Goals:

1. To get some cross-cultural information about table manners in western countries.

2. to enlarge the students’ knowledge about politeness and impoliteness

3. to develop the students’ reading skills

Difficult points:

1. to improve the students’ ability of reading comprehension

2. to k now table manners in western countries

Teaching Methods

1. fast reading and careful reading

2. question-and-answer activity

3. pair work or group work

Procedures

Step1. Lead-in

1. Greet the students, shake their hands saying “nice to see you”, “hi”,etc and then say “I’m told that the students of Huangshi No.2 High School are very polite. Today I want to see how polite you are.

2. situational dialogues

T-s dialogues: in china, if strangers meet together, what will they do to show their politeness and friendliness? (Shake hands) Now I am a stranger here, what should you do to me? (Shake hands)

S-s dialogues: pair work Student A steps on Student B’s foot by accident, which hurts B very much. But both of them are very polite. So please make up a short dialogue. Let me see how polite you are. Then get some students to act out the dialogue.

Do you think they have good manners?

Step2 Pre-discussion (group work)

Q1. If you are students with good manners in class, what should you do in class?

(Do what the teachers tell us to do, be active, cooperate well)

Q2. Do you think that good manners are necessary and important? Why?

Q3. What are good manners in your idea? Do you think they just mean comfortable words?

(Manners make the man. Good manners are the art of making those people easy with whom we converse)

Step3. Prediction

Look at the title- Table Manners at a Dinner Party, what do you think the passage is going to tell us? Discuss in groups of four and then report.

(How to behave well at a dinner party)

Step4. Scanning

Scan the first paragraph and find out what are table manners?

(How to use knives and forks, when to drink a toast and how to behave at the table)

Step5. Fast reading –read the passage silently and quickly. You don’t have to read every sentence of the passage, usually the first and the last sentences of each paragraph.

Now do fast reading and find out the main ideas for the following 4 parts

Para1 laying the table Para2-3 serving dinner

Para4-5 speaking &drinking at a dinner party Para6 conclusion or attention

Step6. True or false statements-post reading Ex3

Do it with books closed.

Step7 careful reading or listening

1. Listen and learn how to lay the table. Get some students of put up the pictures on the blackboard or draw the picture

2. listen and find out the order in which the dishes are served

step8. Output Pair work

1. Compare china’s and western table manners?

Differences Resemblances

Devices for eating China

West

Kinds of food China

West

How food is served China

West

Hospitality China

West

Drinking habit China

West

2. Do’s and don’t s at the dinner party

Do’s

1. put your napkin on your lap

2. keep the knife in your right hand and fork in left

3. serve dinner with a starter, then a bowl of soup and later the main course, finally the dessert

4. finish eating everything on your plate

Don’t s

1. never ask for a second soup

2. never touch meant on bones

3. don’t take more food than you need

4. don’t touch others’ glasses

5. never drink too much