新编大学英语教案(第二册)_Unit 2 Communication Problems

Unit Two

Communication problems

T eaching Objectives

1. Let the students have some ideas of the common ways we usually use in our daily life to communicate.

2. Make the students find the efficient ways to communicate with each other.

3. Let the students come up with the ways to avoid misunderstandings.

T eaching allotment

six academic hours

Focus points

1.key words and phrases

assume, conflict, convey, emphasis, ignore, misinterpret, react, verge, feel like, for effect, on the verge of, pull out, take----lightly

2.difficult sentences

1) When Martians and V enusians first got together, they encountered many of the problems with relationships we have today.

2) So when communication problems emerged, they assumed it was just one of those expected misunderstandings and that with a little assistance they would surely understand each other.

3) To fully express their feelings, women would tend to exaggerate the facts a little bit for effect and use various superlatives, metaphors, and generalizations.

3.grammar focus

prefix “mis---”的不同意义

Related Information

It is well-known that learning a second language is never easy, and, generally speaking, the older one is when one attempts a new language, the more difficult it becomes. This is at least partly due to what is known as language interference, meaning that the linguistic patterns of our first language interfere with those of the second because no two languages have exactly the same sounds and grammatical structures. The English language has a very large vocabulary because it has incorporated words from many other languages over the centuries. This is nowhere more apparent than in its color words. For example, there are many words that express the color “purple”, describing its different shades and hues: mauve, violet, lilac, or lavender. An interesting linguistic gender difference among native speakers of English is the likelihood of women using these color terms to differentiate between shades of purple, whereas, men will be satisfied with the one word “purple”. This is true of other color words too.

Basing on what mentioned above, when learning a language, we sometimes need to pay attention to which sex uses which words, particularly when we reach an advanced stage where we are adding many new words to our vocabulary and want to use them accurately. We also need to pay attention to some of the multiple meanings that words have, as well as to their connotations.

Suggested Class Activities

1. Warming-up activity: How to communicate efficiently

Purpose: Inform the students the efficient way to communicate with each other

Step 1Discuss in groups about the common ways we usually use in our daily life to communicate and try to list both their advantages and disadvantages.

Step 2 Make a comparison between them and decide which is the most efficient way for us to communicate with others.

Step 3Ask some of the students to give their ideas in public and point out the necessary points they should know in daily communication.

Suggested words/expressions:

admirable/neglect/comprehend/over-crowded/distinguish----from/hold back/in a different light/turn out.

2. In-class reading activity: What can we get from communication

Purpose: Inform the students the good points of communication

Step 1.Discuss in groups why we need to communicate with others

Step 2. Try to analyze what communication has brought to us

Step 3.Then make sure what we should learn from communicating with others

Suggested words/expressions:

foreigner/uncommon/feel like/for effect/on the verge of/pull out

Further development:

How to avoid misunderstandings in communication

After reading this unit, we may know that in our communications misunderstandings are quite common, so work in groups to come up with the ways to avoid misunderstandings and make it on your exercise book.

In-Class Reading

Words and phrases

1.assume v.1) believe something is true without definite proof

e.g. Y ou assumed his innocence / him to be innocent /that hi is innocent before hearing