新世紀英語八年級上冊教案 Unit 1 Culture and Customs
eating with
traffic rulers
tips to
vii . homework ii : finish the composition orally .
“ the advantages and disadvantages of tipping and eating out ”
i . warming-up : review “ to say something about the importance of english ”
teacher’s activity : teacher gives out some questions just like :
why do you learn english ? how do you learn english ?
how can you learn english well ?
what can you do to improve your english ?
would you like to be volunteers when the expo is held in shanghai ?
if you want to communicate with the foreigners well ,you should know more about their culture and customs .
learners’activities :the students can answer the questions according to unit 4
and what they have learned before .
they can also ask and answer more questions each other ?
aim of design : 要學好英語，將來更好地為社會服務，了解更多的外國文化和風俗習慣是很必要的。設計本活動的目的就是要通過問答引出下面的各個活動。
listening :
different eating customs
the customers in different countries are rather different. if i have dinner with a chinese host, he always put more food onto my plate as soon as i have emptied it. that often discomforts me greatly. i have to eat the food even if i do not want to. because it is considered bad manners in the west to leave one’s food on the plate. i have one’s food on the plate. i have also noticed that when a chinese sits at an american’s dinner party, he often refuses the offer of food or drink though he’s in fact still hungry or thirsty. this might be good manners in china but is not in the west at all. in the united states, it is impolite to keep asking someone again and again or insist on his accepting something, they will ask for it. if not, they will say, “no, thanks.” when an american is served with beer by the host, for example, he might say, “no, thanks i’ll take some orange juice.” that is what an american will do. so when you go to america, you’d better remember the famous saying: “when in rome, do as the romans do.”