Invitation cards or letters are often used for inviting people to attend all kinds of activities.
Unit Goals
Talking Face to Face
Being All Ears
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Unit Goals
1.What Students Should Learn to Do:
a. Making an oral invitation: Inviting people to join in daily activities Inviting people to formal occasions b. Making a written invitation: Writing an invitation card or a letter for: Personal invitations Official invitations 1. c. Giving a reply to: An oral invitation A written invitation
Unit Goals
Talking Face to Face
Being All Ears
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Trying Your Hand
2. What Students Should Know About:
a. Invitation culture: Western and Chinese
Unit Goals
Talking Face to Face
Being All Ears
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Trying Your Hand
Questions for the second invitation card:
1. Who is the inviter?
Unit Goals
Unit Goals
What Students Should Learn to Do
What Students Should Know About
Unit Goals
Talking Face to Face
Being All Ears
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Trying Your Hand
Unit Goals
Talking Face to Face
Being All Ears
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Trying Your Hand
Warm-up Questions:
What are the two cards you are reading now?
Questions for the first invitation card:
Being All Ears
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Trying Your Hand
Sample 1
Inviting Friends to a Party
Wang: Hello, William. What are you doing tomorrow evening? William: Tomorrow evening? Nothing special, I was thinking of watching TV. Wang: Drag yourself away 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?
Trying Your Hand
Why do we learn to make invitations?
In our work or daily life , we usually need to invite people to all kinds of parties. So we have to know how to invite people in western countries and the western customs about invitations. The customs of inviting friends vary from country to country . Then how to invite people face to face? What sentence patterns do we usually use to make invitations, to accept invitations or to decline invitations ? That’s what we have to learn today.
b. Word order in a subordinate clause
Unit Goals
Talking Face to Face
Being All Ears
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Trying Your Hand
Section One Taking Face to Face
2. Who is the invitee?
3. What event is he invited to attend?
Talking Face to Face
Being All Ears
Maintaining a SharpWhy do people write an invitation card or letter?
Unit Goals
Talking Face to Face
Being All Ears
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Trying Your Hand
Follow the Samples
Sample One Sample Two
Unit Goals
Talking Face to Face
1. Who are the inviters? 2. Why are they going to hold a dinner party? 3. When are they going to hold a dinner party? 4. Where will the dinner party be held?