Listening and vocabulary教案设计（一等奖）

Book Six

Small Talk The Third Period

Reading Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

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

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

b. 重点句子

You needn’t worry about situations like these if you have good social skills. P2 Always remember ... you won’t impress people ... P3 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to know more about social skills.

3. Learning ability goals

学能目标

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

Teaching important & difficult points

教学重难点

How to use the social skills in communication.

Teaching methods

教学方法

Skimming and task-based activities. Teaching aids

教具准备

A recorder and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step I Revision & Warming Up

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

T: As we know, as long as a person lives in society, he will communicate with others. If he wants to get along well with others, he must know

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something about social skills. Today we will learn an article about social skills. Before that let’s do Activity 1 on page 2.

Then check the answers.

Step Ⅱ

Reading

Task 1: Skimming

T: Now skim the passage and decide what kind of book it is from.

S1: I think it is from a book which tells you what to do at social events. We can guess from the title “How Good Are Your Social Skills” and subtitles “Learn how to do small talk”, “Develop your listening skills” and “Learn the rules”.

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

The general idea:

S: This passage is about social skills. It tells us how to have a conversation and how to do small talk and when we go to a social occasion, we should pay attention to social rules in different countries. The main idea of each paragraph:

Part 1(Paras. 1-2) Introduction to the body of the passage by asking questions Part 2 (Para. 3) How to do small talk

Part 3 (Paras. 4-6) Dos and don’ts while listening Part 4 (Paras. 7-8) The social rules

Task 3: After-reading questions T: Now we have known the general idea and the structure of the whole passage. Next read the passage again and answer the questions in Activity 3.

Sample answers:

1. Yes.

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2. Those who talk too much don’t give other people any chance of speaking. It shows that they are impolite. So usually people don’t like talking with those who talk too much. 3. We should not look away from the person who’s talking to us. We should not change the subject that is being talked about.

We should not finish other people’s sentences for them. 4. It is polite and can encourage the other person.

5. The quotation from Benjamin Disraeli tells us that one should find the subject that can interest the other and make it easy to go on with the conversation. Task 4: Comprehending questions

T: In order to understand the passage better, let’s answer more questions in Activity 5. Sample answers:

1. No. Worrying about talking to people will make you feel unconfident.

2. I could try to learn more about social rules of the country and find out dos and don’ts at a party. For example I must know what kind of gift I should take. 3. For example, when a friend of my parents comes to my home for a visit, I will greet him / her by asking “How are you?” or “How do you do?”.

Possibly I will tell him / her about my studies.

4. I will enjoy the conversation by saying “对”

,“是”,“啊”

or “好的”

or using body language, such as smiling, nodding, etc.

5. The gestures such as nodding, smiling, applause, thumbs up are positive language.

6. No. Every country has its own customs, culture and religion. So the people from different countries have different thinking ways. So it is impossible that social rules are completely the same in different countries.

Task 5: Discussion

T: From the passage we have learnt something about social skills and

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some rules. To put them into practice, let’s have a discussion about the following situations in Activity 6 on page 4. Work in pairs please. Sample dialogues:

1. S1: I think advance planning is very useful. I never paid attention to it before. That is, I didn’t do any advance planning before I went to a party. For example, I didn’t buy proper presents in advance. In a hurry, the present bought was sometimes unsuitable for the host. I seldom tried to know about other guests. Without advance preparations, sometimes I would get embarrassed.

S2: I think listening skills are useful. Communica-tion is a two-way process. It is impolite to talk too much. If you want to continue the conversation smoothly, be a good listener. For example, when others are talking to you, you should show interest in the topic, from time to time ask for more information, always keep good eye contact, and use encouraging noises and gestures and so on. 2. S3: I will go to university abroad after graduation. I will meet people from different countries. In order to contact with them very well, I must know about their customs and social rules. So at the beginning I will think of “safe”

or low-risk topics to talk about. I believe soon I will make friends with them. S4: I think I should first choose a good topic or a low-risk opener. A good topic makes a good conversation. 3. S5: I am good at keeping good eye contact with an attentive look. You know, eyes are windows of minds. From my eyes, the speaker knows that I am interested in what he is talking about. It is good manners, even in other countries.

S6: I’m sorry to say that I am not good at what mentioned in the passage. I often look away from the person who is talking to me. I know it is a bad habit. I must get rid of it.

4. S7: Sometimes I don’t know what proper topics to choose when I meet

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strangers. Most of the time I keep silent. The moment is a hard time to me. From this passage I know a little about how to do small talk. I believe later when I meet with the similar occasion, I can manage.

S8: I should improve my social skills in many ways. For example, I used to talk about un-interesting things which made others feel embarrassed; for another, I used to sigh during the talk. 5. S9: In everyday life, parents choose to talk about their children —

their children’s life, studies, hobbies. Teachers get together to talk about their students —

good or bad at some subjects or the results of examinations.

S10: It is common that in China people like to know others’ ages, salaries while in the western countries it is bad manners to talk about these topics. Task 6: Practice

Ask the students to do Activity 4 in VOCABULARY on page 3 and Activities 4-5 in the WORKBOOK on pages 68 and 69. Then check the answers.

Step Ⅲ Summary

T: Today we have learnt the passage about social skills which has much to do with our daily life. From the passage we know that social skills are very important when a person is in communication or having a conversation with others. We have also learnt some social rules and how to do small talk. It is necessary for us to learn something about social skills. As you know, we are now working hard to build a harmonious society. But how to construct a harmonious society if we don’t know how to behave in communicating with others. Especially, in 2008 the Olympic Games will be held in Beijing in our country. At that time how will we display our good manners to the whole world? So we must learn more about this inside or outside class.

Step Ⅳ Homework

1. Finish the rest of the exercises in VOCABULARY.

2. Learn more about social skills.

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