新编大学英语教案-第四册-Unit1

新编大学英语教案（4）

Unit One Leisure Activities

1．Aims of Teaching

Master the words describing leisure activities.

Improve the students’ abilities of communication and making comments

2．Key Points

Learn something about leisure activities.

Learning to employ the following key words and phrases into practice.

Learning some English grammar

3．Methods of Teaching

Using multi-media teaching equipment

Group-Discussion

Living performance

4．Time Arrangement:

Unit 1 Leisure Activities

Part I Preparation

Useful Information

There are some people in society who either has to or want to work all the time. Most people, however, seek ways to socialize, to relax or to have fun during their leisure hours. Obviously people's tastes vary depending on their income and their age. But in recent years, the home entertainment, industry has grown all over the world. Instead of going out to see a movie or taking a walk in a park, people of all ages prefer to turn on the television and stay at home. More and more families have tape recorders, CD players, VCRs and VCDs to add to the variety of leisure activities in the home. In some countries, young people spend hours sitting in front of their computers, surfing on the Internet or playing computer games.

Despite the rise in home entertainment, there are still many people who enjoy spending some of their leisure time attending sports events or participating in competitive sports or other physical activities such as dancing and tai chi (shadow boxing). Exercise not only contributes to good health but also takes the mind away from worries and troubles.

Concerts, plays and other performances constitute another source of entertainment outside

the home. While some people prefer to be entertained, others prefer to be the entertainers. They derive great satisfaction in giving others pleasure by making them laugh or by enabling them to lose themselves in the imaginary world of a play or the relaxing sounds of musi3)

Part II In-class Reading Passage

Entertaining Humor — What’s Funny?

I.The usage of some new words

1.bureau n.

1)（上有移动覆盖的）大书桌，写字台

2)（政府机构的）局，部，处

e.g. a)a travel bureau 旅游局

b) census bureau 人口普查局／调查统计局

c)the bureau of personnel 人事局

d)Public Security Bureau公安局

bureaucracy官员；（公司的）管理人员；官僚政治；官僚机构

2.clarify v.

1) 解释；澄清；阐明

e.g. a)clarify matters 澄清真相

b) The government has time and again clarified its position on equal pay for women?

政府已经反复阐明政府对男女同工同酬的立场。

2) 使（液体、黄油等）纯净

3.elderly a. 过了中年的, 稍老的

[注意] old, aged, elderly均可用来形容人，意为“老的”，old 为一般用语，意为年老的，如：The older we grow, the wiser we become.；aged 的意思较为庄重，有很老、上了年

纪的意思The aged lady died of cancer.；elderly 指已过中年，日趋老境，如：The

mayor is an elderly man about sixty.

4.irritate v.

1) 激怒

e.g. The noise of the children was irritating me.

孩子们的吵闹使我恼火。

2) 刺激

e.g. a) The smoke irritated my eyes.烟熏得我的眼睛怪难受的。

b) Wool irritates my skin.羊毛刺激我的皮肤。