人教版新目标八年级下册英语Topic One: Making Friends
Firstly, let us make friends with each other!
Conversation 1：Interests Teacher: My name is David, I am your English teacher at 1 Smart. What is your name?
Student: My name is __________________________________. Teacher: Nice to meet you,
Student: __________________________________. Teacher: I like playing football on Sunday, what about you?
Student: __________________________________. Teacher: What else do you like?
Student: __________________________________. Teacher: Why do you like________________? Student: Because__________________________________. Teacher: What about basketball, do you like playing basketball?
Student: __________________________________. Teacher: It is 5 o’clock and I have to go home right now. It was very nice to meet you!
Student: __________________________________. Teacher: Bye!
Student: __________________________________. Now, can you introduce your best friend to your teacher?
Conversation 2：Friends Student: Good afternoon, sir.
Teacher: Good afternoon.
Student: This is my best friend________, ________, this is my English teacher, David.
Teacher: How do you do, : How do you do.
Student: My best friend is good at________ , and he likes ________. He lives in ________, and there are ________ members in his/her family. We are often together playing ________.
Teacher: It was really nice to meet your best friend, but time is up, I have to go to class.
Student: Fine, see you. Teacher: Bye.
Now, can you introduce family to your teacher?
Conversation 3：Family Teacher: Hi! ________，how are you today?
Student: _________________________________. Teacher: I am fine too. This is the picture of my family.
The old man on the left is my grandfather. He is an engineer. He loves playing
Chinese chess. My grandmother is next to my grandfather, she is a school teacher, and she loves watching TV. These two people are my parents, they are both working in America, they are school teachers, too. Student: What a happy family!
Teacher: Thank you, what about your family?
Student: There are ________ members in my family. ________________________ .
My father is ________________________, and he likes ________________ My mother is ________________, and she likes ________________________ Teacher: What a happy family you have! Student: It is very kind of you!
Teacher: It is 8 o’clock, I have to go to school, see you next time!
Student: See you! OK, right now, please draw your parents’ portrait on the whiteboard and make an introduction of them.
Well done! From now on, you can introduce yourself through these following 3 steps: Your interests Your family and Never forget your best friends!
Topic Two: Making Friends
Conversation Structure
When making new friends, there are usually three parts to the conversation you will have with your new friend. The first is the greeting. In this part, you and your new friend will greet each other and tell each other your names. The second part is the conversation. Sometimes the conversation is small talk and sometimes the conversation is about important matters, such as business. \slang term. It means that the conversation is about matters that are not very important. When conversing with your new friend, it is customary to give information about your family, your work, or you will talk about any matter that is important to you and your new friend. The third part of the conversation is the leave-taking. In this part, you tell your new friend that you are happy to meet him and that you must end the conversation.
3 Primary Elements：
In this conversation, Jacky will introduce himself and his wife to Jim, their new neighbor.
Jacky: Hello. Jim: Oh, hi there!
Jacky: Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jacky Wu and this is my wife, Lan Li.
Jim: Pleased to meet you. My name is Jim Peters. Do you live in next door? Lan: Yes, we do. How many years do you live here?
Jim: Me? I've lived here for about 6 years now. Have you lived in America very long? Jacky: No. Not really. When we left China and came to America we lived with a
cousin in Dallas for 2 years. Where do you work, Jim?
Jim: I teach mathematics at Springs community college. What do you do? Jacky: I am a football player. Jim: What about you, Lan?
Lan: I am a nurse's assistant at hospital.
Jim: Well, Jacky and Lan, it was good to meet you. I have to go now. I'm teaching a class this evening and I need to get to the college. Jacky: It was good to meet you, too, Jim. Lan: Yes, it was good to meet you. Jim: See you around!
Jacky and Lan: Good-bye, Jim!
Please identify the part of greeting in the above conversation.
Greetings Conversation Leave-taking
Topic Three: Our Daily Life
More useful oral speaking expressions: Appreciation You are beautiful! 你真漂亮！ You are clever! 你真聪明！ You are good! 你真棒！ Great! / Good! / OK! 好。 Very nice! 非常好！
Happy New Year! 新年快乐！ Happy birthday! 生日快乐！ Merry Christmas! 圣诞快乐！
Thank you very much! 非常感谢你！ Wonderful! 太棒了！
I am the winner! 我是胜利者！ I am the first! 我是第一名! You are beautiful! 你真漂亮！ You are welcome! 欢迎你！ How beautiful! 多美呀！ How funny! 多有趣呀！
Wow! It’s so nice! 哇！它太好了。 It’s a nice day! 这是一个很好的一天！ Oh, my god / goodness! 哦，我的上帝！
Wow! It’s so nice / lovely! 哇！它太棒了 / 太可爱了！ Nice girl / boy. 好女孩 / 男孩。
人教版新目标八年级下册英语1. 初中英语口语话题训练
