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Unit Four
Section A Listening and Speaking
★ Business Dinner
Section B Reading
★Business Advertising
Section C Business Writing
★ Invitation Letters and Cards
Targets
Section A Listening and Speaking
Ⅰ. Remember the words, phrases and sentences related to business dinner.
Ⅱ. Imitate and memorize the following dialogues.
Ⅲ. Discuss the following questions with your partner.
Part One Warming-up Exercises
1. What is the normal practice for making invitations in Chinese culture? (e.g. who pays and who decides where to go?)
2. Do you know some differences between Chinese culture and western culture? If you do, share them with your partner.
Ⅰ. Listen to Dialogue 1-5 and choose the appropriate answer to each of the questions.
Ⅱ. Listen to Dialogue 6 and fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard from the recording.
Ⅲ. Listen to Dialogue 7 and fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard from the recording.
Part Two Dialogues
Ⅳ. Oral practice.
1. Listen to Dialogue 6 again, and then work in pairs to make a dialogue about dining with your friend or others.
2. Listen to Dialogue 7 again and then make toasts, for example, toast to your parents on their marriage anniversary, to your friend on his or her birthday, to the guests on your marriage day, to your business guests, etc.
Ⅰ. Listen to Passage 1 carefully and fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard from the recording.
Ⅱ. Listen to Passage 2 carefully and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write “T” for True and “F” for False in the brackets provided.
Part Three Passages
Ⅲ. Oral practice.
1. Listen to Passage 1 again, talk about the ways of making, accepting and declining invitations politely with your partner and then make a phone dialogue, supposing that one is making an invitation and the other is accepting or refusing it.
2. Listen to Passage 2 again and talk about what we should and shouldn’t do when having dinner with others