Greetings and brief introduction of the course
   Hello, everyone. Glad to meet you. I am an English teacher from Jilin University. And I am happy to have this chance to study English with you. I hope this course will help you a lot
   As planned, we are going to learn a new course: New Practical English—Comprehensive Course, Book 2. In this book, we are planning to have 16 periods of class and have 8 units to finish. The eight units of our learning are: unit 1: invitations, 2: emails, 3: communication by phone, 4. making reservations, 5. at a restaurant, 6. shopping and sightseeing, 7. farewell, and 8: applying for a job
  As you see, each unit just focuses on one practical skill used in your daily life when you engage in activity with foreign people. These topics are quite useful and practical for your future job and life.
   As required, each unit will be divided into quite a few learning focal points, and each point will focus on one special knowledge, which means that it would be convenient for you to choose what to learn. After each focal points, there will have some related exercises for you to follow, by which you can consolidate what you have got from those focal points. We wish that by this way of teaching and learning, you can understand and grasp those points efficiently and apply these communicative skills to your future career.
  同学们好。首先简单介绍一下这门课程：大学英语二，也即新编实用英语综合教程，第二册。本课程共有8个单元16课时的教学任务。每一个单元都集中学习一种交际技能。按照教学要求，我们将按照知识点进行授课，也就是说我们将把各个单元分解成若干知识点来学习，每个知识点后面都附有相应练习题来巩固所学知识，希望这种新型的讲授方式能给你的学习带来方便和实际效果，也希望大家能学有所得，学有所用。
   Now let’s come to unit 1 : invitations. We have the following as our learning goals, which means that after we finish our learning of this unit, we should

Let’s come to the first focal point :
   In this section we focus on the following three points:
      kinds of invitation----how many kinds of invitations we should know
      items (information) in an invitation----what contains in an invitation
      response to an invitation----how to reply an invitation, how to accept and how to decline

                                               知识点一   邀请的一般知识