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Small Talk Reading and Vocabulary Teaching goals

1. Target language

a. Vocabulary certain, confidently, embassy, excited, expect, favour, form, function, imagine, journey, lack,

occasion, opinion, opportunity, positive, psychologist, reception, sentence, yawn, be nervous about

b. Sentences You needn’t worry about situations like these if you have good social skills.

Always remember ... you won’t impress people ...

2. Ability goals

Enable the students to know more about social skills.

3. Learning ability goals

Help the students learn how to use the social skills in communication.

Teaching important & difficult points

How to use the social skills in communication. Teaching methods

教学方法

Skimming and Task-based activities.

Teaching procedures

Step I Warming Up

Let the students say some-thing about small talk. Talk about the social skills with the students.

T: As we all know, in our daily life, we often make all kinds of conversations with someone who we are unfamiliar to. And when we are doing this, we need social skills. But not everyone has good social skills. What about you? Do you have good social skills? (Students: Yes./No.) Maybe some students are not sure about it, let’s do a small quiz. I prepared some questions to check if you have good social skills, you can score for yourselves.

Show the following questions on the screen and ask the students to do it by themselves. 1. Have you ever crossed the road to avoid talking to someone you recognize? A. Always(1分)

B. Often(2分)

C. Seldom (3分) 2. When you go to a party, can you talk confidently to every guest? A. Always(3分)

B. Often(2分)

C. Seldom (1分) 3. Do you want to make more friends but lack the confidence to talk to people you don’t know? A. Yes(1分)

B. No.（3分）

4. Are you nervous about the idea of being at a social event in another country? A. Yes(1分)

B. No.（3分）

Then call back their answers. If their scores are above 10, they must be very outgoing and popular at school. If their scores are below 5, they should learn how to develop their social skills. Step Ⅱ

Reading

Task 1: Fast reading

Ask the students to skim the passage and decide what kind of book it is from.

A: an English teaching book B: a business course C: a book which tells you what to do at social events D: a book to help you prepare for a speaking examination

After skimming the title and the headline of each part for one minute, check their answers. T: Good job. Before you read or buy a book, you should form a good habit of deciding whether it is worth reading or buying by reading the title and subtitles or preface. It is very important for you and can save you a lot of time and money. Task 2: Scanning

T: Now please read the passage to see how many tips there are in

this passage. While reading, divide the whole passage into several parts and find out the main idea of each part. Sample answers:

Tip1: Learn how to do small talk. Tip2: Develop your listening skills Tip3: Learn the rules Task 3: Detailed reading

1. Ask students to read tip one and find out how to do small talk. (Choose a student to answer.) In this period, they should know what are the low-risk conversation openers. Then list some topics on the screen and ask them to decide which are safe when they do small talk.

marriage, music, film, study, career, family, income, a funny story, politics, weather, food, sports, etc. 2. Show a chart with some blanks on the screen. Dos Use ________ noises and gestures Keep _____________. Use positive ____________. Don’ts Look at ______.

_________. _________. Change the subjects. ______ the person who’s talking to you

_____________ to show your _____ other people’s sentences for interest them Get the students to read Tip Two to conclude how to be a good listener and fill in the chart. After three minutes, ask two students to write their answers on the blackboard. The class check it together.

Next show the following questions and have them to find the answers individually. ① What do people think about those who talk too much? ②Why is it a good idea to nod and smile when the other person is speaking? ③Translate the sentence into Chinese: Talk to a man about himself, and he will speak to you for hours!

3. Ask the students to go through Tip Three, and find: What should we do before going to a party?

Sample answers:

When to arrive How long to stay When to leave What to take Guide them to have a discussion: What conclusion can we draw from Tip3? (They can choose a right answer from the four sayings.) A. Rome was not built in one day. B. All roads lead to Rome. C. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. D. Seeing is believing. Task 4: Summary Show a abbreviated passage with some blanks about this article and

ask the students to read the article again and complete it.

Step Ⅳ

Homework Show some situations and ask them to choose one of them to write a small talk. Situation 1: You are a crazy fan of Jay Chou. One day you met him in a park, so you try to have a few words with him and ask for a signature. Situation 2:You are attending the 10th

anniversary of your graduation from high school, you are talking with your classmates whom you haven’t seen for ten years. Situation 3: On Monday morning, one of your colleagues comes into the office with a new hairstyle. You want to say something about it. Situation 4: Your best friend has just failed in an English speech contest, and you try to comfort him/her.

Blackboard Design: Reading

How good are your social skills? Tip one: Prepare the safe topics Tip two: Be a good listener Tip three: Learn social skills