Unit 6 Good Manners
Period 1.Warning –up and Listening
Teaching Aims and Demands:
① To learn some expression of apologies and responseproperly to apologies.
② To listen focusing on key words and important sentences
Ⅰ.Warming up: step 1
① To invite two pairs to play two short plays.
First, Situation 1
Because today is A’s birthday, she wants to invite B to her birthday party. In the morning, A meets B on the way to the school. A invites B, but B’s father have told B that he must look after B’s younger brother at night. So B can’t go to A’s party. B apologizes for it and wish A happy birthday.
Situation ②
Between class, A is running around the classroom. At that time, B drops his pen and A steps on it and breaks it.
Step 2
Look at the 4 pictures on the page 36.
1) What do you think is happening in every picture?
2) Can you make a dialogue for every picture?
Complete the dialogues with proper words according to the situation given.
Step 3
Discuss in groups, What are good manners? After discussion, fill in the next table
Good manners
Bad manners










Ask Ss:
Do you think you are a person with good manners? Can you tell us a story as an example?
Ⅱ.Listening.
1) Listen to the tape with this question
How many times does Bill apologize?
2) Listen to the tape for the second time, summarize two problems
3) Listen to the tape for the last time and fill in the blanks. Check the answers and exercise the expressions of apology.
4) Workbook: Listening
Ⅲ.Homework: Make two dialogues with your partner about apologies.
Period 2. Speaking and Talking
Teaching Aims and Demands:
① To use the expressions of apologies and possible answers freely through
some situations.
① To distinguish what good manners are and what bad manners are
Step 1 Speaking. Practice different expressions. For example:” Forgive me, I’m very sorry!” is quite formal. While “Oops, Sorry about that” is a very informal way. To help students understand that in what situations they should use formal expression and in what situations they should use informal
expressions.
In these exercise, Ss have to imagine themselves at a party. Everyone is very polite. They should talk to each other politely and make excuse when troubling others. Then ask Ss to work in groups and consider the following three situations.
Sample: Dialogue 1
A: Aren’t you going to introduce me to him?
B: Oh, forgive me. I didn’t know you hadn’t met. Danna, this is Alex.
A: Hi, Alex. Nice to meet you!
Choose three groups to reports.
Step 2Talking
1) Read the following situations carefully
2) Divide the whole class into 6groups. Every two groups make a dialogue. One is Pros and the other is Cons. Every group should list their opinions to try their best to persuade the other group. Discuss in groups.
3) According to their opinions, two groups make a dialogue. They should be against the opinions of the other group and give their opinions.
Ⅱ.Homework:
1) Choose one of the situations in Talking to write a dialogue
2) Preview Reading

Period 3. Reading ⑴
Teaching Aims and Demands:
① To get to know the western talk manners
② To compare Chinese table manners with western table manners
③ Improve the readingability of the Ss, especially the skills of summarizing and scanning.
Step 1 Warming up
1) Teacher tells a story of a Chinese at a western dinner party who made a fool of himself due to the lack of cultural background. The story is: Once a Chinese was invited to an American dinner party. When he saw the napkin on the table, he tied it around his neck just as Chinese parents do to their children w
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