Teaching aims and demands:

a. Achieve language skills and related knowledge about the topic of good manners;

b. Learn to express thanks and apologies:

c. Vocabulary in this unit:

the words and expressions listed on the teacher’s book

d. Grammar:

the attributive clause

Lesson 1

Step1 Warming up

Do you like people with good manners?

Look at part1 warming up, work in pairs. Look at the pictures on the right and practice the short dialogue.

Ask students to act it out.

Step2 Listening

Now let’s learn more ways of apologizing by listening. Ask the Ss to close books and listen to the tape to get a general idea of the dialogue.

Then open their books and read the exercise to find out what information they need, listen to the tape a second time. After listening, let them fill in the blanks, and check the answers

Then , listen a third time and let them grasp what is being said. Finally, do the listening exercise in the workbook.

Step3 Speaking

Suppose you happen to meet such common mistakes as the one in the listening, what will you do? Saying the right thing at the time and the right place is very important.

Please come to speaking. Look at situation 1 and 2, according to the situations and make up two dialogues in pairs, using the expressions in the box.

Then ask them to act out.

Homework: Grasp the ways of apologizing exercise “talking” in the workbook.

Lesson2

Step1 Revision

Check the homework

Step2 pre-reading

Let the Ss discuss in groups to write down the rules for being polite in the following situations in Chinese culture.

Situation Rules for being polite in China

At a dinner party

Greeting your teacher

Receiving a birthday present

Paying a visit to a friend’s house

Step3 Reading

Looking at the title and the pictures, I guess that the reading text is about dinner parties in restaurants. Read the text silently and quickly to find the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1: It explains all the things we will find on a dinner table and introduce some Chinese items for the Chinese dinner table.

Para2: It tells us the starter and the soup.

Para3: It tells about the main course.

Para5: It tells about the final course of a formal dinner, drinks.

Para6: It tells us that table manners are only important at formal dinner parties.

Step 4 post- reading

Let the Ss do the exercises in order(1-4)

Step 5 listening

Listen to the text and pay attention to the pronunciation, stress and intonation.

Step 6 Language points

1. impression n. 印象

have /make a good ~ on sb. 給某人留下好印象

2. custom n. 習慣，風俗

keep up a ~ = follow a ~ 遵從習俗

break a ~ 打破習俗

manners and ~s 風俗習慣

3. course n. 過程，進行方向，課程， 一道菜

in the ~ of 在------當中

a summer ~ 暑期課程

take a ~ in law 上法律課

in the ~ of the discussion, many opinions are heard.

A dinner of five ~s = a five-~ dinner五道菜的一餐飯

4.start with

begin with /end up with

5.drink to ------ 為------干杯 為------ 祝酒

let’s drink to the friendship between our two peoples.

We all drank to Tom’s success in the experiment.

6. fashion n. 流行，時髦，時尚

a ~ show 時裝表演

follow the ~ 趕時髦

come into ~ 流行起來

be in ~ 正流行 be out of ~ 不再流行

7. When drinking to someone’s health you raise your glasses.

---- you do not need to worry about all these rules while having dinner with friends or family.

這兩句中劃線部分師省略句。完整的句子分別是when you are drinking to someone’s health 及 while you are having dinner with friends or family.

當主從句的主語一致時，從句的主語及謂語動詞的一部分可以省略，如：

Please be careful when crossing the road.

You need to be careful while reaching the apple on the top of the tree.

Homework: Recite the text.

Finish the exercise “Vocabulary” in the workbook.

Lesson 3

Step1 Revision

Check the reciting of the text.

Check the homework

Step2 Language study

1、 Word study

The prefixes in-, im- , non-and un- all change the meaning of a word to its opposite.

2、 Grammar

The restrictive attributive clause and non-restrictive attributive clause.

At first, explain the two clauses to the Ss. Then do the exercise on page41. Finally check the answers.

Step3 Practice

Ex2 in the workbook

Homework: Revise the grammar.

Ex1 in the workbook.

Lesson4

Step1 Revison

Check the homework

Step2 Reading and writing

Read the following thank-you letter and finish the exercise on Page42

At last, write a thank-you letter.

Step3 Workbook

Ask the Ss to read the text fast to find the main idea of the text.

Then read again and do the exercise on Page 119, then check the answers with the whole class.

Homework: Revise the contents of Unit6.