Unit task Preparing and acting out a sketch about feelings Watch and compare: What is the difference between a Chinese and a westerner when talking about their true feelings?

Unit task Tip: The Chinese lady tends to be modest with “this dish is not salty enough, too bad to eat” ; while the foreigner tells his true feeling of the dish with “it only needs some sauce”. Answer

1 Work in pairs. Can you think of an occasion when Unit task Preparing and acting out a sketch about feelings 1 Work in pairs. Can you think of an occasion when what you said is different from what you felt? Think about: meeting someone you didn’t like trying to show you weren’t scared being polite when you were very angry trying to think of something complimentary to say to someone eating something you didn’t like trying not to laugh at something

Unit task Example answers • I really enjoy your teaching (to a teacher who gave you low marks). • Come on, I’m ready for this fight! Let’s get on with it NOW! • I suppose I understand why you did this, but you should know that I don’t agree with it. • You are not fat, no, not at all. You are just horizontally challenged (to someone who is fat). • This is an interesting taste. I’d like to offer it to you since this is your favourite. Do have some more! • This is a rather serious matter, isn’t it?

Unit task Group work: please form a group of four to fulfill the following tasks 2 Write a sketch which describes the occasion in Activity 1 and what people said. Example Occasion 1 A wig a man wears is incidentally pulled off by a friend. He is very embarrassed, because he does not want people to notice that he wears a wig and see his bald head. His friend said to him, “You are follicularly challenged.” (Making a joke to make the situation better: A follicle is the place in your skin that contains the root of a hair.)

Unit task Conversation 1 Student A This is my wig [trying to get it back from the friend]. Student B Have I hurt you? [handing over the wig while examining it] You are follicularly challenged. I’ve heard that all follicularly challenged people tend to be extremely intelligent.

Unit task Occasion 2 A friend came to visit you, you offered to take him out for a meal in a restaurant, but you have a dilemma: If you pay for the food, you won’t have any money left for your own meals for the rest of the week. Your friend finds out about this and offers to pay for this meal. You reply: “It’s true that I have not got any money left to buy food after this meal, but I do have food at home to last for at least a week. Since we have such a good meal today, I really need to diet. Otherwise I will put on weight.”

Unit task Conversation 2 Student A I must take you out for a meal in a restaurant. [searching for money in his pocket and taking out only a few notes] This is the money for all the food for this week. Student B I’d like to. But I cannot let you pay for it, since you are only a student. Student A Not at all. I must pay for this. You are my guest. I’ve got quite a lot of money here. Student B How much have you got? It must be the money for your whole week’s food. >>>

Unit task Conversation 2 Student A Well, in fact that’s true. But I’ve got quite a lot of food for this week already. This is the money left from last week. (later after the meal) Student B Thank you very much for the food. It’s really good, absolutely delicious. Are you sure you have got enough money to last for the rest of the week? Student A Oh, yes. Don’t worry, I have to be on diet now. Or I will put on weight.

Unit task 3 Please prepare to act out your sketch to the rest of the class. Can they decide what the people were feeling? * Attention: Three groups will be chosen to act out their sketches and be evaluated by the rest of the class. Evaluation creteria

Evaluation creteria Who is the winner? Unit task Evaluation creteria Beautiful and correct pronunciation and intonation; A clear storyline Good and useful expressions; An interesting, meaningful or humorous dialogue; Proper body language, gestures and facial expressions. The fewest in the number of errors due to slip of tongue. Who is the winner?

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