大学英语精读第三版第二册U2教案

Unit 3 Lessons from Jefferson

Teaching Time: 8 hours

Students’ level: non-English majors of the second semester of the 1 st year.

Teaching Objectives:

1.Get to understand Jefferson and learn his ideas and its meaning in the present society. Understand “Go and see”, ”You can learn from everyone”, “Judge for yourself”, “Do what you believe his right”, ”Trust the future; trust the young”, "only a nation of educated people could remain free”. Try to understand the history of the Declaration of Independence; Jefferson’s devotion and achievements; the presidents: Washington and Lincoln.

2.About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section.

Words: action, agreement, appoint, conflict, constantly, create, custom, educate, error, existence, false, hesitate, influence,

latter, obtain, hesitate, talent, threaten.

Phrases & Expressions: get out of one^s way, leave to, act on, leave behind, in-existence, above all

Grammar: omitting sentences, ...nor, sentences for emphasis

3.About the reading, help Ss review the reading skills they’ve learnt.

4.About the writing, Ss should get to grasp the skill of paragraph

developing —topic sentences.

5.About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 2 directed by the teacher. Teaching Procedures:

I.Pre-reading Activities

1.Background introduction: the Declaration of Independence, social class, Jefferson & French Revolution

2.T’s presentation

Key words and expressions:

A.New words and old words

B.Chinese and English phrases

C.Study on Key Words and Phrases

1. independence

a) (n.) freedom from the control of others

E.g. American people impress on their children the value of independence.

b) depend (vi.) rely on ; be decided by

E.g. The city depends considerably on its tourist trade.

Our success depends on weather.

c). dependent ( a.)

E.g. Promotion in this company is dependent on consistent hard work.

d) independent : (a.) needing no help or support from others

E.g. He will never be independent of his mother.

2. source :

n. a) place where a river starts

E.g. Let's follow the river to discover its source.

b) thing or place from which sth. comes or sth. is obtained

E.g. Nobody there could find the source of the engine trouble.

3. origin :

n. a) the thing from which anything comes or rises

E.g. The doctors are studying the origin of the disease.

b) birth, ancestry

E.g. He is an American of Chinese Origin.

4. appoint :

vt. a) name for an office or position

E.g. George's father was named ( to be ) / ( as ) / director of the factory.

b) decide on

E.g. We named the railway station as the place for the meeting.