新目標九年下Unit12教學設計

b: when you’re invited for 7:00, you’re supposed to come later! a: so you didn’t arrive at 7:00.. b: when i met paul’s mom, i kissed her. a: but you were supposed to shake hands instead. we don’t kiss each other when we are only friends. b: but i didn’t know that then. a: what did you wear? b: i wore a fancy dress. a: what’s wrong with that? b: it was a barbecue, you know. everyone else was wearing a t-shirt and jeans. a: oh, you made another mistake. i thinkyou should have asked when you were supposed to arrive and what you were supposed to wear.

3a reading and fillingon page 96 are two exchange students, one from colombia, the other from switzerland, talking about their own home culture. now read their speech, blacken the connectives and underline the expressions.

teresa lopez from cali, colombia marc leblanc from lausanne, swizerland where i’m from, we’re pretty relaxed about time. if you tell a friendyou’re going to their house for dinner, it’s okay if you arrive a bit late. spending time with family and friends is very important to us. we often just drop by our friends’ homes. we don’t usually have to make plans to meet our friends. often we just walk around the town center, seeing as many of our friends as we can！         in switzerland, it’s very important to be on time. we’re the land of watches, after all！if someone invites you to meet them at 4:00, you have to be there at 4:00. if you are even fifteen minutes late, your friend may get angry. also, we never visit a friend’s house without calling first. we usually make plans to see friends. we usually plan to do something interesting, or go somewhere together.

and now you are supposed to fill in the chart.

attitude about… colombia switzerland being on time pretty relaxed about time very important to be on time