ flat(英) and so on. T: Ok. Let’s come to our school building. We have a three-storey dinning hall and our dormitory is five storeys high. But how to describe our teaching building? Please use three different sentence patterns to describe it. ( finish the learning plan) eg. Our teaching building has ____________.

is ____________high.

is a ____________building.

Step 3 Introduce some building materials and enable the Ss be further familiar with the new words in Task 1. T: If you have a chance to build a house, do you know what kind of building materials can be used to make buildings? S1: ... S2: ... S3: ...

T: Ok, you are very creative. Buildings can be made of plastic, concrete, steel, glass, stone, wood, brick, earth and so on. T: As we all know, people usually live in different part of a country. Some people live in the center of city, we call downtown or urban area. Some others live in the suburb, we call suburban area or countryside, and the countryside is usually a few miles away from center city. Ok, let’s review the new words we have learned today, please turn to page 31 and read the new words in the box together. Step 4 Pair work: read about homes of two students and try to answer the questions:

T: Now, here are two students in our textbook. They want to introduce their homes (their houses) to you, please read quickly and work with your partner to answer the questions,

(1) Where do Zhang Hua and Lin Xiaoyun live?

(2) How many storeys are there in Zhang Hua’s apartment block?

(3) How many storeys are there in Lin Xiaoyun’s house?

(4) What is Lin Xiaoyun’s house made of? Suggested answers:

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(1) Zhuang Hua lives in a suburb in the northeast of Guangzhou, a city in the south of China . Lin Xiaoyun lives in the countryside in southern Liaoning. (2) It is a five-storey apartment block. (3) The house is two storeys high. (4) It is made of local stone. Step 5: Speaking. Speak three or four sentences about Ss’ own houses. T: How about your homes? Please speak three or four sentences about your home, and then share your writing with your classmates. You can refer to the words and expressions we have just learned today. (sentence patterns in learning plan) Function Purpose: To let Ss know how to show position and direction. Step1: Let Ss pay more attention to the position and direction. T: Please pay attention to the phrases used in your own writing to describe the position and direction “in the south of China”, “in the northeast of”, “in southern Liaoning”. Ok, please turn to page 28 to do more practice,

Pair Work. Ask them to answer the questions in Activity 1 on page 38. (1) Where is Tian’anmen Square? (middle, Beijing) (2) Where are the British Isles? (continental Europe) (3) Is Guangzhou in the east of China? ( south) (4) What part of China is the city Urumqi in? (northwest) (5) Do you know where the Summer Palace is? (suburb, Beijing) (6) Can you see the high-rise buildings of Pudong form the Bund? ( across the water) Suggested answers: (1)

Tian’anmen Square is in the middle of Beijing. (2)

The British Isles are near/next to continental Europe. (3)

No, Guangzhou is in the south of China. (4)

Urumqi is in the northwest of China. (5)

The Summer Palace is in the suburb of Beijing. (6)

Yes, I can see the high-rise buildings of Pudong across the water. Step2. Pair Work( do a survey about neighborhood). Make Ss work in pairs to make a dialogue according to questions below T: If you are old friends, but you haven’t seen each other for many years. One day, student A moved to student B’s neighborhood, and ask many questions about the neighborhood.

(1) Where is your flat / house located?（be located in）

(2) Do you like your neighborhood? (3) Is it close to your school?

(4) Is it close to your parents’ place(s) to work?

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(5) Are people friendly round here?

(6) Are there parks or other public facilities(设施) nearby?

(7) Is there good public transportation?

(8) Are there markets and shops nearby?

(9) Where are the local shops? Step3.

Pair Work

Ask one or two pairs to represent their conversations at the stage.

Step 4 Summary & Homework.

OK，today we have learned how to describe buildings and your own homes, and talk about your neighborhood. After class please review what I have learned in class and write a passage about your neighborhood within 80 words using the words and expressions we have learned today. Step 5 The Blackboard Design

Module 4

Buildings skyscraper, high-rise building flat/ apartment;

apartment block ; neighborhood; villa; courtyard house; landmark

Building materials concrete; steel; brick; glass;

wood; earth; stone…

storey

floor

downtown= urban area suburb= suburban area;

countryside our teaching building has five storeys;

is

five storeys high is a five-storey(ed) building

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