Unit 3
What is in a name?
I.Teaching Aims
1. Functions: Describing an object; Asking about one’s job
2. Grammatical Points: NP+be+adj./NP
3. Vocabulary: reception, interview, parately, come across, let out
II.Teaching Aid
Multi-media
III.Teaching Arrangement
4 class hours
IV.Teaching Procedure
Step 1: Listening & Speaking
If you describe an object (someone or something), you say what sort of thing it is (what kind of person he or she is), or what they are like, such as its size, color or shape. The simple rule is: Size + Color + Material, e.g. a large white paper bag/ short golden hair/ light blue eyes.
1. You may describe objects like this:
A: Which apple do you like? B: The red one.
A: What did your father look like? B: He was short and fat.
A: How old is your English teacher? B: He is middle-aged, about forty.
She has short golden hair and light blue eyes.
My hometown is small and clean.
The landscape was easy on the eyes.
The day was hot and dusty.
The hou was old, damp and smelly.
If you want to know something about someone's work, you may ask:
Where do you work?
What do you do?/What do you do for a living?
What is your line of business?
What is your job/occupation?
What does your father's job involve? /What's your father?
What is your routine work?/What do you do exactly every day?
Could you tell me something about your job?
What made you decide to become a teacher?
Common Answers:
I work for Anderson office.
I'm a tour guide.
I'm a doctor.
I'm a cretary.
He is the headmaster of our school.
He is a gardener.
I find a part-time job in a business company.
I'm looking for a better job.
My job doesn't require special skills.
To be a houwife is so boring.
2. The teacher then prents conversations on P32-35, and then asks students to make their own dialogues.
Step 2: Words & Phras
Ask 2 students to read the new words, and then the teacher explains some of them.
1.interview: job interview/interviewer/interviewee
interview sb for sth: conduct an interview with sb (especially a job applicant)
We interviewed 20 people for this job.
Interview sb about sth: (a reporter) ask sb questions in an interview
interview the president about foreign policies.
Compare: appointment date and interview.
You u appointment to mean that you have arranged to e someone at a particular ti
me, usually in connection with his or her work, e.g. an appointment with one's doctor/client.
A date is an appointment to meet someone or go out with a person with whom you are having or may soon have a romantic relationship, such as "the blind date" is an arrangement by a third person for a male and female to get to know each other, so as to have a romantic relationship.
An interview is a formal meeting at which someone is asked questions in order to find out if the person is suitable for a job. Interview may also mean a conversation in which a journalist puts questions to someone such as a politician or famous person.
2.application: formal request
applicant: person who applies for a job
Apply to: Safe driving rules apply to everyone.
Apply for: she wants to apply for a position in this company.
Apply onelf to sth/doing sth: concentrate one’s thought
You will pass the exam if you really apply yourlf to your study.
3.sign: sign language: language ud by the deaf or the dumb people手势语
sign for sth: sign a form to show that one has receive sth
The postman asked me to sign for the parcel.
Sign up: employ by signing a contract
He has been signed up by a movie company.
4.parately:
parate: adj. v.
parate sth from sth: The books should be parated from others.
Separate sth up into sth: This land is parated up into small pieces.
(This land is divided into small pieces.)
parate the sheep from the goats: parate good people from bad people
parate the wheat from the chaff(谷壳，糠): valuable people or thing from worthless ones
5.hesitantly: hesitation: without hesitation
6.come across/over: (1)be understood What he said didn’t come across.
(2) make an impression: She came across well in the interview.
Come across sb/sth: meet by chance
I came across an old friend on my way home.
She came across some old photos in a magazine.
7.fill out /fill in: write all the necessary information on an official docunment
8.short for: be the short form of
9.be open to: be available to; have the chance to do
