Unit 11 Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?
Part 1: Teaching design (第一部分：教学设计)
Structures: Indirect questions
Target language: Excuse me. Do you know where I can exchange money?
Sure. There’s bank on the second floor. Take the escalator to the second floor and turn right. The bank is next to the bookstore.
Vocabulary: escalator, drugstore, restroom, furniture, department store, shampoo, advantage, disadvantage, exchange money, hang out
Learning strategies: Listen for specific information, Cooperating
SECTION A
Goals
●To learn to use Indirect questions
●To learn to tell about places
Procedures
Warming up by learning grammar
Hello everyone. I am a strange here in this city. Could you tell me how to
get to the supermarket?
All right, I am telling a lie to you. I am not new here. I said so just to help you learn to use the Indirect questions.
Now turn to page 87 first and look at the three sentences in the Grammar Focus.
Do you know where I can buy shampoo?
Could you tell me how to get to the post office?
Could you please tell me where I can get a dictionary?
Have you noticed the word “where” and “how” used in the sentences. The questions introduced by them are called the Indirect questions.
Now in pairs make similar sentences with “where” and “how”.
Do you know where I can go hiking in the mountain?
Could you tell me how to have a good time in a big city?
Could you please tell me where I can find a good English teacher?
1a Matching things with places
On page 86 is a picture of a city. A visitor is asking someone questions about things to do at certain places. Now look at the picture and match each thing with a place.
Where to…?
C buy shampoo
D get some magazines
E make a telephone call
G get a dictionary
D get some information about the town
C buy some writing paper
E buy some stamps
B save money
1b Listening and completing
It is difficult to get around in a new place. Now listen to the recording and complete the dialogue in the picture on page 86.
Tapescript
Conversation 1
Girl1: Excuse me. Could you tell me where I can buy some stamps?
Boy1: Yes. There’s a post office on Center Street.
Girl1: Oh. Can you tell me where Center Street is?
Boy1: Sure. Go past the bank. Center Street is on your right.
Girl1: Thanks a lot.
Boy1: No problem.
Conversation 2
Girl2: Excuse me. Do you know where I can save money?
Boy2: Sure. There’s a bank on Main Street.
Girl2: Oh. Could you please tell me how to get there?
Boy2: Yes... Go straight ahead. The bank is on your left.
Girl2: Thank you.
Boy2: You’re welcome.
Write your words here in the speech bubbles.
A: Could you tell me where I can buy some stamps?
B: Yes. There’s a post office on Center Street.
A: Excuse me. Do you know where I can save money?
B: Sure. There’s a bank on Main Street.
Read the tapescript and try to underline all the useful expressions used and circle the Indirect questions.
1c Doing pairwork
In 1a there are many phrases describing activities. Now use them to make up conversations to talk about your own city. (The Indirect questions are circled.)
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can buy shampoo in this city?
B: Sure. There’s a department store over there.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can get some magazines?
B: Sure. There’s a post office around the corner.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can make a telephone call?
B: Sure. There’s a post office one hundred meters down the street.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can get some information about the town?
B: Sure. There’s a library opposite of the hospital.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can get some writing paper?
B: Sure. There’s a department store close to the bus station.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can buy some stamps?
B: Sure. There’s a post office beside the library over there.
A: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where I can save money.
B: Sure. There’s a big bank beside the café on the main library over there.
2a Listening and numbering
Do you like shopping? If you do come and listen to the directions for going shopping around a new city.
Tapescript
Boy1: Excuse me. Can you tell me where I can buy some shampoo?
Boy2: Yes. There’s a drug store on the second floor. Um. Let me think... Take the escalator to the second floor and then... then you turn left. Let’s see... Then go past the bank. And um... The drug store is between the furniture store and the bookstore. You should be able to get shampoo there.
Boy1: OK, great. Thanks a lot.
Boy2: You’re welcome.
While listening please number the directions in the order that you hear them.
Take the elevator to the second floor.
2 Turn left.
1 Take the escalator to the second floor.
Turn right.
4 The drugstore is between the furniture store and the bookstore.
3 Go past the bank.
Read the tapescript for the Indirect questions and the useful expressions. Circle the Indirect questions and underline the useful expressions.
2b Listening and drawing
Do you like drawing. Now listen to the recording again to draw a line on the picture on page 87 to show how the boy walks to the drugstore.
2c Doing pairwork
What else do like to buy? Then make conversations in pairs using the other places in the picture on page 87.
A: Excuse me. Do you know where I can exchange money?
B: Sure. There’s a bank on the second floor. Take the escalator to the second floor and turn right. The bank is next to the bookstore.
A: Excuse me. Do you know where I can buy music CD?
B: Sure. There’s a Music Magic shop on the first floor. Don’t take the escalator. It is next to the escalator room.
A: Excuse me. Do you know where I can get a dictionary?
B: Sure. There’s a bookstore on the second floor. Take the escalator to the second floor and turn right. The bookstore is next to the bank.
A: Excuse me. Do you know where I can buy some candies?
B: Sure. There’s a drugstore on the second floor. Take the escalator to the second floor and turn right. The bank is next to the bookstore.
A: Excuse me. Do you know where I can buy a desk?
B: Sure. There’s a furniture store on the second floor. Take the escalator to the second floor and turn right. The bank is next to the drugstore.
Now read aloud the conversations again to Circle the Indirect questions and underline the useful expressions.
3a Reading and listing
On page 88 is an article about going to a mall. Now read it to list the advantages and disadvantages of going to a mall. While you read, Circle the Indirect questions and underline the useful expressions.
They’re all at the mall.
After school, a lot of young people go to the mall. We decided
to talk to some students about why they go there.
Interviewer: Why do you go to the mall?
Yu Yue: I go to the mall because my friends hang out there. But I don’t really like it.
Interviewer: Oh? Why not?
Yu Yue: The air isn’t fresh. I prefer being outside. Also, it’s usually crowded.
Interviewer: And how about you?
Li Jun: Oh, I love the mall. There’s always something happening. There are a lot of free concerts there. It’s also just fun to watch people.
Hu Peng: I like the mall, too. I like to go in the music store and listen to CDs. I also like to look at books in the bookstore.
Yu Yue: Well, when I go into stores I always spend too much money！
Advantages disadvantages
There’s always something happening. The air isn’t fresh.
There are a lot of free concerts there. It’s usually crowded.
It’s also just fun to watch people. when I go into stores I always spend too much money！
I like to go in the music store and listen to CDs.
I like to look at books in the bookstore.
3b Doing groupwork
Where do you usually hang out with friends? What are the advantages and disadvantages of hanging out at your house, at a mall or at your school? Now in groups talk about them.
A: Where do you usually hang out with your friends?
B: We usually go to my friend, Qiu’s place.
A: Is that a good place to hang out?
B: Well, it has advantages and disadvantages. It’s kind of small. But Qiu’s mom is a wonderful cook, so we always have great snacks.
A: Where do you usually hang out with your friends?
B: We usually go to the bookstore.
A: Is that a good place to hang out?
B: Well, it has advantages and disadvantages. It’s very big and the air is fresh, too. And we can just read books there. We don’t have to buy books. So we always have a good time there.
A: Where do you usually hang out with your friends at weekends?
B: I usually stay at home.
A: Is that a good place to hang out for the weekends?
B: Well, it has advantages and disadvantages. My room is kind of small. But I have a computer there. I go online reading and watching. It is a wonderful place. So I always hang in at home.
4. Directions challenge
Now we are going to challenge one another. Write directions from your school to three certain places. Read the directions to each other and guess the places.
A: Go out the front door and take a right. Walk about three blocks. Go past the park, and turn left onto Oak Street. Then it is the…?
B: Then it is the bookstore.
A: Go out the back door and take a left. Walk about two blocks. Go past the post office, and turn right onto Chang’an Street. Then it is the…?
B: Then it is the Teachers College.
A: Go out the side door and take a right. Walk about three blocks. Go past the bus station, and turn left onto Flag Street. Then it is the…?
B: Then it is the lake.
Closing down by looking and saying
To bring the period to an end let’s look at the picture and talk about things happening in it.