TAPESTRY 3 (textbook) [week 3, 2008  -  Thor May]
 
Theme 3 - "I understand exactly what I think you said.."
 
- miscommunication between men and women ⁄ clarifying misunderstandings
 
Extra material  by Thor :
 
1. Students prepare & perform their own humorous skit on a communication breakdown between a foreigner and Chinese people at the Olympics.
 
2. Dialogue (Thor May) - "All Men Are Bastards"
 
3. Assignment for next week - student dialogue based on male⁄female misunderstanding.
 
4. Precise listening & answering - "The Know-all" (from Thor May's Short Texts from Oz)
 
5. Two poems for intonation practice: "Sea Fever" and "Cow-ard"
 
6. Listening test 2a) based on "Tourist from Hell", and 2b) based on Tapestry 3, page 38
 
7. Vocabulary - a) from extra materials; b) from Tapestry 3, page 65
 
8. Precise listening & answering (m⁄f communication) - "She Stoops to Conquer" (from Thor May's Short Texts from Oz)
 
9. Rapid dialogue creation game between teacher and students
 
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Tapestry 3 exercises :
 
8. pages 55, 56 Generate mini-dialogues (gender based)
 
9.  page 59 Discussion of divorce - changing culture & expectations
 
10. page 61 Gender stereotypes
 
11. page 63 Quotations for discussion (gender based)
 
12. page 65 New vocabulary
 
13. page 71 Common expressions to complete or set in a context