1. Could you please clean your room?
Unit 3
Could you please clean your room?
Section A
Period One

2. Objectives
To learn to make polite requests
To learn to ask for permission
To learn and review some verb phrases

3. Do you often help your parents
do chores?
do chores
= do housework

4. Do you do these chores at home?
do the dishes
wash the dishes
make the bed
clean the living room

5. fold the clothes
take out the rubbish
sweep the floor

6. I think it is a little bit hot in our classroom and I want to ask someone to open the window. What can I say?

7. Different ways of saying.
Can you find the difference?
Which is the most polite expression?
I can say
1. Open the window!
2. Can you open the window?
3. Could you please open the window?

8. Look and say Could you please ...? get up early sweep the floor
cook for us

9. Could you please not ...? look out of the window play soccer here
play the computer games

10. Conclusion 有礼貌地提出请求句型： Could you please do sth.？ 请你(做)……好吗？
Could you please not do sth.?
请你不要(做)……好吗？

11. What will you response if somebody
says “Could you please …”?
a dirty room
Could you please clean your room?
I’m sorry. I’ll do it right away.
不好意思，我马上做。

12. Could you please take out the rubbish?
Yes, Sure./ Of course. / All right. / OK.

13. (have to do my homework)
A: Could you please make the bed?
B: Sorry, I can’t.
I have to do my homework.

14. -- Could you please do the dishes?
-- Yes, Sure./ Of course. / All right. / OK.

15. (am studying for my test)
-- Could you please fold the clothes?
-- Sorry, I can’t.
I am studying for my test.

16. Do you do these chores at home? Discuss them with your partner. (1a)
1. do the dishes take out the rubbish
3. fold your clothes 4. sweep the floor
5. make your bed clean the living room

17. Listen. Who will do these chores? Check Peter’s mother or Peter. (1b)
Do the dishes
Sweep the floor
Take out the rubbish
make the bed
fold the clothes
clean the living room √ √ √ √ √ √

18. Make conversations about the chores in 1a.
Example:
A: Could you please sweep the floor?
B: Yes, sure. Can you do the dishes?
A: Well, could you please do them? I’m going to clean the living room.
B: No problem.

19. (clean the living room)
pairwork
A: Could you please take out the rubbish?
B: Yes, sure./ Of course./ All right. /OK.
Sorry, I can’t. I have to do my homework.
Sorry, I can’t. I am doing the dishes.
do the dishes
fold the clothes
(Yes, sure.)
(do my homework)
take out the rubbish
clean the living room
(study for my test)
(clean the living room)
make the bed
sweep the floor
(babysit my sister)
(Yes, sure.)

20. Chain drills A: Tom, could you please do the dishes?
Which group can ask and answer more questions with the verb phrases?
A: Tom, could you please do the dishes?
B: Yes, sure. Ann, Could you…?
C: Sorry, I can’t. Jim, …
D: …

21. 根据汉语意思填空。
1. I have to go to school _________ (尽快) possible. 2. Sam doesn’t like apples, _______ (也不) do I. 3. He broke his leg and had to lie __________ (一直). 4. The room was in a ______. (杂乱). 5. _____ (折叠) the letter and put it in an envelope.
as soon as
neither
all the time
mess
Fold

22. Translate and write them down.
1. 请你替我开门，好吗？
2. - 请你洗餐具，好吗？
- 对不起，我不能，我得做作业。
Could you please open the door for me?
Could you please do the dishes?
Sorry, I can’t. I have to do my homework.

23. 3. 你能倒一下垃圾吗？
当然可以。
Could you please take out the rubbish?
Yes, sure./ Of course./Certainly.
4. 你能铺一下床和叠下衣服吗?
不行啊，我明天有考试。
Could you make the bed and fold the
clothes?
Sorry, I can’t. I have a test tomorrow.

24. Homework
Help your parents do some chores at home and write a dialogue between you.

25. Preview
To preview the new words and expressions
To preview the Grammar Focus

26. Thank you.