【正文】 to get to. Step 3. Complete the conversations (3b) Ask the students to make conversations and answer the questions below each picture. The students point out the place in the picture. And write down the answers on the line in the pictures. Or ask a pair of students to say the conversation, the others point to the speakers’ place. Step 4. Game Ask the students to look at the picture in Activity 1a and name all the buildings. Ask some students to read the conversation in the picture in Activity 4. And then explain the instruction to the student. Then ask some groups to present their work. Homework ? Ask the students to make a similar conversation to that in Activity 3a. Period 4 Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Is there a big supermarket near your house? Yes, there is. There is a big supermarket. No! There is a small supermarket. 3. Enable the students to describe the neighborhood. 4. Help the students to describe the neighborhood. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision Check the homework by asking the following questions. Say, Look at the picture in activity 3a. Suppose you are standing near the building on the side of New Street. Please answer my questions. Excuse me. Is there a pay phone in the neighborhood? Ask another student to answer questions. Give more students chances to practice this dialogue. Step work (1a) Bring in some objects or pictures to the students. (Two rulers, one is old, the other is new. Two boxes, one is big and the other is small. Two bottles, one is clean and the other is dirty. Two pictures of a street, one is busy and the other is quiet.) Say, Look at the rulers, please. Can you find the difference between them? Yes. This one is old. (Show the old ruler.) And this one is new. (Show the new ruler.) Do you understand old and new? Ask the students to talk about the picture. Point to each half of each picture and ask about the difference between the halves. Go on with the other pictures to teach the language items. Ask the students to match the words with the pictures. Step 3. Pair work Call attention to the conversation in the picture. Then ask the students to work in pairs and take turns asking each other questions about the things on the list of phrases in activity 1a on page 7. Step 4. Listening (2a, 2b) Ask the students to listen to the tape and circle the places in 1a. Say: Now please listen to the tape again. Listen to it and draw the places in Michael’s neighborhood on the street map. Just listen. Play the recording. Play the recording again. Then have some students show their pleted drawing to the class. Step 5. Pair work Ask the students to work in pairs talking about drawings to the class. Then ask some pairs to present their dialogues to the class. Ask the students to work in pairs, draw a map of their own neighborhood and practice asking and answering questions about the places they live in. Homework ? Ask the students to make similar conversations to that in Activity 1b. Period 5 Teaching aims: 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: Turn left on First Avenue and enjoy the city’s quiet streets and small parks. Take a walk through the park on Center Avenue. This is the beginning of the garden tour. Bridge is a good place to have fun. 3. Enable the students to write a tour guide and draw the rout to somewhere. 4. How to write a tour guide and draw the rout to somewhere. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision Check the homework by asking about the student’s neighborhood. Ask the students to work in pairs. Ask the students to work in pairs. Then ask some pairs to present their conversations to the whole class. Step 2. Reading (3a, 3b) Ask the students to read the tour guide. Divide the whole class into four groups to have a quiz. Tell the students to keep these words down and make at least two sentences with each word after class. After that ask the students to look at the pictures and fill in the blanks for this tour guide. Step Ask the students to write a tour guide with the students. Names of buildings and locations. Description words Words that talk about positions. Words that talk about directions. Step 4. Pair work (4b) Learn to draw a picture of neighborhood. First ask the students to answer the questions according to the pictures. Then ask the students to draw a picture according to the following conversation. Then ask students to present their drawings to the whole class. Homework 1. Ask the students to talk about the street and buildings in their own neighborhood. 2. Ask the students to make sentences with the description words they kept down in the class. Period 6 Teaching aims 1. Teach vocabulary words. 2. Target languages: I know you are arriving next Sunday. Let me tell you the way to my house. I hope you have a good trip. 3. Enable the students to write about the neighborhood. 4. Help the students to learn how to write about the neighborhood. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision Check the homework by asking and answering some questions. Give more students chances to practice. Step word check(1) Ask the students to check the words they know. Then ask the students to do the some exercises. Step (2) Expand the students’ vocabulary. After that ask the students to share their list with other students. Step 4. Reading Ask the students to read the letter and draw the rout on the map. Ask the students to change the letter into a telephone conversation. Let the students pay attention to the pictures. Say, Look at the picture of Sally. How old do you think she is? Where do you