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Lesson 2 “How do you like it ?”

Lesson 2 “How do you like it ?”. Some Revision of Lesson 1. Greetings in different cultures:. France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium. Europeans, Romanians. Some etiquette in shaking hands and exchanging name cards. Tips for the first dates. Video clip

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Lesson 2 “How do you like it ?”

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  1. Lesson 2 “How do you like it ?”

  2. Some Revision of Lesson 1 • Greetings in different cultures: France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium Europeans, Romanians

  3. Some etiquette in shaking hands and exchanging name cards

  4. Tips for the first dates • Video clip • Which tips are similar to the ones you discussed last week? • Which tips did you talk about that have not been mentioned in the video clip?

  5. Some inappropriate questions for English speakers • 1. Have you eaten? (Chinese greeting) • 2. Where are you going? (Chinese greeting) • 3. How old are you? • 4. Are you married? • 5. Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? • 6. What’s your religion? • 7. How much do you earn each month? • 8. How many people are there in your family?

  6. Leading-in --- Work in pairs. You and your partner are trying to decide what to do on the coming Friday evening. Your choices are: • To watch a movie at the cinema; • To have a meal in a nice restaurant somewhere; • To go to a music concert; • To go to a discotheque; • Not to go out---working on your study • Decide on something that you both want to do.

  7. Watch a video clip • Please watch this video and then tell us: • 1. What are they doing? • 2. Is it difficult for them to make the decision? • 3. What decision did they make?

  8. Listen to a conversation • 1. Listen to the conversation and find out: • 1) What did they want to do? • 2) Where did they decide to go?

  9. Listen to a conversation • 2. Listen to the tape again and fill in the table on p22.

  10. What can we do in Lijiang? Your grandparents just came to Lijiang to see you. They have never been in Lijiang before, and so you want to show them around on the coming weekend. You are now discussing with them as to where they can visit in the two days. The following expressions might be useful in your discussion: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain The Old Town of Lijiang (The Old Town of Shuhe) Black Dragon Pool Park Tiger Leaping Gorge Lion Hill (Elephant Mountain) Note: The discussion can be carried out in groups of three, each playing a role: student, grandma, grandpa Where? How? When?

  11. How would you evaluate the canteens in our college? 1. Floor 1 Canteen 一楼餐厅 2. Floor 2 Canteen 二楼餐厅 3. Muslim Canteen 清真食堂 Please complete three forms as shown above for the three canteens in our college through discussion with your desk mate. Try to use as many expressions you have learned as you can for agreeing and disagreeing politely.

  12. How would you evaluate our school canteens? Useful English for some food: • Steamed bun 馒头 • Steamed roll 花卷 • Steamed meat bun 肉包子 • braised beef in soy sauce 红烧牛肉 • braised pork in soy sauce 红烧猪肉 • fried pork slices 炒肉片

  13. Some examples of agreeing and disagreeing

  14. What does it mean? • Your suggestion is very good, however I am afraid I won’t be able to take it up this time. • I really appreciate your invitation, but I’m quite tied up recently, I’m afraid. • Yes, perhaps. • Probably.

  15. Noon Chat Topic (Pyramid Building) • The National Day holidays are coming. 8 people in 2 dormitories are supposed to spend the holidays together. Discuss it over in pairs first to make a decision between you two, then each pair joins another pair to reach a common decision. After that, four pairs meet together to find a common ground: • 1. What to do? • 2. Where to meet? • 3. When to meet ?

  16. Expressions to show preferences: I’m looking forward to… I feel like doing something lively and exciting. I’m not in the mood for… That sounds good/fine. Good idea. That’s fine by me. That’s just what I feel like doing. That suits me. Actually, I’d rather… Asking for other people’s preferences: What about you, Tom? What would you like to do? Where would you like to go? Shall we go… How about going… What about going… Do you fancy… Maybe we could… Let’s try… Why don’t we… We could… Expressions for Use (1)

  17. Expressions for use (2) • Expressions to ask if everybody agrees / to show everybody agrees: • OK, is everybody happy with that then? • So, are we all agreed? • OK, that’s settled then. • So, we all agree that…

  18. Expressions for use (3) • We’d better get there a bit early. • Can we make it (a bit) later? • I’ll meet you…(place) • What kind of place do you have in mind? • Suppose we meet at…(place) • What time would suit you? • What time’s good for you? • What is the best time for you? • We need to get there by…(time) • That will give us (plenty of) time to… • I don’t think I can make it by…(time) • We could perhaps meet sometime after…(time) • How does (time/place) sound? • Would (time/place) be OK for you? Why don’t we meet at…(time/place)? Where and when should we meet?

  19. Thank you!

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