教案-商务英语阅读-Unit 16-叶兴国

Unit 16

Teaching Objectives:

1. To remember and use new words and expressions;

2. To learn how a boss handle his men in the office to make business prosperous;

3. To learn how to help people with different cultures and languages in a community to overcome the

difficulties in communication;

4. To learn the three steps of reading by evaluating;

5. To deal with the language points in Text A and Text B.

Focuses:

2. To learn how a boss handle his men in the office to make business prosperous;

3. To learn how to help people with different cultures and languages in a community to overcome the

difficulties in communication.

Difficulties:

How to do effective reading by evaluating.

Teaching Time:2 periods.

Teaching Procedures:

Part I Pre-reading Questions

It can be used as lead-in questions. For students, they can discuss with each other and will have free answers. Part II Extensive Reading

In this part, there are two texts and their relevant exercises. By reading the texts in limited time, Teacher helps students understand the contents and the reading methods to build reading abilities gradually.

Text A Handle Your Men In the Office

a. Let the students read Text A as quickly as they can to find the answers to Exercise I;

b. Check the answers to Exercise I &analyze the language points in the text:

1. That doesn’t mean that you ought to coddle idleness, or to be slack with viciousness, or even to carry

on the pay-roll well-meaning incompetence. 那并不是说你应该纵容懒惰，或疏忽恶意，甚至给善良但不胜任的员工发放薪水。

2. For a fellow who mixes business and charity soon finds that he can’t make any money to give to charity;

and in the end, instead of having helped others, he’s only added himself to the burden of others. 对一个把企业和慈善机构混淆起来的人来说，他很快就会发现赚不到任何钱捐给慈善机构了，并且最后他不但不能帮助别人，自己反而成了他人的负担。

3. …sits around waiting to be hunted up. ……坐等被人发现。

4. Indiscriminate blame is as bad as undiscriminating praise—it only makes a man tired. 不分青红皂白的指

责和不加区别的褒奖一样，是不可取的—只会使人感到厌烦。

5. Once you do, and it’s only a matter of time before you’ve got to place the remnants in the hands of a

doctor as receiver. 一旦你这么做了，那么何时把你的余生交到医生手里就只是个时间问题了。

f. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.

Text B How to Make the Multicultural Work Force Work

a. Several minutes for students to use some basic reading skills to read the text only once, then ask them to do Exercise I;

b. Check the answers to Exercise I & point out some language points:

1. Immigrants will account for nearly two-thirds of the country’s population growth between now and

2050, according to the US Department of Labor.

account for: (在数量方面)占。如：