 参赛教师：刘芳
 参赛题目：《Misunderstanding》
Lead-in Activities
A Riddle:
What’s it？
Group Task
Lead-in Activities
A Riddle:
What is
black and white
and ____
read by people all
over?”
Lead-in Activities
A Game:
Telephone!
Group Task
Lead-in Activities
Group 1
A Game
I have been to Oakland
I have been to Auckland
Group 2
I scream.
ice cream
I scream. VS ice cream
Lead-in Activities
Group Task
Similar-sounding words
can cause
misunderstanding
_____________.
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Unit 1 Text A
Misunderstanding
Word-building
 Prefix:
mis误解
mis + understand
misunderstand
mis + pronounce
mispronounce 发错音
mis + hear
mishear
听错
mis + print
misprint
印刷错
Reading Tasks
Part I
(Paras. 1-3)
Misunderstandings
may occur
among native
English speakers.
Part II
(Paras. 4-5)
Non-native
English
speakers
are often
more
affected.
Part III
(Para. 6)
What should
people do when
Misunderstandings
occur?
Reading Tasks
He had uncombed hair，dirty clothes，and only 35 cents in his pocket.
In Baltimore, Maryland, he got on a bus and headed straight for the restroom.
He thought that if he hid in the restroom, he could ride to New York without
paying. But a passenger at the back of the bus saw him. She tapped the
person in front of her on the shoulder and said, "There's a bum in the
restroom. Tell the bus driver." That passenger tapped the person sitting in
front of him. "Tell the bus driver there's a bum in the restroom," he said．
The message was passed from person to person until it reached the
front of the bus．But somewhere along the way，the message changed．By
the time it reached the bus driver，it was not "There's a bum in the restroom"
but "There's a bomb in the restroom." The driver immediately pulled over to
the side of the highway and radioed the police. When the police arrived, they
told the passengers to get off the bus and stay far away. Then they closed the
highway. That soon caused a 15-mile-long traffic jam. With the help of a dog,
the police searched the bus for two hours. Of course, they found no bomb.
Reading Tasks
Two similar-sounding English words also caused trouble for a man
who wanted to fly from Los Angeles to Oakland, California. His problems began
at the airport in Los Angeles. He thought he heard his flight announced, so
he walked to the gate, showed his ticket, and got on the plane. Twenty minutes
after takeoff, the man began to worry. Oakland was north of Los Angeles, but
the plane seemed to be heading west, and when he looked out his window all
he could see was ocean. "Is this plane going to Oakland?" he asked the flight
attendant．The flight attendant gasped. "NO," she said, ”We’re going to
Auckland — Auckland, New Zealand."
When a Korean woman who lives in the United States arrived at work one
morning，her boss asked her，"Did you get a plate?“ "No…" she answered,
wondering what in the world he meant. She worked in an office．Why did the
boss ask her about a plate? AII day she wondered about her boss’s strange
question，but she was too embarrassed to ask him about it．At five o‘clock，
when she was getting ready to go home，her boss said，"Please be on time
tomorrow．You were 15 minutes late this morning．""Sorry，"she said．"My
car wouldn‘t start，and…“ Now she understood．Her boss hadn’t asked her，
"Did you get a plate?" He had asked her，"Did you get up late?"
Reading Tasks
Stories
Ⅰ
Ⅱ
Where
Who
What were the mistakes?
There is a bum in the restroom.
on a bus passengers
There is a bomb in the restroom.
Reading Tasks
bum
VS
bomb
Reading Tasks
Stories
Ⅰ
Ⅱ
Where
Who
on a bus passengers
at the airport
a man
What were the mistakes?
bum VS bomb
Oakland
VS Auckland
Reading Tasks
Oakland
VS.
Auckland
Oakland
California
Oakland
Oakland
Auckland
Auckland
 Flag :
 Capital: Wellington
 Largest city: Auckland
Skimming Tasks
Reading Tasks
Part I
(Paras. 1-3)
Misunderstandings
Stories
Ⅰ
may occur
Where
Who
What were the
mistakes?
on a bus passengers bum VS
bomb
among native
English speakers.
Ⅱ
at the
airport
a man
Oakland
VS
Auckland
Language Points
He had uncombed hair, dirty clothes, and only
35 cents in his pocket. In Baltimore, Maryland,
he got on a bus and headed straight for the
restroom. He thought that if he hid in the restroom,
he could ride to New York without paying.
Language Points
1. uncombed adj.
(of hair) not clean, tidy, straight or neatly
arranged 沒有梳理的
e.g. The scientist always
had uncombed hair and
dirty clothes, so some
people thought that
he was a crazy old man.
Language Points
2.restroom n.
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



W.C.
toilet
wash room / bathroom
Gentleman’s room/ Men’s room (男厕)
Ladies’ room/ Women’s room (女厕)
Language Points
 He tapped the person in front of
him on the shoulder and said, “There’s
a bum in the toilet. Tell the bus driver.”
3.tap vt.
to touch or hit somebody or something
quickly and lightly 轻拍
tap+人+prep + the + 部位
Language Points
3.tap vt.
to touch or hit somebody or something quickly
and lightly 轻拍
Mr. Samaranch
Reviewing Task – Complete the summary
Misunderstanding may occur among native
English speakers.
A passenger wanted to tell the driver that
restroom . The change of
there a bum in the ________
the word ____
bum into _____
bomb cause a 15-miletraffic jam
long ___________.
Oakland
A man who wanted to go to ________
finally got to Auckland
________ because he failed to
get the meaning correctly.
Summary
Similar-sounding words
can cause
misunderstanding.
Assignment
Directions:
Group Task
Work with your classmates to
find more similar-sounding
words that may cause
misunderstandings.
End of the Session
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