Reading III Unit 4 Food

• The objectives of the reading course:
• 1. To enlarge students‟ vocabulary; • 2. To improve students‟ reading speed with the help • of various reading skills; • 3. To enrich the cultural background information of • English-speaking countries;
II. Key points:
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Reading skill training: Context clue to word meaning
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III. Difficult points:
The different American cooking in different regions of USA
IV. Teaching procedures Step 1. Review and practice of reading skill: Context clue to word meaning
• Eg. ①Mr. Johnson‟s paintings show his attention to geometric shapes of all kinds. The paintings contain circles, squares, triangles, pirrles, etc. Pirrles means __________.
• 2. Context sometimes gives example clues. • a. to give examples • B. signal words: such as, including, for example, for instance or to illustrate,etc. • eg. Like people in any country, Americans enjoy following the lives of celebrities: movie stars, sports heroes, famous artists, politicians, and the like. The word “celebrities” means_____. [si'lebrəti] • 3. Besides definition and example clues, semantic (about the meaning of words) relationships are helpful in guessing unknown words. The two common semantic relationships are class relationship and contrast relationship. (Useful hints: but, while, whereas, however, conversely, yet, otherwise, on the contrary, on the other hand, …) • Let‟s see the following examples:
Step 1. Review and practice of reading skill: Context clue to word meaning • 1. Context sometimes provides definition clues: • a. the formal defintion • b. to give explanation after some punctuation marks : ; , • __ ( separator line) / • c. signal words: include, be, mean, or, etc. • eg. ①Semantics, the study of the meaning of words, is necessary if you are to speak and read intelligently. Here Semantics means_______. • A. 语义学 B. 语文学 C.人类学 • ②Mark Twain was not the author‟s real name; it was a pseudonym. ['sjuːdənɪm] • A． a pen name B. a true name C. his family name •
I. Teaching objectives in Unit 4:
• 1. Reading skill training: Context clue to word meaning; • 2. To learn the most interesting feature of American • cooking: regional in character .
5. groves A. small groups of trees planted close together (N-COUNT A grove is a group of trees that are close together. 树丛 ) 6. stretches C. extends • V-I Something that stretches over an area or distance covers or exists in the whole of that area or distance. 延伸 • 例：The procession stretched for several miles. • 游行队伍延伸了数英里 7. buffet A. a meal where people serve themselves different types of food • N-COUNT A buffet is a meal of food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves. 自助餐['bʊfeɪ; 'bʌfeɪ] • ...a buffet lunch.自助午餐。 8. wild game B. wild animals and birds
• Text Reading ---A Food Tour of the United States
2.2 While-reading tasks In this part, about 6 minutes is given to the Ss to finish doing the exercises after the text. During this period of time, the teacher walks around and checks their work. 2.2.1 Reading Comprehension questions of the Text in Section A After their reading, some Ss are asked to tell the other Ss which the correct answers are and how and where they get the answers on the basis of the context clues. If a student cannot get the right answer, another student or the teacher may help him/ her.
• ②Though Tom's face has been washed quite clean, his neck still remains grubby. Grubby means __________.
• ③He had been getting better, but during the night his condition deteriorated. • A. became better B. got worse C. stayed the same • D. did not change
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B. The word-sentence level of reading comprehension • Difficult words and sentences 2.4 Post-reading activities: • Ask students to fill in a form according to the text information(in pairs) , and then check the answers. 2.5 American Fast Food Vs Chinese Food Step 3. Section B Step 4. Assignment: Reading Section C and doing the exercises on P.53-55
Step 2. Text ---A Food Tour of the United States 2.1 Pre-reading tasks : Word Pretest in Section A 2.2 While-reading tasks: 2.2.1 Comprehension questions of Text I in Section A 2.2.2 Practice of reading skill: To guess the meaning of the • words which are underlined using context clues 2.2.3Text Comprehension • A. The discourse level of reading comprehension • 1) Topic and main idea of each paragraph (group work) • 2) Type of writing (group work) •