新视野大学英语第三版第二册第三课教案

B2 U3 A journey through the odyssey years

教学重点：

1.To have knowledge of Odyssey, Odysseus and the odyssey years

2.To understand and use the words, phrases, structures, rhetoric in the

text

3.To be acquainted with the writing skills of a comparison/contrast

essay

教学难点：

1.Apply the phrases and patterns

2.Writing paragraphs with the structure of a comparison / contrast

essay.

教学过程：

Part I Warm-up

I. Knowledge of The Odyssey, Odysseus, and the odyssey years

1.Assignment Check

Students are going to share their assignments. Read our their reflection.

The assignment has to be given when students and the teacher last meet. Their last assignment is to:

Watch the movie The Odyssey and write a reflection. Thee reflection should includes:

• a short summary of the movie

•students’ feelings and ideas after watching the movie.

2.Brainstorming:

Question: What does the odyssey years may mean?

Answers for reference: Now the Odyssey has become a special term for an epic journey or great struggle as Odysseus, the main character in the epic poem, encountered repeated troubles and challenges when he left home and loved ones.

II. Comparison of you and your parents

1.Questions:

1)What is your understanding of “generation gap”?

2)Do you think there is a generation gap between you and your

parents? Why do you think so?

2.Group work:

1)Think of the differences between you and your parents.

2)Make a summary of your discussion by filling in the following

chart.

3)Share answers/

Aspects of differences You Your parents Education College education High school

3.Critical thinking

Discuss the following problems in groups.

1)Do you agree with the statement that the odyssey years could

lead to self-discovery? Why or why not?

2)What might be the most significant personal effect caused by the

delay in transition to adulthood?

3)How might parents look at the new trend and the delayed

transition?

*These are open-ended questions. Allow students to freely express themselves and tell them to listen to the authors’answers to these questions. And the class will re-discuss these three questions when we have finished our reading.

Part II Pre-reading

I.Quiz

1.Take the quiz by checking (√) whether the statements on Page 60 are

true to you. And then you can judge which generation you belong to according to the grading criteria.

2.Question: Do you think the quiz kind of define some characteristics of

you and your generation?