2. exchange money, hang out

1. escalator, drugstore, restroom, furniture, department store, shampoo, advantage, disadvantage

Indirect questions.

Excuse me. Do you know where I can exchange money?

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.

Ask for information politely,

5. Studying Ways

Teach students how to ask the way and how to give the way to those people who want it.

4. Teaching Difficult Points

To train students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

To train students’ communicative competence.

3. Teaching Key Points

To make students learn and grasp the key vocabulary words and the target language.

2. Teaching Aims and Demands

(1)Knowledge Objects

In this unit, students learn to talk about how to ask for information politely and how to give advice to those who have difficulty in travelling.

(2) Ability Objects

To train students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills using the target language.

(3) Moral Objects

Helping each other is a good quality. If someone asks you how to get to the place he wants to go to, you should tell him the way correctly.

Also, if you want to go to a place you don’t know, you should ask for the direction politely. After you are given the way, you should say "Thank you".

1. Status and Function

In this unit, students learn to talk about how to ask for information politely.

The topic is very interesting and practical. It is very useful for students to use the topic to communicate with others in their daily life. It’s also helpful for students to improve their speaking ability. All the students can learn some spoken English more or less.

(1) The first period mainly gives students listening and oral practice using the target language

"Excuse me". Can you please tell me where 1 can get a dictionary?

Sure. There’s a bookstore on River Road.

(2)The activities in the second period give students more listening and oral practice as well as grammar focus to practise the target language. They are helpful to improve students’ listening and speaking skills.

(3) In the third period, students learn to get detailed information from an article. It is a basic reading skill, and also it is of great help for students to improve their reading skill.

(4) The fourth period not only introduces some new words but also provides students with many different kinds of activities. In this class, students learn to give advice

to people who have difficulty in travelling. Students tell the people where they should go using the target language.

(5)A lot of practice is designed in the fifth period to train students’ reading and writing skills.

(6)All the activities in the last period in this unit are used to provide writing practice using the target language.