新编实用英语综合教程2--Unit-2-Communication-by-Email教案

Unit 2 Communication by Email Unit Goals

What you should learn to do

1.Chat online

e abbreviations and slangs in communicating online

3.Write an email

What you should know about

1.Surfing online for:

Information

Shopping

2.Good or bad of chatting online

3.Noun clauses

Section I Talking Face to Face

1.Imitating Mini-Talks

2.Acting out the Tasks

3.Studying Email Information on the Internet

4.Following Sample Dialogues

5.Putting Language to Use

Section II Being All Ears

1.Learning Sentences for Workplace Communication

2.Handling a Dialogue

3.Understanding a Short Speech / Talk

Section III Trying your Hand

1.Practicing Applied Writing

2.Writing Sentences and Reviewing Grammar

Section IV Maintaining a Sharp Eye

Passage 1 :

Information Related to the Reading Passage

It’s no understatement to say that e-mail has had a profound effect on our professional and personal lives. People thousands of miles away from each other can send and receive detailed documents within mere seconds. This allows us to take on projects that wouldn’t have been practical or possible only a few years ago. It has become routine for us to correspond and exchange files with people overseas. The only obstacle is the difference in time zones.

But on the other hand, e-mail can eat up a substantial portion of our workday. Most of the time and effort involved is going through unsolicited messages and separating the good from the bad. But not all unsolicited messages are spam.

Text E-mail, a Blessing and Annoyance

For the blessing:

E-mail is a conversation that does not require an immediate response (like a telephone). If someone calls you on the telephone, you pick it up (unless you have an answering machine, voice mail or you are just plain rude) and the conversation begins. This is an interactive conversation.

With e-mail, you send a message and then wait for a response. The response may come in five minutes or it may come in five days. Either way, it’s not an interactive conversation.

If a hundred people send you e-mails in one day, so what? You don’t have to talk with all one hundred. Just think of all the hellos, goodbyes and other unnecessary chit-chat you can avoid. With e-mail, you only deal with their messages (which usually omit hellos, goodbyes and such) and you deal with them on your own time. That’s the blessing.

Now for the annoyance:

Too many e-mail users assume that the minute someone receives an e-mail, the person will read it. Bad assumption.

If you schedule a meeting for an hour from now and send an e-mail to each