If your friend introduces his or her pen pal from a foreign country to you, do you know how to greet him or her?

Talent show:

If you meet someone in the following countries, what are you supposed to do? Please show your conversations in pairs.

★ Brazil

★ the United States

★ Japan

★ Mexico

★ Korea

kiss

bow

shake hands

Language points ：• be supposed to do 被期望或要求做…； 应该做…• be not supposed to do 不被许可做… Everyone is supposed to know the law. We’re not supposed to play basketball in the classroom.

Pairwork :

What are people in different countries supposed to do when they meet for the first time?

T: What are people in China supposed to do when they

meet for the first time?

S: …

If you meet a friend or your relative, you can greet him or her with a hug or a kiss on the cheeks. If you are a couple, you can hug and kiss, but if you are parents and children, you just kiss on the face or forehead. If you are brothers or sisters, you just kiss on the cheeks.

kiss:

When you bow to others, you should stand at attentionand take off your hat to show your respect.

bow ：

shaking hands ： You should shake hands with others with a smile. At the same time you shouldn’t wear hats or gloves when you do this. Usually, the time of shaking hands shouldn’t last no more than 3 seconds. It is polite to wait for the ladies, the leaders or the old to show their hands first, then you can shake with them.

1.Make at least five conversations using the information in activity 4.

2.Make 5 sentences with “be supposed to do…”

3.Find some information about table manners in different countries.

Manners in Japan! Please fill in the blanks.

You aren’t supposed to _____________.

You shouldn’t _____________________.

It’s rude ________________________.

It’s polite _______________________.

eat or drink while walking down the street

point at anyone with your chopsticks

to stick your chopsticks into your food

to make noise while eating noodles

Read the e-mail and make a list of table manners in France!You aren’t supposed to … You are supposed to…

put your bread on your plate. put it on the table.

eat anything with your hands except bread.

cut fruit up and eat it with a fork.

say you are full. say “It was delicious.”

put your hands in your lap. keep your hands on the table.

1.When you are invited to dinner by Americans, the hostess expects you to be there on time or not more than a few minutes later.

2.When the guests sit down at a dinner table, it is common for the men to help ladies by pushing their chairs under them. Some families have a habit of offering a prayer of thanks before they eat.

3.Europeans keep the knife on the right hand, the fork on the left. But Americans use just one hand, and keep the other one on the lap. They constantly change their fork to the left hand when they have to cut meat.

4. You should leave a spoon to lie flat. (a coffee spoon on the saucer, a soup spoon on the service plate beside the soup bowl.)

5.When Americans eat the bread, they hold it in their fingers, usually break it first.

6.If you have to leave during the meal, you should ask the hostess, “Would you please excuse me for a minute?” After the meal, you needn’t fold the napkins unless you are house guests and want to stay for more than one meal.

7.When you leave, it is a custom for you to say: “Goodbye. It was so nice of you to have me.” or “Thank you. I’ve had a nice time.” Then, maybe you can send a thank-you note.

What are you supposed to do, when you

▼ greet teachers

▼ do homework

▼ phone someone

▼ visit someone’s place

▼ make plans with friends

▼ are on time

▼ give gifts

situations

is supposed to be used______________ .

is not supposed to be used________.

on a mobile phone

in class

is a new kind of writteis a new kind of written English that is being usn English that is being used to save time.ed to save time.

meaning

abbreviations homophone punctuation marks

types

Can you write an example of each on your own ?

• How R U? How are you?

• CU See you!

• BTW By the way.

• CUL8r See you later!

BRB

CU2morrow

ASAP

I’ll be right back.

See you tomorrow!

as soon as possible

Please write more expressions like the ones above!