Part I Communication Skills
Greetings and Introductions
Task 1 Warm up
Teaching tips:
Encourage students to speak out what they have already known about greetings and introductions. Task 2 Listening
Exercise 1
Keys:
See the audio script
Audio Script
Bill: Hi, Bill.
Amy:Hello, Amy. How are you doing?
Bill: Great, thanks. How about you?
Amy: Fine, thanks. Where are you off to?
Bill: I’m heading for the Sports Center.
(Professor Smith is coming towards them.)
Amy : Oh, Bill, I’d like you to mee t Professor Smith. Mr. Smith, this is my friend Bill. Bill, this is Professor Smith.
Smith:How do you do, Bill?
Bill: How do you do, Mr. Smith? It’s a pleasure to meet you.
Smith: Nice to meet you, Bill. Are you and Amy in the same class?
Bill: Yes, w e’re both in Professor Jones’ English class.
Amy: Bill is a very good soccer player and he has played it for years.
Smith: Has he? I like watching soccer games.
Bill:Will you come and watch us play some day, Mr. Smith?
Smith: Yes, I will. Thank you.
Bill:Excuse me, I have to leave now. Very nice meeting you, Professor Smith.
Smith: Same here.
Exercise 2
Teaching tips:
This type of mechanical exercise is designed to help students use the expressions more fluently. If time permits, ask students to role-play the dialog.
Useful Expressions
Teaching tips:
1. Draw students’attention to the expressions about greetings and introductions used in the dialogue.
2. Analyze the tables and ask students to pay attention to both the formal and informal expressions.
3. Explain to the students that the items in the right column do not necessarily strictly match those in the left column.
Task 3 Speaking up
Pair Work& Group Work
Teaching tips:
Put students in pairs and then in groups. It is the first oral work of the first unit, so pair work or group work will make students feel at ease. Teachers should take it just as a warm-up exercise and do not spend too much time on it.
Reference:
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Part II Topic-related Listening &Speaking
Task 1
Pre-listening Activity
Teaching tips:
Focus student ’s attention on the picture. Encourage students to guess the relationship between the man and the Internet. Emphasize it is the Internet, instead of computers.
Exercise 1
Keys:
Exercise 2
Keys:
When he was 18: He went to Oxford
University.
1976: He graduated and got a job with a computer company. 1989: He invented the World Wide Web.
1994: He went to live in the United States. 1995: He wrote an article in the New York Times.
Oral Practice
Teaching tips:
Students work individually to fill in their own fact file. And then remind students to use
the
expressions and sentences patterns in the Useful Language Box..
Reference:
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More majors are provided in the below diagram.
Audio Script
Tim Bernet-Lee looks ordinary— he is about 45 years old and has brown hair. His life is quite normal—he was born in England, but his home is now in Massachusetts, USA. But, in 1989, Tim had a very important idea. He invented the World Wide Web (www)!
Tim went to school in London. His parents both worked with computers, so it’s not surprising that he loved computers from an early age. When he was 18, he left school and went to Oxford University, where he studied Physics. At Oxford, he became more and more interested in computers and he made his first computer from an old television. He graduated in 1976 and got a job with a computer company in Dorset, England. In 1989, he went to work in Switzerland, where he first had the idea of an international information network linked by computer…and he decided to call it the World Wide Web. In 1994, he went to live in the United States, where he now works. In 1995, he wrote an article in the New York Times where he said ‘the Web is a universe of information: it is for everyone.’His idea of a web, where people from all over the world can exchange information, is now real.
Task 2
Pre-listening Activity
Teaching tips:
Tell students they are going to listen to something about the first female president of Harvard University. Emphasize “the first”“female”, and “ Harvard University”and ask students what occur to them when it comes to these key words and then tick the statements they think will be probably true. After doing the two exercises, compare student’s guess with the facts in the audio. Reference:
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Exercise 1
Keys:
1. a historian who has written several books on her specialty.
2. This is a man’s world.
3. a wealthy white family.
4. She wrote to President Dwight Eisenhower urging him to end racial discrimination. Exercise 2
Keys:
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