Unit 3
Road Signs and Commute Unit Goals ??What You Should Learn to Do place is: in a city within a building Linguistic Realization 1. Ask where a particular ??Useful Sentences Talking Face to Face and Being All Ears A. In a city 1. Excuse me, could you please tell me the way to the city center? 2. Excuse me, how can I get to the Kodak Company? 3. Miss Wang, are you sure how to get to Xidan from here? 4. Excuse me, which/what is the shortest way to the City Library? 5. Excuse me, where is the post office? 6. Pardon me, sir, I wonder if you could tell me how to get to Xinghua University. 7. Do you happen to know this address? 8. Excuse me, is there a bus stop near/around here? 9. Would you please tell me where the restaurant is? B. Within a building 1. Excuse me, where is the manager’s office? 2. Would you please tell me how I can find Human Resources Department? 3. Excuse me, I’m looking for the Sales Department. 4. Would you tell me where the lift is? 5. Excuse me, how can I go to the fifth floor? 6. Will you tell me where I can see the personnel manager, please? 2. Show directions Talking Face to Face and Being All Ears A. In a city 1. Go straight ahead for about 10 minutes and you can see it on the left side. 2. Go straight ahead and then turn left/right at the first corner. 3. Walk that way for two blocks. It’s only about a ten minutes' walk. 4. Maybe the best way is to take the underground. 5. Go straight on. The underground is just round the corner, and you can’t miss it. 6. After you turn left, you will see the sign of the restaurant. 7. The post office is just opposite the Park. 8. Keep going until you see a big white building on your left. 9. I’m sorry, sir. I’m also a stranger here. 10. Sorry, I don’t think I can tell you the direction. 11. Sorry, I’m new around here. Ask the policeman over there, please. 12. It’s opposite to the Grand Theater. 13. Go down the street and you’ll find it. 14. The bus stop is over there. B. Within a building 1. The manager’s office is on the fourth floor. 2. Go down the stairs to the fourth floor and turn left. 3. It’s the second door on the right next to the meeting room. 4. Take the elevator to the ninth floor. 5. Just go along the corridor in the middle of the hall and turn left at the corner. 6. It’s in Room 608 on the sixth floor. 7. It’s just beside the stairs. 8. Go up to the second floor and it’s at the far end of the hall, on your right. 9. It’s on the fourth floor, next to the meeting room. 10. It’s next to the manager’s office. 11. It’s on the left/right of the lobby. 12. The washroom is upstairs. 3. Talk about means of transport to take Talking Face to Face and Being All Ears A. Taking bus, underground or taxi 1. I take the underground from Wynn Street to Low Street. 2. You can take Bus No. 16. 3. Take Bus No. 16 or Bus No. 19, and you’ll get downtown. 4. Take Bus No. 202 first. And then change to Bus No. 138 at the Gymnasium stop. 5. Take the underground marked “Downtown”. 6. It’s very far from here. You’d better take a taxi. B. Following traffic signs and lights 1. Can you see the sign there? Just follow it and you can get there. 2. Go along this street and turn right at the traffic lights. 3. We have to take another road because the sign here says “Closed to all traffic”. 4. Follow the sign that says “To City Library”. You can’t miss it.4. Understand and write road and office signs Trying Your Hand Language features of signs ??What You Should Know About traveling ??Unit Sections Involved Trying Your Hand Maintaining a Sharp Eye 1. Different feelings about Sentence Writing and Grammar Reviewing 2. Forming of plural nouns Passages I & II
Imitating Mini-Talks
1 Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and practice the following mini-talks for giving directions. Acting out the Tasks
2 Work in pairs and act out the tasks by following the above mini-talks.
Key for reference: 1) Task: Look at the street map in Exercise 3. Suppose you are at the bus stop at the corner of Hall Street and Wynn Street. Ask how to get to Low Street Underground Station. A: Could you please show me the way to Low Street Underground Station? B: Yes. Go up Hall Street. Turn right at North Street. It is at the corner of North Street and Low Street. A: Thank you for the information. B: You are welcome. 2) Task: Look at the street map in Exercise 3. Suppose you are at the bus stop at the corner of Hall Street and Wynn Street. Ask how to get to the church. A: Excuse me, do you happen to know the way to the church? B: Sure. Go up Hall Street and take the first turning on the right. That’s Church Street. A: First turning on the right. B: The church is on the left. You can’t miss it. 3) Task: Look at the street map in Exercise 3. Suppose you are at the bus stop at the corner of Hall Street and Wynn Street. Ask how to get to the car park. A: Excuse me, how can I get to the car park? B: The car park is on North Street. You can go along Hall Street until you come to North Street. Turn right at North Street. A: OK, right at North Street. B: You will find it on your right. 4) Task: Look at the building map in Exercise 3. Suppose you are just out of the stairs. Ask how to get to the Marketing Department. A: Excuse me, could you tell me where the Marketing Department is? B: Yes. Go this way and turn right over there. The Marketing Department is on your left, opposite the Sales Department. A: Thank you very much. B: You are welcome. 5) Task: Look at the building map in Exercise 3. Suppose you are just out of the stairs. Ask how to get to Mr. Green’s office. A: Excuse me, where is Mr. Green’s office? B: Walk down the corridor. At the end of it, turn left. A: Left at the end of the corridor. B: It’s the second room on the left, next to Mary’s office. Studying Maps
3 Maps are helpful in giving and understanding directions. Now let’s get familiar with the
following sample maps.
Following Sample Dialogues
4 Read the following sample dialogues and try to perform your own tasks.
Putting Language to Use
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SECTION II Being All Ears
Learning Sentences for Workplace Communication
1 Listen to 10 sentences for workplace communication cross-referenced with their Chinese
translations. Script: 1) The Sales Department is next to the Human Resources department. 2) The reception desk is in the middle of the hall on the first floor. 3) Cross the bridge, and make a right turn. 4) You need to transfer at Fu Xing Men. 5) Just pass the tall building and turn right. 6) Drive back to the traffic lights and turn left. 7) Can you show me the way to the railway station? 8) Walk west for two blocks and you’ll be there. 9) Sorry, I’m new around here. 10) Take the No.19 bus and get off at the fifth stop. 2 Listen to the following sentences for workplace communication in Column A and match each
one with its Chinese version in Column B.
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