Unit 9 新视野大学英语第二册

A Teaching Plan for Unit 9(In New Horizon College English Book 2)I. Time:10 class hoursII. Contents:·Listening and Speaking·Section A: Stop Brain Drain·Section B: Borderline RidiculousnessIII. Suggested Timetable:1.The first two-class-hour session for listening and speaking (Unit 9 in College EnglishListening and Speaking Course Book 2).2.Next four-class-hour session for Section A3.The fourth two-class-hour session for exercises of Section A4.The fifth two-class-hour session for Section B and Section CIV. Aims and Requirements:Listening and Speaking:1. Train the students’ability to understand the main idea and grasp important details of thelistening texts.2. Give the students a chance to exchange views on the texts they have heard to enable them tohave a deeper understanding of the texts.Section A:Stop Brain DrainLet the students acquainted with some new words:drain, advanced, immigrant, skilled, reference, thumb, prime, pledge, shift, abandon, integrate1. Teach the follo wing conjunctions: not…but…2.Teach the writing skill: paragraphs of contrastSection B: Borderline Ridiculousness1.Reading Skills: Reading for the key ideas in a sentence2.Teach the students how to grasp the main idea of the textV. Focal Points and Difficult Points:Listening and Speaking:1. Enable students to be familiar with the passage listening skill2. Grasp some words and expression which often appear in CET-4Section A:Stop Brain Drain1. Analyze the structure of several compound sentences and comprehend them.2. Learn to use conjunctions: Not…but…3. Grasp several CET-4 key wordsSection B: The Romantic Life of Secret Agent Albert1. Ask students to retell the story2. The usages of some useful phrases.VI. Suggested Teaching Procedure and Methodology:Listening and Speaking: ( an interactive approach is introduced)1. Pre-listening Task:arrange the students in pairs and ask them to discuss the followingquestions:①What is an unusual happening? Give an example.②Have you had, read or heard any unusual experience? If yes, give an example.③How would you react if something unusual happens to you? Would you be afraid, excited orindifferent?Some key words and expressions in Language Focus:outbreak: n. a sudden appearance of sth. bad.in mint condition: in excellent condition as if newappeal: n. a strong requestbaffle: v. confusekeepsake: n. sth. kept in memory of the giverwait upon: call upon; visit2.Background Information:A postcard is a piece of thin card, often with a beautiful photograph or picture on oneside. We can write a message on it and send it at a rate less than that for a letter in an envelope.In October, 1869, the government of Austria issued the first straw-colored postcards. Other European countries soon followed. Now, postcards are widely available around the world.3.Listening to text 1 and 24.Speaking Tasks: ask the students to get into pairs and explain to them how to carry outSpeaking Task A- Reflections on the texts, then select a pair to present their views in class.Section A Stop Brain Drain1. Background Information:①SputnikSputnik was the project name for three man-made satellites ( sputnik means “traveling companion” in Russian) launched by the USSR in 1957 and 1958.Their purpose was primarily the scientific study of outer space, and they were used to discover if living organisms could survive space conditions. They also played a political role, however. Their launching marked the opening of the “space race” between the united States and the Soviet Union.②Mohandas Karamchand GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement, was one of the greatest national leaders of the 20th century. His methods and philosophy of nonviolent confrontation, or civil disobedience not only led his own country to independence but influenced political activists of many persuasions throughout the world.③Jawaharal Nehru (1889-1964)Jawaharal Nehru (1889-1964) was the first prime minister of independent India. Nehru studied at Cambridge and was admitted to the English bar (取得英国律师资格) and then returned to India very westernized. After World War Ⅱhe participated in the discussions between the United Kingdom and India’s leaders that eventually created the separate states of India and Pakistan. when independence came in 1947, Nehru became Prime Minister of India.④Silicon ValleySilicon Valley is an area that “located on the San Francisco, California, peninsula, radiates outward from Stanford University. It is contained by the San Francisco Bay on the east, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Coast Range to the southeast”. It is best known forits high tech industry.⑤welfare stateWelfare state has been used since World War Ⅱto refer to the acceptance by some governments of the responsibility to make the lives of all their people socially and economically satisfactory. The programs of the welfare state have been aimed primarily to reduce the hardships caused by unemployment, disability, and old age and to secure a minimal but appropriate amount of medical care and other essential services for all, regardless of income.2. Pre-reading ActivitiesListen to short passage twice and answer questions① Why do you think big countries and big companies offer jobs to people from abroad?② One of your friends wants to accept a job overseas. What advice would you give him/her?③If a company hires many people from a different country, does it have any responsibilitiestoward that country? Explain your answer.听力原文：Students all over the world dream of what will happen in their future. Many hope to travel abroad where they can both use their education and earn a good salary. Large modern countries like England and America welcome such graduates, making it easy for them to enter the country and easy for them to find good jobs. Are such countries being generous, or are these opportunities some kind of international crime? Are the s tudents who go overseas “lucky”, or, are they being “dad citizens”? Our first reading was written by a man from India. He discusses what happens “back home” as a developing nation’s best minds leave to look for a better life. Finally, he suggests that technology companies (who employ many of these foreign graduates) should do something to help the developing world.Answers:① Why do you think big countries and big companies offer jobs to people from abroad?Because I think they want to steal brains from the third world.② One of your friends wants to accept a job overseas. What advice would you give him/her?I will say to her: try to adapt yourself to the new environment as quickly as you can, and learn something different from ours.③If a company hires many people from a different country, does it have any responsibilitiestoward that country? Explain your answer.I think it does. Because wherever we are we should be responsible, honest, kind to people around us. Furthermore we should be responsible to our jobs no matter what it is.2.Work on Section AA) Structure of the Text ( a method of analyzing the text structure is employed)Part 1 (Paras. 1-3): A bill which designs to keep the U.S high-tech industry on top now isbefore congress.Part 2 (Paras. 4-10): During the 1960s and 1970s, a lot of students left for the lucrative shoresof England and America.Part 3 (Paras. 11-19): How does Brain Drain affect India?B) Raise some questions to make students grasp some detailed information in the text(question and answer method is used)Part I (Paras. 1-3):Questions: - What would the bill now before American Congress give?- What is the real purpose of the bill, according to the author?Answers: - The bill would give preferential treatment to foreign students with advanced degrees in science and engineering who want to work in the USA. (Para.1)- The author believes that the bill simply aims at stealing brains from the third world.(Para. 2)Part II (Paras. 4-10)Questions: - What were Indian politicians’attitudes towards “brain Drain”during 1960s and 1970s?-How did the Indian people react to economic imperialism in the post-independence era?-Did India then close the country to the outside world? Why?-What defeated the Indian leaders’ purposes when they want their foreign graduates to come home to fulfill their promises?Answers: - They were against it, waving the slogan “stop brain drain”.( P ara. 4)- They strongly reacted against economic imperialism. One example is that they threw Coca-Cola out and made a new brand of drink called: “thumbs up”. (para.5) - No, India didn’t close the country to the outside world, because at that time India also acquired the benefits of science and technology from advance countries.(Para.6) - The leaders failed to realized that the emphasis on science subjects at IIT could lead to students’ lack of room for social thought.(Para.10)Part III (Para. 11-19)Questions: - What is the focus of the entire education system in India now, according to the author?- How has the attitude of India’s new leaders changed from the attitudes of the 1960s?Answers: - The focus of the entire education system in India now has shifted to meet the demand of the American computer industry.- This new leadership has abandoned all talk of economic imperialism in favor of market economics.4. Language PointsPart I (Para 1-3)①The bill would give preferential treatment to foreign students with advanced degrees in science and engineering who want to work in the USA.①give preferential treatment to: give favorable treatment toe.g. We give preferential treatment to those who invest in this area.我们对那些在这个地区投资的人给予优惠待遇②advanced: adj.⑪ beyond the beginning, elementary, or intermediatee.g. Teachers of advanced reading should develop a conscious awareness of the syntaxof written English.教高级阅读的教师应该特别注意书面英语的句法。