高职国际英语1 unit 1.doc

Unit 1 People Warming up: Using the phrases “How do you do? My name is Nice to meet you.” written on the board. Focus: The students are shown pictures of people meeting for the first time. They are also supplied with a dialogue which they can copy to say what they do when they meet somebody for the first time. They join their hands at palms and smile. They shake hands and smile. They bow from the waist and lower their eyes. Ask students to: Match nationalities with the pictures: which picture shows an Indian woman? Which pictures shows two Japanese women? Which picture shows two Americans? Which pictures shows two Chinese men? Act out one of these greetings in class. The other students must guess how they are greeting each other. Are you bowing from the waist and lowering your eyes? Are you shaking hands and smiling? Tell how they greet each other? How they greet older people? How they greet their teachers? How they greet their parents and other relatives? And acting out these different ways for greeting people. Text A: greeting and introducing people New words reading Ask students what they can see in the pictures, how old they think the people are, what kind of occasion it could be and if they have a barbecue at home and what they barbecue. Ask students to read out the text loud paragraph by paragraph. Collect any words which students have difficulty pronouncing. Writing these words on the board. Make a list on the board. Then repeat the words. Ask students the following questions: How to greet an older person when you meet him for the first time? Do you shake hands with an older person? Do you smile at an older person? How do you introduce yourself to an older person? What do you say to a younger person? How do you introduce somebody else to a younger person? What do you say to somebody you already know? How do you answer a younger person you know who greets you first? Pair work as Kate Miller and Sung Ling starting from line 17. 1: read out the sentences an