1 Unit 1 Personal Qualities I. Teaching aims and demands 1. Understand the background knowledge 2. Learn about the new words and phrases 3. Grasp the main idea and structure of the text 4. Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities II. Teaching importance and difficulties 1.Background information 2.The usage of some new words and phrases 3.Some sentence patterns difficult to understand III. Teaching methods A combination of traditional teaching methods with the communicative approach will be adopted. Special attention should be paid to classroom interaction. More encouragement is needed and more guidance will be given to them in their extracurricular study. Use the multimedia device where necessary. IV. Teaching procedure a. Warming-up Activities 1.Duty Report Have a brainstorming about words to describe personal qualities 2. Information related to the text 1) Cross-cultural communication The key to effective cross-cultural communication is knowledge. First, it is essential that people understand the potential problems of cross-cultural communication, and make a conscious effort to overcome these problems. Second, it is important to assume that one’s efforts will not always be successful, and adjust one’s behavior appropriately. For example, one should always assume that there is a significant possibility that cultural differences are causing communication problems, and be willing to be patient and forgiving, rather than hostile and aggressive, if problems develop. One should respond slowly and carefully in cross-cultural exchanges, not jumping to the conclusion that you know what is being thought and said. Active listening can sometimes be used to check this out–by repeating what one thinks he or she heard, one can confirm that one understands the communication accurately. If words are used differently between languages or cultural groups, however, even active listening can overlook misunderstandings. 2) Personal qualities Personal qualities are personal characteristics of an individual. They are what make up one's personality. They help a person get along in a new situation. For example, dependability and patience are qualities that employers would like a good worker to have. Other qualities employers value are: honesty, assertiveness, flexibility, problem solving, friendliness, intelligence, leadership, enthusiasm, and a good sense of humor.Most employers want people who are dependable and who get along with others. Though skills are important, an employer will select new employees based 2

on their personal qualities as well. b. Language points 1. Personal qualities generally have either positive or negative connotations. 一般来说，一个人的品质包括两个方面：积极的和消极的。 either or 要么…要么 neither nor 既不...也不 2.Our attitudes toward such personal qualities are partly personal,partly social,and partly cultural. 我们对于个人品质的态度因个人、社会、文化因素而异。 attitude toward/to 对…的态度 partly=in part= in a way=to some extent=to some degree E.g. But this forecast was only partly true. 但这个预言只是部分地实现了。 The reason why one is fat is partly caused by overeating. 造成肥胖的部分原因是饮食过多。 The hot weather is partly to blame for the water shortage. 炎热的天气部分归因于缺水。 3.Some people also feel that gender play a role,with some qualities being more positively valued by women than by men and vice versa. 有些人认为性别也是一个影响因素，对于某些品质女性比男性更为看重，反之亦然。 play a role 起作用=play an part in vice versa 反之亦然 E.g. You hide nothing of yourself and can tell the other anything because you know they accept you just the way you are and vice versa. 你丝毫也不掩饰自己，能告诉对方任何事情，因为你知道对方接受的就是你现在的这个样子，反之亦然。 He likes me, and vice versa. 他喜欢我,我也喜欢他。 Vice versa可能是一组外来词组中的一个，这些词组在正常谈话中用得很紧凑，所以没有人会考虑它们的外国来源或者以前的意思。 Versa可以被认为与 reverse有关系，这样，不论 versa还是 -verse在 reverse中都可以追溯到拉丁文动词 vertere，“旋转” Versa实际上按照形式可以追溯到 vertere的过去分词 versus，但是按照句法可以追溯到“倒转，转换成对面”的意思。Vice是名词 vix用来表达“一个相互的关系”的绝对离格形式。整个词组的原义是“相互的关系被调换了”或者“正常的顺序反过来，反过来说。”这个词组于1601年首次记录在英语用法中。 5. Such attitudes are not always static. 这些态度并不总是一成不变的。 系V.+adj.=系表结构。 I am so ____ (please) to hear that. Key: pleased 解析：系表结构。 系表结构有两部分构成：连系动词和表语 一 连系动词： 连系动词分为三类：be 动词，感