1. Unit One Invitations

2. Aims of This Unit  To grasp the patterns that are proper in making and accepting invitations for different social activities and recreations  Building the vocabulary related to the theme  Listening to the theme-related dialogues for specific information  Creative writing of invitation cards and letters  To help students review the grammar:word order in a subordinate clause.

3. Words and Phrases to Grasp Words: commit, invent,appropriate, instance, casual, explicit,request, responsible,identify, present, refusal, sequence, occasionally Phrases : commit oneself, in a position to do sth., in many instances,let the matter drop, turn out, in the hope, pine for

4. Useful Sentence Patterns  What are you doing tomorrow evening?  Are you doing anything special on Friday?  How would you like to join us?  Thank you very much for inviting me.  We were thinking of asking you to go to the Great wall.  I wonder if I could make it some other time if it is convenient?  I think I will be all right.  Suppose I give you a ring this afternoon and let you know.

5. Useful Sentence Patterns  Would it be all right if I brought somebody with me?  Do you want me to bring something to drink?  Looking forward to it.  What did you have in mind?  …, you are not required to commit yourself until you know what the invitation is for.  In many instances it is the inviter who pays,…  It may be more of a suggestion than an invitation.  They are often ritual expressions of parting.

6. Useful Sentence Patterns  The customs vary in different parts of the United States.  You will be in a position to take back your acceptance or invent an excuse later.  The invitation turns out to be something you’d hate to do.  Some people like to entertain friends by taking them to a restaurant for dinner instead of having dinner at home.  It seems ages since we heard from you.

7. Teaching Procedures  Talking Face to Face  Being all Ears  Maintaining a Sharp Eye  Trying Your Hand

8. Talking Face to Face Help Ss understand the two samples and explain the difficult points in the two dialogues  Work in groups  Presentation before the class  Role play of the dialogues in the “Act Out”  Summarize the useful sentence patterns that can be used in making and accepting invitations  Dealing with the part of “put in use”

9. Being all Ears For this part, the lectures can deal with it flexibly according to the students’ actual situation.  Listen to the dialogues for two or three times  Give the correct answers  Let the Ss quickly glance the transcript of the passage on the book and get the main idea of it  Play the tape for 2 or 3 times  Check the answers Homework: Preview passage 1 and try to finish ex.4 & 6 on page 10

10. Maintaining a Sharp Eye  Passage 1 Are you really being Invited?  Passage 2 An Invitation letter

11. Passage 1 Are you really being invited?  In order to know whether the Ss have previewed the text or not, first ask them some questions related to the passage or let them give the main idea of the passage.  Interaction between teacher and Ss: Ss ask teacher to explain the language points that they don’t understand; teacher ask Ss questions related to the passage.  Explanation of important words, phrases and sentence patterns  Dealing with the exercises

12. Passage 2 An Invitation letter  This passage is very easy to understand, so it can be used as a reading material. The teacher only needs to explain some important words, sentence patterns and call the students’ attention to the writing format of the letter.

13. Trying Your Hand  Help Ss understand the two samples  Ex.3 on page 15 can be assigned as a written homework  Review the grammar “word order in a subordinate clause”  Dealing with the left parts of the exercise