Unit 12 Culture shock Warm-up and lesson 1
Objectives
☆Read a letter; magazine pages and what people say on radio show.
☆Talk about different cultures and manners and do role plays.
☆Listen to different accents, and interview and some dialogues.
☆Write an informal letter.
☆Learn about verbs followed by –ing form or infinitives and Prent Participles.
福州新东方英语学校I. Listening: Listen to three people taking. Which country are they from?
Tape script
1. Our typical way of life? Well, we’re a beach culture, you know. We spend a lot of time at the beach, surfing, swimming, eating, partying-we even have our Christmas dinner on the b
each, you know! It’s the weather, you e, always lots of sunshine. And as for free we are just crazy about sport-cricket, rugby, tennis. I guess most of us spend our holidays on the coast in our country-it’s very expensive to go abroad, you know. Everywhere’s just so far away!
2. Well, it’s a big country, so it’s kind of hard to say what’s typical. Like the weather-we’ve got all kinds of different climates. Our way of life, well, I guess it’s fast, so the food is fast, too, lots of hamburgers and hot dogs. What el? Er, I guess we watch a lot of TV in our free time-there are hundreds of channels on 24 hours a day. Er, we go to the movies a lot, too. And sport is very big. Our basketball and football stars earn millions of dollars. Most of us go on holiday in our own country, it’s so big and there are so many wonderful places to visit. You should come and visit us!
3. It’s difficult to say what is typical, as we’ve become such a multicultural society. Our weather hasn’t changed though and people still spend a lot of time talking about it! In terms of food, our traditional roast beef or fish and chips are not as popular as they ud t
o be. People eat a lot more “international” food the days: Italian food, Indian food, that kind of thing. Free time? If you go to a park any weekend, you’ll e lots of people jogging, walking or fishing. There are a lot of fitness fanatics! We like watching sport too, especially football, though our national teams always em to lo! A lot of us go abroad for our holidays every year. Greece and Italy are the most popular destination, probably becau the weather’s so nice. There we are. I’ve mentioned the weather again!
II. Talking: Which things are very different from where you live? Which things would you like to dislike?
Lesson 1 Visiting Britain
Teaching aims:
To practi using verbs+ing form or infinitives
To practi reading a text and identifying paragraph topics
Teaching difficulties:
To practi using verbs+ing form or infinitives
Teaching Aids: computer and castte
Teaching procedures:
I. Warming up
T: What do you know about Britain and the British people ? Can you introduce Britain national flay? Can you name national Britain song” ( God Save the Queentomriddle )
II. Reading: After reading the text ask the question “Will the text mainly introduce the knowledge?” again. ( No! The text introduce to us how different culture it is between us. )
nismAnswer the following questions:
1. In Britain how do you leave a tip?callmemaybe歌词
2. If you don’t get ud to western food in Britain what should you do?
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3. What does the text mainly introduce?
按时4. What do the British eat for breakfast?
5. How much money do you should take for visiting Britain?
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6. Do you often laugh after listening to a joke in Britain?
he is not that into youAnswers:
1.First check your bill to e if a tip is included or not. If it isn’t, leave 10% of the bill-even a bit more if the rvice is good.
2. Every town in Britain has at least one Chine restaurant.
3. humor, tip, food, money, accommodation
4. Bacon and eggs with a few slices of toast
5. Traveller’s cheques
6. You don’t think anything funny.
III. Language points
1. at least 至少
That building must be at least 200 years old. 那座建筑至少有二百年的历史.
Birds u at least half of the air they take in to cool their bodies.
鸟儿至少要使用它们吸入空气的一半来使自己降温.
2. get ud to + n /v-ing 习惯于……
I’ve got ud to the hot food here. 我已习惯了这里辣的食物。brr
男生服装搭配的技巧We have got ud to going to bed late. 我们已经习惯了晚睡。
3. avoid doing something 避免做某事
They all tried to avoid mentioning that mane. 他们都尽量避免提到那个名字。
I looked down to avoid meeting his eyes. 我向下看以避免看到他的眼睛。
4. suggest +n/ v-ing 建议
I suggest going to Hawaii for our Christmas holiday. 我建议去夏威夷过圣诞节。
suggest 从句中的谓语动词+动词原形
I suggest he (should) solve the problem as soon as possible. 我建议他尽快把这个问题解决了。
5. consider doing something 考虑做某事
He wouldn’t consider making the changes. 他根本不想考虑做出这些改变。
He considered talking to Jack in person. 他考虑与杰克私下谈谈。
6. risk doing something 冒险做某事
In the strong winds, we couldn’t risk putting the sails up, so we had no means of controllin
g the boat.
在强风中,我们不敢冒险去升风帆,因此我们无法控制我们的船。
They risked losing everything. 他们冒着失去一切的危险。
