英语口语练习2.ppt

Section III Maintaining a Sharp Eye Passage I 1. If you were late for class, what would you say to the teacher and your classmates? 2. What do you think of people who are not punctual? Why? Make up conversations according to the following situation in groups. She apologized to the manager for having to leave at 3:30 p.m. New Practical English I Unit 4 Timetables and Schedules Unit 4 Session 2 Passage I Punctuality and Keeping Promises Warm-up questions She always keeps me waiting!!! I’m coming, darling! Come on, baby. We’re late! Warm-up questions Punctuality and Keeping Promises Reading of the passage (para.1) In social activities it is always emphasized to be punctual, to have a strong conception of time. If you fail to keep your promise or do not come on time and thus keep your host waiting, that is very impolite. It’s hard to imagine what will happen if there is such an activity as a banquet, interview, or meeting, yet all people concerned do not come on time. Punctuality and Keeping Promise If you are asked to meet a foreign guest at the airport or at the railway station and you go so late that the guest has come before you arrive, how anxious and embarrassed he will be when he ,as a stranger to the place, sees no person meeting him! The same is true with the activity of seeing off a foreign guest. If you arrive so late at the airport or railway station to find the guest has gone already, what’s the use of your going there? (para. 2) So, as a host, whenever there is an activity, you should come to the place ahead of schedule so as to wait for the guests to come. Don’t let the guests wait for you. It’s very impolite. Those who are to help entertain the guests should also come earlier than the guests. But for a guest, at what time is it proper to come? You should be punctual. That is, neither too early, nor too late. If it is too early, the host may not get the things ready. If it is too late, you may keep the host waiting. Anyone, g