unit10Howabout教学设计英语教案

Unit 10

Ⅰ Aims and Requirements

Language Focus

1.focal words and expressions

device, keep up with, demands on, purchase, replace, crowd…with, add to, eat up, leisure, overload ,downfall, show u, force…into, appliance, by hand, tempt, be prone to, break down, in place of, come to, in danger of, consume, end up

2.focal functions and patterns

①How about…?

②Do you wonder whether…?

③…feel more hurried than even…

④Part of the reason is …

⑤…are eating up… by doing…

⑥…things that go wrong

⑦…wait for…to do…

⑧…force…into (doing) sth

⑨That’s because…

⑩…last longer than they used to

⑪…to fix errors…is a slow and maddening process

Skill development

1.reading and translating

●Be able to read, comprehend and translate into Chinese the

passage about Overload: More Time is Less Time;

●Be able to use the focal words and patterns listed above to

make sentences or translate into English the sentences

including them;

●Practice the reading skill of understanding graphs and charts;

●Practice the translating skill of negation.

2.Listening and speaking

●Be able to talk a little about the reasons why those modern

appliances keep people busier than ever;

●Be able to comprehend the short listening passage and

practice the skill of taking spot dictation;

●Be able to talk a little about making a complaint.

3.writing

Be able to write out a simple trouble-shooting guide.

Ⅱ Language points

1.notes to the passage

⑴You’ve got a video tape recorder and a device that answers the phone for you.

That answers the phone for you is a restrictive clause introduced by that and modifying a device.

⑵And there’s a gadget that turns off the lights when you are out.

That turns off the lights is a restrictive attributive clause modifying a gadget.

When you are out is an adverbial clause.

⑶How about the electric knife, the coffee maker, the ice maker? How about here means what do you think of…

How about, what about, are used to ask for information, to make a suggestion, or to get sb’s option.

E.g. How about having a game of bridge?

What about her qualifications for the position?

⑷ Feel good about having all that stuff?

This elliptical sentence means do you feel any good when you have all these things?

⑸ Or do you wonder whether the gadgets are running you instead of you them?

Whether the gadgets are running you instead of you them is the object clause of wonder.

Instead of you them here means instead of you running them. Instead of: prep. Meaning in place of.

E.g. It’s me that should ask you instead of you asking me.

Students should have independent-study skills instead of relying on their teachers for everything.

⑹ Americans apparently feel more hurried than ever these days.