高二英语《Understanding each other》课件6.ppt

* Writing a letter to explain cultural misunderstandings Skills building 1: completing a text Four tips about what you should do before you listen. Read the text first so you understand the subject of the text and the type of words you are likely to hear. Try to guess the words that might be used to fill in the blanks. Look for clues in the sentences and in the words before or after the blanks. Decide if it is content words or grammar words that you are listening for. What is the first thing you need to do before listening? Why should we do this? What should we do next? How can we decide what the missing words probably are? What is the fourth thing about? What do you think we should do after we have finished a passage? (Proofread it to ensure that it makes sense and check whether there are any mistakes in it, include any spelling mistakes. ) Step 1: showing foreign visitors around Read the diary in Part A and try to guess what each of the missing words is by using the methods you have learnt in Skills building 1. Listening practice: Listen to the recording and fill in the missing words. You may check your guesses at the same time. 6 May Had a great day yesterday. We showed (1)__________ visitors around Beijing. They seemed to enjoy it although there were some (2)__________ incidents. One man called Mr Singh looked very (3)__________ when I put out my left hand to (4)__________ with him. In the restaurant, we ordered a real feast, but he would not eat the black pepper (5)__________. Mr Takashi enjoyed the Forbidden City and asked so many questions. He spent lots of Money on (6)__________. I have no idea what three strange upset shake hands beef gifts He will do with them all and it took up a lot of time. He seemed to give out a lot of (7)_____________ and got a bit upset when my classmate did not go through the proper procedure and just put it in his pocket without looking at it. He kept making an (8)__________ s