3. Post-listening

Based on what you heard just now and your own experience, discuss with your partner: How can you use your body language to communicate the following ideas?

Homework

1. Make a list of facial expressions and gestures and their meanings we’ve learned today.

2. Preview the following lesson.

Period 2 Listening (WB) & Speaking

Step 1 Listening

Do the listening practice in the workbook step by step. If the material is too difficult, teachers can give students some difficult sentences first or even give the listening material to students after they listen to the tape twice.

Step 2 Pre-speaking

Make some requests and ask/help students to answer and make offers, for example:

T: Could you give me a hand?

S: Yes, of course. What can I do for you?

T: Could you please clean the blackboard for me?

S: With pleasure.

T: That’s very nice of you.

(Teachers can also ask students to open/close the window, turn on the projector and so on.)

Step 3 Speaking

1. Language Input

Just now I asked some students to help me clean the blackboard (open/close the window, turn on the projector and so on.). In fact we’re practicing making requests, offers and responses. Now let’s look at some useful expressions on page 58.

Useful expressions of making offers and requests

Can/Shall I help you with that?

Would you like me to …?

No, thank you. Thanks for all your help.

Could you please …?

Would you like some help?

Could you give me a hand with this? No, thanks. I can manage it myself.

Is there anything else I can do for you?

Could you help me with …?

That’s very nice of you.

Do you need some help with that?

Notes:

Is there anything else I can do for you? = What else can I do for you?

We use these two sentences offer help again when we’ve already offered help.

2. Practice

Now use these expressions and follow the example to make up some dialogues in the following situations in pairs.

Then get some pairs to act out the dialogues in front of the class.

Step 4 Useful Expressions --- Making offers/requests and responses

In our everyday life, we quite often meet difficulties and have to ask our friends or relatives for help. Of course, sometimes we’ll offer to help others. And in English there're several ways of making offers/requests and responses. Please look at the screen.

Ways of making offers or requests Ways of replying to others' offers or requests

Acceptance Refuse

1.Can/Could/Shall I help you?

2.Would you like me to …?

3.Is there anything (else) I can do for you?

4.Do you want me to …?

5. What (else) can I do for you?

6. Let me do/carry/help … (for you)?

7. Would you like some …?

8. Do you need some help with …? 1. Thanks. That would be nice/fine.

2. That’s very kind of you.

3. Thank you for your help.

4. Yes, please.

5. Here, take this/my… 1. No, thanks/thank you. I can manage it myself.

2. Thank you all the same.

3. That’s very kind of you, but….

1. Could you please …?

2. Could you give me a hand with …?

3. Could you help me with …? 1. With pleasure.

2. Yes, of course. 1. I’m sorry, but …

2. I’d like to …, but ….

Step 5 Making up dialogues

Just now we have got through several ways of making offers/requests and responses. Let’s use these sentence structures to make up some dialogues. (Get the students to work in pairs and offer to do the following things for each other.)

help you with homework

help you with cooking a meal

show you how to use the typewriter go and buy some medicine

do the shopping

show you to the dining room

Example:

A: Would you like some help?

B: Yes, please.

A: Shall I show you how to use this electric typewriter?

B: Thanks. I haven’t used this one before.

A: Would you like me to type your composition for you?

B: No, thanks. I can manage it myself.

Step 6 Post-speaking

If time permits, get students to finish the task of talking in the workbook.

Homework

Prepare the task of talking in the workbook.

Preview the following lesson: Body talk.

Periods 3-4 Reading

Step 1 Revision

Check the homework of making up a dialogue in the workbook.

Go over the ways of making offers/requests and responses.

Step 2 Pre-reading

In the first period of this unit, we’ve learned that we can use our facial expressions and gestures to express ourselves or tell what someone is thinking or feeling by looking at their facial expressions and gestures.

1. Who can tell us some ways of telling what one is thinking or feeling?

2. Do people from different parts of the world use different body language? What about people who live in different parts of China?

3. How do you communicate the following with body language?

Thank you! No. Yes. I don’t know. Come here!

Step 3 Reading

1. Scanning

Ask students to read the text quickly and find out the main idea/key sentence of each paragraph in pairs.

Para 1: We use both words and body language to express our thoughts and opinions and to communicate with other people.

Para 2: Just like spoken language, body language varies from culture to culture.

(The same gesture has different meanings in different countries.)

Para 3: People in different countries show the same idea in different ways.

Para 4: Some gestures seem to be universal.

Para 5: Perhaps the best example of universally understood body language is the smile.