A place in societyUnit overviewUnit key featuresOrganizing suggestionsPassage 1Dinner at Joanne’sPassage 2I, we, they Passage 1 is a fictional story about a working dinner on Christmas Eve between two important people at a famous restaurant in New York. Passage 2 is an explanatory text with a story as an example about cultural differences in the business world. • T may highlight the use of the body language description and dialogues in Passage 1. Ss need to learn and understand how these help with the development of the story. • Use more time on Passage 1 for develop-ing skills of describing characters. • Ss need to understand how a concept of cultural differences is established in Passage 2. Reading skills(a) Describing characters(b) Ordering and leaving out information(c) Inferring• Use Passage 1 for skills (a) and (b).• Use Passage 2 for skill (c).Speaking skills• Developing skills in dialogue and describing characters orally• Making critical arguments for the issues raised in passages, eg racial, cultural and immigration issuesUse speaking activities for:• making skilful dialogues• describing characters• debating about cultural differences in business • critically arguing about cultural, racial and immigration issuesWriting skills and tasks• Writing a description of characters• Guided writing: Using the passive• Unit task: Preparing a guide for immigrants to China• Ss learn to describe characters by following examples in Passage 1.• Work on the exercises so that Ss can skilfully use the passive voice in writing.Cognitive skills• Understanding the effect of dialogues and body language description for the construction of characters• Learning to think and express different argumentsT guides...
