新世纪英语八年级上册教案 Unit 1 Culture and Customs

新世纪英语八年级上册教案Unit 1 Culture and Customs

Unit One Culture and Customs Teaching Material : Introducing different culture and customs between China and Western countries ( New Century Book IV Unit One ) Grade: Grade Eight Teaching Aims: earn more about Chinese and Western cultures and customs 锛欴evelop the students

鈥?individual & teamwork capabilities in English learning Develop the students

鈥?abilitiy of communication 锛歍o bring up students鈥?interest to learn English Teaching Aids: Multi-media , a tape recorder , recording tapes , some pieces of worksheets Teaching Focus and Difficulties : 1 .

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? Teaching Process: Review Listen Read Survey Debate Conclude Write Teaching design: I . Warming-up : Review 鈥?To say something about the importance of English 鈥?II . Listen to two short passages and finish the exercises . III . A survey : Different opinions about tipping SURVEY : TIPPING FOR AGAINST encourage the service people to work better make the service people greedy IV . Read some materials to know more about Chinese and Western cultures and customs . V . A debate :arguments for or against eating out DEBATE : IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO EAT OUT FOR AGAINST save time very expensive VI . Homework : A conclusion Chinese Western Traditional festivals Spring festival Christmas Decorate the house with pictures and couplets Decorate the house with a Christmas tree

Greeting each other with Have you eaten your breakfast / lunch / supper yet ?

Responses to praise Receiving a gift from a visitor Staple food and drinks Ways of cooking vegetables Eating with Traffic rulers Tips to VII . Homework II : Finish the composition orally . 鈥?The advantages and disadvantages of tipping and eating out 鈥?I . Warming-up : Review 鈥?To say something about the importance of English 鈥?Teacher鈥檚activity : Teacher gives out some questions just like : Why do you learn English ? How do you learn English ? How can you learn English well ? What can you do to improve your English ? Would you like to be volunteers when the 2010 Expo is held in Shanghai ? If you want to communicate with the foreigners well ,you should know more about their culture and customs . Learners鈥檃ctivities :The students can answer the questions according to Unit 4 and what they have learned before . They can also ask and answer more questions each other ? Aim of design :

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?Listening : Different eating customs The customers in different countries are rather different. If I have dinner with a Chinese host, he always put more food onto my plate as soon as I have emptied it. That often discomforts me greatly. I have to eat the food even if I do not want to. Because it is considered bad manners in the West to leave one鈥檚food on the plate. I have one鈥檚food on the plate. I have also noticed that when a Chinese sits at an American鈥檚dinner party, he often refuses the offer of food or drink though he鈥檚in fact still hungry or thirsty. This might be good manners in China but is not in the west at all. In the United States, it is impolite to keep asking someone again and again or insist on his accepting something, they will ask for it. If not, they will say, 鈥淣o, thanks.鈥?When an American is served with beer by the host, for example, he might say, 鈥淣o, thanks I鈥檒l take some orange juice.

鈥?That is what an American will do. So when you go to America, you鈥檇better remember the famous saying: 鈥淲hen in Rome, do as the Romans do.鈥?True or