Unit 1 Invitation
Aims of this unit:
1. Improve
listening and speaking skills
2. Learn the
words and phrases in the text
3. Complete the
exercises after the text
4. Applied Writing
First Two hours:
Talking Face to Face
Section I Talking Face to Face
1. Free
Talk: How about your winter vocation?
Ask students to do free talks about their vocations and spring festival.
2. Invitation cards and letters
Answer following questions after
reading
Sample 1
Who – inviter and invitee
When- the sixth of March at 8:00pm
Where- 74
What –request the pleasure of your company at a dinner
party
Why– in celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Wang’s daughter’s
eighteenth birthday
Sample 2
Who-Mr.
Smith and Peter Chang
What-to attend a hike
Where-Great Wall
When-on Friday, November 17th
3. Follow the Samples; read dialogues in roles (group work)
4. Try to find useful patterns in the dialogues and translate them into Chinese, make up more sentences
(1) Inviting
Friends to a Party
What are
you doing tomorrow evening?
Nothing special.
Drag yourself from television for a change.
I’m having a few friends to have a dinner party
tomorrow to celebrate my daughter’s birthday.
How would you like to join us?
Would it be all right if brought somebody with me?
Well, indeed, thank you very
much for inviting
(2) Declining
an Invitation
Are you
doing anything special on Friday?
What did you have in mind?
I wonder if
we could make it some other time if it is convenient?
Data
Bank
I’d like to invite
you to dinner.
Why don’t you come
and join us for disco?
It’s very kind of
you to invite me.
How nice of you!
Many thanks.
I’d love to. That
would be great.
Oh, dear, I’m
afraid I’m busy tonight. Perhaps tomorrow evening?
Could you make it
another time, perhaps next Sunday?
It’s very kind of
you, but you see I’ll have to prepare for my exam.
I’m sorry I can’t,
but thank you all the same.
Some sentences often used in making invitation
We should be
delighted if you could join us.
I hope you will
let me know that you can come.
I would very much
like you to come to our party.
I would like it
very much if you would be our guest at dinner.
I am happy to
invite to visit our university.
We have pleasure
in inviting you to our annual conference.
We would
appreciate it if you could confirm your participation at your earliest
convenience.
Should you find it
possible to accept this invitation, would you be kind enough to let me know the
date and time when you would like to come.
Some sentences often used in accepting the invitation
Thank you for your
letter of 25 May, and I am pleased to confirm my participation in this year’s
conference in July.
Very many thanks
for your invitation to dinner on 16th February.
I am glad to come
and look forward to seeing you again,
I am delighted to
accept your kind invitation to dine with you at the Peace Hotel on Sunday, at
eight o’clock, and looking forward to that evening with great pleasure.
Some sentences often used to decline an invitation
I regret that I am
mot able to accept your invitation at this time.
Thanks so much for
thinking of me.
Jack and I regret
so much that we will not be able to attend Susan’s wedding.
It was very kind
of you to ask me, but I am afraid that I will not be able to come.
We are so sorry
that we cannot accept your kind invitation because of another engagement.
Unfortunately, I
am not sure whether I will be able to come.
Hoping all the
same to see you soon.
1. Extending
invitations
Would you like to (do) …?
Would you be interested in (doing) …?
Are you free to (do) …?
Do you want to (do) …?
You will (do) …, won’t you?
About (doing) …?
What
How
(slightly informal)
Do you fancy (doing)
…?
Do you feel like (doing) …?
Why don’t you (do) …?
Like to (do) …?
I was (just) wondering
if you would
like to (do) …?
(Formal)
be interested in (doing) …?
I should be delighted if you could (do) …?
I was thinking of (doing) …, and wondered
if
you would like to (do
…)
2. Accepting
invitations
That sounds very nice.
That would be very nice. Thank you.
That’s very kind of you.
Thanks That would be
lovely.
Yes,
marvelous.
I’d love to.
What a nice idea! Thank you.
I will, if I can.
That sounds very nice (but I’m not sure if I
can). Could I let you know?
(Informal) Yes,
great!
fantastic!
Thank you very much for your invitation.
(Formal)
I’d be delighted to.
I’d love to.
3. Refusing
invitations
of you, but I’m
afraid + (reason) That’s very
nice
kind
to, but I’m
afraid + (reason) I’d
love
like
Thanks for asking me, but I can’t.
I’d love to, but I’m sorry I can’t.
I wish I could, but …
You see +
(reason)(Slightly informal)
Not really, thanks all the same.
I can’t, I’m afraid.
It’s very kind of you to!
Invite me,
Thank you (very much) for the invitation,
(Formal) But
I’m not sure if I can.
I don’t think I can
(Formal)
I hate to turn you
down, but I don’t really think I can.
I appreciate your invitation, but I’m
afraid I can’t.
5. Act out
Divide Students into two groups; finish the first task together
Isn’t it supposed to be very
warm tomorrow?
In that case,
going skiing wouldn't be a very good idea.
Let’s wait and
see what the weather will be like tomorrow.
Divide students
into four groups. Two students in a team imitate the dialogue to finish their
own task. After 3-minute practice, choose them freely and give scores
6. Put
in Use
For the first
question, let Group One finish it individually. Every student in other two
teams read the rest of the dialogue.
For Question
Two, one sentence for one pair in Group Two. Check the answers together, find a
representative.
The same is true with the third one after checking the answers; teacher chooses two teams to act it out.
Section III Passage I
Are You Really Being Invited?
I. Review
II. New Words
Dutch:
Go Dutch AA制, Dutch
treat 各自付帐的聚会
Dutchman,
Dutchwoman荷兰人
Commit: v. entrust, hand over, make oneself responsible
e.g. I
think I can come tonight but I won’t commit myself till I know for sure.
If you want to be
an actor you have to really commit yourself to it.
The government
claimed to commit itself to improving health care.
The president
said that once he had committed to this course of action there was no going
back.
Invent: v. discoverer, create something new
e.g.
The first safety razor was invented by the company founder King C. Gillette in
1903.
The fax is
arguably the most useful machine to have been invented since the telephone.
Over the past
quarter century our advertising company has invented thousands of catchphrases.
I didn’t invent
the story; everything I told you is true.
Instance: n. certain situation, circumstance or
occasion, case or example
e.g.
There have been several recent instances of planes taking off without adequate
safety checks.
I don’t usually
side with the management, but in this instance I agree with what they’re
saying.
In the local
industry, for instance, 5000 jobs are being lost.
III.
New Passage:
Para.1
1. Model
2. Ask two questions
What should you do if someone only invites you, but doesn’t say what the
invitation is for?
What is the proper sequence for refusing an invitation?
3. Explain some sentences:
You
are not required to commit yourself until you know what the invitation is
for.
在你尚未弄清楚邀请的具体内容之前，你没有必要答应一定参加。
The invitation turns out to be something
you’d hate to do.
You will be in a position to take back
your acceptance or invent an excuse later.
比如说，如果你说有空，而邀请参加的却是你不愿意做的事（到你已经去过10次
的当地景点旅游），那么你就可以回绝邀请，或者以后再编一个借口。
4. Act out dialogues, students prepared by themselves.
1. Model
2. Study “Go Dutch”, make up more sentences.
3. Explain some sentences:
In many instances it is the inviter who pays,
but in some instances each one pays his or her own check.
Some people like to entertain friends by taking them to a restaurant for
dinner instead of having dinner at home.
If the invitation is expressed in fairly casual terms, it may be more of
a suggestion than an invitation.
It may be more of a suggestion than an invitation.
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4. Fill in the blank (Ex2) together.
1. Model
2. Ask two questions
What
is the key word in the expressions that sounds like invitations but actually
are not?
What is the suitable respond?
3. Explain some sentences:
If
the invitation is expressed in
fairly casual terms, it may be more of a suggestion than a invitation
There
are also phrases that sound like invitations but in fact are not.
IV. Exercise
Ex 3: divide them into four groups, through discussion every group give
us a brief summary. Compare them, and choose the best one. At last, all the
students repeat it.
Ex 4: divide the third group into 8 small teams, every
team have to finish one question and explain it in detail, translate as well.
Ex 5: divide the fourth group into six teams, every
team is responsible for one question. Through discussion, they will have the
better answer. Choose one of every team to read out their answers, teacher
correct it and ask about the basic usage of the words in brackets.
Ex 6: divide the fifth group into 8 small teams.
Through discussion, students finish the translation. Every small team write
their sentences on blackboard. Other students can raise questions or express
their own opinions. Correct those wrong answers, and read them
out loudly altogether.
V. Assignment:
1. Preview Passage II: decent, terrify
2. Try to finish the exercises in grammar focus
VI: If there is more time, fill in the blanks
1. It is considered impolite to ask a person how much they earn. (polite)
2. The exact location of
the factory has yet to be decided, but it is not likely to be in exactly the
same place. (exact)
3.You will find it convenient
to use a kitchen while it is being rebuilt. But you must also consider the inconvenience
of being unable to use a kitchen for several weeks. (convenience)
4. When fresh vegetable lose their freshmen, they also lose most of the vitamins in them. (fresh)
5.Crisp food should be well cooked so that they
can retain their crispness (crisp)
6.He loosened his belt after such an enormous meal so that he would feel comfortable. (comfort)
7.What’s more important,
she attaches a lot of importance to professional training. (importance.)
8. The sound of
the door closing deceived me into thinking that they had gone out.
9.The public has a
right to expect truthful answers from politicians.
10.I’ve been invited to her
wedding but I haven’t got anything appropriate to wear.