4.　　　 What else does Jenny need?

Step3. Read the text carefully and draw maps. Draw what Jenny’s and Brian’s neighbourhood like.

Change your maps with your partners.

Step4. Finish the project:

Talk about your neighbourhood. What will you like it to be? Would you like to live in a neighbourhood with lots of parks and stores?

Discuss the project in groups. Then write it down. Remember to demonstrate your excuses.

Find your partners who can live together. Does anyone else have the same opinion with you? Do you have the same interest?

Step5. Come to “PROJECT”.

Draw a map of a neighbourhood where you would like to live-the best neighbourhood.

Share your maps to the partners.

Step6. Encourage the students to explore all the readings for this unit in the student book and read for vocabulary. Encourage them to think of vocabulary they already know.

　After about five minutes, ask the groups for some of the words they found or remembered. You could ask each group for three words in turn, and tell them they cannot repeat words when it’s their turn. Keep going from group to group until nobody can think of new words.

Step7.1. Finish off the activity book.

3.　　　 Does he like a coffee shop?

2.　　　 Would Jenny like to live in a place with a park?

1.　　　 How many bookstores did Jenny draw?

3.　　　　　　　　　　 Would you like to live in a neighbourhood with lots of parks or stores?

　Step2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:

2.　　　　　　　　　　 Where would you like to live?

1.　　　　　　　　　　 Are you satisfied with your neighbourhood?

2.　　　 Talk about likes and dislikes.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Draw maps according to one’s own imagination.

Teaching Preparation: maps

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, maps

Type of Lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Lead in the lesson with the following questions:

1.　　　 Design the neighbourhood of one’s own.

1.　　　 It’s easy and interesting talking about the subjects around us. Let’s all take care the changes and circumstances.

Before class, you can ask students to search some information about the neighbour and community in western countries.

Lesson 26: The Best Neighbourhood

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: football, place, over there

New words and expressions: soccer, coffee, coffee shop, video, video tore,

Teaching Aims:

It encourages students to think about the similarities and differences between Canadian neighbourhoods and their own neighbourhoods.

Teaching Important Points: