College English: Viewing, Liestening and Speaking (Band I)
Unit 6 Consider Collar Colors Carefully
Teaching objectives:
l Vocabulary: collar specialty vicinity cynical
l Function:
Help Ss to give insight into the meaning of a job and social status
Ss are expected to master good communication skills of offering congratulations
and making or responding to invitations
Conduct a series of listening and speaking activities related to the theme of this unit
Key and difficult points:
1. Manage the ways of offering congratulations and the expressions of invitations
2. Pay attention to the following expressions:
Well done and congratulations to you. How wonderful!
It was great to hear you've got a good job. May I congratulate you on your success?
Please accept my heart-felt congratulations.
Thanks. I've been hoping for it for a while. Thanks. It was a total surprise.
How about a walk/ going for a swim? Why don't you take a holiday with us?
Would you like to come to... Do you feel like coming along?
Could we have the honor of your presence at the meeting?
We'll be glad if you can come to our meeting. I feel great honored.
It would be an honor for me to attend. What a shame! I'm afraid I can't!
Much to my regret, I won't be able to attend your meeting this Saturday.
3. Follow and imitate the pronunciation of the native speakers during listening
Teaching method: task-based language teaching method, communicative approach,
audiolingual method, physical response method
Teaching aids: computer, PPT software, discs, audio tapes, video clips, U disk
Teaching procedures: (3 periods)
1st period: Warming up; Listening (Listening practice)
2nd period: Speaking (Oral English practice)
3rd period: Listening and Speaking
Step 1 Warming up (27')
1. Lead-in activities:
Show Ss some pictures or videos about the prejudice against blue-collar labourers
Group discussion: the situation of the stereotyped social prejudice toward different jobs
(Is being a garbage man a worthwhile job? Would you like to be a matador, i.e. a bullfighter etc.)
2. Listen and finish the exercise on page 82
Step 2 Listening Task (75')
1) Listening skills:
v Ask Ss to read through the four options listed on their books
v Ask Ss try to find out the differences and similarities among those four options
v Ask Ss try to guess the question according the the four choices
v Ask Ss to listen to the dialogs carefully and complete the tasks after each section
2) Listening (pp. 83--pp.86)
Task 1 Understanding ten short conversations
Task 2 Understanding a long conversation
Task 3 Understanding a passage
Task 4 Understanding a movie speech
Ø Ask Ss to listen to the conversations and then choose the best answer to
complete each of the questions
Ø Check up the answers
Ø Explain the words, expressions and the culture related to the theme
Ø Listen again and get the Ss to pay attention to the key words
Ø Listen for the third time after checking up
Ø Try to improve Ss' pronunciation, stress and intonation by imitating the
speech they heard before
Ø Role play and get familiar with the speech
Step 3 Speaking (20')
v Explain the useful expressions of congratulations and invitations
v Get the Ss to listen to the model dialogs without looking at the textbook
v Listen to the model dialogs once more and ask the Ss to imitate the dialog by looking at
the textbook
v Ask Ss to practice the expressions they have just learned before with their partners
v Encourage Ss to try to create their own dialogs by practicing the Situational Conversations--Way to Go
v Ss are required to work in groups of about eight and discuss the positives and negatives of different jobs
Step 4 Listening and Speaking (25')
v Ask Ss to go through the five items and try to underline the key words which are easy
for them to get the point as soon as they hear the relevant sentences
v Listen to the story once and encourage the Ss to finish each statements
v Explain the instruction of this part and then divide the class into pairs to do Task 2
v Walk around the class and give help as needed
Step 5 Summary (2')
Summarize the main idea of this unit: Expressions of congratulations and invitations
Step 6 Assignments (1')
l Further listening (pp. 92-- pp.94)
l Prepare a three-minute oral report on the topic: All work is honourable