New Horizon College English
Book Four
Major Task
Text Learning（ 10 units altogether）
Learning to write English
composition
Integral Training,trying to
improve students’ proficiency in
reading,listening,and speaking.
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 of the National Day and the
oral English test,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.
The Temptation of a Respectable
Woman
Unit 1
General Goals or Objectives
Try to improve 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.
Stage 1,Warming-up Activities
Stage 2,Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3,After-Reading Activities
Stage 4,Listening-and-Speaking Practice
Warming-up Activities
Group work
Questions for thought and discussion
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
Group work
Go over the preview,the pre-
reading questions and the title
of the text before listening to
the summary of the story and
anticipate what we are going to
read,
Questions for thought and
discussion
Listen to a short passage
carefully and then answer
the following questions.
Enriching your vocabulary
Read the sentences carefully
and guess the meaning of the
italicized term in each sentence
according to the context and
your own experiences,
I know I shouldn't eat chocolate cake when
I'm dieting,but I find it hard to resist the
temptation,
a rubber plantation
plantations of fir and pine
I don?t know why I asked — just idle
curiosity,
There are few idle people in their
department,
The new financial supervisor intends to
make full use of the company?s idle capital,
诱惑种植园树林无意义的闲散的 闲置的
The rain penetrated through to his
skin,
They claimed that the noise from
the concert was causing a public
nuisance,
You?d better roll your sleeves up or
you?ll get them dirty,
The trousers are a bit tight around
my waist,
湿透反感袖子腰部
They think the government?s new
ideas are nonsense,
The document must be signed in the
presence of a witness,
sheer nylon tights
It would be sheer folly to buy such a
large car - we wouldn't be able to
afford to run it,
一派胡言当着 … 的面透明的
complete
Oscar Wilde was a famous wit.
a conversation full of wit
He made some interesting observations
on the current economic situation,
机敏风趣的机智风趣的评论
Some species of bats are on the
edge of dying out,
Just because I had a bat and had
played at school,they assumed I
was some kind of expert,
The crowd of demonstrators
melted away when the police
arrived,
The spring sun usually melts the
snow by mid March,
蝙蝠球拍逐渐散去融化
She behaved as any upright citizen
would have done under the
circumstances,
Stand upright when you?re being
spoken to!
We tipped the porter for each box,
The hotel porter will call a taxi for
you,
正直的站直搬运工门卫
He packed his trunk and sent it to
China by sea,
I sawed through the tree trunk,
She was overcome with emotion,
He deserves our special thanks for all
his efforts,
旅行箱树干她激动得不能自持。
应得到
She gave him a tender look,
My steak was juicy and beautifully
tender,
If your stomach feels tender and you
have a slight temperature the best
remedy is to go to bed and have a
good rest,
gentle
easy to bite through
painful
Their remarks are for the most part
correct,
Don?t impose your company on them,
They are busy with their work,
I don't know what he wants to do,
but for my part,I would be glad to go,
mostly; usually
缠着他们
personally
I'm counting on my teacher to help
me,
Please don?t make a fuss about such
a small thing,
He is run down because he?s been
working too hard,
We've all objected to this proposal,
expect; depend on
大惊小怪把身体搞垮
oppose; express opposition to
They stopped for a moment to drink
in the beauty of the scenery,
They drank in the delicious music,
He said he would give up smoking,
but he ended up yielding to the
temptation and took a cigarette,
欣赏如痴如醉地倾听
经不起诱惑
Vocabulary Comparing
mill manufactory factory
merry happy joyous cheerful pleasant
delightful agreeable
fabric cloth textile stuff tissue material
lap thigh limb leg knee hip
wind breeze gust blast squall gale
typhoon hurricane tornado cyclone
gaze stare gaze peer contemplate view
observe survey peek peep glance
skim scan glimpse glare
keen extreme strong active sharp
acute
keen eager ardent earnest intense
farewells goodbye
honorable respectable respective
wholly completely entirely fully
totally utterly
now and then from time to time
occasionally
a succession of a series of
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart,
Go over the text and try to get
the main idea of the text,
Analyze the structure of the text,
Reading-Centred Activities
1,Global Reading Task s
Reading Skills,
Reading between lines
Text structure analysis:
To make inferences about the author's
ideas you have to do the following:
1,Make use of context clues,your
common sense and your knowledge of
the world.
2,Connect ideas and draw conclusions
from the reading passage.
3,Form and test what you have
understood between the lines,
Example 3
There was some talk of having him back
during the summer that followed,That is,
Gaston greatly desired it; but this desire
yielded to his honorable wife's vigorous
opposition,(Para,21,Passage A,Unit 1)
Question,Why did the wife strongly
oppose to Gouvernail's coming to visit
them again?
Possible answer,She was afraid that she
would yield to her passion,
Example 4
,Oh,” she told him,laughingly,after
pressing a long,tender kiss upon his lips,“I
have overcome everything! You will see,This
time I shall be very nice to him.” (Para,24,
Passage A,Unit 1)
Question,What do you think the wife had
overcome?
Possible answer,She had overcome her
affectionate passion for Gouvernail and she
was ready to accept him as a friend and as a
guest,
Text Structure Analysis:
–What kind of writing does this
passage belong to?
Description,narration,exposition or
argumentation?
–What kind of order is this story
related in?
In chronological (or time) order
–How is the story structured according
to time sequence as a whole?
How many parts can the whole passage
be divided into? 6 parts
general situation of the story
Mrs,Baroda's impressions of her guest
what happened that night
what happened the day after that night
Part 1,
Part 2:
Part 6,
Part 4:
Part 5,
Part 3,
what happened later
what happened still later
The first part of the passage is
______________,which is the general
situation of the story and also the
starting point of the story,
What is the general situation?
Paragraph 1
Mrs,Baroda was a little annoyed that her
husband?s friend,Gouvernail,was to
spend a week or two on their plantation.
The second part consists of _______
paragraphs,from Paragraph 2 to
Paragraph 10,telling us what happened
and informing us about Mrs,Baroda's
impressions of her guest — Gouvernail,
9
chronological
after a few days then
one day in the morning until
The descriptions are presented in
_____________order.
Can you find any time markers to
certify it?
Para,2 deals with Mrs,Baroda?s
impression of her guest,
She was feeling puzzled,not being
able to penetrate her silent guest
Mrs,Baroda was troubled to find Gouvernail
___________________—not a man of wit,but
____________ difficult to understand.
Paras,3 to 10 are about a conversation
between Mr,and Mrs,Baroda
concerning their guest — Gouvernail:
a terrible nuisance
a dull man
The third part is made up of __ paragraphs,
from Paragraphs 11 to 19,concentrating on
what happened,that night”,
9
The author uses a succession of verbs and
adverbs to describe ________________that
night in chronological order,
In this part,the author also describes some
sort of _________________in Mrs,Baroda
but all this came along with a succession of
_________.
what happened
emotional change
actions
The time markers,that night,the next morning,then,when
The fourth part is Paragraph_______,20 only
Paragraph 20 is about _____________
the day after,that night”,
what happened
The next morning,Mrs,Baroda
_________________ without even
saying farewell,She did not return
_______________________.
took an early train
until Gouvernail was gone
The fifth part is Paragraph______,21
Paragraph 21 describes _____________
during the time after,that night”,
what happened
During the summer that followed,Mr,
Baroda greatly desired that
________________________________
but this was vigorously _________ by
Mrs,Baroda.
his friend come to visit them again
opposed
The sixth part consists of Paragraphs
_________,which is the continuing
part of the story,still,according to
______sequence,
22 to 24
time
_______________________,Mrs,
Baroda proposed to have Gouvernail
_______________ as she had
___________________.
visit them again
overcome everything
Before the year ended
Reading-Centred Activities
2,Detailed Reading Tasks
Language points
Simulated writing
Summary of the text
After-Reading Activities
Vocabulary Exercises
Translating and Writing
Listening and speaking
activities
Talking about the topic
or retelling the text
Listening and speaking
practice in XP center
Book Four
Major Task
Text Learning（ 10 units altogether）
Learning to write English
composition
Integral Training,trying to
improve students’ proficiency in
reading,listening,and speaking.
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 of the National Day and the
oral English test,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.
The Temptation of a Respectable
Woman
Unit 1
General Goals or Objectives
Try to improve 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.
Stage 1,Warming-up Activities
Stage 2,Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3,After-Reading Activities
Stage 4,Listening-and-Speaking Practice
Warming-up Activities
Group work
Questions for thought and discussion
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
Group work
Go over the preview,the pre-
reading questions and the title
of the text before listening to
the summary of the story and
anticipate what we are going to
read,
Questions for thought and
discussion
Listen to a short passage
carefully and then answer
the following questions.
Enriching your vocabulary
Read the sentences carefully
and guess the meaning of the
italicized term in each sentence
according to the context and
your own experiences,
I know I shouldn't eat chocolate cake when
I'm dieting,but I find it hard to resist the
temptation,
a rubber plantation
plantations of fir and pine
I don?t know why I asked — just idle
curiosity,
There are few idle people in their
department,
The new financial supervisor intends to
make full use of the company?s idle capital,
诱惑种植园树林无意义的闲散的 闲置的
The rain penetrated through to his
skin,
They claimed that the noise from
the concert was causing a public
nuisance,
You?d better roll your sleeves up or
you?ll get them dirty,
The trousers are a bit tight around
my waist,
湿透反感袖子腰部
They think the government?s new
ideas are nonsense,
The document must be signed in the
presence of a witness,
sheer nylon tights
It would be sheer folly to buy such a
large car - we wouldn't be able to
afford to run it,
一派胡言当着 … 的面透明的
complete
Oscar Wilde was a famous wit.
a conversation full of wit
He made some interesting observations
on the current economic situation,
机敏风趣的机智风趣的评论
Some species of bats are on the
edge of dying out,
Just because I had a bat and had
played at school,they assumed I
was some kind of expert,
The crowd of demonstrators
melted away when the police
arrived,
The spring sun usually melts the
snow by mid March,
蝙蝠球拍逐渐散去融化
She behaved as any upright citizen
would have done under the
circumstances,
Stand upright when you?re being
spoken to!
We tipped the porter for each box,
The hotel porter will call a taxi for
you,
正直的站直搬运工门卫
He packed his trunk and sent it to
China by sea,
I sawed through the tree trunk,
She was overcome with emotion,
He deserves our special thanks for all
his efforts,
旅行箱树干她激动得不能自持。
应得到
She gave him a tender look,
My steak was juicy and beautifully
tender,
If your stomach feels tender and you
have a slight temperature the best
remedy is to go to bed and have a
good rest,
gentle
easy to bite through
painful
Their remarks are for the most part
correct,
Don?t impose your company on them,
They are busy with their work,
I don't know what he wants to do,
but for my part,I would be glad to go,
mostly; usually
缠着他们
personally
I'm counting on my teacher to help
me,
Please don?t make a fuss about such
a small thing,
He is run down because he?s been
working too hard,
We've all objected to this proposal,
expect; depend on
大惊小怪把身体搞垮
oppose; express opposition to
They stopped for a moment to drink
in the beauty of the scenery,
They drank in the delicious music,
He said he would give up smoking,
but he ended up yielding to the
temptation and took a cigarette,
欣赏如痴如醉地倾听
经不起诱惑
Vocabulary Comparing
mill manufactory factory
merry happy joyous cheerful pleasant
delightful agreeable
fabric cloth textile stuff tissue material
lap thigh limb leg knee hip
wind breeze gust blast squall gale
typhoon hurricane tornado cyclone
gaze stare gaze peer contemplate view
observe survey peek peep glance
skim scan glimpse glare
keen extreme strong active sharp
acute
keen eager ardent earnest intense
farewells goodbye
honorable respectable respective
wholly completely entirely fully
totally utterly
now and then from time to time
occasionally
a succession of a series of
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart,
Go over the text and try to get
the main idea of the text,
Analyze the structure of the text,
Reading-Centred Activities
1,Global Reading Task s
Reading Skills,
Reading between lines
Text structure analysis:
To make inferences about the author's
ideas you have to do the following:
1,Make use of context clues,your
common sense and your knowledge of
the world.
2,Connect ideas and draw conclusions
from the reading passage.
3,Form and test what you have
understood between the lines,
Example 3
There was some talk of having him back
during the summer that followed,That is,
Gaston greatly desired it; but this desire
yielded to his honorable wife's vigorous
opposition,(Para,21,Passage A,Unit 1)
Question,Why did the wife strongly
oppose to Gouvernail's coming to visit
them again?
Possible answer,She was afraid that she
would yield to her passion,
Example 4
,Oh,” she told him,laughingly,after
pressing a long,tender kiss upon his lips,“I
have overcome everything! You will see,This
time I shall be very nice to him.” (Para,24,
Passage A,Unit 1)
Question,What do you think the wife had
overcome?
Possible answer,She had overcome her
affectionate passion for Gouvernail and she
was ready to accept him as a friend and as a
guest,
Text Structure Analysis:
–What kind of writing does this
passage belong to?
Description,narration,exposition or
argumentation?
–What kind of order is this story
related in?
In chronological (or time) order
–How is the story structured according
to time sequence as a whole?
How many parts can the whole passage
be divided into? 6 parts
general situation of the story
Mrs,Baroda's impressions of her guest
what happened that night
what happened the day after that night
Part 1,
Part 2:
Part 6,
Part 4:
Part 5,
Part 3,
what happened later
what happened still later
The first part of the passage is
______________,which is the general
situation of the story and also the
starting point of the story,
What is the general situation?
Paragraph 1
Mrs,Baroda was a little annoyed that her
husband?s friend,Gouvernail,was to
spend a week or two on their plantation.
The second part consists of _______
paragraphs,from Paragraph 2 to
Paragraph 10,telling us what happened
and informing us about Mrs,Baroda's
impressions of her guest — Gouvernail,
9
chronological
after a few days then
one day in the morning until
The descriptions are presented in
_____________order.
Can you find any time markers to
certify it?
Para,2 deals with Mrs,Baroda?s
impression of her guest,
She was feeling puzzled,not being
able to penetrate her silent guest
Mrs,Baroda was troubled to find Gouvernail
___________________—not a man of wit,but
____________ difficult to understand.
Paras,3 to 10 are about a conversation
between Mr,and Mrs,Baroda
concerning their guest — Gouvernail:
a terrible nuisance
a dull man
The third part is made up of __ paragraphs,
from Paragraphs 11 to 19,concentrating on
what happened,that night”,
9
The author uses a succession of verbs and
adverbs to describe ________________that
night in chronological order,
In this part,the author also describes some
sort of _________________in Mrs,Baroda
but all this came along with a succession of
_________.
what happened
emotional change
actions
The time markers,that night,the next morning,then,when
The fourth part is Paragraph_______,20 only
Paragraph 20 is about _____________
the day after,that night”,
what happened
The next morning,Mrs,Baroda
_________________ without even
saying farewell,She did not return
_______________________.
took an early train
until Gouvernail was gone
The fifth part is Paragraph______,21
Paragraph 21 describes _____________
during the time after,that night”,
what happened
During the summer that followed,Mr,
Baroda greatly desired that
________________________________
but this was vigorously _________ by
Mrs,Baroda.
his friend come to visit them again
opposed
The sixth part consists of Paragraphs
_________,which is the continuing
part of the story,still,according to
______sequence,
22 to 24
time
_______________________,Mrs,
Baroda proposed to have Gouvernail
_______________ as she had
___________________.
visit them again
overcome everything
Before the year ended
Reading-Centred Activities
2,Detailed Reading Tasks
Language points
Simulated writing
Summary of the text
After-Reading Activities
Vocabulary Exercises
Translating and Writing
Listening and speaking
activities
Talking about the topic
or retelling the text
Listening and speaking
practice in XP center
