Unit 4 · English in the Real World
Could/would, should, must; polite problem-solving.
Language target語言目標
Could/would, should, must; polite problem-solving.
Seasonal / Taiwan connection季節與台灣連結
Holiday/service connection: solve a funny Christmas-season delivery, restaurant, or travel problem.
Power vocabulary核心字彙 · 8 words · 中文與例句由 MCC 補充
The lesson, minute by minute · 課堂流程
Review last week's assignment. Ask 2–3 students to share. Correct one common error and celebrate one strong example.
Teach 5–10 target words. Always include: meaning, Chinese equivalent when useful, example, synonym, antonym, and/or word family.
Customer Service Challenge: lost luggage, broken phone, wrong food, late delivery—students solve the problem in English.
Each student produces something before leaving: a sentence, answer, mini-story, explanation, role-play, or spoken response. Keep it quick and visible.
Teaching pack · 教學包
Activities you can read straight off this page, written to fit the blocks above.
可以直接照著這一頁上的活動，對應上面每一段課堂流程。
Same request, five heights. Read them down the ladder and students hear the change immediately — no explanation needed. Then give them a situation and ask which rung it deserves.
同一個要求，五種高度。從上往下唸一遍，學生立刻聽得出差別，不必解釋。然後給一個情境，問他們該用哪一階。
Students learn that 請 makes things polite and assume please does the same job. It does not — please softens an already-polite structure. Rebuild the sentence first, then add please if you like.
學生學到「請」能讓話變客氣，就以為 please 也一樣。不是的——please 是替「本來就客氣的句型」加分。先把句子重蓋，之後要不要加 please 隨你。
Dom's challenge, written as cases. Pairs take one each: one is the customer, one is the staff. The staff member must apologize, offer a solution, and the customer must accept or push politely. Swap roles and run again.
Dom 的挑戰，寫成案件。兩人一組各拿一件：一個當客人、一個當店員。店員要道歉並提出解法，客人要客氣地接受或再爭取。角色互換再跑一次。
Take a blunt sentence and rebuild it twice — once polite, once very polite.
拿一句直白的話，重蓋兩次——一次客氣，一次非常客氣。
Prep · 備課
No preparation needed, but this is the week to say the thing out loud that explains the whole unit: in English, politeness is built with grammar, not with tone. The longer and more indirect the sentence, the more polite it sounds. Chinese does it with 請 and with how you say it. That difference is why a fluent student can still sound rude.
不必備課，但這是該把整個單元的道理講明的一週：英文的禮貌是用文法蓋出來的，不是用語氣。句子越長、越間接，聽起來越客氣。中文靠「請」和說話的方式。這個差別，正是為什麼一個講得很流利的學生還是可能聽起來很兇。
Optional video / media plug-in影片與媒體（選用）
Optional: customer-service scene from a film or TV show.
Homework回家作業 · due next week
Write 5 polite requests and 5 solutions to imaginary problems.
CEFR differentiation · 依程度分級
One plan for a mixed class: what each level is asked to produce.
同一份教案帶混合程度的班：各級學生被要求產出的東西。
memorized polite phrases.
simple requests.
explain a problem.
negotiate.
diplomatic language.
Next-week routine下週例行
Next Saturday: review this homework first, then move into Week 21.
Teacher principle: Review → Retrieve → Learn → Use → Challenge → Homework. Every week runs on the same routine, so the routine can be predictable and the learning can be creative.
