1. Topic 2 My home is in an apartment building.
Unit 6 Our Local Area
Topic 2 My home is in an apartment building.
Section D

2. Let‘s sing together. 视频歌曲

3. Show Time
Show the picture of your ideal community and describe it to the class.

4. Grammar
There is/are(Ⅱ)
There ______ a community service center in our area.
There ______ many old people living here.
________ there a bank near here?
________ there any near here? is
are Is
Are

5. Functions are there What kind of home do you live in?
It's a townhouse with two floors.
How many floors ____ _____ in your building? There are seven.
Do you like living there? Yes, I do.
Michael is looking for an apartment near our school. Let's help him.
Could you help me? Of course.
are there

6. 1. Listen to the passage and choose the correct answers.
1. I’m from ____.
A. England B. China C. America
2. I live in a small ____.
A. farmhouse B. townhouse C. apartment
3. I like ____ best.
A. the study B. the bedroom C. the kitchen
4. ____ and I often read books in the study.
A. My father B. My mother C. My sister
5. The dog sleeps in ____.
A. the living room B. the garden C. the bedroom C B A C B

7. 2a. Look at the pictures and discuss the differences between cities and the countryside.
city

8. countryside It’s quiet in the countryside. The air is fresh.
The trees are green.
The river is clean.

9. city It’s noisy in the city. The air is dirty. The river is dirty.
The roads are wide.
The traffic is heavy.
The buildings are tall.

10. F F F T F Listen to 2a and then mark True (T) or False (F).
( ) 1. Many people are moving to the countryside.
( ) 2. The traffic in the countryside is often heavy.
( ) 3. The countryside is noisy.
( ) 4. Living in cities costs too much.
( ) 5. Few people like living in houses with big
yards. F F F T F

11. Key Points
move from... to...
the cost of living
miss
从......搬到......
生活的费用
v. 思念

12. 2b. Read 2a again and list the key words or phrases. Then add more.
City
______________
Countryside
______________
large
big yards
interesting
noisy
heavy traffic
high living cost
...
fresh air
quiet life
...

13. 3. Do you like living in a city or the countryside?
Write a passage about your ideas and try to use the words in 2b.

14. Example
I would like to live in the countryside because it is clean and quiet. Also, there are many houses with big yards in the countryside. But cities are often very noisy. There are many factories in cities and they make the air very dirty. The cost of living is high and the traffic is very heavy in cities, so I don't like living there.

15. Telling others your ideal home.
Project
Telling others your ideal home.
1. Work in groups and collect words about rooms and furniture in homes.
Room
bedroom
study
...
Furniture
bed
chair

16. Telling others your ideal home.
Project
Telling others your ideal home.
Discuss and design your ideal home, and then draw a picture of it.
Choose one student from your group to describe his/her ideal home to the class.

17. Summary We learn: 1. some words: sleep, move, countryside, city,
noisy, traffic, cost, miss, air, fresh
2. some phrases: move from … to …
the cost of living
3. some sentences: The traffic is heavy.
The cost of living is high.
The air is fresh and life is quiet.
We can: talk about the differences between cities and the
countryside.
e.g. city: large, high living cost, heavy traffic
countryside: fresh air, big yards, quiet life

18. Translate the phrases into English.
Exercises
Translate the phrases into English.
1. 在……的尽头 ________________
2. 例如 ________________
3. 许多，大量 ________________
4. 靠近 ________________
5. 远离 ________________
6. 在街道转角处 __________________
at the end of
such as
a lot of = lots of
close to
far from
on the street corner

19. Fill in the blanks with the words of this topic.
Mr. Green lives just next to me. He is my
n_________.
2. Be q______, boys and girls! Class begins.
3. We live close to the train s______, so we
can’t sleep very well.
4. What’s on the street c_______?
eighbor
uiet
tation
orner

20. Homework Write a passage about your ideal home that you drew in class.
Preview Section A of Topic 3.

21. Thank you