Unit 10 Daily Activities (II) Step 1: Opening Remarks Step 2: Explain listening skills in Unit 10 Part A ： Micro-Listening Incomplete Plosion and Liaison

Part A ： Micro-Listening Exercise 1: 1. It usually takes me about fifteen minutes to eat my breakfast. 2. It is not far from my office building. 3. I usually drive to work. But sometimes I take the subway. 4. You may ask me, “Why not walk to work?” Well, it’s too far away. 5. He suggested that I get a good book to read on my way to the office.

Part A ： Micro-Listening Exercise 2: Early rising is beneficial in more than one way. First, it helps to keep us fit. It can improve our health to take morning exercises. Secondly, early rising helps us in our studies. In the morning we find it easier to memorize what we learn. Thirdly, it gives us enough time to get ready for our work. It enables us to plan for the day. No one can work well without a proper plan. As the English proverb says, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

Part B ： Marco-Listening  Conversation 1: What Time Do You Leave for Work? Culture Notes: 1. coffee break A mid-morning and mid-afternoon break from work. In many Western countries, office worker usually start work at nine or earlier. At about eleven o’clock they have a short break, known as the coffee break during which they drink coffee or tea and have some refreshments. Coffee is provided free. At about four o’clock in the afternoon, another coffee break is given.

Part B ： Marco-Listening Culture Notes: 2. Chinese restaurant Chinese restaurants can be found wherever there are Chinese people. A lot of Westerners enjoy Chinese cuisine, especially Sichuan style hot spicy food, as it is tasty and relatively cheaper. But most Westerners prefer beer rather than Chinese wine or spirits for a drink. The food in Chinese restaurants in the West, however, has been much Westernized so as to suit its local tastes.

 Conversation 2: The Telephone Is Ringing Part B ： Marco-Listening 1. term paper the main piece of written work by a student on a topic related to the subject matter of a course of study during a school term. Culture Notes:

Part B ： Marco-Listening 2. SO SOMEONE ANSWER THE TELEPHONE! This sentence is in the imperative mood. It shows that the father in the conversation is getting really angry and he demands forcefully that one of the children must answer the telephone. Culture Notes:

Part C Oral Practice Task 1: Communicative function: Talking about study with classmates and teachers Firstly, students are required to remember the useful sentences and structures that are often used in talking about study with classmates and teachers. Secondly, they are required to read a model dialogue.

Part C Oral Practice Finally, they are requested to make similar conversations of their own, using the given situation below. Try to use what they’ve learned in this lesson in their conversations. Situation: You are walking on campus. A stranger comes up to you and asks the way to the school clinic. Show him/her the way.

Part C Oral Practice Task 2(Pair work): Questions and answers on the texts Listen to conversation 1 & 2 again and answer the questions on page in complete sentences. Then link up the answers to make a short summary of the conversation.

Part D Home Listening Exercise on page 85