9单元第三册教案

河北传媒学院
授课教案
教学内容与步骤：
warm up (口语交流与单词游戏导入课堂) 5分
Part I 单词学习：
目的：为课文学习准备
步骤：熟读—精讲-巩固练习-小结—作业
方法：多媒体辅助讲解游戏
重点词汇：Words and Phrases:
marital verify nuptial bind division contest candidate sting exposure
shield retire enforce consultant preposition signature cite awkward
delete forge dispute circumstance bearing shed
重点短语：
store away gain in be in line for under sb’s nose just about lay bare
have no bearing on shed/cast/throw light on
构词法：后缀“_an”的用法；前缀“pre_”的用法；
Part II section A Premarital Agreements
Teaching Objectives:
1.Arous e students’ interest in the topic to be discussed and prepare students for further
understanding of the text
2.global understanding of the text and active acquisition of the language points
Teaching Procedures:
Stage 1: Warming-up Activities
1.Group work: Let the students think about the pre-reading questions before listening and
anticipate what we are going to read.
2.To get some ideas about the background information of the text by answering the
following questions. You may discuss them in groups or refer to the dictionary to answer them:
●.premarital agreements
●Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Born on July 28, 1929, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was first lady of the United States during the administration (1961-1963) of her first husband, John F. Kennedy. She had been a newspaper reporter and photographer before their marriage in 1953. As first lady, she was a patron of the arts and an international fashion-trendsetter. Under her supervision the White House was restored and
redecorated and declared a national museum. She was riding beside President Kenney when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Nov 22, 1963. In 1968 she married the Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis. After her second husband’s death, in 1975, she worked as an editor in book publishing.
Aristotle Onassis
Born on January 20, 1906, Aristotle Onassis was a Greek shipping millionaire who accumulated a fortune of more than $500 million. Born of Greek parents in Turkey, he went to Buenos Aires in 1923 and became a telephone operator there. Soon Onassis established a tobacco import business, and by 1930s he bought unused freighters at low prices and by the end of World War II had amassed great wealth in shipping. After the war he increased his shipping fleet by purchasing surplus wartime freighters. He was also one of the pioneers in the construction of oil supertankers. Onassis used his profits to acquire hotels and banks throughout the world, as well as Olympic Airways. Onassis, who was divorced in 1960, had a well-publicized friendship with the soprano Maria Callas. In 1968 he married Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
. the American Academy of Marriage Lawyers
3.Homework: a. learn the new words and expressions of the text by heart.
b. go over the text and write down the difficult points.
Stage 2: Reading-Centred Activities
1.Global Reading Task:
⏹Talk about the main idea of the text in groups and answer the following questions (see
exercise 2).
⏹The essay focuses on one social phenomenon: prenups or premarital agreements. The
author uses many different writing techniques such as general-specific details and
general-examples to tell us what prenups are, who want prenups, the points to be taken care of before signing prenups and finally a general evaluation of prenups.
⏹The whole passage can be roughly divided into 4 parts:
Paragraph 1 to Paragraph 4. Paragraph 1:
Paragraph 5 to Paragraph 8. The 4 paragraphs are about who need to have prenups.
Paragraph 9 to Paragraph 14.
Paragraph 15 and Paragraph 16.
Do not sign a prenuptial agreement under pressure. Para. 10
Watch out that a dispute of carrying out prenups could happen if a couple decides to divorce while living
abroad with different passports. Para. 12
2. Detailed Reading Task:
1)The class may begin with the students’ questions about the text. The students may put forward some difficult points about the text and ask some other students to answer them by anal yzing, paraphrasing and translating. If the students’ answer are not satisfactory the teacher may add his/her opinion
2)When the students have no questions the teacher may lead the attention up to the points the students may ignore or may not understand by asking some other questions about the text. Points that should be solved in class:
1. A future husband wanted to be sure that if his marriage didn't work out,he could keep his treasured ice-cream collection safely stored away in a freezer. (Para. 1) Meaning: A groom-to-be wanted to be sure that if his marriage failed, he was able to have his collection of ice-cream that he likes very much safely kept in a freezer.
Note the subjunctive mood is used in the sentence to indicate the supposition that is less likely.
2.But make no mistake about it, what most of them are about is money — and how financial assets will be divided up if a couple divorces. (Para. 2)
Meaning: But sure enough, what most of the clauses are about is money, and how to divide up the properties when a couple divorces.
In this sentence, "it" refers to the matter talked about, and "them" refers to the clauses of premarital agreements.
3.They have been gaining in acceptance in the United State since the early 1980s, when more states began passing laws that affected the division of financial assets in a divorce. (Para. 3)
Meaning: More and more Americans have come to accept premarital agreements since the early 1980s, when more states started to pass divorce laws that obliged the couple to divide their properties in certain ways.
4.The prenups of the famous make the headlines: lawyers for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis contested the prenuptial agreement between her and Aristotle Onassis after his death, reportedly winning $26 million in an out-of-court settlement. (Para. 4) Meaning: The premarital agreements of well-known people can become important news.
It's reported that lawyers who worked for Jacqueline, the former first lady of the United States, won her $26 million after disputing the premarital agreement between her and her late second husband Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping millionaire, in a settlement out of the court.
5."They want to make their own arrangements, rather than let a court
decide," said the president of the New York chapter of the American Academy of Marriage Lawyers. (Para. 6)
Meaning: "Such people want to make their own arrangements instead of letting a court settle their problems," said the president of the New York branch of the American Academy of Marriage Lawyers.
6.The effort to shield assets to be passed on to children and grandchildren is making prenups more common among retired people in their 60s and 70s who are remarrying after a spouse has died. (Para. 7)
Meaning: The effort to protect children and grandchildren and to ensure that assets are handed down to them is making premarital agreements more common among people in their 60s and 70s, who have retired and are remarrying after a spouse has died.
7.Another situation that calls for premarital agreements occurs when a potential spouse has, or is in line for, great inherited wealth or a family business, especially if the future partner has little or nothing at all. ( Para. 8)
Meaning: Another situation that needs premarital agreements is that a potential husband/wife has, or is going to have, an enormous sum of money or a family business handed down from his/her ancestor while the future partner is poor.
8.But never, ever, warn marriage law consultants, should you use the same lawyer as your future spouse does. (Para. 9)
Meaning: But marriage lawyers warn that you should never employ the same lawyer who is also employed by your future spouse.
9."I figure there's a sword hanging over their head, and that's pressure," they said. (Para. 10) Meaning: "I think the pressure under which an agreement is signed is like a sword hanging over the couple's heads," they said.
a sword hanging over their head: a dangerous thing to them
10.A classic example is cited by lawyers: "An agreement is stuck under somebody's nose on the day of the wedding — and it's usually a 'she' — and she signs, but doesn't even read it." (Para. 11)
Meaning: A typical example mentioned by lawyers is that a premarital contract is too hastily signed on the wedding day, usually by a bride who doesn't even have time to read it.
11.…prenuptial agreements were "just about ignored" by the courts because English law says that circumstances of a marriage aren't static, and therefore a judge
should decide how financial assets will be divided. (Para. 12)Meaning: … British courts almost paid no attention to prenuptial agreements because English law says that conditions of a marriage change over time, and therefore a judge should decide how to divide financial assets between the couple.
12.Moreover, the discussions for a prenuptial agreement, which involve laying bare all one's finances, sometimes save a couple from a terrible marriage. (Para. 15) Meaning: What's more, if a couple can honestly tell one another about their financial situations while drawing up a premarital contract, this open discussion may help them avoid disputes after marriage.
小结和作业：
Simulated writing: The teacher may find out some sample sentences and ask the students to rewrite or make up sentences using the patterns. (see exercises 7, 8)
Review the whole text by summarizing it:
Retell the following paragraphs in your own words:
Vocabulary Exercises。