Unit 3新职业英语第一册

教案

Unit 3 Business Meals —1: Reading A

I. Revision and Leading-in

A. Revision

The teacher checks the students ’ assignments to have a review of the contents learned in the previous period.

B. Leading-in: Free Talk on Business Meals

The students are expected to share their information and ideas about business meals. Warming-up: Principles of table seating arrangement

① Seat people who have common interest together.

② Pair male and female guests.

③ Seat guests of honor in order. The most important person should be seated at the right hand of the host.

Free Talk on Table Manners

Now I am honored to be invited to a formal business deal, can you give me any valuable suggestion on how to behave myself or what we call Table Manners?

II. The Presentation of The New Material

A. Pre-reading Tasks —New Words Study

1. entertain: to invite people to your home for a meal or party or take your company’s customers to have a meal, drinks, etc; to do something that amuses or interests people e.g. I ’ll entertain my friend over the weekend.

The child was entertaining himself with his toys.

2. confidence: firm trust (in someone ’s ability, or in what is said, reported, etc.) e.g. He answered the questions with confidence.=He answered the questions confidently. Don ’t put too much confidence in what the papers say.

There is a lack of confidence in the Government, i.e. People do not believe that its polices are wise.

c.f. I’m telling you this in (strict) confidence —so don ’t breathe a word of it. (Question: Can you tell me the meaning of confidence in this sentence? Try to translate it into Chinese.)

3. imply:

to make something understood without expressing directly

e.g. I do not imply that you are wrong.

What can you imply according to this passage?

4. urgency: something very important and needing to be dealt with immediately e.g. Well, take it easy! It isn ’t a matter of urgency.

I detected a note of urgency from her voice.

c.f. urgent—urgently—urgency

e.g. It is most urgent that we operate on this patient.

My car is in urgent need of repair.

pany: the state of being with someone

e.g. Rita’s husband is away for the week, so I think I’d better go over and keep her company.

6.multi-tasking:multi-: having many of

e.g. multi-colored: having many of colors

a multi-store car park, i.e. consisting of a building with several floors

(Question: Can you make out the meaning of multi-tasking according to your understanding?)

7.nightmare: frightening dream

e.g. I have nightmares about falling off a clif

f.

It was really a nightmare to work in such a company.

(Question: Have you ever had a nightmare? What was it like?)

8.pay: to bring a good result or advantage for someone

e.g. It usually pays to tell the truth.

9.knowledgeable:(of a person) knowing a lot

e.g. Dick is knowledgeable about wines.

10.style: superior or fashionable quality of someone or sth; distinctiveness

e.g. She performs the songs with style and flair. 她演唱歌曲既有风度又有才华。

The piano gives the room a touch of style.

11.grace: quality of simple elegant beauty

grace—graceful—graceless

e.g. His refusal was worded in such a graceful way so that we could not be offended.

12.intelligent:having a high level of mental ability; good at understanding ideas and thinking

quickly and clearly

intelligent—intelligently—intelligence

e.g. All teachers regard Jimmy as an intelligent student.

You have to speak intelligently at this important business meeting.

13.conduct:to behave in a particular way, especially in a situation where people judge you by

the way you behave; to carry out

e.g. Public figures have a duty to conduct themselves responsibly.

The company conducted a survey to find out what their customers think about the new product.

14.concentrate:to think very carefully about something that you are doing

e.g. She was concentrating on her book and didn’t know what had happened.

15.representative: adj. & n. serving to show a group or class; typical example of a group or a

class; agent of a firm

represent—representation—representative

e.g. Is a questionnaire answered by 500 people truly representative of national opinion?

Our firm is represented in India by Mr. Hall. 我公司驻印度代表是霍尔先生。

The firm needs more representation in China. 这家公司需要在中国多设些代理机构。

sole representative 总代理

16.sought-after: