Unit 23 Conflict

1. Unit 23 Conflict 彭泽柱

2. 高二北师大版模块八 Unit 23 Conflict Lesson 2 Conflict Resolution

3. Objectives ■ To practise using phrasal verbs. ■ To practise listening strategies for identifying mood. ■ To practise using the language of arguing. ■ To learn some ways to deal with conflict situations.

4. Part I Warm-up Are you good at arguing in Chinese?

5. Do you find it difficult to argue in English?

6. Which of the following is your ways of dealing with conflict in your personal life? • aggression – answering back or “giving as good as you get”! • mediation – asking a third person to help resolve the conflict; • withdrawal – giving in to the opposition for the sake of peace; • negotiation – discussing the conflict with the opposition and trying to reach a compromise.

7. Part II Before listening 1. Read the questionnaire, then match the verbs below with those underlined in the text. (Ex. 1) approach, defend, discuss, return, say OK, suggest, take, tolerate, make a lot of noise

8. Answers: stand up for (title) talk…over (1) put forward (1) make a scene (2) put up with (2) going off with (3) give in (3) go back (4) go to (5) defend discuss suggest make a lot of noise tolerate take say OK return approach

9. 2. Now imagine how you would react in the situations and answer the questionnaire. (Ex. 2) Now check your answers to see if you stand up for yourself. Answers “a” show you stand up for yourself. You are self-confident and try to deal with conflict situations in a sensible and constructive way.

10. Answers “b” show that you stand up for yourself but you probably react too aggressively to conflict situations. Answers “c” show you do not stand up for yourself. You perhaps lack self-confidence; look at the “a” answer for some ideas on how to react to conflict situations.

11. Part III Listening • Listening Strategies: • Identifying moods • Listen for expressions that are positive or negative (e.g. Stop getting at me!). • Pay attention to intonation to help you identify people’s moods (e.g. happy, angry, nervous, upset). • Be careful with sarcasm. Sometimes people say something positive but with a falling intonation so that it means the opposite.

12. 1. Listen to the argument between a brother and sister. Use the Strategies to decide if these statements are true (T) or false (F). (Ex. 3) • Lucy is not happy about being head of the student union. • 2) Pete is interested in hearing about her appointment. • 3) Lucy is upset by his reaction. F F T

13. 4) The first time she asks her brother to change channels she is patient. 5) Pete gets angry because Lucy has borrowed his compass to go camping. 6) Lucy is angry because Pete refuses to change channels. 7) Pete is not worried about Lucy not letting him use her computer. 8) He gets nervous when she says she’ll tell their father how he spent his allowance. T F T T T

14. 2. Listen again. Classify the expressions in the Function File. (Ex. 4) a) criticizing b) contradicting c) refusing d) suggesting e) threatening Function File:Arguing 1) Just stop making fun of me, will you? 2) You’re always telling people about your exciting sculpture classes. 3) No, I’m not. a a b

15. 4) I wish you wouldn’t interrupt me all the time. 5) Why don’t you turn over and see if it’s started? 6) No, why should I turn over? 7) You never let other people watch anything even when you’re just watching advertisements. 8) Why do you always have to twist the truth? a d c a a

16. 9) I did give it back to you when I got home from camping. 10) I do tidy it. 11) I don’t see why I should. 12) If you don’t , I’ll never let you use my computer again. 13) And if you do that, I’ll stop giving you a lift to school in the mornings. b b c e e

17. Part IV Pronunciation 1. Listen to eight sentences. Identify the mood. (Ex. 5) angry, annoyed, excited, patient, sarcastic, satisfied, upset • Answers: • ____________ 2) ____________ • 3) ____________ 4) ____________ • 5) ____________ 6) ____________ • 7) ____________ 8) ____________ sarcastic excited annoyed upset patient angry sarcastic satisfied

18. Work in Pairs. Act out situations 3 from the questionnaire in Exercise 1. Use the expressions from the Function File.(Ex.6) Example: A: Hey, I’m going to a party. Can I borrow your new sneaker? B: …

19. 3. Listen to a radio programme about how to deal with conflicts. Complete the sentences with the correct ending: a, b or c. (Ex. 7) 1) The worst thing to do when someone is angry is to a) say nothing at all b) be angry back c) go away from the situation b)

20. 2) Doing nothing is not a very useful strategy because a) it keeps one’s feelings inside. b) the person leaving feels angry. c) the situation can become violent. 3) Getting outside help is a good strategy when a) the conflict is very serious. b) you have a good helper. c) someone from outside decides. a) a)

21. 4) When negotiating you should a) be prepared to speak for a long time b) repeat your reasons again and again c) find out what the other person wants. c)

22. 5) You should put forward solutions and choose one that a) everybody agrees with b) does not threaten the other person c) suggests you take turns 6) When you are in conflict situations you should a) be aware of your body language. b) speak firmly and loudly c) use strong body language. a) a)

23. Part V Speaking 1. Work in pairs. Act out situation 3 from Exercise 1 again. Use the advice from the radio programme to deal with the conflict. (Ex. 8) 2. How were the roleplays in Exercises 6 and 8 different? How useful was the advice? Tell the class. (Ex. 9)

24. Part VI Vocabulary Complete the sentences with the given phrasal verbs. put forward, send for, look down on, have a gift for, come about, stand up for, give in, call in, go off, hold out, keep one’s word, make fun of 1) If you are offended, you should ____________ yourself. stand up for

25. 2) Soldiers were ________ to rescue people trapped in the earthquake. 3) Her name was ___________ as the best for the job. 4) Don’t ____________ the poor. 5) He always ____________ and never breaks his word. 6) How did it __________ that he was fired? 7) He refused to __________ to his parents. call in put forward look down on keeps his word come about give in

26. 8) The town managed to _________ against several attacks of the enemy. 9) Lin Lei is good at English. He ______________ foreign languages. 10) People ___________ her because she wears such strange hats. 11) I slept so soundly that I didn’t hear the alarm _________. 12) He is badly injured. You’d better _________ a doctor right away. hold out has a gift for make fun of going off send for

27. Part VI Language Notes 1. He gets nervous when she says she’ll tell their father how he spent his allowance. [用法点拨] allowance 意为“零花钱；津贴(= an amount of money given regularly)”，如： I didn’t receive any allowance from my father. 我没有收到父亲给的零用钱。

28. Mother gives us a weekly allowance if we keep our rooms clean. 如果我们保持房间整洁的话，妈妈就会每周给我们零花钱。 [拓展] make allowance(s) for 考虑到; 对……留有余地；体谅；原谅 make an allowance to 给补贴费; 给零用钱

29. [即时演练] 选词填空: When he was a student, his father gave him a monthly _______ for his expense. A. salary B. allowance C. wage D. money √

30. 2. Do you talk it over with them and put forward a solution? [用法点拨] put forward在句中表示“提出；提议（= to suggest a plan or proposal）”。如： The plan you put forward at the meeting is well worth considering. 你在会上提出的建议很值得考虑。 What do you think of the suggestion put forward by Mr Wang? 你觉得王先生提的建议怎么样？

31. [拓展] 1) put forward也可表示“拨快(时钟指针）”、“将……提前”等。如： They have put forward the date of their wedding by one week. 他们把婚礼日期提前了一周。 In order not to be late for the meeting, he put his watch twenty minutes forward. 为了开会不迟到，他把手表拨快了20分钟。

32. 2) put forward还可表示“推荐；荐举”。如： We put him forward, believing that he was the right person for the post. 我们推举他，因为我们相信他是该职位最合适人选。 All the members present put him forward for the position of club secretary. 与会会员一致推举他当俱乐部秘书。

33. [即时演练] 选词填空: 1) The workers will go on strike if the demands they _____ are turned down. A. put away B. put off C. put on D. put forward 2) Most people didn’t accept the theory when it was first _____. A. set aboutB. set off C. put forwardD. put out √ √

34. 3. Do you give in and lend them to her? [用法点拨] give in是不及物动词短语，意为“让步；屈服；投降”，例如： Do you think the President will give in to the terrorists’ demand? 你认为总统会对恐怖分子的要求让步吗？ The enemy were forced to give in. 敌人被迫投降。

35. [拓展] give的相关短语： give up 放弃 give off 散发（液体、气体等） give out 发出（声音、光、热等）；用完；分发 give away 泄露(秘密)；赠送 [即时演练]选词填空。 1) The girl is so poor that she has to ____ schooling. A. give up B. give in C. give out D. give off √

36. 2) When they got ready to climb the next mountain, they found that their oxygen had ______. A. given off B. given out C. given up D. given in 3) If your son asks you to let him stay at home from school, you mustn’t _______ to him. A. give out B. give in C. give up D. give away √ √

37. 4. Do you shout at the waiter, send for the manager and refuse to pay your bill? [用法点拨] 动词短语send for的意思是“派人去拿（请）”，其后接表示人或事物的名词。如： Since she is seriously ill, we have to send for a doctor at once. 因为她病得厉害，我们要马上去请医生。

38. We had to send for a mechanic because our car broke down halfway. 我们不得不派人去请个修理工来因为我们的车在半路上坏了。 [拓展] 关于send的短语： send a message to sb 捎个口信给某人 send off 寄出；给……送行 send up 发射；使上涨

39. [即时演练] 选词填空: There seemed nothing else to do but __________ a doctor. A. to send for B. send for C. call for D. to call in √

40. Homework • Finish off Language Power exercises 1-3 on page 68. • Go to Lexicon, page 106 to learn more phrasal verbs. Then finish off exercises 4-7 on page 69. • What good solutions have you learn from the text to deal with conflict situations?

41. Thank you!