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Unit 10 You’re supposed to shake hands.
Section B（3a-Self Check）
Language goals
1. Students can talk about customs and what they’re supposed to
do.
Key words and phrases
Teaching
suggestion, with empty hands, fine-dining restaurant
Aims
Key sentences
1. In many countries, it is impolite to show up at someone’s house
for the first time with empty hands.
2. It is worth spending the time to learn about the customs of a
country before you go there.
Teaching Use the words and structures to write a letter and tell your pen pal the
Difficulties important information about customs and culture.
Teaching multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
Aids
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warming up
Free Talk
Create a context for Ss and ask them to answer the questions:
Your pen pal is coming to China. He is worried about the customs in
China. What is he supposed to do? What isn’t he supposed to do? Would
you please give him some advice?
Tell Ss that they answer the questions using the following structures:
You can use the following sentences:
It’s polite / impolite to ...
You’re supposed / not supposed to ...
You should ...
Step 2 Presentation & Practice
Pre-writing
3a
In groups of four or five, get Ss to discuss what they would
need to tell their pen pal in order for him / her to feel
1comfortable in their home. Tell Ss this is a list that they will be
giving to their pen pal so they should be mindful about words
they use to convey the severity of what should or should not be
done.
(Tip: Make sure that Ss discuss this and have reasons why they
chose certain words. Get groups to share their discussions with the
rest of the class.)
While-writing
3b
Ask Ss to write a letter to his / her pen pal to give him / her
advice and suggestions on how to behave properly in China.
(Tip: Give Ss the option to either use the information they
discussed in their groups to help them write their letter or they can
come up with something on their own.)
Post-writings
When all the Ss have finished writing, T can ask them to read
their letters to their partners.
Self Check
Exercise 1
Ask Ss to fill in the blanks with the words in the box.
Answers: 1. empty 2. basic 3. worth 4. traffic, capital 5.
knocking, mad
Exercise 2
Ask Ss to think about their culture and make statements.
(Tip: Tell Ss that they can consider the customs they practice in
their own home or their province / village rather than in their
culture.)
Suggested answers:
In my culture, when you are having a meal in someone’s home,
you’re supposed to allow the elderly to start eating first, you’re not
supposed to
stick your chopsticks into a bowl of rice, you’re expected to keep your
mouth closed when you are chewing, it’s impolite to reach across
the table to pick certain foods, it’s important to ask for permission
to leave the table early.
Step 3 Summary & Homework
Summary
Ask Ss to do the exercises from PPT P14-15.
Homework
Preview 1a-1c in Unit 11.
Do the exercises in students’ book.
Teaching In the last period of the unit, it is important to get the students to use what
2they have learned in the unit. Writing practice is the most difficult for most
of the students. So the teacher will get them to do some practice before
writing. The teacher could help the students write from oral practice and
Reflection teach them to use the example sentence patterns.
In the last period, students should review all the things they have learned in
this unit. We can do this through some exercises. We can also ask and
answer some questions to help them.
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