新世纪大学英语综合教程讲稿(B2U2)(1)

新世纪大学英语综合教程

Book 2 Unit 2 The Value of Life

Teaching Plan

Teaching Objectives

Students will be able to:

1.Get a better idea about the true value of life

2.Be familiar with the structure and content of the text

3．Grasp some key words and useful expressions

Time Allotment

1st period: Pre-reading activities and Reading Activities of Text A

2nd period: Reading activities and After-reading Activities of Text A

3rd period: Revision of Text A and assignment checking

4th period: Detailed study of text B

Period 1:

Pre-reading activities and Reading Activities of Text A

◆Group Discussions: students are given 5’ to discuss the following two questions

and then select a speaker to make a short report on their findings.

(1) What do you appreciate the most in the world?

(2) What can you do to make your life more valuable and meaningful?

After the reports, the teacher concludes their findings and introduces the value of life.

◆Reading Activities

Directions: Read Paragraphs 1 - 5 and answer the following questions.

1. Why does Helen Keller think that it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow?

2. According to Helen Keller, what is the right way to live each day?

3. What does Helen Keller mean by saying that most of us take life for granted?

4. What does Helen Keller think of the attitude that most of us adopt towards our faculties and senses?

Directions: Read Paragraphs 6-10 to see whether the following statements are true or false.

1. People are blessed if they are stricken blind and deaf.

2. Helen showed disbelief when her friend said she had seen nothing particular during

a long walk in the woods.

3. Helen thought that she “saw”more things than the seeing people just through touch.

4. Blind as she was, Helen was more sensitive to the world than us healthy people.

5. The seeing should make better use of sight to add fullness to life.

3. After the general understanding of the passage, students are required to find the main ideas of each part

Part 1 (1-4) Most of us take life for granted. The author suggests that we live each day with gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation as if we should die tomorrow.

Part 2 (5-10) we should also make full use of our faculties and senses so as to live a

fuller and richer life.

Period 2-Period 3

Reading activities and After-reading Activities of Text A

Reading Activities

Para 1-3

Underlining good usage: as long as a year/as short as twenty-four hours/speak of free men/sphere of activities/strictly confined/such stories set us thinking/under similar circumstances/crowd into

Key words and expressions:

1)Condemn: e.g. he was found guilty and condemned to death.

2)Set sb doing sth: e.g. anything could set me laughing in those days when I felt so

happy with my life and work.

3)Under …circumstances: e.g. under no circumstances should you lend Paul any

money.

4)Stretch: e.g. endless hot summer days stretched out before us.

Para4-5

Underlining good usage: take life for granted/picture that day as far as in the future/days stretched out endlessly/apply to/suffered loss of sight/it is the same old story of

Key words and expressions;

1)take …for granted: e.g. her husband did all the housework, and she just took it for

granted.

2)Picture: e.g. she pictured herself at school in a foreign country.

Picture sb or sth as: she’s been pictured as a difficult, demanding woman.

3)The same old story: e.g. it’s the same old story for Brazil heading into next year’s

world cup finals: everyone is aiming for the five-time champions.

Para 6-8

Underlining good usage: stricken blind/make him more appreciative of sight/nothing in particular/worthy of note/delicate symmetry of a leaf/something of the miracle of the Nature is revealed to me/the happy quiver of the bird in full song/delighted to have cool waters of a brook rush through my open fingers/a thrilling and unending drama

Key words and expressions:

1)worthy of: e.g. these points are worthy of your attention.

2)Sign: e.g. call the police at the first sight of the trouble.

3)Reveal: e.g. his letters reveal a different side of her personality.

4)Stream: e.g. Tears streamed from her eys.

Para 9-10:

Underlining good usage: at times my heart cries out with longing/get much pleasure from/as a meanings of adding fullness to life.