高二英语选修6module 6 unit 3 reading

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Period 1 welcome to the unit

Teaching objectives:

1. Enable students to get a general idea of different ways of greeting each other in different countries.

2. Ask students to think about the possible problems that may be caused by these differences.

3. Help students know more about different customs.

4. Help students form correct attitudes towards foreign cultures.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Ask students to say what they know about the Chinese ways of greeting.

In China, if we meet someone for the first time, we usually greet each other by shaking hands and saying ‘How do you do?’ or ‘Nice to meet you!’. However, between familiar people, we usually say ‘Have you had your meal?’ or ‘Where are you going?’.

Step 2 Picture talking

1. Look at the six pictures carefully. Then match the different ways of greeting with the countries. Ways of greeting and countries or areas

(1) putting their hands together and bowing slightly (Thailand)

(2) kissing each other on one cheek and then the other (Holland)

(3) greeting each other by touching noses (the Middle East)

(4) hugging each other (South America)

(5) shaking hands with each other (the USA)

(6) bowing to each other(Japan)

Ask some students to describe the greetings using the following sentence patterns.

(1) In…, people greeting each other by doing sth / with sth.

(2) In…, people do sth (to greet each other) when meeting each other.

(3) In…, you can expected to be done when you meet someone.

(4) In…,the normal greeting is a …

2. Are these ways of greeting the same as the ways Chinese people greet each other? What would you think if you saw Chinese people doing these in China? ( I would think that they were very strange.)

What may happen when people with different greeting habits meet.? ( Maybe they will feel embarrassed or be involved in awkward situations.) If you met people from the Middle East for the first time without knowing anything about their ways of greeting, how would you react?

Step 3 Discussion

Ask students to read the three questions under the six pictures and make sure that everyone knows the meanings of the questions. Then divide the class into 3 groups to discuss the 3 questions. After finishing, ask one group to report their answers to the class.

(1) In English-speaking countries, there are some formal greetings, such as ‘How are you?’ ‘How do you do?’ and ‘How have you been?’. There are also some informal ways of greeting. For instance, people often greet others that they know we ll with ‘Hi’ ‘Hello’’Hi there’ or ‘What’s up?’.

(2) There are various reasons for this. Firstly, there are cultural differences. People in the West