大学英语2教案unit4

⼤学英语2教案unit4
Unit 4 The American Dream
Teaching hours: 6-8 hours total
I.Teaching aims and demands:
1.To master the new target words and useful phrases;
2.To comprehend the whole text;
II.Background information.
American Dream：American Dream is the belief that everyone in the United States has the chance to achieve success and
prosperity. For ordinary people, it means a happy family, an ideal job, and a nice house. For minorities and immigrants, it also includes freedom and equal rights.
The Great Depression：The Great Depression is considered the most severe economic crisis in the industrialized world. It began when American stock market fell on Friday, Oct. 24, 1929, and continued the following Tuesday, known as Black Tuesday, with a greater fall. The Depression struck many other countries as well, particularly Germany, Japan, and Britain. In the early 1930s millions of people lost their jobs, and millions of businesses and banks failed. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies improved the situation, but the Great Depression did not come to an end until World War II when industrial production for the war increased.
III.Leading-in questions.
1.What is the American Dream in your opinion?
2.In what ways can a person be considered as being successful?
3.What is the key to success?
4.Tell a story of a successful person.
IV. Key words and expressions:
1. turn away:refuse to help (sb.) or allow (sb.) to enter a place
e.g. He turned all the applicants away.
He turned away several people who didn’t have the tickets.
2. work out:plan; solve; calculate
e.g. They’ve worked out a method of sending a spacecraft to the space.
The accountant has worked out your share of the expense at 1,000 yuan.
3. weekly：
adj. happening once a week or every week
e.g.He thinks his weekly wage of 400 yuan is enough.
adv. once a week; every week; by the week
e.g.21st Century is published weekly.
n. a publication issued once a week
Business Weekly《商业周刊》
Publishers’ Weekly (美)《出版商周刊》
a twice weekly 半周刊
4. do with:
1) (used in questions with “what”) deal with
e.g. Tell me what you did with yourself this week.
The child didn’t know what to d o with himself for excitement.
2) tolerate
e.g. I can’t do with him and his impoliteness.
3) (often with “could”, “can”) desire
e.g. I could do with a cup of tea.
5. determination: n.
the ability to continue trying to achieve what you have decided to do even when this is difficult
e.g He has great determination to learn English well.
6. personnel: n.
1)the department in a large organization that deals with
employees; human resources (uncountable noun, used
with a singular or plural verb).
personnel department⼈事部/处/
2) all the persons working in an organization, in the
army, etc. (often used with a plural verb)
The personnel of the company has been increased.
All personnel were allowed to take part in the party.
7.capacity: n.
1) the ability to understand or do sth.
His capacity for remembering things is interesting.
2) the ability to hold or contain sth.
the maximum amount that can be contained
The trunk is filled to capacity.
8. for sale: available to be bought 待售，供出售
The company will put the houses for sale.
9. call on:
1) visit sb. for a short time
I’ll call on him tomorrow.
2) summon; appeal
They called on the workers of the city to support the strike.
3) invite; require
The host of the party called on the Chairman to speak.
10. abandon: v. give up completely and forever
One of my classmates had to abandon the trip because of his father’s illness. V．Important sentences:
1. “I mow your lawn,” he said.
The sentence is repe ated four times. That’s because it shows Tony’s determination in finding a job, and his optimistic view that people would help a man who needed a job.
2. Tony did not begin on the bottom rung of the ladder. He began in the basement.
“Ladder” refers to the way to success. “Basement” refers to Tony’s starting point. He was worse than ordinary people. He had nothing to help him seek his American Dream.
3. But, after all, the balance sheets were exactly the same. The only difference was where you put the decimal point. Balance sheets are used to show whether a person or a company is financially successful. Here they are used to judge a person’s life achievements. If the decimal point is moved, a number will become either smaller or bigger. Here it shows the
difference in the amount of money Tony and the greatest industrialists had made. VI. Homework.
1.Do the exercises on the text book.
2.Write a composition of about 100 words on the following topic:
My Chinese Dream.。