Unit 1 Greeting and Introducing People
The first period
SectionⅠ&Ⅱ
Teaching aims
The students should be able to read, discuss and translate business cards in English, understand greeting and introducing people and make a short conversation to greet and introduce other people, and master some expressions in greeting and introducing people.
Teaching important point
Improve students’ listening ability
Teaching difficult point
Make students talk freely with useful words and phrases
Teaching methods
1.introductive method and talking method to give students a clear picture of what they should master
2.listening and answering activities to improve students’ listening ability
3.pair-and group work to make every student active in class
Teaching aids
The radio player and the blackboard
Teaching procedures
Ⅰ. Introduction
When you are introduced to foreign friends, you should greet them with“How do you do?" while shaking hands with them for a few seconds. The next thing is, perhaps, the presenting of a business card, which is also called a name card. You should accept the card with a smile and a quick browse, and at the same time, offer yours.
Ⅱ. Section ⅠTalking Face to Face
Part 1 Warm- up
Make a brief self-introduction, introduce how to study English in college, esp. this course, and collect the
students' expectations in learning English to establish a close relationship with them
Part 2 Read and Translate the Business Cards and Letters
Learn the several samples one by one and translate them into Chinese
Part 3 Learn Some Dialogues
The teacher present s the dialogues by playing the recorder and by asking the students to read the dialogues silently in order to get audio and visual input.
The students practice the dialogues by imitating the pronunciation and intonation of the speakers on the tape, master some useful expressions, and produce some dialogues as required
Part 4 Practice
1. Oral Practice
Make a dialogue with your partner(s) by choosing any of the tasks in Act Out.
2. Put in Use Exercises 1-3
Ⅲ.Section II : Being All Ears
Pre-listening: provide the students with the new words and expressions; read through
the questions and the chart in exercise 1 and 2, and make some predictions as to the content of
the dialogue.
While-listening: ask the students to listen to the materials for the first time and ask them just to understand the main idea not to finish the exercises; listen to the materials again and ask them to finish
exercise 1; ask the students to repeat the materials sentence by sentence after the tape while the
teacher will press the button “pause” on the tape recorder; listen to the materials as a whole for the
last time.
Post-listening: ask the students to finish exercise 2, i.e. answering questions. This step aims to change listening to speaking.
Ⅳ.Homework: Preview Section III Passage I & II
Conclusion:
The second period
Section ⅢMaintaining a Sharp Eye
Passage Ⅰ The Way Americans Greet
