english oral practice 9c2071. textbook: english conversation in taiwan (intermediate level)

English Oral Practice

9C2071

Textbook:

English Conversation in Taiwan (Intermediate Level)

Unit 1. Activities

1.1. Read the cartoon on page 1 and underline all the major activity words in it. Also draw an arrow from each of these words pointing to the matching picture of the activity in the cartoon.

1.2. Listen to the conversation on page 2.1.3. Practice reading the conversation together

with a partner.1.4. Read the text Adventure Activities

Unit 1. Activities

1.5. Discuss the questions with your partner

1. Which of the activities mentioned do you do?2. For each of the activities that you do, discuss how often,

where, why, with whom do you do them?3. What are some other things you do in your free time?4. Which activities are the most dangerous, the most exciting,

the most tiring?

Unit 1. Activities

1.6. Listen to the text Sunbathing.1.7. Practice reading it together with a partner.1.8. Discuss the following questions in a small

group.1. Do you go sunbathing sometimes?2. How do you feel about getting a suntan?3. Do you think the idea about white skin is changing in Taiwan?

Unit 2. Tourist Places in Taiwan

2.1. Listen to the What places in Taiwan would you take a friend to see.

2.2. Read the conversation together with a partner.

2.3. Practice the words from the conversation (to see where many of the other places mentioned in the conversation, check the Taiwan map)


2.4. Discuss these questions with your partner1. What are your favorite tourist places around Taiwan? Why do

you like them?2. What cultural or historic places do you like? What do you like

about them?

2.5. Read the text about Kenting.2.6. Answer these questions with your partner,

and then continue the conversation where you can:


1. If someone gave you NT$ 10,000, would you shave your head?

2. Would you eat a plate of dead, cooked cockroaches for NT$ 20,000?

3. Would you sleep one night in a graveyard for NT$ 30,000?

Unit 3. Holidays in Taiwan

3.1. Listen to Tell me about Holidays in Taiwan.3.2. Read the conversation together with a

partner.3.3. Practice the words from the conversation.3.4. Memorize the names of holidays in Taiwan Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival, Tomb

Sweeping Day, the Dragon Boat Festival, Ghost Month, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ten Day.


3.5. Read about special ceremonies/customs in Taiwan.

3.6. Discuss with your partner what ingredients are usually found in rice dumplings, eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival

flour, normal rice, sticky rice, beef, pork, chicken, small shrimps, large shrimps, peanuts, walnuts, apples, fish, dried plums, egg, tofu


3.7. Discuss these questions with your partner1. What does your best friend usually do over Chinese

New Year?2. What does your mother do on Tomb Sweeping Day?3. What does the President of Taiwan do on ROC

National Day? 4. What does your aunt do during the Dragon Boat

Festival? 5. What doesn’t your brother/sister do during Ghost

Month?


3.8. Listen to the text Christmas.3.9. Practice reading the text Christmas with

your partner.3.10. Discuss the following questions in a small

group.1. What things did you learn from the reading?2. What similarities can you see between Christmas and Chinese

New Year?3. What differences?

Unit 4. Chinese Souvenirs and Gifts

4.1. Read the cartoon on page 18 and underline all the compliments .

4.2. Practice giving compliments and responding to compliments together with your partner.

4.3. Listen to the conversation Browsing for Chinese Gifts.

4.4. Practice reading it together with your partner.


4.5. Discuss these questions with your partner1. If you had four different non-Chinese female friends living

oversees, and you wanted to send each one of them different traditional Chinese gifts, what would you send them?

2. What about four male friends?3. If you were friends with a married couple much older than

you, what would you send them, and why?4. Which of the traditional Chinese souvenirs would you like to

receive as gifts?


4.6. Try to persuade people to buy traditional Chinese souvenirs and gifts by

• introducing the gift• giving more information and saying why it’s good• saying what they should buy4.7. Practice the conversation between a sales

and a passer-by customer.4.8. Role-play selling things at a busy street

market.

Unit 5. Chinese Food

5.1. Read the cartoon on page 24.5.2. Answer the questions from the cartoon.1. Discuss with your partner what bad things happen to Ernie’s boss.2. With your partner try to guess what the meals or foods mentioned

in the cartoon are in Chinese.

5.3. Put the names of the food under the matching pictures on page 25.Crab, shrimp, oyster, squid and salmon, BBQ chicken pieces, chicken drumstick/leg, dumplings, curry and rice, congee, alt and pepper, salmon steal, chili sauce and soy sauce


5.4. Read through the Chinese restaurant menu on page 26.

5.5. Listen to the tape and put a check on the menu next to each meal you hear mentioned in the conversation.

5.6. Use the words in italics to describe foodsweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter, bland.


5.7. To describe food you can also sayit tastes niceit smells/looks goodit tastes/smells/looks terrible it’s too oily it’s too fatty

it’s too dryit’s too tough it’s not tender enough


5.8. Discuss these questions with your partner1. What are some of the major types of Chinese food?2. Which of these types do you prefer?3. Which don’t you like and why?4. What food would you eat on special occasions in Taiwan?5. What are some unusual Chinese foods that you haven't

eaten?6. Which ones would you like to try?7. Do you think food has a special place in Chinese history and

culture?


5.9. Role-play a visit to a Chinese restaurant. Form groups of 4 or 5 students. One of you must stand up and be the waiter. The other should sit in a group – you are the customers, and one of you is a guest from a Western country. The customers must order their meal, while also explaining some of the meals to the guest.

Unit 6. Religion

6.1. Listen to Do you believe in reincarnation.6.2. Read the conversation together with a

partner.6.3. Practice the words from the conversation.6.4. Practice other important religious words Confucianism, Taoism, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, to chant,

to meditate, a shrine, an altar, a pagoda, destiny, nirvana, hell, a demon, to sing hymns, a sermon, a priest, a minister, a monk, a nun, a Buddhist bracelet, a Christian cross.

Unit 6. Religion

6.5. Listen to the text Gods in Taiwan.6.6. Practice reading the text together with your

partner.6.7.Discuss these questions in a small group1. Do you have a religion?2. Which religion do you think makes the most senses? Why?3. Do you often go to a church or a temple?4. Do you believe there’s a God, or Gods? Why?5. Do you believe in reincarnation?

Unit 6. Religion

6.8. Listen to the text about major religions.6.9. Discuss the features of major religions with

your partnerBuddhismTaoismConfucianismChristianity

Unit 7. Chinese Medicine and Health

7.1. Read the cartoon on page 33.7.2. Listen to the text about a Chinese doctor.7.3. Practice reading the text with your partner.7.4. Practice the medical vocabulary rundown, listless, pimples, gunk, dog’s breath,

to feel the pulse, liver, kidneys, sluggish, acupuncture, herbs, meditation, diaphragm.

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7.5. Interview your partner about a healthy body asking the questions beginning with

Do you ever… ?How often…?Tell me more…?

7.6. Give your partner some advice about his/her lifestyle. Use the expressions like

I think you should…if I were you, I’d like…it’s probably be a goof idea if you took… I’d suggest you


7.7. Answer the questions about healthy mind/spirit beginning with In the last few weeks have you…?

1. helped someone you know who needed help?2. helped a stranger in a trouble?3. given money to someone you know?4. bought chewing gum from an older or disabled

person?5. done volunteer work or given money to a charity?

Unit 8. Chinese History

8.1. Listen to the conversation about earthquakes and typhoons.

8.2. Practice reading the conversation with your partner.

8.3. Practice useful vocabularyrubble humidaftershocks flying debris landslides


8.4. Discuss these questions with your partner

1. What were you doing when the 9/21 earthquake hit Taiwan?

2. How did you feel when it сame, and what didi you do?

3. Did it damage your house, or the house of anyone you know?

4. What do you usually do when there’s a big typhoon?


8.5. Read the information on pages 40-41 inA.Chinese History Timeline,B.Foreign Invasions,C.Chinese Inventions.While you are reading, try to guess words you

don’t know, but want to know, by using your existing knowledge of Chinese history.


5.6. Talk with your partner about the following Chinese inventions

1. Acupuncture2. The decimal system3. Kites4. Cast iron5. The crossbow6. The abacus7. The parachute


8.7. Talk about other inventions or ideas often attributed to Chinaagriculture, money, marriage, umbrella, ink, porcelain, the calendar

8.8. Discuss these questions with your partner1. What periods of Chinese history do you find the most

interesting?2. What Chinese inventions do you think were especially useful,

and why?3. Which invasions in Chinese history were the worst? Why?


8.9. Discuss in small groups the following issues1. Why do you think Chinese culture has survived for so

long, when many of the other famous civilizations of the past have virtually disappeared?

2. Chinese culture was ahead of almost other cultures for thousands of years in the areas of technology and inventions. But over the last few hundred years it has fallen behind most Western cultures in these areas. What do you think are some reasons for this?

Unit 9. Politics

9.1. Listen to the conversation about Presidential Elections in Taiwan on page 46.

9.2. Practice reading this conversation together with your partner.

9.3. Practice the words from the conversation a candidate, to step down, a term in office, a party, the KMT, to represent, the DPP, image, to run neck and neck in the polls, an independent candidate, image, politics, an election campaign, vote

Unit 9. Politics

9.4. Discuss these questions with your partner1. Are you interested in politics? Why is that?2. Which politicians do you like most?3. Like least? Why?4. Do you think politicians usually tell the truth, or lie so they

can get votes?5. What do you like about election campaign? Why don’t you

like about them?6. Would you like to be a politician one day? Why?

Unit 9. Politics

9.5. Issues for discussion1. The China unification issue (Taiwan getting together with

China) is very important in world politics. What do you think about this issue?

2. Historical events such as the 2/28 incident, an periods like The White Terror and Martial Law CREATED DIVISIONS IN Taiwan society between the Chinese people from the mainland and their descendants and the local Taiwanese people. Do you think those divisions are largely finished up?

Unit 9. Politics

3. What has the government done to giver Taiwan's minority ethnic groups, like Hakka and Aboriginal people, especially greater power and a greater feeling of you think enough has been done, or should there be more? Why?

english oral practice 9c2071. textbook: english conversation in taiwan (intermediate level)

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