Procedure One:
A warming-up game:
One student is required to explain the word in the card in English without uttering the exact word and then the class guess the word according to his/her explanation. If the class fails to get the exact word, the student must be ready to answer a private question honestly. The right of raising the challenging question is bestowed to the whole class.
Procedure Two:
Shopping
PartⅠ Basic Expressions
[A] Salesclerk: Do you need any help? Customer: Yes, I’d like to look at one of those watches. (Exchanges)
1. S: what can I do for you? 2. S: May I help you, Sir?
C: Can you show me that sweater, please? C: Yes, I’m looking for some cooking utensils. S: Would you like a blue one or a pink one? 3. S: How do you want you fish cut, Madam? C: I think I’ll take a blue one. C: Cut it into four pieces, please.
[B] C: Excuse me, could you help me? S: Certainly, what do you need? (Asking a help) 1. C: Pardon me. Where can I find rice? S: It’s in aisle six.
2. C: Do you have any Chinese beer here? S: Yes, we’ve got some.
3. C: Excuse me. I can’t find the soy sauce. S: There are several brands over there. Could you come this way?
[C] C: What’s the price of this dictionary? S: It’s twelve dollars. (Asking the price) 1. C: How much is a pound of grapes? S: Grapes are one nineteen a pound. 2. C: How much are the eggs? S: They are $6.45 a dozen.
3. C: How much does this camera cost? S: It’s on sale for $156.
C: Is that over there also on sale? S: No, it’s the regular price.
1. S: Do you want to pay for it with cash or with a credit card? C: I’ll pay cash.
2. C: Can I pay with a personal check?
S: Yes, but we only take checks with a local bank and I have to see a piece of identification.
PartⅡ Situational Conversations (Practice with partners and then make a performance at the platform)
1. buying rice, potatoes, pork and vinegar in a 3. returning goods (a pair of gloves) in a
grocery store supermarket 2. buying a raincoat in size 40 4. filling a prescription in a drugstore
[D] S: That’s $34.8 altogether. C: Here you are. (Payment) Eating and Drinking
PartⅠ Basic Expressions
[A] Let’s have lunch at the new Italian Restaurant on Main Street. 1. Would you like to eat out tonight? 4. How about a celebration at the Lakeside
Restaurant? 2. I want to try the new fast food place.
3. Why don’t we eat at the Chinese Dragon 5. The KFC Restaurant is the place to go tonight.
Restaurant? 6. I don’t feel like eating out. I’ll have some noodles at home. [B] Customer: Can we have a table for two, please? Waiter/waitress: This way, please. 1. C: We’ve got a reservation for four people. 2. W: Would you like to sit here? The name is Brown. C: Fine, thanks. W: This way, please. This is your table. 3. C: Can I have the menu, please? W: Just a minute, please…Here you are, Sir. [C] W: Would you like to order now? C: Sure, Give me the green salad and salmon in orange sauce. 1. C: Can I have the chocolate cake for the dessert? 2. C: What would you recommend?
W: Sorry, we don’t have chocolate cake today. W: Our lobsters are very good today. What about a chocolate sundae?
Comment and propose a toast 1. Mm, this chicken is delicious. I like it. 5. Let’s drink to the Chinese soccer team.
2. That dish is too hot for me and this salmon is 6. Please allow me to propose a toast to our new
almost raw. chairman, Mr. Woolf. 3. Help yourself to whatever you like. 7. Here’s another toast to your promotion. 4. This dish is a local specialty. Please have more. 8. Cheers/Bottoms up!
PartⅡ Situational Conversations (Practice with partners and then make a performance at the platform)
1. Having a steak dinner (appetizer, main course, dessert, drink etc.)
2. Having fast food in KFC (hamburger, fried chicken, fried potatoes, cola etc.)
3. Having dinner in a Chinese restaurant (soup, meat dishes and vegetable dishes, drink etc.) 4. how to name the Chinese dishes ( way of cooking, raw materials, and size of the raw material)
Ways of cooking: steam, boil, instant-boil or scald, fry, deep-fry, stir-fry, braise, broil, roast, bake,
stew, smoke, sautee, simmer, en casserole, salad, pickle etc.
Size of raw materials: dice, slice, shred, chunk, mince, chop etc.
Raw materials: meat (pork, mutton, beef, fish, chicken, duck etc.), vegetables, mushroom etc. plain stewed crucian carp soup 清炖鲫鱼汤 beef chunk with brown/soya sauce 红烧牛肉 sweet and sour fish slice 糖醋鱼片 tender chicken stewed with dried mushroom 小鸡炖蘑菇 assorted vegetable salad 什锦菜 braised prawn 油焖大虾 stir-fried pork shred with green pepper 青椒炒肉 eggplant en casserole 茄子煲
