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About this Unit

Overview of this Unit

Unit: Unit 3 Couples

Target group: Non-English Majors in grade one

Teaching Aids: multimedia (video, picture, texts), blackboard, handout and powerpoint.

Type of activities: individual work, pair work, group discussion, role play

About this Topic

Relationships last long not because they are destined to last long .

Relationships last long because two brave people made a choice…To keep it, fight for it, and to work for it.

Cultural aim: to understand wedding culture both in China and Western countries

Linguistic aim: to learn useful words and expressions of refusing admirers

Communicative aim: to be brave to show what’s in mind and to create and reproduce scenes of life

Objectives

1. Warming up: Love story sharing and sentence completing

2. Listen and discuss: my ideal partner

3. Watch and discuss: princess or not?

4 . Discuss and role play: my answer is no.

5. Assignment

Tasks Today

Teaching Procedures and Time Allotment (Total:90mins)

Warming up: My love story （ 15 mins）

1.    Share love story: Xu’s wedding2.    Love map: main steps in a relationship3.    The taste of love: Love is…

Teaching Procedures and Time Allotment (Total:90mins)

Task I Listen and Discuss: My ideal partner (20 mints)

1.    Pre-listen questions time

2.    Listen and fill in blanks: There’s something about him

3.    Questions discussion time: Mr /Mrs right

4.    Useful words and expressions: Qualities of ideal partner

Teaching Procedures and Time Allotment (Total:90mins)

Task II Watch and Discuss: Princess or NOT (25 mints)

1.    Student’s mini-presentation: Differences between Chinese and western wedding

2.    Class discussion: Culture differences behind wedding

3.    Pre-watch question time ： Two Princesses

4.    Group discussion: Princess or NOT 

Teaching Procedures and Time Allotment (Total:90mins)

Task III Discuss and role play : My answer is NO! (25mints)

1.    Discussion: How to refuse admires

2.    Watch and learn: demonstration show and useful expressions to refuse admirers

3.    Group presentation: Sorry, I don't like you.

Teaching Procedures and Time Allotment (Total:90mins)

Task IV Assign assignment (5 mins)

1.Watch the movie “The Queen” and “Royal Family will be discussed next week

2 .Refill the sentence “love is…” 

Let’s Start

UNIT 3

Couples

ObjectivesCultural aim: to understand wedding culture both in China and Western countries

Linguistic aim: to learn useful words and expressions of refusing admirers

Communicative aim:to be brave to show what’s in mind and to create and reproduce scenes of life

Tasks Today

1. Warming up: Love story sharing and sentence completing

2. Listen and discuss: my ideal partner

3. Watch and discuss: princess or not?

4 . Discuss and role play: my answer is no.

5. Assignment

Warming up: My love Story

"Real love stories never have endings."         -Richard Bach

1.Love story sharing : (Group Work)

Please look at this couple and tell the love story of this famous couple.

2. Love Map: Main Steps in a Relationship (group work)

Meet a guy

Get Married

single

(boyfriend and girlfriend)

Have an affair

(Fiancé & Fiancée)(big diamond ring)

(mother/father in law)

(daughter/son in law)

Wedding plan

(groom and bride)

(husband and wife)

Music, cakeInvitation,

3.The Taste of Love: sentence completing (individual work)

Sweet

bitter

sour

greasy

hot

What is the taste of love?

tasteless

Please complete the following sentence with your own feeling and words. (individual work)

LOVE is…

Model Sentence

LOVE is something like a war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Students’ sentences

Love is the source of strength.Love is another world makes me happy.

Love is something that I should pay my whole life to learn.

Love is sweet torment.

Love is a cup of coffee. sometimes its bitter.sometimes its sweet.

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

---Carl Jung

Part I: Listen and Discuss: My Ideal Partner (whole class)

Pre-listen Question:

What kind of person you are looking

for as your ideal partner?

New Horizon College English

• Jane: Laura, I know you like Charles a lot, But___________________?

• Laura: Well,______________________________________________.

• Jane: Really?_____________________________________________?

• Laura: Well, he’s mature, handsome, gentle and successful. I think he’s for me.

• Jane:____________, _______________?He’s almost twice as old as you are.

• Laura: Well, ______________________________________________.

• Jane: ________________________________,but what would your parents think?

• Laura: _______________________________.I just know that I love him and he loves me. Love’s all that matters.

You are going to listen to a dialogue between Jane and Laura. Please listen carefully and fill in the blanks.

Handout 2

Useful Words to Describe Personality

Handout 3

Wedding Culture

in China and Western Countries

Task II Watch and Discuss: Princess or Not (Whole Class)

1. Student’s mini presentation

Wedding Culture in China and Western Countries

Style: warm VS. lively

Color: White VS.

Red and Golden yellow

Place: church VS. HotelWedding Dress:Qipao VS. Wedding Grown Music: Loud VS. Soft

PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON WILL MARRY ON FRIDAY 29 APRIL AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry on Friday, 29 April at Westminster Abbey.

2.Watch and Discuss: Two Princesses (whole class)

Royal Wedding

Diana was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness.

2.Watch and Discuss: Two Princesses (whole class)

Before watching:

Do you want to marry to a Prince?

2.Watch and Discuss: Two Princesses (whole class)

2.Watch and Discuss: Two Princesses (whole class)

Video: Kate and Diana

Life can be different

You are going to watch a video about Kate and Diana. Please discuss following questions with your parents and share in the class.

2.Watch and Discuss: Two Princesses (whole class)

Assumption:

What would Diana’s life be if she refused Prince Charles at first place?

Good love makes you see the whole world from one person while bad love makes you abandon the whole world for one person.

2.Watch and Discuss: Two Princesses (whole class)

No!

2.Watch and Discuss: Two Princesses (whole class)

Task III Further Discussion and Role Play: My answer is no.( Group Work)

1. Discussion: How to refuse admires?

Keep

silent Wave hands

Run away

Task III Further Discussion and Role Play: My answer is no.( Group Work)

2. Watch and Learn: Demonstration show to refuse admires

Demonstration Video

Handout 4

Useful expressions to refuse admirers (Part1)

1. I am not attracted to you.

2. We can still be friends.

3. We don’t match each other.

4. Maybe I don’t reserve you.

5. Sorry you are not my type.

6. Mom thinks I better study hard now.

7. You deserve someone better.

Handout 5

Useful expressions to refuse admirers (Part2)

1. Sorry , I have plans

2. Sorry , I am tired up.

3. I am afraid I cant.

4. Could we plan it for another day?

5. Thanks for asking, but I already made plans.

6. Sorry I am busy

7. I really want to ,but I got hundreds of things to do.

Handout 6

Useful expressions to refuse admirers (Part3)

1. I am sorry to turn you down

2. I’ll think about it

3. I am sorry. I am really not in the mood.

4. I would like very much to join you another time.

1. Jack and Lily are high-school mates. Jack

likes Lily really much and wants to express his love to her. So he asked Lily out one day. How will you refuse Jack if you were Lily?

2. Philip and Tracy are in the same university and Philip likes Tracy really much. But Tracy has boy friend. How will you refuse Philip if you were Tracy?

3. Johnson falls in love with a girl at first sight in a cinema and he wants to make friend with the girl. How will you refuse Johnson if you were the girl ?

Scene for Role Play

You are required to make a dialogue with your partner.

Please break the balloon and read the scene on paper.

Work in pairs and make a dialogue according the scene on your paper.

Try to use much expressions on your handout as you can.

Task III Further Discussion and Role Play: My answer is no.( Group Work)

3.Role Play: Sorry, I don’t like you.

Task IV Assignment

1.Watch the movie “THE Queen” and do research about “Royal Match”. “Royal family” will be discussed in next week.

2.Rewrite the sentence “love is…”

Love isn’t something you find,

Love is something finds you.

THE END

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