TABLE MANNERS AT A DINNER PARTY

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn some useful word and expressions.

2. Train the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Learn and master the following useful expressions:

make a good impression, be lose to, a little bit, start with, keep silent, ask for, at table, all the time, drink to, too much

2. Help the students understand the passage better.

Teaching Difficult Point:

How to help the students understand the passage exactly, especially the following sentences:

1. The knife and fork that are close to your plate are a little bit bigger than the ones beside them.

2. In China, you sometimes get a hot, damp cloth to clean your face and hands, which, however, is not the custom in western countries.

3. When drinking to someone’s health, you raise your glasses, but the glasses should not touch.

4. 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:

1. Discussion to compare table manners in China with that in western countries.

2. Fast reading and careful reading to understand the passage exactly.

3. Pair work or group work to make every student work in class.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Greetings

Greet the whole class as usual.

Step 2 Preparation for Reading

T: Yesterday, we practised making apologies to people. We know it is very important to be polite to others. At the same time, how to be polite is also important .A proverb says, “Do in Rome as Romans do.” That is to say, you must follow the different customs in different situations or in different countries. Today we are going go read a passage about table manners at a dinner party. It will tell us some table manners in Western countries. T writes the title on the Bb. In order to have an efficient pre-reading, the whole class can be divided into four groups to brainstorm rules for being polite in Chinese culture. The answers can be listed on the Bb.

Step 3 Reading

T: Now, please turn to Page 38. Read the passage quickly and rind out the answers to the following two questions.

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?

答案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.

答案2 I think the text develops in the order or time :before the dinner →starting the dinner→having the main course→drinking.

Step 4 listening

1. T: How many parts is the passage divided into?

Yes. It’s divided into 3 parts.

Part1: (para1)

Part2: (para2-5)

Part3: (para6)

2. Ss listen to each part and give each Para’s main idea.

Part1: laying the table and good table manners.

Part2: The order of dishes and good table manners.

Part3: Table manner’s changing over time and places.

3. ask Ss to draw up how the table is laid?

Step5 language points show them on the power point.

1. formal→carried out , or done in proper or regular form.

2. inpression →an effect ,a feeling.

3. toast→The act of raising a glass and drinking in honor of or to the health of a person or thing.

Step 6 Post-reading

Do Ex-3 on page 39

Step 7 Comparing Compare the customs in western countries and that in China.

Differences

Devices for eating China: chopsticks

West: fork and kife

Kinds of food China: noodles, rice, dumplings

West: bread, meat, milk.

How food is served China: main course –staple-soup

West: starter soup-main course

Hospitality China: very warm

West: help yourself

Drinking habit China: touch each other glasses, drink too much

West: take a sip each time not touch glasses