College English 1 The Course Curricular Participants: Second-year Students Time: 9/2001-2/2002 First semester of the Academic Year 2001－2002 Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition，published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester ◆Text Learning（10 units altogether） ◆Learning to write English composition ◆Integral Training: trying to improve the students proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking. General Goals or Objectives of This Semester ▼try to improve the students’ reading speed and the ability to get information from reading materials correctly. ▼Students acquisition of the skills involved through supplementary materials and texts. ▼More attention will be given to the understanding of discourse: focus on global understanding. ▼Enlarge students’ vocabulary (Key words and structure) ▼Learn the features of English composition and learn to write. Teaching Plan This term’s teaching content covers 10 units. Basically, every two units will be finished within 3 weeks. Except the one-week holidays in National Day, there are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9 unit should be finished at the end of this term. Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6 periods. Weeks Teaching Task  Week 1 to Week 3 Unit 1: A Brush With the Law Unit 2: The Woman Who would not Tell  Week 4 to Week 6 Unit 3: Why I Teach Unit 4: Down But not Out  Week 7 to Week 9 Unit 5: The Day Mother Cried Unit 6: A Day’s Wait  Week 10 to Week 12 Unit 7: The Shelter Unit 8: Daydreaming a Little  Week 13 to Week 15 Unit 9: The Death of Hitler Unit 10: The Fantastic Spurt of Technology  Week 16 General Review   Unit 1 How to Improve Your Study Habits I Intensive reading Objectives： 1. Understanding the main idea 2. Understand the structure : Comparison and contrast 3. Learn related law terms 4. Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text. Conduct a series of speaking and listening task based on the text Teaching focus：1.Learn to form good habits 2. The understanding of “average intelligence” Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1st period 2nd period  3rd period 4th period 5th period 6th period  Intensive reading: Pre-reading; While-reading (structure, characteristics of lady hermits While-reading (questions for discussion) While-reading (questions for discussion, language points)  Language points, Post-reading  Extensive reading  Listening and speaking   Pre-reading Tasks (45 minutes) Warming up activities Pair work/ group work: students work in pairs or groups to discuss their opinions about study habits. a. Previewing the lessons so well as to almost learn it by heart. b. Very attentive but not very active in class. c. Taking notes in class but unable to go over them afterwards. d. Reading the new words and expressions aloud early in the morning while taking a walk on campus. e. Often worrying about tests, some times even afraid to sit for them. d. Not reviewing what has been learned until there is a quiz. 2. Information related to the text. 1) Average intelligence 2) Hobbies and habits 3) Skimming and scanning While-reading Tasks (90 minutes) Text Learning Explain the skill of skimming and scanning Ask student to skim the text to have a general idea about the text. Underline the difficult words and sentences and answer the questions on page 6 Expalin the text Ask students to sum up the good habit mentioned in the text and learn them by heart in the class. Language points Language Points: Not necessary, commit, decide on, set aside, occupy, be aware of, adequate concentrate on, look over, go over, furthermore, average intelligence Structure: a. "it turns out that" b. "given" in conditional clause Post-reading (45 minutes) 1.Group discussion: (10 min) Topics: 1.How to form good habits? What I’m going to do to get into good habits? 2. Dictation (10 min) Reading is the most useful skills one should acquire. Consider how much time the average student spends every day reading books, newspapers, letters and so on. Eighty-five percent of university work, it is estimated, needs reading . In fact, the better you read, the more you will succeed in your studies. 3. Exercises: (25 min) Do exercises in Vocabulary, Word Building, Structure, Cloze, Reading Activity, and Guided Writing after class. II Extensive Reading (45 min) 1. Reading Tasks: Extensive Reading Unit 1 第一篇 2. Reading Skills：1） How to use a dictionary 2）Get the meaning from context clue: prefix and suffix III Listening and Speaking (45 min) See VCD --- Consolidation. 2. Listening Task: Unit 1 and Unit 2 Listening skills: sound recognition Unit 2 Sailing Round the World I Intensive reading Objectives： 1. Grasp the main idea (The courage the man show in times of adventure and hardships) 2.Getting some knowledge of world geography. 4. Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text. 5. Conduct a series of speaking and listening task based on the text Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1st period 2nd period  3rd period 4th period 5th period 6th period  Intensive reading: Pre-reading; While-reading (structure, characteristics of lady hermits While-reading (questions for discussion) While-reading (questions for discussion, language points)  Language points, Post-reading  Extensive reading  Listening and speaking   Pre-reading Tasks (45 minutes) Warm-up Questions: (45 min) Group work: group of 5 or six students Teacher pin up a map of the world on the blackboard and ask each group to draw a sketch map 5 minutes discussion about how Christopher made his round the world .voyage and trace his route by drawing arrows on the map. The representative from each group will report what they have drawn on their sketch map, indicating Christopher’s path round the world. Show my own map of Christopher’s course by way of summary. Pair work : Discuss the question: if you were given a chance to travel around the world, how would you plan to experience it? Background information Knights and Knighthood Knighthood ceremony Sir Francis Chichester While-reading Tasks (90 minutes) Text Learning Ask students to skim and scan the text to get some specific information about the text and the hero. Then finish the comprehension questions on page 24-25 Explain the difficult words and sentences memorizing the paragraphs on page 24 Language points Language Points: adventure, single-handed lean, carry out, retire, voyage, plenty of, all by oneself, set off, attempt, turn over, fortunately, spark, identity, dreadful Post-reading Tasks (45 min) 1. Group discussion: Topics: 1. What kind of character was Bettie, Was she a heroine, or a traitor 2. What is the author’s message in telling the story, What do you think he advocates ------ humanism, patriotism or pacifism 2. Role-play： 3. Exercises: Do exercises in Vocabulary, Word Building, Structure, Cloze, Reading Activity, and Guided Writing after class. II Extensive Reading (45 min) 1. Reading Task: Extensive Reading Unit 2 2. Reading Skill：Scanning III Listening and Speaking (45 min) 1. Listening tasks: Unit3 & 4 Listening strategies: Sound Recognition Unit 3 The Present I Intensive reading Objectives： 1.Understanding the main idea (The loneliness of old people and the indifference of the children to their old parents) 2. Master Key words and useful expressions Teaching focus：1. Understanding cultural difference between Western countries and China in terms of relationships between children and parents 2. Mother’s feelings Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1st period 2nd period  3rd period  4th period 5th period  6th period   Intensive reading: Pre-reading; While-reading (structure, topic sentence, content questions) While-reading (Writing characteristics, Language points)  Language points, Post-reading  Extensive reading  Listening   Pre-reading (45 minutes) 1. Warming-up activities 1) T asks Ss to discuss the following questions: (20 minutes) --- Do you remember your parent’s birthday? --- How do you celebrate your parents birthday? What kind of gift do you like to give to your parents? --- Do your parents remember your birthday? ---What gift do they usually give you? 2) Background information （See courseware）(25 minutes) Important birthdays in the West. Traditional birthday celebration in Western countries. While-reading Tasks (90 minutes) Ask ss to scan the text and then finish the true or false exercise. The old lady got up early that day simply because she was in the habit of doing so. The old lady had two daughters: Myra, the one she was proud of, and Enid, the one she loved. The old lady was proud of Myra as she had got a medal for her work for the aged. Enid worked as an school teacher and lived with her mother until she died. The old woman was sure that Myra would come to see her since eighty was a special birthday. The boy downstairs ran to the gate and got the post for her. 2. Ss find the topic sentence for each of the last 5 paragraphs of the text. (8 minutes) 3. Ss work in pairs and take turns to ask and answer content questions on P54 in the textbook. (27 minutes) 4. Writing Characteristics: (20 minutes) The text is an argumentation. The author raises the question at the very beginning and then gives his reasons why he loves to be a teacher. The article is well-organized as a whole. The language of the article is simple and easy; the structure is clear, simple and logical with various rhetoric devices such as pun, metonymy and parallel structure. Pun is a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power. Various parallel structures used in this article make the language concise, rhythmical and forceful. Language points Key Words and Phrases: primary compel operate efficient content to do sth. arrange for leave out earn one's living  The difference of American English and British English B.E A.E Billion trillion Cheque check Autumn fall Pavement sidewalk Film movie Cab taxi Lift elevator Post-reading Tasks (45 minutes) 1. Reviewing work based on the text (30 minutes) ★Dictation: New words ★Dictation: a short paragraph ★using new words to make sentences Summary questions: Ss work in groups and discuss the following questions. (10 minutes) Why did the old lady fell so hurt when she got the check from her daughter? What lead to the generation gap? Writing Do the Guided Writing II on P66 in the textbook. (10 minutes) The topic of writing assignment of this unit is The Teachers’ Problems. Write a composition on the instructions given in English. The composition should be written in no less than 100 or 120 words. At present, many teachers in China have left their job. Some people are for them, while others are against them. What do you think of this fact? What do you think we should do to solve the teachers’ problems? There is a model paper for Ss’ reference. (See Courseware) 3. Homework: (5 minutes) 1) Do Revision Exercises 1 on P67 4. Check answers to the after-text exercise( 10 minutes) II Extensive Reading (45 minutes) 1. Reading Tasks: Extensive Reading Unit 3第7-- 9篇文章，重点讲第7篇，检查第8, 9篇。 2. Reading Skills：a. How to Mater the Reading Skill of Skimming b. How to Understand Characterization Developing Reading Skills: How to Master the Reading Skill of Skimming Skimming means that you have to read quickly in order to find out the main idea and the most important supporting ideas. The following elements will help you understand an essay better, using the technique of skimming: the topic sentence of each paragraph signal words that show a sequence, a transition, etc. introductory paragraphs which often bear the author’s thesis statement or attitude toward the problem under discussion concluding paragraphs which often repeat the most important points mentioned in the essay repeated words, sentences, or ideas, which are often crucial to the understanding of the essay the noticeable changes of printing style, for instance, capitalization, italics, etc., which are often emphasized by the author certain punctuations such as a dash, quotation marks, which are often used to distinguish some important ideas out How to Understand Characterization Characterization refers to the representation of a person as a hero or heroine by describing or imitating the actions, gestures or speeches of that person. Probing into the psychological make-up of the character is also important, for it provides what underlies the hero or heroine’s actions or choices. III Listening and Speaking (45 minutes) 1. Listening Task: Listening & Speaking Unit 5 & 6 2. Listening Strategy： Learning to making Prediction Listening Strategy: How to Predict Unit 4 Turning off TV: A Quite Hour I Intensive reading Objectives： 1. Understanding the author’s idea 2. Master Key words and useful expressions Teaching focus：1.The author’s viewpoint about TV. 2. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of TV. Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1st period 2nd period  3rd period 4th period 5th period 6th period  Intensive reading: Pre-reading; While-reading (structure, characteristics of lady hermits While-reading (questions for discussion) While-reading (questions for discussion, language points)  Language points, Post-reading  Extensive reading  Listening and speaking   Pre-reading Tasks (45 minutes) Answer the questions Do you like watching TV? How many hours do you usually use to watch TV? What kind of programs do you like/ Group discussion: the advantages and disadvantages of TV (10 minutes) Ask students to write them on the blackgroud. 3. Background information: U.S television---Yesterday and today（See courseware）(15 minutes) Typical TV programming The generation gap High divorce rate in the US While-reading Tasks (90 minutes) 1. Ask Ss read through the text to find out the main idea of the author about TV and the negative facts of TV. (20 minutes) 2. Learn to support one’s idea with evidence Ss read the passage again, and finish the reading comprehension questions on page78 to have a thorough understanding of the text (15 minutes) Difficult sentences and words Language points T explains the key language points in the text and has Ss practice them. (For detailed explanations, see courseware) (40 minutes) Words and Phrases: Worthwhile current prohibit typical come up with keen on involve in part cope with be entitled to  2) Structure: absolute structure (Ss do Structure Exercise XV on P83.) 3) Words Distinction (See Courseware) peculiar, particular, special; b. populace , population Post-reading Tasks (45 minutes) 1. Reviewing work based on the text (15 minutes) ★Dictation: New words ★Dictation: a short paragraph ★using new words to make sentences 2. Role play: Ss work in groups and have a debate on the topic ---Is TV a Plus or a Minus? Arguments for Arguments against ---A convenient & cheap source --A totally passive pastime of entertainment --Taking up too much time --Offering educational programs ---Distracting people from their work as well as exciting ones 3. Writing: Do the Guided Writing II on P90 in the textbook. (Read the passage and fill in the blanks with appropriate connective words.) (20 minutes) writing assignment of this unit: Write a brief report about the poll on P91 in the textbook. There is a model paper for Ss’ reference. (See Courseware) 4. Homework: (5 minutes) 1) Do Translation 2 on P85 in the textbook. 2) Memorize the second paragraph after class. 3) Preview Unit5. Extensive Reading (45 minutes) 1. Reading Task: 泛读教程第四单元第10-- 12篇文章，重点讲第11篇，检查第10, 12篇。 2. Reading Skills： How to Distinguish Causes and Effects How to Understand Personification Developing Reading Skills: a. How to Distinguish Causes and Effects ?????? Cause-and-effect analysis tries to give reasons why something occurs or to predict a future result. When reading a cause-and-effect analysis, you must pay attention not to mistake an effect for cause. Such words and phrases as because, because of, for, since, now that, due to, on account of, etc. refer to causes, while words and phrases such as therefore, so, as a result, etc. refer to effects. Also, you must not confuse associations with causes. b. How to Understand Personification Personification treats abstract ideas or inanimate objects as if they were human by endowing them with human qualities. As a figure of speech, personification is to make abstract ideas specific and familiar and inanimate objects lively and emotional. In the essay selected here, Ackerman, by endowing the leaves with human emotions or activities, leads her readers to the wonder of autumn by appealing to their senses so that they can see and feel the beauty of the colorful leaves. At the same time, she expresses her love for the beauty of nature and praises the marvel of nature when it is “more carnal, mute and radiant …” and when it goes on and on without an end. Listening and Speaking (45 minutes) 1. Listening Task: College English Course Book Listening & Speaking Unit 7 2. Listening Strategy：Note taking (1) Recognizing the Main Idea Note taking (1) Recognizing the Main Idea Unit Five A Miserable, Merry Christmas I. Intensive reading Objectives：1. Grasp the main idea (the ups and downs a child experiences in his feelings .) 2. Understand how the text is organized 3. Master key words and useful phrases and learn them by heart Teaching focus：1. Understanding paradox. 2. Writing skills Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1st period  2nd period  3rd period  4th period 5th period  6th period  Pre-reading While-reading While-reading While-reading Post-reading Listening Listening and speaking   Pre-reading tasks (45 minutes) 1. Warming-up activities 1). Group Discussion : Tell your group members the happy and miserable experience you had in the past. 2) Answer the following questions --- How will you treat the miserable things in your life? --- If you were disappointed with sth. In life, what would you do? 2. Background information Christmas and Santa Clause ( see courseware) While-reading tasks (90 minutes) 1. Read the text in 15 minutes. Then finish the following tasks: 1) What is the boy’s name? 2) What did he want as a Christmas Present? 3) What did he do on Christmas Eve and what did he get on Christmas morning? 4) How did he react and feel? 5) What did his mother do when he was weeping? 6) How did the boy feel when he finally got what he wanted? 2. Read the passage again, try to finish the comprehension questions on page 98. 3. Text explaining: difficult sentences and words 4. Language Points: 1) paradox true lies, happy surprise …. 2) key words declare/ make sure/ hang up/ indignant/weep/rude/catch sight of / scarecely Post-Reading (45 minutes) 1. Translate the first paragraph into Chinese. (Presentation) 2. Finish Ex.VI. VII. VIII. XV 3. Retell the story. 4. Debate Usually, a debate is carried out by two sides: the affirmative side and negative side. The most essential principle is that the affirmative side agrees to support the proposition while the negative side agrees to counter that effort. Each side must try to present every available bit of evidence and reasoning in the best possible light. In debating, presenting examples, proverbs, generally accepted principles is a very useful. In the following debating, you are asked to find as many facts (including? unit 5)as possible to defend your view. Which one can we learn more from, defeat or victory? II Extensive Reading (45 minutes) Reading Task: Extensive Reading, Unit 5 13-15课 Reading skill：increasing word power Writing：1) Review: combination, contraction, subordination 2) paragraph writing III Listening and speaking (45 minutes) Listening Task: Unit 9 & 10 Listening Skill: ordinals Unit 6 Sam Adams, Industrial Engineer I. Intensive reading Objectives：1. Understanding the main idea and the humorous narration. 2. Understanding the structure and writing strategy: 3. Master key words and phrases 4. Conduct a series of listening and speaking tasks Teaching focus: 1.Understanding the calmness of the nine-year-old child when facing death 2. Analyze the different performance of the father and child. 3. Understand what “ hold tight onto oneself” means. Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1st period  2nd period  3rd period  4th period 5th period  6th period  Pre-reading While-reading While-reading While-reading Post-reading Listening Listening and speaking   Pre-reading tasks (45 minutes) 1. Warm-up Activities Answer the questions 1) What had you ever dreamt to be when you were young? 2) What is your ideal job? 3) Have you ever helped to solve any practical problems for others with the knowledge you learnt in school? 2. Background information about Hemingway ( see courseware) 1) What is an industrial engineer? 2)A word about American educational system 3) Background music While Reading tasks (90 minutes) Read the text to have a general idea about the content. Analyze the text: help students understand the content—what the author does say help students to understand how or by what means the author says what he wants to say 3. Through the explanation and appreciation of the text by means of stylistic analysis to achieve the objectives of this text. 4. Language Points and Structure neat/ look around/ inspect/ miss/relieve/flow/assembly/hold up/major/decrease/productive keep up with/result in 5. Useful Structure be + of + n. = be + adj. Post Reading Task (45 minutes) 1. Phrases translation: Chinese to English 2．Group work: What Cures Would You Suggest for the Problem? Problem: The walls of the workrooms are a dull gray color; there is no music; the workers easily get bored. Suggestions: 1. Background music should be provided 2……… 3……… Check the exercises after text. II Extensive Reading (45 minutes) Reading Task: Extensive Reading, Unit 6 16-17篇 Reading skill：Cause and effect Writing：subordinating conjuctions III Listening and speaking (45 minutes) Listening Task: Unit 11 & 12 Listening Skill: special questions/ rising and falling tones Unit 7 The Sampler I Intensive reading Objectives: 1. Grasp the main idea of the text(Good intentions alone are not enough when his attempt to be kind to an old man leaves them both feeling worse than before) 2. Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text 3. Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) : 1st period 2nd period 3rd period  4th period 5th period 6th period  Pre-reading While-reading While-reading While-reading Post-reading Post-reading Preparation for the activity Activity: to play the drama Listening and speaking   Pre-reading tasks (35 minutes) Lead-in activities 1). Background information (10 minutes) The Christmas season Old people in the West Free samples 2) Introductory questions How many characters are there in the story? What are laid out in the row in a store during the Christmas season? What does the narrator in the story often wonder? Is the shop girl friendly to the old man when he turn up in the store? Is the old man shocked when the narrator offers to buy him some puddings? Does the old man accept the narrator’s offer? What does the old man have in his worn little black pocketbook? While-reading tasks (80 minutes) Skimming the text to have a general idea about drama and the content of the text.(10 minutes) Answer the questions on P129 Text explaining: difficult sentences and words Memorize the paragraphs on P128 5. Language Points: (15 minutes) ⑴ intention ⑵ delicious ⑶ lay out ⑷ sample ⑸ suspect ⑹ break off ⑺ do sb. A favor ⑻ come down in the world ⑼ out of place ⑽ figure out: work out; calculate e.g. : It took me hours to figure that algebra problem out. understand by thinking e.g. : He couldn’t figure out how it had happened. ⑾ worn ⑿ long for 5.. Exercise 1,4, 6 5. Home work: Prepare to act the story out Post-reading (55 minutes) Role Play : Ask students to act the story out in several groups (20 minutes) Dictation: New words Translation exercise Check exercise after text II Extensive Reading (45 minutes) Reading Task: Extensive Reading, Unit 7 20-21篇 Reading skill：finding supporting details III Listening and speaking (45 minutes) Listening Task: Unit 13 & 14 Listening Skill: teens and tens Unit 8 You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine I Intensive reading Objectives：1。Grasp the main idea and structure of the text 2．Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text 3．Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1st period  2nd period  3rd period  4th period 5th period  6th period  Pre-reading While-reading While-reading While-reading Post-reading Listening Listening and speaking   Pre-reading tasks (30 minutes) Warm-up questions 1. Information related to the text. 1) About the author 2) Mexican- Americans 3) Western Union 2. Group work: work in pairs to act the episode of the postman sending the letter to the old woman. While-reading tasks (90 minutes) Skim and scan the text to understand the facts and idea by doing the multiple-choices exercise on P147. Text-learning: difficult sentences and words Exercise V (P148): Vocabulary Language Points: ⒈ tragic 2. implication 3. shock 4. deliver 5. come out 6. extend 7. interrupt 8. department 9. chew 10.take the place of Post-reading tasks (45 minutes) 1. Reviewing work based on the text (8 minutes) ★Dictation: New words ★Dictation: a short paragraph ★using new words to make sentences Guides Ss through some after-text exercises. (30 minutes) II Extensive Reading (45 minutes) Reading Tasks: Extensive reading Unit 8, passage 22-23 Reading Skills : 1.Identifying facts 2. making inference III Listening and speaking (45 minutes) Listening Task: unit 15 and unit 16 Listening strategies: Numbers: sizes and prices