新视野1 unit6读写教案

大学英语1 课程教案

Section A: The Trashman

I. Pre-reading activities (20mins)

Step 1

Questions for discussion:

1. What is your ideal job in future? Why?

2. Would you accept a job as a trashman?

3. What is your attitude towards trashman?

Step 2

Pre-reading listening:

First listening: Listen to a passage about a trashman and his job.

Second listening: Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions according to what you hear. The last question is open-ended and may have different answers.

1. Why did the man take the work picking up garbage?

2. Why did the man enjoy doing the work of collecting garbage?

3. What other kinds of work are often looked down upon?

Step 3

Background information:

1. I.Q.:stands for “intelligence quotient”. Intelligence refers to how effective one's mental ability is, including ability to understand, learn, recall, think and reason. The score at age level or mental age compared to the actual age gives the IQ score. An average IQ score is 100. IQ scores may range from a low of 40 to a high of 160 resulting in the terms low or high intelligence.

2. John W. Gardne: John Gardner, born in 1912 in California, was a psychology educator who became an official with the Carnegie Corporation in 1946 and then its president (1955-1965). Educated at Stanford and the University of California, Dr. Gardner was a Marine intelligence officer during World War II. He was appointed Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1965-1968) by President Lyndon Johnson. Gardner wrote eight non-fiction books including Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? (1961). Known for his clear thinking, he argued for the cause of people who are ignored in a wealthy society. The quotation referred to in Passage A first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post (December 1, 1962) and has since been used

almost one thousand times in writings by others.

3. Waste management and trashmen

Ever since ancient times, human beings have learned how to deal with large amounts of garbage in urban areas. As early as the second century BC, the Chinese had established a workforce that gathered garbage in its major cities. In the United States, Benjamin Franklin was the first to implement sanitation services in the form of street cleaning and some trash removal during the 1700s in Philadelphia. Today, each local government in the US manages its own waste management service. The employees who collect garbage are called trashmen.

4. Cultural Notes

Trashman: People can be especially sensitive about their work, especially if they believe their job is not respected by society. Trashmen, also called garbagemen or garbage collectors, sometimes prefer to be called “sanitation engineers” or “environmental engineers”. These terms make their work seem more important.

II. Text structure analysis and introduction of the writing pattern: of a general statement followed by details. (25mins)

A General Statement Supported by Examples: A common way to express an idea is to have a general statement supported by examples.

Step 1:Text structure analysis

Divide the text into parts and work out the general idea of each part

The passage is a first person narrative in the form of a diary about the experiences of being a trashman. It is made up of four parts.

Part One(para.1-3) is a general introduction about the work of being a trashman. Part Two (para. 4-11)is about what the writer and Steve experienced during their exchanges with the local people.

Part Three (para. 12-13) talks about the writer’s attitude in face of the cold responses from the people they served. He will continue to work as a trashman as he thinks that the exercises is great and that he is becoming better at it. He will also continue to greet the people he meets during his work.

Part Four (para.14) is a conclusion that trashmen are important just as economists and that trashmen and economists deserve equal respect from society..