Unit 5 Places in My City

1. Unit 5 Places in My City

2. Part One: Vocabulary Link Look at the vocabulary box, and read them by yourself. Fill in the information.

3. Vocabulary Link In the neighborhood Min Chul is a new student at a university in the U.S. Below are some places in his neighborhood. Match each word in the box with a photo. 1. bank ( ) gym 2. movie theater 3. ( ) 4. Internet café ( ) laundromat 5. post office 6. ( ) ( ) 7. library ( ) hair salon 8. ( ) ( )

4. In the neighborhood_A2 Vocabulary Link What things can you do at each place in the previous slide? Make a list and then share your ideas with the class. ________ Open an account or deposit money. a bank • What can you do at ? ________________. Do physical exercise (2) What can you do at the gym? ____________ an Internet café (3) What do you do at ? Check e-mail. _________. (4) Where can you borrow books? In a library __________ (5) Where can you ? watch movies At a movie theater. __________. a post office At (6) Where can you send a parcel? At a hair salon. (7) Where can you have ? __________ your haircut __________. At a laundromat (8) Where can you do your laundry?

5. Part Two: Listening --- Where are they? Do you know the following words in the vocabulary box? Read them out. Listen to four conversations on p.73, and figure out where the speakers are and what they are doing.

6. Part Two: Listening --- Where are they? Listen to four conversations. Number the pictures as you listen. Proper names Pablo Sylvie Min Chul Albany Avenue Bloor Street West Language Notes ( ) 2 1 4 ( ) 3 ( ) ( )

7. Keys Part Two: Listening --- Where are they? Listen again. Why is each person at the place? Check (√) the correct answer. to have coffee to check e-mail to change money to get money to cut her hair to color her hair ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) to buy stamps to mail a letter √ √ ( ) ( ) ( ) √ ( ) √

8. Part Three: Speaking--- asking for and giving directions. Do you know how to ask for and give directions?

9. Part Three: Speaking--- asking for and giving directions. Useful Expressions Asking for directions To ask about a specific place Where’s theInternational Bank, please? Could you tell me where the Empire State Building is, please? Excuse me, how do I walk to the Grand Theater from here? To ask about a place in general Where can I get a roll of film? Excuse me, where can I post a letter? Do you know where I can leave my luggage? Is there a movie theater nearby?

10. Part Three: Speaking--- asking for and giving directions. Useful Expressions Giving directions To get to the theater go straight down the street to the corner walk one block on Center Street turn left / right at the next traffic light take the bus / subway to … take a taxi to … I’m not sure, but I think … Of course there is one, … Sorry, I don’t know.

11. Part Three: Speaking--- asking for and giving directions. Useful Expressions Prepositions of place on the corner of the street in the middle of the block in front of the bank between the library and the postoffice in the park next to the trainstation right across the café opposite the park in the back of / behind the laundromat near / close to the City Hall

12. Pair work You are supposed to take turns asking and answering about places on the map on p. 73 using the expressions mentioned above.

13. Part Four: Listening--- Optional Listening 1 In the suburbs • Listen to the listening material, and then complete the following exercises on the book. • 2. Repeat Isabel’s description of the city she lives in.

14. Part Five: Listening--- Optional Listening 2 A city for a vocation Let’s Familiar with the new words in the recording. Speaking: How much do you know about the city of Singapore? Listen to the listening material and complete the exercise on the book.

15. Part Six: Video course 1 In my neighborhood read the list of vocabulary items aloud Before Watch Video course 1 While Watch After Watch circle the words you hear for exercise A on P.66 and check the answers. watch the interview and repeat what the speaker said

16. Part Six: Video course 1 In my neighborhood 1. Natalie: √ √ √ ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) a pizza shop a clothing store a night club a pharmacy 2. Daniel: √ √ √ a post office a train station ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) a movie theater a supermarket 3. Kevin: √ √ √ pizza restaurants ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Chinese restaurants laundromats banks 4. Agnes: √ √ √ √ ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) restaurants little shops a post office a bakery

17. Part Seven: Speaking ---Where is it? Useful Expressions Location and position Right next door to the pizza shop is a clothing store. Across the street from the clothing store is a pharmacy. I live across from the supermarket. I live very close to the train station. There’s a post office down the road. The book store lies in the middle of the block. It’s on Albany Avenue. It’s on the corner of Bloor Street and Albany Avenue. Let’s get to some expressions of giving directions:

18. Role play: Here’s a map of our university. Look at it and work with your desk-mate. You’re supposed to play the role of a freshman and a upperclassman asking for and giving directions.

19. Game time: Make up a group of four, and each member prepares a short description of a certain place on campus. The rest guess what it is based on the given information.

20. Check Part Eight: Video course 2 Cities and towns Watch the interviews and check True or False. Correct the false sentences. ■ • Gian is from a small town in North Dakota. • Gian’s town has almost no pollution. • Miyuki says food is expensive in Tokyo. • Miyuki thinks it’s difficult to get around in Tokyo. • Dave thinks Mexico City is clean. • Dave doesn’t like Mexico City. • Dayanne thinks living in Sao Paulo is inexpensive. • Dayanne would like to live in the countryside. _____ _____ False True _____ True _____ False True _____ _____ False _____ False _____ True False True _____ _____ _____ _____ True False False _____ True _____ True False _____ _____

21. Part Nine: Video course---You can’t miss it Main characters Sun-hee Park Tara Greene Other name mentioned Claudia

22. Watch the video for the first time, then answer the following two questions: • Where are Sun-hee and Tara going? • How do they get to the destination?

23. Speaking Go to your group to look at the pictures on p.84 and each group member will talk about one picture according to the story from the video.

24. 3. Watch the video again and check the sentences that are true and correct the false sentences for exercise A on p.85.

25. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Sun-hee and Tara find a note from Claudia. Claudia wants Sun-hee and Tara to meet her at the office. The restaurant is between MacDougal and Sullivan. Claudia tells Tara and Sun-hee to take the bus to the restaurant. Sun-hee asks a woman for directions. Sun-hee and Tara can’t understand the directions. Sun-hee and Tara walk to the restaurant. The restaurant is across the street from the subway station.

26. 4. Watch the video again and fill in the blanks with the information you hear (exercise c).

27. Autonomous learning tasks New century book: unit 5 optional listening 3 & 4 New horizon book: unit 9 III. Listening in: task 1: The Internet on Campus; task 2: Surfing the Net; task 3: Internet Addiction; task 4: A Brief Introduction New horizon book: unit 9 Part VI. Further listening and speaking tasks 1-3

28. Supplementary listening materials 1. Understanding movie clip I: North Spain 2. Understanding movie clip II: Six Days Seven Nights

29. Supplementary reading materials • 最新大学英语快速阅读 1 Unit 8

30. Suggested writing topic Describe your Hometown 

31. Thank You!