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Teaching Plan for Unit 1Hello, Hi!I. Teaching Goal: To enable students to know some customs and useful expressions used when greeting and introducing people II. Teaching Objective(s): The study of this unit aims to enable students to Greeting people and giving responses: First greeting and meeting againSaying goodbye to peopleExchanging personal information and introducing people to each otherReading: Customs of greeting and saying goodbyeGrammar: Basic sentence structureWriting: Name card/passport information III. Teaching strategies：1. Task-based teaching method 2. CommunicatingIV. Teaching circumstance: Multi-media room V. Teaching Content1. Concept: lifestyle/interpersonal relationship2. Language points1)key pointsSection 1 how to express greeting and introducing people in English; Section 2 listening skills Section 3 related customs/useful expressions/important words Section 4 basic sentence structure/writing of business card 2) Difficult points Section 1 how to express greeting and introducing people in English Section 3 understanding of related customs Section 4 writing of business card 3) Grammar pointBasic sentence structure 4) Main idea Greeting and introducing peopleVI. Teaching procedureSection I Talking face to faceStep One: Lead-in: business cards 1. Warm-up questions: 1) When are business cards exchange between people?2) What are usually written on business cards?2. Students read and translate the business cards under the guidance of the teacher.Step Two:. Sample dialogues: 1. Warm-up questions: 1) How much do you know about the way Americans greet people and give responses? e.g. Greeting at the first meeting Responses How are you? Fine./Very well, thank you. And you? How do you do? How do you do? Nice to meet you? Nice to meet you, too. Hello, Im a new student here. Welcome to our school. Hi. Havent we met before? No, I dont think so.Greeting when meeting again Responses Hello. How are things with you? Quite well. And you? How is everything? Not (too) bad. How are you doing? Very well./ Fine./Good, thank you. What are you doing (up to) these days? Nothing particular. Havent seen you for ages. How are you? Fine./Very well./OK, thanks. Fancy seeing you here, Lily. Yeah, fancy that. Nice to have you with us, Ann. Thank you, I will. Please make yourself at home. 2) How much do you know about the way Americans exchange their personal information? e.g. Im Mike Smith. Please call me Mike. Here is my (business) card. Im a freshman/ fist year student at this college. My major is computer science. 3) How much do you know about the way Americans say good-bye to each other? e.g. Good-bye. / Bye. / So long. / Speaking of time, Ive got to run. / See you next time. Have a good day. / Pleased / Glad to have met you. / Take care. / Id like to say good-bye to you./ I must be off now. / See you later. 4) How much do you know about the way Americans introduce themselves to each other? e.g. Mr. Ballman, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Li Tiegang, manager of the company. Im Robert Miller from Canada. Before we start (First of all), le me introduce myself. 2. Students read the sample dialogues after the teacher and try to find out the useful sentences and expressions for greeting people in the dialogue. Practice the following sentences:1) Lets welcome Professor Smith who will give us a report on the development of computer science.2) The team leader was given only 10 minutes to present the project report at the meeting.3) Are you here just for pleasure or on business?4) Ladies and Gentlemen, now let me introduce to you the renowned football star David Beckham.5) Businessmen often exchange business cards to each other when they meet for the first time.6) Would you care for a cup of coffee with me?7) Our American English teacher told us to call her by her fist name instead of her family name.3. Students practice the dialogues in groups.4. Give students several minutes to prepare short conversations in pairs by simulating the five small dialogues.5. Role-play6. Put-in-use exercisesSection II Being All Ears1. Give students a few minutes to read through the printed materials for each listening item.2. Listen to the tape for the fist time without looking at the book.3. Play the tape for a second time with a pause after each sentence, and ask the students to take note of the key words.4. Play the tape for the third time, and ask students to simultaneously repeat the passage while they are listening.5. Do all the exercises in the section.Section III Maintaining a Sharp EyeStep 1 Read the new words Step 2 Introduce some background information-English expressions borrowed from French Step 3 Check the students previewing task by asking them about the main idea of the text and some questions in the Read and Think exercise Main idea of the text: the author tells us the way Americans greet, including greeting, saying good bye, introduction, and solution. By this way, the author tells us that Americans like a friendly way in greeting.Step 4 Analyze the text in detail Passage 1IRelated InformationEnglish expressions borrowed from French Over the long years, the English language has borrowed a great number of French words or expressions. Some of them have been so absorbed in English that speakers might not realize their origin, other expressions like “faux pas” have retained their “Frenchness”, with which speakers tend to sound modern. These expressions are often written in italics. II.Explanation of Difficult Sentences1. Para 2. Missed connections are missed opportunities for business.Analysis: Missed is a verbs past participle used here as an adjective. The repeated use of the same word could bring out a stronger effect.Translation: 错失了联系就错失了商机。e.g. Can a broken heart be broken twice?2. Para 2. Not having your cards can be seen as being unprepared to market yourself and your business.Analysis: Not having your cards is a gerund phrase used as the subject of the sentence. Not is put in front of the gerund to make its negative form. Being unprepared is also a gerund used as the subject complement,Translation: 不带名片可被视为没有做好推介自己和推销业务的准备。e.g. Not trying at all is much worse than trying without success.3. Para 2. Dont start the new contact leaving them thinking “that the person is already unprepared”Analysis: Leaving them thinking is a participle phrase, indicating a concomitant adverbial of result.Translation: 千万别在开始新的交往时就让人觉得“这家伙就没打算同我交往”。e.g. Lets steer our ship with hope, leaving fear behind.Step 6 Give the students3-4 minutes to scan the passage B fast, then do the part one exercise of Passage B. Assignment: 1.Do the translation exercise of passage A.2. Preview the sentence writingSection IV Trying Your HandStep 1. Applied Writing1. Sample analysis: The teacher briefly summarizes the format and the language used in business cards. Business cards can help you to remember people that you have met. A clean, creative, professionally printed and visually attractive card conveys a positive first impression that can linger long after your fist meeting. Job titles, the company name, your department (if you work for a large organization), as well as contact information (address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax and mobile-phone numbers) are usually given on business cards. Additionally a succinct description of your companys business can be helpful. Your card should display the same design and basic information as your other marketing materials. However, a business card is not a brochure or a catalog; its space is limited, so you must choose the information content and your words carefully. Single words and phrases should be used. A good approach is to break the essential information down into three areas: identity, credibility and clarity.The following items are often included in a business card.Titles:General Manager/ Vice Manager/ Sales Manager/ Director/ Dean/ Accountant/ President/ General EditorWork Units:Co. Ltd/ Group company/ TV Station/ Department/ Trade Company/ Electronics Co. Ltd.Others:Address/ Tel/ Fax/ Mobile/ E-mail2. Simulated writing: Do Simulate and Create exercisesStep 2 Sentence Writing and Grammar Review1. The teacher gives a brief summary of the basic sentence structures Most English sentences are constructed using three basic sentence patterns. The heart of every English sentence is the Subject-Verb core. Other elements can be added to make the sentence structure grow into more complex sentence patterns (there are 8 listed in the Workbook). When we speak out or write a sentence, the essential thing to do is to get the basic sentence st