Unit 1 Invitations
Content
1,Section I Listening and Conversation (2 periods)
2,Section II Reading Comprehension (2 periods)
3,Section III Writing and Translating (2 periods)
Aims
The students should be able to:
1,make and decline an invitation
2,understand the two passages and the related information
3,make English invitation cards
Important and difficult points
1,expressions and patterns for making and declining invitations
2,passage 2 and the information related
3,words,phrases and sentences from passage 2
4,grammar,Word Order in a Subordinate Clause
5,special sentences and a passage for Accounting
Procedure and methods
Section I Listening and Conversation
Part I,Leading in
1,Pre-class Work:
2,Warming up for the new class:
Part II,Putting in use
1,Dividing the students into groups of four or five
2,Offering the situations
3,Acting out and comments
Part III,Further Practice
1,Practicing and Furthering
2,Completing
3,Responding
Part IV,Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Match after you listen
2,Judge after you listen
3,Make after you learn
4,Self-assessment and Teacher’s Guidance
5,Assignment
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part I,Leading in
1,Revision
2,Warming up for the new class
Part II,Comprehension and Practicing
1,Checking and Explaining
2,Retelling the story
Part III,Further Practice
1,Simulating and translating
2,Rewriting
Part Iv,Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Translating
2,Assignment
Section III Writing and Translating
Part I,Leading in
1,Checking the assignment
2,Warming up for new class
Part II,Putting in use
1,Dividing the students into groups of four or five
2,Presenting new materials
3,Giving the rules for writing an invitation
4,Reading and simulating
Part III,Further Practice
1,Presenting new material
2,Simulating
3,Writing
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Checking
2,Grammatical rules concerning the Word Order in a subordinate Clause
3,Applying
4,Self-assessment and Guidance
5,Assignment
Unit 1 Invitations
Section I Listening and Conversation
Part I,Leading in
1,Pre-class Work,
【Instructions】 ask students to find out the patterns and expressions used for making and declining invitations as many as possible
2,Warming up for the new class,
【Instructions】 1),students present their collections
2),teacher’s comment and put the collections into a data bank for students’ reference
3),presentation of new materials
4),Practice Dialogue 1 Inviting Friends to a Party and Dialogue 2 Declining an Invitation
【Instructions】 read and act out so that the students will be familiar with the patterns and expressions that are appropriate for making an declining invitations,teacher and the students work together and remember not to spend too much time on it
Part II,Putting in use
1,Dividing the students into groups of four or five
2,Offering the situations
Offer several situations for students to act out by referring to the data bank on the blackboard
【Instructions】 each group should choose one of the situations and work together to form a dialogue and then act out
Situations,1),Suggest going skiing with your friend
2),Invite your friend to go to a concert on Friday evening
3),Invite your friend to go to the early show of the movie,My Fair Lady”
4),Decline your friend’s invitation to go dancing next Friday
5),Decline your friend’s invitation to go out to dinner
3,Acting out and comments
【Instructions】 after the act of each group,the teacher will ask the fellow students to make comments on the performance and the appropriateness of their English; and then it is the teacher’s task to summarize this part
Part III,Further Practice
1,Practicing and Furthering
【Instructions】 practice the dialogues on Page 3 of the Textbook in groups,and try to further them
2,Completing
【Instructions】 ask students to work in groups to complete by filling in the blanks on Page 4 of the Textbook (Exercises 1 and 3),and then the teacher checks the answers in class.
3,Responding
【Instructions】 practice Exercise 2 on Page 4 of the Textbook orally, Teacher offers the situation in Chinese,and ask the students to give the English equivalent,the whole class work together
【Instructions】,after each activity,the teacher will check the answers and comment promptly
Part IV,Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Match after you listen
【Instructions】 in this part a diagram will be given to each of the students,after they listen to a dialogue,they are asked to match the information in Column A with the choices in Column B.
2,Judge after you listen
【Instructions】 in this part the multiple choices to each of the questions will be given on the blackboard,after they listen to a dialogue,they are asked to make a choice from A,B,C or D.
3,Make after you learn
【Instructions】 in this part the students are asked to make a dialogue of their own and in the dialogue they must make or decline an invitation
4,Self-assessment and Teacher’s Guidance
【Instructions】 in this part the teacher will mainly check the answers to 1 and 2,give brief explanations when students are in difficulty and ask students to score their own paper ; as for 3,the teacher will collect the paper and correct them after class.
5,Assignment
Workbook P 4 (1-6)
Read fluently the passage on page 11 of your Textbook New Practical English and try to understand it as possible as you can by using a dictionary,
Recite Practical Sentences for Accounting and the Passage in Unit 1
【Instructions】 in this part the homework is made up of two parts,A is to reinforce what they have learned; B and C is to get ready for the next Section
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part I,Leading in
1,Revision
ask several students to recite the practical sentences for accounting in Unit 1 and the others repeat
ask students to answer teacher’s questions according to the Passage for accounting in Unit 1
2,Warming up for the new class
ask students to work in groups of four to make or decline an invitation
teacher makes comments
Part II,Comprehension and Practicing
1,Checking and Explaining
teacher raises some questions and ask students to say true or false according to the passage on page 11 of the Textbook New Practical English to see how much they’ve understood.
teacher raises some questions and ask students to answer in details according to the passage on page 11 of the Textbook New Practical English,at the same time explaining some language points.
Possible difficult words,phrases and sentences
Sentences:
1,(Para.1) It seems ages since we heard from you.
Analysis,It seems ages since..,means "It seems a long time since..."
Translation:似乎很长时间没有收到你的信了 。
Example,It seems ages since I saw you in Shanghai.
2,(Para.1) So I am writing straightaway一 to make sure this reaches you well before you leave Shanghai
---in the hope that it will be possible for you both to spend a few days with us during your stay in
England.
Analysis,To make sure..,is an adverbial of purpose,and in the hope,a prepositional phrase used also as
an adverbial of purpose.
Translation:所以我马上写信，好让你在离开上海之前肯定收到这封信——希望你们俩能在英格兰逗留期间和我们一起住几天。
Example,I am sending this card to you today——to make sure you receive it before the Christmas Day.
3,(Para.3) I imagine you will be spending Christmas itself with your parents,but surely you will have
some time after that before your Christmas holidays end.
Analysis,Surely is used to express that someone is certain about something.
Translation:我猜想你将在你的父母家过圣诞节，但肯定在你的圣诞节假日结束之前还会有一些时间。
Example,These children surely deserve something better than a life on the streets.
4,(Para.4) I am still working for Sanderson's and liking it well enough---though occasionally pining for the
footloose days of long ago.
Analysis,Sanderson's here refers to a company implying Sanderson’s company; though is introducing
a participle clause pining for..,and serving as the adverbial of concession.
Translation:我还在桑德森公司工作，而且工作很称心---虽然偶尔我也渴望从前自由自在日子。
Example,They are working happily with Kent's,though sometimes pining for the footloose school days.
Words:
1,bump into,meet somebody by chance 偶然碰到，偶然遇到
eg,We bumped into Kate when we were in London last week.
She bumped into his tray,knocking the food onto his lap.
2,straightaway,ad,do without delay,especially it has to be done urgently 马上，立刻
eg,I'll come around straightaway with the files.
We'd better start work straightaway.
3,colleague,n,someone that you work with 同事
eg,I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine,Jean Michael.
He was never particularly popular with his colleagues.
4,decent,a,of a good enough quality or standard 得体的，象样的，体面的
eg,I want to provide my boys with a decent education.
There isn't one decent restaurant around.
5,terrify,v,frighten someone severely 威胁，恐吓
eg,We terrified the girls with spooky stories.
He terrified her by jumping out at her from a dark alley.
6,pine for,v,strongly desire (esp,something which is difficult or impossible to obtain) 渴望
eg,It's at this time of year that I start to pine for the snow-topped mountains.
As a young girl,I always used to pine for a more glamorous existence,
2,Retelling the story
ask students to read the passage again
ask them to retell the story
Part III,Further Practice
1,Simulating and translating
Do exercise 6 on page 10 of the Textbook
Pay attention to the italicized parts in the English sentences and translate the Chinese sentences by simulating the structure of the English sentences
2,Rewriting
Do excises 8 on page 13 of the textbook
Rewrite the third paragraph in the third person,you may begin the passage like this:
“Richard guesses Michael and Lucia will be spending Christmas with their parents…”
Part Iv,Aptitude Test and Guidance
Translating
Ask the students to remember the words,phrases and sentence structures in the passage they have learned and translate the following sentences into Chinese orally and the teacher comments.
It seems ages since we heard from you---and even longer since you went to work in China.
So I am writing straightaway---to make sure this reaches you well before you leave Shanghai---in the hope that it will be possible for you both to spend a few days with us during your stay in England.
We shall be having two other friends of ours staying with us over the New Year weekend,and it would be nice if you could come then,too.
And if we get some decent weather,we might all go off one day and visit the Carters---I’m sure we can get Uncle Arthur to lend us his minibus.
Mary is well and still enjoying her school teaching (at least,I think so); the children are growing up at a terrifying rate; I am still working for Sanderson’s and liking it well enough---though occasionally pining for the footloose days of long ago.
Assignment
A,Textbook page 8 Passage 1 and Workbook page 7 1-3
B,Ask students to collect some invitation cards
Section III Writing and Translating
Part I,Leading in
Checking the assignment
Check the answers to comprehension exercises on the workbook orally and comment
Answer students; questions found in Passage 1
Warming up for new class
Ask the students to present their collections of invitation cards
Put their collections into the data bank on the blackboard
Part II,Putting in use
Dividing the students into groups of four or five
Presenting new materials
【Instructions】 while showing the cards,students are to read and understand the English,the teacher should point out the difference between English and Chinese in expressing person’s name and address
Giving the rules for an invitation card
The teacher should remind the students what they have to pay attention to when they read or make an invitation card.
Reading and simulating
Ask the students to 1) read the sample cards on Page 14
2) write an English invitation card according to the information given (P16--4)
3) ask the students to make a card of their own
Part III,Further Practice
Presenting new material
Simulating
Ask the students to fill in the reply with the information given
Writing
Ask the students to work together to write a short passage of about 100 words to invite someone or decline an invitation to an event
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
Checking
Ask the students to read their passage
Teacher comments and points out the grammatical errors
Grammatical rules concerning the Word Order in a Subordinate Clause
Applying
Find the correct choices in the brackets to make correct sentences
The sentences are on Page 16
correct the errors in the following sentences
The sentences are on Page 16
translate the following sentences into English,paying attention to the sentence structure
The sentences are on Page 17
3,Self-assessment and Guidance
1) and 2) are printed on the paper,After the teacher checks the answers,the students can score their own paper; as for 3) the teacher can collect the paper and correct after class if time is not permitted.
4,Assignment
Textbook Page 17-8
Collect some abbreviations used online
Content
1,Section I Listening and Conversation (2 periods)
2,Section II Reading Comprehension (2 periods)
3,Section III Writing and Translating (2 periods)
Aims
The students should be able to:
1,make and decline an invitation
2,understand the two passages and the related information
3,make English invitation cards
Important and difficult points
1,expressions and patterns for making and declining invitations
2,passage 2 and the information related
3,words,phrases and sentences from passage 2
4,grammar,Word Order in a Subordinate Clause
5,special sentences and a passage for Accounting
Procedure and methods
Section I Listening and Conversation
Part I,Leading in
1,Pre-class Work:
2,Warming up for the new class:
Part II,Putting in use
1,Dividing the students into groups of four or five
2,Offering the situations
3,Acting out and comments
Part III,Further Practice
1,Practicing and Furthering
2,Completing
3,Responding
Part IV,Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Match after you listen
2,Judge after you listen
3,Make after you learn
4,Self-assessment and Teacher’s Guidance
5,Assignment
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part I,Leading in
1,Revision
2,Warming up for the new class
Part II,Comprehension and Practicing
1,Checking and Explaining
2,Retelling the story
Part III,Further Practice
1,Simulating and translating
2,Rewriting
Part Iv,Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Translating
2,Assignment
Section III Writing and Translating
Part I,Leading in
1,Checking the assignment
2,Warming up for new class
Part II,Putting in use
1,Dividing the students into groups of four or five
2,Presenting new materials
3,Giving the rules for writing an invitation
4,Reading and simulating
Part III,Further Practice
1,Presenting new material
2,Simulating
3,Writing
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Checking
2,Grammatical rules concerning the Word Order in a subordinate Clause
3,Applying
4,Self-assessment and Guidance
5,Assignment
Unit 1 Invitations
Section I Listening and Conversation
Part I,Leading in
1,Pre-class Work,
【Instructions】 ask students to find out the patterns and expressions used for making and declining invitations as many as possible
2,Warming up for the new class,
【Instructions】 1),students present their collections
2),teacher’s comment and put the collections into a data bank for students’ reference
3),presentation of new materials
4),Practice Dialogue 1 Inviting Friends to a Party and Dialogue 2 Declining an Invitation
【Instructions】 read and act out so that the students will be familiar with the patterns and expressions that are appropriate for making an declining invitations,teacher and the students work together and remember not to spend too much time on it
Part II,Putting in use
1,Dividing the students into groups of four or five
2,Offering the situations
Offer several situations for students to act out by referring to the data bank on the blackboard
【Instructions】 each group should choose one of the situations and work together to form a dialogue and then act out
Situations,1),Suggest going skiing with your friend
2),Invite your friend to go to a concert on Friday evening
3),Invite your friend to go to the early show of the movie,My Fair Lady”
4),Decline your friend’s invitation to go dancing next Friday
5),Decline your friend’s invitation to go out to dinner
3,Acting out and comments
【Instructions】 after the act of each group,the teacher will ask the fellow students to make comments on the performance and the appropriateness of their English; and then it is the teacher’s task to summarize this part
Part III,Further Practice
1,Practicing and Furthering
【Instructions】 practice the dialogues on Page 3 of the Textbook in groups,and try to further them
2,Completing
【Instructions】 ask students to work in groups to complete by filling in the blanks on Page 4 of the Textbook (Exercises 1 and 3),and then the teacher checks the answers in class.
3,Responding
【Instructions】 practice Exercise 2 on Page 4 of the Textbook orally, Teacher offers the situation in Chinese,and ask the students to give the English equivalent,the whole class work together
【Instructions】,after each activity,the teacher will check the answers and comment promptly
Part IV,Aptitude Test and Guidance
1,Match after you listen
【Instructions】 in this part a diagram will be given to each of the students,after they listen to a dialogue,they are asked to match the information in Column A with the choices in Column B.
2,Judge after you listen
【Instructions】 in this part the multiple choices to each of the questions will be given on the blackboard,after they listen to a dialogue,they are asked to make a choice from A,B,C or D.
3,Make after you learn
【Instructions】 in this part the students are asked to make a dialogue of their own and in the dialogue they must make or decline an invitation
4,Self-assessment and Teacher’s Guidance
【Instructions】 in this part the teacher will mainly check the answers to 1 and 2,give brief explanations when students are in difficulty and ask students to score their own paper ; as for 3,the teacher will collect the paper and correct them after class.
5,Assignment
Workbook P 4 (1-6)
Read fluently the passage on page 11 of your Textbook New Practical English and try to understand it as possible as you can by using a dictionary,
Recite Practical Sentences for Accounting and the Passage in Unit 1
【Instructions】 in this part the homework is made up of two parts,A is to reinforce what they have learned; B and C is to get ready for the next Section
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part I,Leading in
1,Revision
ask several students to recite the practical sentences for accounting in Unit 1 and the others repeat
ask students to answer teacher’s questions according to the Passage for accounting in Unit 1
2,Warming up for the new class
ask students to work in groups of four to make or decline an invitation
teacher makes comments
Part II,Comprehension and Practicing
1,Checking and Explaining
teacher raises some questions and ask students to say true or false according to the passage on page 11 of the Textbook New Practical English to see how much they’ve understood.
teacher raises some questions and ask students to answer in details according to the passage on page 11 of the Textbook New Practical English,at the same time explaining some language points.
Possible difficult words,phrases and sentences
Sentences:
1,(Para.1) It seems ages since we heard from you.
Analysis,It seems ages since..,means "It seems a long time since..."
Translation:似乎很长时间没有收到你的信了 。
Example,It seems ages since I saw you in Shanghai.
2,(Para.1) So I am writing straightaway一 to make sure this reaches you well before you leave Shanghai
---in the hope that it will be possible for you both to spend a few days with us during your stay in
England.
Analysis,To make sure..,is an adverbial of purpose,and in the hope,a prepositional phrase used also as
an adverbial of purpose.
Translation:所以我马上写信，好让你在离开上海之前肯定收到这封信——希望你们俩能在英格兰逗留期间和我们一起住几天。
Example,I am sending this card to you today——to make sure you receive it before the Christmas Day.
3,(Para.3) I imagine you will be spending Christmas itself with your parents,but surely you will have
some time after that before your Christmas holidays end.
Analysis,Surely is used to express that someone is certain about something.
Translation:我猜想你将在你的父母家过圣诞节，但肯定在你的圣诞节假日结束之前还会有一些时间。
Example,These children surely deserve something better than a life on the streets.
4,(Para.4) I am still working for Sanderson's and liking it well enough---though occasionally pining for the
footloose days of long ago.
Analysis,Sanderson's here refers to a company implying Sanderson’s company; though is introducing
a participle clause pining for..,and serving as the adverbial of concession.
Translation:我还在桑德森公司工作，而且工作很称心---虽然偶尔我也渴望从前自由自在日子。
Example,They are working happily with Kent's,though sometimes pining for the footloose school days.
Words:
1,bump into,meet somebody by chance 偶然碰到，偶然遇到
eg,We bumped into Kate when we were in London last week.
She bumped into his tray,knocking the food onto his lap.
2,straightaway,ad,do without delay,especially it has to be done urgently 马上，立刻
eg,I'll come around straightaway with the files.
We'd better start work straightaway.
3,colleague,n,someone that you work with 同事
eg,I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine,Jean Michael.
He was never particularly popular with his colleagues.
4,decent,a,of a good enough quality or standard 得体的，象样的，体面的
eg,I want to provide my boys with a decent education.
There isn't one decent restaurant around.
5,terrify,v,frighten someone severely 威胁，恐吓
eg,We terrified the girls with spooky stories.
He terrified her by jumping out at her from a dark alley.
6,pine for,v,strongly desire (esp,something which is difficult or impossible to obtain) 渴望
eg,It's at this time of year that I start to pine for the snow-topped mountains.
As a young girl,I always used to pine for a more glamorous existence,
2,Retelling the story
ask students to read the passage again
ask them to retell the story
Part III,Further Practice
1,Simulating and translating
Do exercise 6 on page 10 of the Textbook
Pay attention to the italicized parts in the English sentences and translate the Chinese sentences by simulating the structure of the English sentences
2,Rewriting
Do excises 8 on page 13 of the textbook
Rewrite the third paragraph in the third person,you may begin the passage like this:
“Richard guesses Michael and Lucia will be spending Christmas with their parents…”
Part Iv,Aptitude Test and Guidance
Translating
Ask the students to remember the words,phrases and sentence structures in the passage they have learned and translate the following sentences into Chinese orally and the teacher comments.
It seems ages since we heard from you---and even longer since you went to work in China.
So I am writing straightaway---to make sure this reaches you well before you leave Shanghai---in the hope that it will be possible for you both to spend a few days with us during your stay in England.
We shall be having two other friends of ours staying with us over the New Year weekend,and it would be nice if you could come then,too.
And if we get some decent weather,we might all go off one day and visit the Carters---I’m sure we can get Uncle Arthur to lend us his minibus.
Mary is well and still enjoying her school teaching (at least,I think so); the children are growing up at a terrifying rate; I am still working for Sanderson’s and liking it well enough---though occasionally pining for the footloose days of long ago.
Assignment
A,Textbook page 8 Passage 1 and Workbook page 7 1-3
B,Ask students to collect some invitation cards
Section III Writing and Translating
Part I,Leading in
Checking the assignment
Check the answers to comprehension exercises on the workbook orally and comment
Answer students; questions found in Passage 1
Warming up for new class
Ask the students to present their collections of invitation cards
Put their collections into the data bank on the blackboard
Part II,Putting in use
Dividing the students into groups of four or five
Presenting new materials
【Instructions】 while showing the cards,students are to read and understand the English,the teacher should point out the difference between English and Chinese in expressing person’s name and address
Giving the rules for an invitation card
The teacher should remind the students what they have to pay attention to when they read or make an invitation card.
Reading and simulating
Ask the students to 1) read the sample cards on Page 14
2) write an English invitation card according to the information given (P16--4)
3) ask the students to make a card of their own
Part III,Further Practice
Presenting new material
Simulating
Ask the students to fill in the reply with the information given
Writing
Ask the students to work together to write a short passage of about 100 words to invite someone or decline an invitation to an event
Part IV Aptitude Test and Guidance
Checking
Ask the students to read their passage
Teacher comments and points out the grammatical errors
Grammatical rules concerning the Word Order in a Subordinate Clause
Applying
Find the correct choices in the brackets to make correct sentences
The sentences are on Page 16
correct the errors in the following sentences
The sentences are on Page 16
translate the following sentences into English,paying attention to the sentence structure
The sentences are on Page 17
3,Self-assessment and Guidance
1) and 2) are printed on the paper,After the teacher checks the answers,the students can score their own paper; as for 3) the teacher can collect the paper and correct after class if time is not permitted.
4,Assignment
Textbook Page 17-8
Collect some abbreviations used online
