Lead-in
Try different ways to greet the students.
Questions:
1. What are these sayings?
2. Why do people greet in different ways?
3. What feeling do you have when you see greetings different from yours?
4. How do you greet your parents / classmates / friends? Act it out for us.
Brainstorming
1. Look at the pictures on page 33.
2. Questions:
1) What are the people in the six pictures doing
2) In which countries do people greet each other in the way people in each picture do?
3) Are these ways of greeting the same as the ways Chinese people greet each other?
4) What would you think if you saw Chinese people doing these in China?