Unit 8 Is there a post office near here?Period 2: Section A 2d—3c ( 含 Self Check 2)You know Tony wants to buy a house in a town. He saw an ad from Mary. Her house is across from the bank. He wants to have a look, but he missed himself in the town. What can he do?2dTask 1:There is a conversation. Please read it and answer the questions below. 1.Where is the bank?2.Why doesn’t Tony find the bank?3.Is it far from the place Tony is?4.What’s the meaning of town in Chinese?1. It is on Center Street. / It is across from the park.2. Because he is new in town.3. No, it isn’t.4. It’s “ 市镇” .Answers:Task 2:Tell the discovery.What can you learn from the conversation? Role-play First listen to the tapes carefully, pay attention to the intonation and tone, and then you will pretend to them. Grammar Focus巧记一般现在时的 there be 结构：There be 句型不一般，主语跟在 be 后边。 be 可变为 is\are, there 永远不变化， 单数主语用 is ，复数主语须用 are 。 变疑问，很简单， be 须大写来提前； 变否定，也轻松， be 后 not 记心中。Practice (3a, 3b) A game (3c) Take turns to choose a place in the picture in 1a.The other students ask questions and guess the place. Read for more Hi, my name is Jodie. Let me tell you something about my neighborhood. On the street there are apartment buildings ( 公寓大楼 )and some stores. There is a newsstand( 书报亭 ) on the corner. There’s also a pet shop. Next to the pet shop, there is a computer store. There’s a big supermarket in the neighborhood, too. And across from it is a basketball club. I often play basketball there. But there isn’t a movie theater( 电影院 )in the neighborhood. My school is very near. It’s just behind our apartment building. So I walk to school every day.请根据短文内容，回答下列问题。Where is the newsstand?Is there a computer store in the neighborhood?Is the supermarket next to the basketball club?Is there a movie theater in the neighborhood?Where is Jodie’s school?Answers:It’s on the corner.Yes, there is.No, it isn’t.No, there isn’t.It’s behind their apartment building.Homework Choose one of them to finish.1. Finish Self Check 2. Write five sentences about your school using “there is/are” .2. 用适当的介词填空。(1)Han Mei’s eraser is _____her pencil case.(2)Can you see a bike ____the river?(3)Is there a supermarket _______the neighborhood?(4)The pay phone is ______ the post office and the library.(5)They go ______ the bridge.Thank you!
