Unit 18 New Zealand
Period 1
(一)明确目标
1. Learn the useful expressions to talk about location and direction.
2. Have listening practice.
(二)整体感知
Step 1
Show the students a map of china and ask them to find out several places and tell the others the location of these places.
(三)教学过程
Step 2 warming up
Get eh students to look at the map of china and names of countries, islands and seas beyond China, Divide the students into groups of four and talk about the positions of the different places and waters in relation to china.
Step 3 listening
Ask the students to look at the map on page 37.this is the map of Dolphin island. Play the tape for the first time for the students to finish exercise 1. Play the tape again. This time the students are required to do Exercise 2.
Step 4 Speaking
The teacher asks one of the students “where are you from?” “Can you tell me the position of your hometown?” encourage the students to use “in the north/south/east/west of” or “to the north/south/east/west of “
Read the example dialogue. Then get the students to talk about the birthplaces of their grandparents. Parents and them selves in pairs. At the edn ask one or two pairs to act out their dialogues in front of the class.
(四)总结、扩展
Step 5
Finish off the exercises in workbook.
（五）随堂练习
1）用适当的介词填空：
1. He lives in a town ____ the east coast.
2. Hainan Island id ____ the south of Guangdong province.
3. Henan province lie _____ central china.
4. The ship hi t rock ___ the west coast of the pacific:
2）将下了句子译成英语。
1. 我父亲出生在这个城市以西30公里处的一个小村庄。
2. 我来自安庆，安徽西南部的一个小城市。
3. 安徽省位于江苏省的西边，河北省的南边。
参考答案：
1）1. on 2. to 3. in 4. off
2) 1. my father was born in a small village, which is about 30 kilometers west of this city.
2. I’m from Anqing a small city in southwestern Anhui province.
3. Anhui province lies on the west of Jiangsu, but to the south of Hebei.