大学英语(全新版)第二册电子教案

大学英语(全新版)第二册电子教案

Unit 2 Values

I．T eaching Objectives

Students will be able to :

1. understand the main idea (despite his wealth, Sam Walton remains down-home and devoted to his team) and structure of the text;

2. appreciate the use of indirect description in portraying a person;

3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text；

4. conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking, and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.

II．Language study

1.He imagined what surely awaited: He imagined what he was surely to see.

2. remote:far away in space or time

e.g.: The supply of electricity to remote mountainous villages is one of the local development

projects in Y unnan province.

Taming the deserts is no longer a dream of the remote future but a practical human endeavor.

3. discount: amount of money which may be taken off the full price

e.g.: Traditional retailers who’ve opened cyberstores may offer special discounts to online

shoppers.

Though online bookstores usu ally offer discounts, don’t expect to save much.

4. It was nice, but no palace: the house was nice, but not luxurious.

5. Only in America can a billionaire carry on like plain folk…: It is only in America that a

billionaire can live in the same way as ordi nary people…

only:In writing and formal speech, you can put “ only “ at the beginning of a sentence, followed by the word, word group, or clause it modifies, and then you put an auxiliary or “ be” followed by the subject of the main clause.

e.g.: Only here was it safe to prepare and handle hot drinks.

Only then did Peter realized that he still hadn’t phoned his mother.

Only when the injured limb is fully mobile will the runner be encouraged to restrengthen it. Carry on: behave or conduct oneself in a specific way

e.g.: There’s nothing unusual about them, They carry on just like everybody else.

He Carries on as if he were a millionaire, spending money left, right and center.

Folk:people in general ( You can refer to people as folk or folks.)

e.g.: They got married and had kids and lived like other folks.

These are the folks from the local TV station.

Get away with: do sth. Wrong or risky without being caught or punished

e.g.: They claimed that they knew how to play the system and get away with it.

Eric has been getting away with tax fraud for years.

6. bird dogs: dogs which hunt birds

7. local:of or for a particular place

e.g.: The plane was to take off at 6 a.m. and land at 7 a.m. local time.