Unit 3
Teaching Plan
Aims
1,Help students use passive sentences
2,Advocate good manners on campus
3,Enable students to write letters of
complaints
Contents
1,Language structures( passive)
2,Dialogue I( Farewell to Rude Manners)
3,Readings( A Shopper’s nightmare/A
Letter of Complaint)
4,Exercises
Focus
? What are rude manners for students?
? What are good manners that we should
advocate?
Difficulty
How to write letters of complaints
Comprehensive exercises
Time Allocation
? 6hrs total
? 2hrs for structures and dialogues
? 2hrs for readings
? 2hrs for exercises
Step One Language Structures
? Passive sentences
? Tenses
? V-ed/ past participles
? Auxiliary verbs with passive
Step Two Dialogue I
? What are rude manners as a citizen or as
college students? ( discuss and report)
? What are good manners? ( together)
? What are the rude manners mentioned in
the dialogue?
Useful expressions
? Turn out the rush hour the bus terminal
? Elbow one’s way push/press one’s way
? Reserve sth for sb ignore one’s presence
? Be pre-occupied with
? the public code of conduct
Useful expressions
? Show respect for it’s time we did…
? bid fareware to sb/sth
? Socialist ethics
? the socialist moral standards
? Pass down from…to…
? The people’s mental outlook
Step Three Reading I
A Shopper’s Nightmare
What happened to the writer when he went
to the shop intending to exchange the
jumper?
What would you do if you were the writer?
Useful expressions
? Sensible dash into be accused of
? With great reluctance beg forgiveness
? On one’s hands and knees
? In a fragile state
Reading II
A Letter of Complaint
What is the author complaining about?
How to solve the problem if you were the
manager? (discuss and report)
Forms of writing such kind of letters
How to write
1,Clear statement of what the complaint is
about
2,Brief narration of the poor product or
poor service ( How poor…)
3,Request for compensation ( how to solve)
Vocabulary and Expressions
Complaint about assure ample historic
Ill-mannered reception picturesque
Prompt attention hospitality( hospitable)
Step Four Exercises
? Guided writing
? How to write a note of accepting an invitation
1,Appreciation of being invited
2,His or her certainty of having a good time
3,His/her assurance of being punctual or apology for having to be late
(optional)
4,His/her offer of help( optional)
5,His/her looking forward to the occasion
? Comprehensive exercises