新编大学英语2 Unit 3 教案

Unit Three Career Planning

I. Theoretical basis:

College English Syllabus (1999); College English Curriculum Requirements (2004) II. Teaching Aims:

In this unit students are required to:

1) get to know some useful information concerning the topic of the reading passages in this unit and to know more about English culture;

2) do some preparation activities such as discussion, group work, etc. to practice their spoken skill and communicative skills;

3) grasp some new words and try to use these words which help them to enrich their vocabulary (acceptable, efficient, implication, occupation, personnel, pursue, straighten, undergo, resort, estimate, ambitious, conscientious, hastily, obedient, figure out, in case, take stock of);

4) read the in-class reading passage in a limited time and grasp some expressions and grammatical points in the in-class reading passage to improve their reading comprehension;

5) do some post-reading exercises and some after-class reading to practice what they have got to know in class to improve their English comprehensive skills.;

6) translate some typical sentences into Chinese or English by using some expressions learned in the reading passages to acquire some translating skills and better their translating abilities.

III. Teaching Methodology

Mainly applying task-based approach and communicative one to construct a student –centered classroom

The whole learning and teaching proceed is tended to follow the model of pre-task------task cycle------post-task

IV. Time Distribution

According to Ss’English learning traits and regulations, the focus of the learning strategies, and the English level of current students; we are going to finish this unit in 8 periods: Listening & Speaking (2 periods); In-class Reading (6 periods); Exercise & After-class Reading (1 periods); Further Development &Writing (1 periods).

Period I&II listening and speaking

I、Teaching Content

1) T’s background knowledge introduction as recruitment and Ss’ discussion on

the topic of career planning, and enlarge their vocabulary on this unit.

2) Listening of 1 passages

II、Teaching design

Part One: Preparation

1.What Are They?

Describe pictures: There are fourteen pictures.Work in pairs and try to figure out the occupations of the people in the pictures on page 56.

director

●surgeon

●air hostess

●pilot

●cook/chef

●conductor

●lawyer

●receptionist

●policeman

●butcher

●Doctor/physician

●auto-repairman

●scientist/research worker

●nurse

2.What kind of job would you like to do?

What factors will influence you in choosing a job?

----personal interests

----salary

----opportunity for promotion, travel, etc.

----working hours

----contribution to the society

----the opinions of other people

Part Two: Listening-centered Activities

1.Explain the new words (image, irritation, survey, investigator, prejudice,

technique, accountant, estate agent, majority, subordinate, rosy, rating, sensible, gloomy)

2.Listen to Section One twice and take notes.

3.Listen to Section Two twice. Look for the mistakes in the printed interview

and correct then according to what you hear from the tape.

4.Listen to Section Three twice and fill in the missing information.

5.Discuss the following questions in groups

a)What is your impression of these professions?

b)Do you have prejudices against them? If so, what are your prejudices?

c)What factors will influence you in choosing a job?

Part Three: Assignment

to prepare the new words on the textbook.

Period 3&4 Reading

I、Teaching Content

The title of the text is ―Career Planning‖(intensive reading). Language points explanation, exercise.

II、Teaching Objects

1)Understand and master new words and phrases: course of action, hyper-, in

reality, not much, at stake, confront, face, resort to, seize on, work out, in case,