Unit 6 Good manners
Teaching aims and demands:
a. Achieve language skills and related knowledge about the topic of good manners;
b. Learn to express thanks and apologies:
c. Vocabulary in this unit:
the words and expressions listed on the teacher’s book
d. Grammar:
the attributive clause
Lesson 1
Step1 Warming up
Do you like people with good manners?
Look at part1 warming up, work in pairs. Look at the pictures on the right and practice the short dialogue.
Ask students to act it out.
Step2 Listening
Now let’s learn more ways of apologizing by listening. Ask the Ss to close books and listen to the tape to get a general idea of the dialogue.
Then open their books and read the exercise to find out what information they need, listen to the tape a second time. After listening, let them fill in the blanks, and check the answers
Then , listen a third time and let them grasp what is being said. Finally, do the listening exercise in the workbook.
Step3 Speaking
Suppose you happen to meet such common mistakes as the one in the listening, what will you do? Saying the right thing at the time and the right place is very important.
Please come to speaking. Look at situation 1 and 2, according to the situations and make up two dialogues in pairs, using the expressions in the box.
Then ask them to act out.
Homework: Grasp the ways of apologizing exercise “talking” in the workbook.
Lesson2
Step1 Revision
Check the homework
Step2 pre-reading
Let the Ss discuss in groups to write down the rules for being polite in the following situations in Chinese culture.
Situation Rules for being polite in China
At a dinner party
Greeting your teacher
Receiving a birthday present
Paying a visit to a friend’s house
Step3 Reading
Looking at the title and the pictures, I guess that the reading text is about dinner parties in restaurants. Read the text silently and quickly to find the main idea of each paragraph.
Para1: It explains all the things we will find on a dinner table and introduce some Chinese items for the Chinese dinner table.
Para2: It tells us the starter and the soup.
Para3: It tells about the main course.
Para5: It tells about the final course of a formal dinner, drinks.
Para6: It tells us that table manners are only important at formal dinner parties.
Step 4 post- reading
Let the Ss do the exercises in order(1-4)
Step 5 listening
Listen to the text and pay attention to the pronunciation, stress and intonation.
Step 6 Language points
1. impression n. 印象
have /make a good ~ on sb. 給某人留下好印象
2. custom n. 習(xí)慣，風(fēng)俗
keep up a ~ = follow a ~ 遵從習(xí)俗
break a ~ 打破習(xí)俗
manners and ~s 風(fēng)俗習(xí)慣
3. course n. 過(guò)程，進(jìn)行方向，課程， 一道菜
in the ~ of 在------當(dāng)中
a summer ~ 暑期課程
take a ~ in law 上法律課
in the ~ of the discussion, many opinions are heard.
A dinner of five ~s = a five-~ dinner五道菜的一餐飯
4.start with
begin with /end up with
5.drink to ------ 為------干杯 為------ 祝酒
let’s drink to the friendship between our two peoples.
We all drank to Tom’s success in the experiment.
6. fashion n. 流行，時(shí)髦，時(shí)尚
a ~ show 時(shí)裝表演
follow the ~ 趕時(shí)髦
come into ~ 流行起來(lái)
be in ~ 正流行 be out of ~ 不再流行
7. When drinking to someone’s health you raise your glasses.
---- you do not need to worry about all these rules while having dinner with friends or family.
這兩句中劃線(xiàn)部分師省略句。完整的句子分別是when you are drinking to someone’s health 及 while you are having dinner with friends or family.
當(dāng)主從句的主語(yǔ)一致時(shí)，從句的主語(yǔ)及謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞的一部分可以省略，如：
Please be careful when crossing the road.
You need to be careful while reaching the apple on the top of the tree.
Homework: Recite the text.
Finish the exercise “Vocabulary” in the workbook.
Lesson 3
Step1 Revision
Check the reciting of the text.
Check the homework
Step2 Language study
1、 Word study
The prefixes in-, im- , non-and un- all change the meaning of a word to its opposite.
2、 Grammar
The restrictive attributive clause and non-restrictive attributive clause.
At first, explain the two clauses to the Ss. Then do the exercise on page41. Finally check the answers.
Step3 Practice
Ex2 in the workbook
Homework: Revise the grammar.
Ex1 in the workbook.
Lesson4
Step1 Revison
Check the homework
Step2 Reading and writing
Read the following thank-you letter and finish the exercise on Page42
At last, write a thank-you letter.
Step3 Workbook
Ask the Ss to read the text fast to find the main idea of the text.
Then read again and do the exercise on Page 119, then check the answers with the whole class.
Homework: Revise the contents of Unit6.