1. Unit 3 Celebration Lesson 2 Parties
The High School attached to Tsinghua University

2. Teaching objectives By the end of this class, you will be able to
1. listen for gist by catching key words,
2. interact with others by giving advice and congratulating people.

3. How do you usually celebrate your birthday? people, food, procedures
Warm-up
How do you usually celebrate your birthday?
people, food, procedures

4. Warm-up
close friends
family members
people

5. Warm-up
birthday cake
hot pot
sit-down meal
snacks
soft drinks
food

6. Warm-up send out invitations make a reception receive presents
make a speech
make a wish
enjoy the cake and the meal
procedures

7. Besides festivals and birthday, there are many other things to celebrate.

8. Listen and decide why each person is celebrating.
Listening
Listen and decide why each person is celebrating.

9. Why is he/she celebrating?
Listening
Key words
Why is he/she celebrating?
Dave
fail twice,
feel great
Key words
passing his driving test
gist

10. Key words gist Listening Key words Why is he/she celebrating? Dave
Mike
Ewa
Lisa
driving, fail,
feel great
passing his driving test
getting a job with
a good salary
lucky, salary, good
Key words
gist
opportunity,
one year in America
going to study abroad
enjoy working,
sad, at home
retiring

11. Listen for important words to get the main idea !
Listening
Never panic!
Listen for important words to get the main idea !

12. Listen for the first time and general idea of the dialogue.
Listening
Ex. 4
Listen for the first time and
work out the
general idea of the dialogue.

13. Advice on what you should and shouldn’t do at parties in Britain
Listening
Advice on what you should and shouldn’t do at parties in Britain
parties
should
shouldn’t
must
key words
general idea

14. Listen for the second time and finish the function file.
Listening
Ex. 4
Listen for the second time and
finish the function file.

15. Listening If it’s very formal, you _______ dress smartly.
Nowadays you ___________be too formal.
You _________arrive late to a dinner party.
You _________ take something with you.
You __________drink too much at parties.
And you _________accept a lift home from a person you don’t know.
You _________ be careful.
should
don’t have to
shouldn’t
should
shouldn’t
shouldn’t
must
Give Advice

16. A: What should I say at a wedding party?
B: We need to know how to congratulate others

17. holding a birthday party
Speaking
holding a birthday party
passing an exam
holding a
wedding party
winning the match
having a new-born baby

18. Speaking
Ex. 7
Match the expressions in the function file and learn to congratulate others.

19. Speaking
Make an interview yourself in groups of two based on what we heard in exercise 4.
Talk about the do’s and don’ts in a Chinese wedding party and give the audience some advice.

20. Speaking: supporting language
Interviewer: Today we have xx as our guest…xx, thank you for coming.
Interviewee: You’re welcome. Thanks for inviting me!
Interviewer: Could you give some advice to the listeners do’s and don’ts at a wedding party in China?
Interviewee: Sure.
Interviewer: What should we wear/ presents to bring /time to arrive/ things to say (congratulate) / time to leave
Interviewer: We should wear…/ take some presents…

21. Homework
Ex. 1, 2, 3 on page 80

22. Thank You!