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Unit 8 Story Time. Step 1: Checking the oral practice of Unit 7. Step 2: Explain listening skills in Unit 8. Part B : Marco-Listening. Story 1 : An Embarrassing Experience. Culture Notes:.
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Unit 8 Story Time Step 1: Checking the oral practice of Unit 7 Step 2: Explain listening skills in Unit 8
Part B :Marco-Listening Story 1: An Embarrassing Experience Culture Notes: 1. Shopping for the weekWith the increasing use of refrigerators, people in many countries usually shop for groceries once a week. Most people do their week’s shopping on Fridays or Saturdays. They usually go in cars since the things they are going to buy will be too heavy to carry.
Part B :Marco-Listening Culture Notes: 2. She went to the checkout and joined the queue.At the checkout counter there are often long queues, especially on Fridays and Saturdays. Customers are expected to join the queues and wait for their turns patiently. 3. the store detective Some supermarkets emply special detectives to watch out for shop-lifters. But most such shops have installed closed circuit TV to prevent theft.
Part B :Marco-Listening New words and expressions trolly n. 手推车,货车 steak n. 肉片,肉排 examine v. 检查 whisky n. 威士忌酒handle n. 柄,把手 checkout n. 付款处 queue n. 行列 detective n. 保安人员
Part B :Marco-Listening Story 2:An Art Lesson Culture Notes: 1. Different schools of artists paint in different styles. They use different methods to represent what they perceive. Artists using the traditional method attempt to reproduce an object or a scene precisely in minute detail. But the impressionists try to capture the impression that the human eye perceives.
Part B :Marco-Listening Culture Notes: 2. Art should be individual.Art should represent the individual artist’s perspective, which is different from that of the other artists. 3. Bring on the fruit! Show me the paintings! As the paintings are a still life of an orange and some grapes, Sheila jokingly used the term to refer to them.
Part B :Marco-Listening New words and expressions reluctantly adv. 勉强的 constantly adv. 经常地 shapeless adj. 不成形的 mass n. 团,块,堆 mix v. 混合 artificial adj. 人工的,不自然的 fascinated adj. 着迷的 canvas n. 画布, 帆布
Part C Oral Practice I Communicative Function • Students are required to work in pair and make up story based on the pictures on the text book. Try to use the vocabulary in the list above.
Part C Oral Practice II Retelling • Listen to the previous passage “An Art Lesson” and retell it in your own words.
Part C Oral Practice III Discussion 1. Have you ever been in an embarrassing situation? Describe what it was like. 2. Do you like visiting art museums? Do you prefer traditional or modern paintings? Why? 3. What do you think is art? How important is it to your life?
Part D Home Listening Home listening on page 75-76