Unit 1 Greetings and Introductions
Step One: Introduction
1. Welcome the students and introduce myself and the subject.
Boys and girls, welcome to this college. Nice to meet you all. First, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is…From now on we will learn this book together. This subject focuses on viewing, listening and speaking. We all know that the whole part is the most important in learning English. So try to concentrate ourselves on it in class and listen and speak more after class. Then we can make a rapid progress and get good marks at the end of this term. It will also help you a lot when you are taking some exams such as Practical English Test For Colleges(专科学院) Band A and B or College English Test Band 4. At last, I want to remind you that try to be brave when facing difficulties in learning English then you can overcome them and I am always here to help you. Remember, we are students and teacher in class but friends after class.
2. Ask some class cadres to introduce themselves: monitor, commissary in charge of discipline. They can say anything as they like.
3. They have been familiar with each other during the military training. So ask some volunteers to introduce some other students around them.
4. Ask a person to come to the front and another one to stand by his seat. The person on the platform will make an introduction of the other. (1) Are you sure you are describing her?
(2) Do you think the person he described just now is you? (3) Is his description vivid and graphic?
(4) What percent of his description is right? Step Two: Lead-in
Do you know how introductions and greetings are made? In this unit, we will learn something about it.
1. Turn to Page One, read through the passage carefully and answer the questions: (1) How to start a conversation with a stranger? (2) What are the two kinds of introductions? (3) What are the two kinds of greetings?
2. Work with their partner to discuss the following questions and then share the answers with the rest of the class.
(1) What would you do if some of your guests at your birthday party don’t know each other?
I would introduce them to one another, giving some information about each, so that they would have enough common interests to begin a conversation. I’d like everybody at my party to have fun, like old friends being together again. (2) What English greetings do you know about? And when do we use them? Good morning. --- Before 12:00.
Good afternoon. --- From about 12:00 till around 17:00. Good evening. --- From about 17:00 till around 24:00.
Goodbye. --- It can be used at any time of day when people are leaving. Hello. Hi. --- It’s informal but can be used at any time.
How do you do? Nice to meet you? --- For people who meet for the first time.
How are you? How is everything?--- For acquaintances [ə'kweintəns] . For certain days, holidays, or other special occasions, there are special greetings.--- Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Happy birthday. Congratulations on enrolling in this college.
Step Three: Video One: Nice to Meet You. 1. Before Watching
(1) Ask them to look at the picture and finish the two questions.
(2) There are some phrases or sentences in Task Two which you will hear in this conversation a moment later. Please read through carefully and then finish the exercises about words definitions. It will help us to understand the conversation. (3) Check the answers. 2. While Watching
(1) Once for them to listen carefully and don’t do anything else. Ask them for the persons’ names.
(2) Read through Task One in P3 and another once for them to finish it. (3) The third once for them to finish Part A of Task Two.
(4) Ask them to finish Part B according to the contents of the conversation in their memory.
(5) Ask them to listen to the conversation sentence by sentence for two times and then role-play it.
Step Four:
1. Before Watching:
(1) Ask them to look at the picture and finish the two questions.
(2) There are some phrases or sentences in Task Two which you will hear in this conversation a moment later. Please read through carefully and they will help us to understand the conversation. 2. While Watching
(1) Look at the picture in P5. Once for them to listen carefully and try to find the persons’ names.
(2) Read through Task One in P6 and another two times for them to finish it. (3) The fourth once for them to finish Part 2 of Task 1. (4) P8 Task 3 Watching and Speaking
a) Watch the video again, with all the students doing Mrs. Green’s voice. b) Watch the video again, with all the students doing Michael’s voice.
Step Five: Homework
1. Finish reading the cultural tips after class.
2. Work with your desk-mates and finish Situation 1 of Mini-dialogues. 3. The second question of Discussion.
What gestures do we use in China when greeting someone?
In China, a handshake is considered as the standard greeting. People who know each other well may wave to each other as a greeting when they meet. And sometimes a nod or a slight bow may also be used to greet people.
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