2014年公开课优质课课件Unit12 Culture Shock Lesson 2 Mind Your Manners教案

Unit12 Culture Shock Lesson 2 Mind Your Manners教案Teaching aims:

To practise using polite expressions

To practise inferring speaker’s mood from tone of voice and intonation

To practise using phrasal verbs

Teaching difficulties:

To practise inferring speak er’s mood from tone of voice and intonation

Teaching Aids: computer and cassette

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

T: Different countries have different manners, but people use different ways to show their feelings,( teachers can guide student do the exercise 1.)

Have students look at the scale of “degrees of showing emotion” and as a class discuss where they would place people from Italy, Japan, Britain and the USA. Encourage students to give reasons for their opinions and to comment on the stereo-types that these nationalities have in China.

ⅡListening

Listen to Part 1 of the interview about communication in different cultures. Compare

what the expert says with your answers from Ex 1.

Students listen to part 1of the interview and compare what the expert says with their answers from exercise 1

The expert classifies Italians as affective people from Japan and Britain as “neutral” (with the Japanese being more reserved than the British) and Americans as mixed- neutral/affective.

Do the exercise 3

Give students time to look at the table and the entries for show anger in formal situations

Play part 2 of the interview for students to complete the table if necessary, play the cassette twice. Do the exercise 5

Play the cassette again, pausing after each dialogue, for students to complete the Function File.

ⅢPronunciation: Intonation

Do the exercise 6

Students work in pairs, making a list of the expressions for the functions a-f

Check students’ answers by having them say the expressions politely

Students listen and repeat the expressions

Do the exercise 7

Tell students that the speaker, Christina, sounds rude on the cassette .Read through the four ways( a-d)of being impolite and rude

Play the cassette of the first item and look at the answer (b) with the class

Continue playing the cassette for students to match the other reasons for sounding rude with the dialogues.

ⅣSpeaking

Do the exercise 8,

Read the Strategies with the class. Tell students to think of these things before they start the roleplays

Encourage students act out their roleplays in pairs. Asking other students to point out their impolite manners

ⅤHomework

1. Write a short report to describe Chinese people.

Are they open or reserved? Is formal language very

different from informal language? (Some

information may be available on the Internet).

2. Finish Ex 9 on Page 39.