Subject: English Name: Liu Yuandong Class: Six Time: Sep.17,2006 Content: Senior English for China Student Book 1A Unit 6 Period: The Second Period

Teaching Aims: Train the students’ reading ability. Learn some useful words and expressions. Get the students to learn about table manners in western countries.

Teaching important points: Learn and master the following useful expressions: make a good impression, be close to, a little bit, start with, keep silent, too much Help the students understand the passage better.

Teaching Difficult Point: How to help the students understand the passage exactly,especially the following sentences: The knife and fork that are closest to your plate are a little bit bigger than the ones beside them. In China,you sometimes get a hot, damp cloth to clean your face and hands, which, however,is not the custom in Western countries. When drinking to someone’s health, you raise your glasses,but the glasses should not touch. Although good manners always make you look good, you do not need to worry about all these rules while having dinner with your friends or family.

Teaching Methods: Discussion to compare table manners in China with that in Western countries. Fast reading and careful reading to understand the passage exactly.

Teaching Aids: A projector and some slices. A blackboard.

Teaching Procedures: Step 1:Greeting and Leading-in Step 2:Presentation

Answer the two question: 1.What table manners does the text tell about? 2.How does the text develop,in the order of content or in the order of time?

The Answers: 1. How to lay the table How to use forks and knives,etc. How to behave at the table. How to eat How to toast and drink. 2.Development : Before the dinner→ starting the dinner→ having the main course→ drinking

Step 3: Discussion after Reading Is laying the table for a dinner party in Western countries the same as that in China?

Step 4: Summary and Homework Emphasized phrases: make a good impression, be close to, a little bit, start with, keep silent, too much Homework: Finish Exercise 4 on Page 117.

The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard: Ⅰ.1.what table manners does the text tell about? How to lay the table How to use forks and knives,etc. How to behave at the table. How to eat How to toast and drink. 2. How does the text develop,in the order of content or in the order of time? Development : Before the dinner→ starting the dinner→ having the main course→ drinking Ⅱ :Useful expressions: make agood impression, be close to, a little bit, start with, keep silent, too much