Unit2,. Objectives,. Suggested Teaching Plan,. Background Information,. Class Presentation,Preview,Preview,This unit looks at some human encounters. In the Listening and Speaking section, you will learn how to make an apology and respond to it. In the Reading and Writing section, in Text A, Mark Twain tells how he was given nice treatment because he was mistaken for someone else. Text B tells the writers regret of not being able to help a poor old lady. Practical Reading explains the signing system used in Britain.,prev.,. Objectives,After studying this unit, the students are expected to be able to,master the basic language and skills necessary to make and respond to an apology;,2. understand the main ideas of Texts A and B, and master the useful sentence structures and words and expressions found in the exercises relevant to the first two texts;,3. grasp the basic English grammar of subject-verb agreement (2);,4. know how to reply to an invitation;,6. guess the meaning of unknown words in context (2).,Obj.,5. read the signing system used in Britain;,. Suggested Teaching Plan,Suggested Time and Teaching Plan for Unit 2,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.1,The teacher begins with the Preview to make sure that the students have some idea of what this unit is all about. After that, the teacher activates the Listening and Speaking exercises as follows:,2 periods,Preview,. Suggested Teaching Plan,Suggested Time and Teaching Plan for Unit 2,Time,Contents,Plan,1) The Language for Making and Responding to an Apology,Have a warm-up activity by asking students what they say when they cause trouble to others or make mistakes;,A.,s.t.p.1,Listening and Speaking,B.,Have the students listen to Ex.1 (1-3 times) and fill in the blanks with the missing words;,C.,Ask one student to read aloud the talk so students can check their completed answers;,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.1.2,D.,Ask other students to form responses to the apologies in Ex.2, trying to use the expressions learned in Ex.1.,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.1.2,2) Making and Responding to an Apology,Go through the new words in the first dialogue in Ex.3;,A.,Have the students listen to the dialogue twice and fill in the blanks with the missing words;,Ask students to answer the questions about the dialogue;,Now have them look for the language used to make and respond to an apology;,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.2,B.,C.,D.,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.2,Next, students can role play the dialogue;,Then have them either do the same with the second dialogue or be creative with it;,E.,F.,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.3,Finally, study the structures presented in Ex. 4, and create situations for dialogues in which students blame someone for his/her mistake or fault and expect them to make both apologies and excuses with the help of the language they have picked up in Ex. 1 and the expressions from Ex. 4.,G.,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.3,3) Listening Practice,Before ending, the teacher tells the students how to do Ex. 5-10 as their assignment. The teacher also tells them that they should be prepared to answer the questions in Ex. 9 and give an oral presentation on the topic in Ex.10 when next they come to class.,3 periods,Review of the listening and speaking skills the students have learned,The teacher begins with the assignment mainly to review the functional and notional language the students picked up in the previous unit. The teacher asks some students to answer the questions in Ex.9 of the Listening and Speaking section and invites a few students to tell their classmates their opinions on,s.t.p.4,Time,Contents,Plan,the topic of “Do college students handle well situations that need an apology?” Then, the teacher turns to the Reading and Writing section. (These activities should be completed in 15 minutes.),s.t.p.4,Time,Contents,Plan,1) Starter,After a brief explanation of the instructions, the teacher,A.,gives the students a few minutes to think about the questions in the starter;,s.t.p.5,Time,Contents,Plan,Text A & text-related exercises,B.,asks some students to respond to the questions (10 minutes).,s.t.p.5,Time,Contents,Plan,2) Text A,A.,The teacher,lets the students answer the text related questions, helps them identify the main idea of each paragraph and analyzes some difficult sentences and some language points while discussing the whole text with the students (one and a half periods);,B.,guides the students through the exercises, focusing on certain items or leaving some exercises as the students homework according to the students different levels of English (one period).,s.t.p.8,Time,Contents,Plan,s.t.p.8,1 period,Grammar Review,1) Grammar Review,The teacher explains the subject-verb agreement (2), and asks the students to do the grammar exercises in class.,Time,Contents,Plan,Practical Writing,2) Practical Writing,The teacher tells as well as shows the students how to reply to an invitation by doing Ex.12 of,s.t.p.9,Practical Writing, and then requires the students to do Ex.13 and Ex.14