Advance with English

Module 6

Unit 3 Understanding each other

Brief Teaching Plan

江蘇省通州高級中學(xué) 沈曉彥

Teaching Objectives:

1. Enable students to get a general idea of different ways of greeting each other in different countries.

2. Develop students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking ability.

3. Help to form correct attitude to foreign cultures.

Teaching Important and Difficult Point:

Improve students’ speaking and thinking ability.

Teaching Approaches:

Task-based approaches

Form of Activities:

Individual, pair or group work and topic discussions.

Teaching Aids:

The multimedia and the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Lead-in

1. Listen to the song Auld Lane Syne to arouse students’ interest.

2. Ask and answer the question：

How do Chinese people greet each other in formal situations?

Step 2. Picture Talking

1. Talk about the four pictures in pairs or groups focusing on the ways of specific greetings.

2. Ask and answer the questions:

1) Why do you think that people in different countries greet each other in different ways?

2) Can you think of any other customs that are different in different parts of the world?

Step 3. Further thinking

Though many foreigners are awkward with chopsticks, more and more foreigners are learning how to use them. What does this imply?

Step 4. Group Discussion

Originally, Christmas Day was not celebrated by Chinese people. But now more and more Chinese young people are crazy about this festival and they spent a lot of time and money on it. Do you support the move or not? Why?

Step 5. Homework

Write a composition about the result of the discussion.