册亨一中、王文铁教学设计：B6-Module1SmallTalk-VocabularyandReading.doc

How Good Are Your Social Skills?
教学目标
【知识与技能】：
在本模块中讨论生活中的闲谈、聊天(small talk)内容，帮助学生认识不同文化背景中谈话时的交际规则和交谈技巧，提高学生的社会交际能力；同时理解说明文的文章结构。
1. Ss can understand the main idea of the passage by means of understanding some important sentences;
2. Students can practice such reading strategies as skimming, scanning, inferring, and summarizing as well as some writing skills;
3. Ss can learn some social skills.
【过程与方法】：
根据本模块的问题锻炼略读和精读技能，在对small talk的加深了解的前提下，让学生通过对段落信息的获取，来提高自己的交谈能力；也通过小组之间的合作创设语境来锻炼自己的社会交际能力，了解不同的文化背景中的交流技巧。
【情感态度与价值观】：
锻炼自己在学习中合作精神，愿意与他人分享各种学习资源，同时学会与人融洽的交流，掌握一定的社交能力。
重难点
Students can grasp the main information and put the social skills into practice.
教学方法
定义剖析、小组合作 (Group Work)、情景展示
教学用具
Multi-media(多媒体)
教 学 过 程
教学环节
教 学 内 容
教学活动设计
时间规划

Step 1: Introduction:（通过下定义及图片的形式使学生了解本节课要讨论的话题）
1. What is small talk?
2. After reading the dictionary definitions of small talk and find out some adjectives(形容词）to describe small talk(P1, Student's Book):
informal; unimportant; light; polite; friendly; ordinary; social…

Step 2: Vocabulary and Reading
1. Fast reading（快读）
Read the passage quickly and answer the following questions.（学生快速阅读掌握文章主旨大意并学会归纳）

1) Where can you find this passage?_____
A. an English teaching book
3'-4'

B. a business course
C. a book which tells you what to do at social events
D. a book to help you prepare for a speaking examination
2) Tips are given in the passage:
Tip One: Learn how to do small talk
Tip Two: Develop your listening skills
Tip Three: Learn the rules
Tip One：Learn how to do small talk
2. Intensive-reading（精读）
5'-6'

What kind of advance planning could you do before going to a party?
_______________________________________________

10'-12'
Tip Two: Develop your listening skills

1) Discuss the ideas about Dos and Don'ts in your group and Act It Out.(Group Work)
2) Read this part again and answer the questions.
(1) What do people think about those who talk too much?
They are not impressive. And the listeners will feel tired or bored.
(2) Why is it a good idea to nod and smile when the other person is talking?
To show that you are listening carefully and that you respect him.
(3) What does the quotation "Talk to a man about himself, and he will speak to you for hours."from Benjamin Disraele tell you about people?
People like talking about themselves and let you know more about him.
7'-10'
Tip Three: Learn the rules

1) What rules should you pay attention to when you go to a social occasion in another country?
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2) Suppose you are going to your best friend’s birthday party, what should you do? (Write two or three sentences)
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Step 3: Summary（归纳总结）
1) What have we learned from this passage about social skills?(Students’ own answer)
References: It tells us how to have a conversation and how to do small talk and when we go to a social occasion, we should pay attention to social rules in different countries.
2) As an exposition(说明文), what’s the structure of this passage?
How good are your social skills?
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10'-15'
Step 4: Show Time（情景展示）
Make up a small talk according to one of the given situations, or you can choose other safe topics to make a conversation.
Step 5: Homework（课后作业）
1) Suppose you get an opportunity to France as an exchange student, search the Internet to find out more social skills in France and share with us next class.
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2) Preview the language points.
学生模拟词典展示small talk定义
4'-5’