《新编实用英语》教案第二册Unit 8

Unit Eight Farewell

I. Aims and Requirements

After learning this unit, students should grasp: 1 Read and understand farewell letter 2. How to write farewell letter

3. How to say goodbye to someone

4. Useful words, expressions and language points

II. Introduction

1. At the airport or station, we often see our friends off. What should we do for the farewell? This unit we will learn how to say goodbye to your friends.

2. A letter of farewell is often written to express your thanks to somebody for the hospitality and kindness you’ve received from him or her. Let’s begin with a farewell letter. III. Teaching Plans period content Task 1 Talking face to face: A farewell letter Listening: Task 2 Passage 1 The most unforgettable character I’ve met Task 3 Passage 2 A farewell speech translation(English to Chinese and Chinese to English) Task 4 applied writing: try to write farewell letter Grammar: emphasis, ellipsis and inversion

Task 1 Talking face to face: A farewell letter

Listening comprehension

Part 1 Read and translate some farewell letters

Part 2 Read some dialogues about farewell and try to learn how to say goodbye to your friends

Part 3 Useful expressions and sentence patterns about farewell Part 4 Practices

Part 1 Read and translate some farewell letters

A letter of farewell is often written to express your thanks to somebody for the hospitality and kindness you’ve received from him or her.

The farewell letter in page 131 is for you to translate, after translation you may be know more about this kind of letter, and this kind of knowledge will help a lot whenever you write one.

Part 2 Read some dialogues about farewell and try to learn how to say goodbye to your friends

Sample 1 How to say goodbye for different places?

1. To learn the sentences to express your greetings, thanks, saying goodbyes, talking about future of business and so on.

2. Tasks after class, try to make dialogues according to the giving message on page 133.

Part 3 Useful expressions and sentence patterns about farewell

1. Patterns for host

We hope you’ll visit China again.

Have you got everything ready for the trip?

Did you enjoy your stay here? Can you stay a little longer? I wish you a pleasant journey.

I’m sorry to see you go. I hope you’ll come back again.

I wish you a very pleasant journey home. 祝您回国一路顺风。 Wish you a pleasant journey. 祝您旅途愉快! Wish you a safe trip home. 祝您安全抵达家乡! Have a nice trip. 旅途愉快!

Take care! 一路保重！

2. Patterns for the visitor

Well. I must say must my stay in China has been very enjoyable and productive.

Thanks again for everything.

Your help has made my stay here pleasant and successful. Thank you very much.

Thank you for your warm reception and hospitality. It’s very kind of you to see me off. I’ll keep in touch with you , Bye-bye! I’ll contact you again.

Part 4 Practices

1. Imagine you are Yangli. You are going to study in Canada. Say goodbye to Professor Williams who is now working in China. Fill in the blanks according to the Chinese version provided.

Key:

(1) Professor Williams , I’ve come to say goodbye to you

(2) I will go to study in Canada.

(3) ’m leaving next Monday and I’ve booked the ticket (4) About two years

(5) That would be wonderful. Thank you

2. Imagine you are Lin. Your friend, Mr. Allison, is leaving for home after a trip to China. He invites you to dinner in a restaurant. Play your role according to the clues given in the brackets. Key:

(1) Good evening, Mr. Alison.

(2) What a pity!

(3) We’ll miss you after you leave. (4) hope you’ll come to China again. (5) hope you enjoyed your trip to China.

(6) Now, to our health and friendship. Cheers!

Task 2 Listening

Task 3 Passage The most unforgettable character I’ve ever met

Preview Questions

1. What was the author’s first impression of his new teacher? 2. What was special about the teacher’s voice?

3. What did Mr. Stone think of the importance of people’s interest in reading and writing?

4. What did Mr. Stone’s response to the good-bye party given by the students?

Important Words

1) appear v. come into sight; be seen; seem, look 出现；看起来，似乎

e.g.: A car appeared over the hill. He appears well this morning. It appears that he will win.

2) grasp v. hold firmly, take hold of; succeed in understanding sth. Often complex 抓住，抓紧；领会

e.g.: I grasped the door handle with both hands and pulled hard.

As she fell, she grasped at the window to try to stop her fall. After reading the text again, I finally grasped the main points of the story.

3) venture v. risk going somewhere or doing something ( dangerous ); take the risk of saying ( something that may be opposed or considered foolish ) 冒险；大胆的说；冒昧的说

e.g.: Don’t venture too near the edge of the well; you might fall in.

I told my wife not to venture to get close to the edge of the cliff. I venture that you are behaving foolishly.

4) justify v. give a good reason for; be a good reason for 提供正当理由；论证

e.g.: How can you justify your rude behavior?

Nothing can justify such rude behavior.

He justified buying a car by showing how useful it would be.

5) dangle v. try to attract someone by promising or describing; offer as an attraction 吊胃；招引

e.g.: He dangled a trip to Paris in front of her to get her to work for him.

She likes to keep her lovers dangling.

Don’t keep me dangling, and tell me if I passed the test.

6) curious a. interested in knowing about things; strange; unusual 好奇的，希奇的，奇妙的

e.g.: I am curious; Where did you buy that beautiful dress?

The boy was curious about everything he saw. I was curious to hear what he would say. You have a curious influence over me. 7) eager a. full of desire or interest 热切的，热情洋溢的

e.g.: We are eager to go on our vacation.

I am eager for news about them.

The department head is eager that all workers shall come in time. He listened to the story with eager attention.

8)spontaneously ad. produced from natural feelings or causes without outside force, esp. quickly and unplanned 自然地，自发地

e.g.: All at once the crowd spontaneously broke into applause.

The decision they had spontaneously made to work for an extra half-hour turned out to be a bad idea.

H e made an offer to help spontaneously.

9) register v. put into an official list or record; enter one’s name on a list;

show; have an effect 注册；记录；显现；发生效力 e.g.: Is the car registered?

He told me he was married but I’m afraid they didn’t register. Her face registered anxiety.

Explanation of Difficult Sentences

1) (Para. 1) Before long, through the door came in a tall, unimpressive-looking man of about 40.

Analysis: The sentence…through the door came a tall, unimpressive-looking man of about 40 takes the structure of full S-V inversion. Inversion includes two types: Full Inversion and Partial Inversion. Full inversion is usually used in a sentence beginning with an adverbial of place ( through the door in this sentence ). Inversion is used to emphasize the ending part of the sentence, a tall…man of about 40 in this case.