Section I Talking Face to Face

Section II Being All Ears

Section III Maintaining a Sharp Eye

Section Ⅳ Trying Your Hand

Unit 4 Timetables and SchedulesUnit 4 Timetables and Schedules Unit 4 Timetables and SchedulesUnit 4 Timetables and Schedules

Section I Section I

Talking Face to Talking Face to FaceFace

Part I Leading in

Part II Further Practice

Part III Assignment

Part I Leading in

1)Collect some timetables and schedules

2)Find out the words and expressions to talk about timetables for buses, trains and planes

3) Presentation of new materials

4)Practice Dialogue 1&2

A Flight Timetable

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

Beijing8:45 a.m.

(departure)9:20 a.m. (departure)

Guangzhou11:50 a.m. (arrival) 12:50 a.m. (departure)

Hong Kong11:45 a.m. (arrival)

1:55 p.m. (arrival)

Mark’s Schedule

Morning Afternoon

Monday 15 Write business reportDiscuss business report with general manager at 1:30

Tuesday 16Have sales meeting at 9:00 a.m.

See Mr. Black at 3

Wednesday 17Appointment with Mr. Anderson at 8:30 a.m.

Fly to Hong Kong, departure time, 4:45

p.m.

Thursday 18 10:00a.m. conference 2:00 p.m. conference

Friday 19 Travel around Hong KongFly back, departure

time: 2:15 p.m.

Part II Further Practice

1. Divide the students into groups

2. Offer the timetables and schedules and ask the students to make dialogues

3. Act out and comments

After the act of each group, the fellow students to make comments on the performance and the appropriateness of their English; and then teacher summarizes this part.

Timetable for Olympic Gold Medals Timetable for Olympic Gold Medals on September 25, 2000 ----on September 25, 2000 ----

18:00 Women's pole vault

19:00 Men's discus throw

20:00 Men's triple jump

20:10 Women's 400m

20:25 Men's 400m

20:40 Men's 110m hurdles

20:55 Women's 5,000m

21:35 Women's 800m

22:00 Men's 10,000m

A school schedule

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

8:30-9:30am

Maths Maths

10:00-11:30a.m.

Computer Science

Computer Science

Computer Science

1:30-3:00p.m.

English Business Management

English

Business Management

English

7:30-9:00p.m.

Foreign Trade Practice

Assignment

1.Put in use on page 56

2.Recollect and try to master verb tenses in general (refer to the Data Bank in the Workbook)

Section Ⅱ Being All Ears

Dialogue 1

Listen and decode Decode the message by filling in the blanks.

Listen and respond Answer the following questions orally.

Dialogue 2

Listen and complete Fill in the blanks.

Listen and judge The multiple choices to each of the questions will be given, after

listening to a dialogue, make a choice from A, B, C or D.

passage

Listen and read Fill in some blanks . The words in the brackets

will give you some hints.

Listen and match Match the blanks with the right places.

Listen and write Fill in the missing words in the following sentenc

es.

Section III

Maintaining a Maintaining a Sharp EyeSharp Eye

Boyd, Selma--I Met a Polar Bear

Burningham, John. John Patrick Norman McHennessy -- the Boy Who was Always Late

Grossman, Bill--The Guy Who Was Five Minutes Late.

Hoff, Sid. Henrietta-- the Early Bird

Sewell, Marcia and Phyllis Krasilovsky-- The Man Who Tried to Save Time

Text-related information

The following books are good examples of being prompt and acting at the right time:

Better never than late.

George Bernard Shaw

If you're there before it's over, you're on time.

James J. Walker

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Horace Mann

Quotes about... PUNCTUALITY

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

Be late for something

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely.

E. V. Verrall

Difficult Wordspunctuality n. being punctual e.g. Our teacher insists on punctuality. emphasize v. to place emphasis on emphasizes; emphasizing e.g. I must emphasize that they are just children. concerned a. anxious; worried; the involved is anxious; concerning of e.g. I was very concerned about my mother's illness. embarrass v. to cause to feel ashamed; uncomfortable ; e.g. He embarrassed everyone by saying that the picture

was terrible. entertain v. to amuse and interest; to provide food and drink for make happy; hospitality; pay e.g. A teacher should entertain as well as teach. inform v. to give information to tells, notifying e.g. He promised to keep us informed of how the negotiations were going on.

Difficult Phrases

ahead of schedule: The ahead of time advances

e.g. The students finish research paper ahead of schedule.

fail to: To not do what is expected, the needed or wanted could not, can't

e.g. Unfortunately, Larry failed to submit his proposal on time.

(para. 1) …how anxious and embarrassed he will be when he ,as a stranger to the place, sees no person meeting him!

Analysis:

This is an exclamatory sentence with When-clause as an adverbial of time. As means “being”, used here to introduce an adverbial of manner. Meeting is a present participial modifying person.

要是他到了一个陌生的地方，看到没有人来接他，他会是多么焦急和尴尬！

e.g. How happy and delighted she will be when she, as a foreigner, sees a friend meeting her at the airport.

(para. 1) The same is true with the activity of seeing off a foreign guest.

Analysis:

e.g. The same is true with the learning of a foreign language.

The same is true with…means “ 也是如此” . With is a preposition introducing the thing which has the previous-mentioned feature(s)

给外国人送行也是如此。

(para. 2) So, as a host, whenever there is an activity, you should come to the place ahead of schedule so as to wait for the guests to come.

Analysis:

e.g. So, as a fireman, whenever there is a fire, you should come to the place at once so as to put the fire under control.

Whenever introduces an adverbial clause of time. In the main clause ahead of schedule is an adverbial of time while so as to introduces an adverbial of purpose.

所以说，主人在搞活动时，要提前到场，等客人光临。

(para. 2) Anyone, guest or host, who is really late for a social activity, should apologize to those who have already been there.

Analysis:

e.g. Anyone, man or woman, who is in charge of a project, should often talk to those who participate in the project.

Guest or host is a reduced form of whether he is a guest or a host. Note that here singular forms are used without articles. The two who-clauses are used to modify anyone and those respectively.

在社交活动中，不论是客人还是主人，如果迟到了，都应该向已经到场的人说声抱歉。

(para. 3) Sometimes, an appointment has been already made, but something unexpected happens and you find no time to inform the person concerned.

Analysis:

e.g. Sometimes a decision has been made, but some change has to be made because problems unexpected arise, an you have no time to discuss the change with the persons concerned.

Unexpected and concerned are both adjectives which function as post modifiers of something and the person respectively.

有时定好会面时间后，发生了意外的事，没有时间通知相关人员。

Assignment

1. Finish exercises after passage I

2. Translate orally passage II