Unit 6 Good manners
Listening & Speaking
Teaching aims:
1. To get students to know about some expressions of apology.
2. To study the language points concerned with the dialogue.
Key and difficult points:
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 ------ Leading in (warming up)
1. Ask students to review how to apologize.
(1) Ask students when they do something wrong, what they should say.
(2) Ask students to make a list of the expressions of apology.
A. Excuse me.
B. I’m sorry.
2. Ask students to finish exercise on page 36.
Step 2 ------ Listening
1. Ask students to listen to the tape for main idea and answer the following
questions.
(1) Bill took Cliff’s bike without asking.
(2) Bill was sorry to lose Cliff’s bike.
2. Ask students to read exercise and listen to the tape as a second time.
3. Listen to the tape for the third time and check the answer.
Step 3 ------ Speaking
1. Ask students when Bill was sorry for his behavior, what did he say.
(1) I’m sorry.
(2) I really have to apologize.
(3) I’m really sorry about the bike.
2. Ask students when Cliff heard Bill’s apology, what did Cliff response?
(1) That’s OK.
(2) That’s all right.
(3) Forget it.
3. Learn more functional sentences.
A. When someone wants to apologize for what he has done.
(1) I’m sorry.
(2) I really have to apologize.
(3) I’m really/so/very/terribly sorry about/of …
(4) Forgive me (for sth).
(5) I apologize for …
(6) Please accept my apologies for …
(7) I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to …
(8) Oops. Sorry about that.
B. If someone heard one’s apologies, how to response.
(1) That’s OK.
(2) It’s OK.
(3) That’s all right.
(4) Forget it.
(5) Oh, well, that’s life.
(6) No problem.
(7) It doesn’t matter.
(8) Never mind.
4. Give students some situation to make a dialogue.
(1) An apology dialogue between students in our school cafeteria. One accidentally knocks over your noodles and spills some on your shirt.
(2) The final exam is upon you. You borrow your classmate’s notebook, but unluckily you lost it. And this note book is very important for your classmate. You have stayed out late with some friends. As soon as you return to
(3) You have stayed out late with some friends. As soon as you return to the dormitory, you realize that you have left your keys in your room and are locked out. You know your roommate goes to bed early every night. You knock at the door several times and he or she finally answers. He or she sounds sleepy and angry.
Homework ------
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Self-evaluation ------