新视野第一册 unit 2 Deep Concern 大学英语公开课讲稿

Good morning, distinguished judges. It’s my great honor to participate in the contest. I prepared a class for freshmen. Unit 2, Section A, Deep Concern. My class consists of three parts, but for the time limit, I could only show you some highlights. Here are my teaching objectives. Now I will begin my class.Dear students, you have been in college for almost a month. How do you feel the life on campus? Do you feel homesick? Do you often think of your parents? When you think of your parents, what will appear in your mind? Any unpleasant experiences with your parents? Some of you may say, my father is so dominant that he just wants to control me as if he were controlling a robot. Or, look at my mom; she is always nagging, nagging all the day. Why does she keep it saying again and again? You are nodding your heads, which means you may have the similar experiences, don’t you? I picked up a video clip. Please watch carefully, and have a discussion afterward.What caused the contradiction between the girl and her mother? Generation gap, a problem that most people can’t get rid of. Generation gap is a popular term used to describe wide differences in cultural norms between members of a younger generation and their elders. In what aspects do you think you are different from your parents? Values and beliefs, habits and life styles, interests and hobbies, even the tastes of food and cloth! We can find all the differences mentioned in our text Deep Concern.As to the word concern, do you know what’s its meaning? Whether used as a verb or a noun, concern has two general meanings. First, if something concerns you, it worries you. And you are concerned about it. Second, concern also refers to give attention to, as in the structure “concern oneself with”. For example, Sandy Finch concerns herself with rock music.And who is Sandy Finch? She is one of the characters of our text, a girl of 15. You have prepared the lesson before class, so you must know the text we are going to talk about is a short story. Therefore, we can divide the story into five parts according to the plot. Let’s first focus on part 1and part 3, in which Sandy has quarrels with her parents.In the beginning, Sandy wakes up in the music of a rock band from the radio. It is her favorite and she likes it very much. But her father, Mr. Finch doesn’t think so. As to him, the music is horrible and does not have rhythm. And then, in part 3, Sandy argues with her mother over tine daily routines. First, about cloth. Sandy chooses to wear her old green T-shirt and some jeans. She thinks it’s cool to dress up in this style. While her mother says, “it is disgusting!”Then they disagree with each other on how to have breakfast, whether to eat while standing, and how to brush teeth. At last, Mrs. Finch finds her daughter is wear eye-liners, and she is angry as she says, “You’re too young to wear that much makeup.” But Sandy takes it for granted for all the girls at her school would make up. So as we have seen,there are really quite a lot conflictions between Sandy and her parents.And then let’s focus on a useful structure of this part. Sandy sang along with the words as she lay listening to her favorite radio station. Pay attention to the word “as”. How many different clauses, do you know, could be introduced by “as”? Two? Three? There are two different categories. When used as a relative pronoun, “as”can introduce an attributive clause. I’ll give you a sentence: Grammar is not a set of dead rules, as has been said above. Also, “as”can function as a subordinating conjunction, introducing adverbial clauses of time, reason, and concession. A sentence for time: one of the students is late for class today, so let take him for example. I saw him as he crept into the classroom. Another sentence for reason. This time it’s the monitor’s turn. Our monitor is a model student, as he gives a good example to the whole class. It’s quite easy to follow, isn’t it? But thing comes more complicated with regard to adverbial clause of concession. Look at the screen and read the sample sentence carefully, please. The clause is in special inverted order. To begin with is the element to emphases on, then comes “as”, and finally, subject and predicate. Be careful about this.And then, let’s focus on the second part. The transitional part describes Sandy’s morning preparation. So, this part is developed by sequenced order, according to the time when it happened. In order to make a set of actions easier to follow andunderstand, the author uses many time markers. A time marker may be a word, expression or sentence used to point out the time or sequence of a series of actions. Would you please point out the time markers in part 2? They are: then; after her shower; while standing; just then. Time marker is a very useful writing skill when you compose a paragraph by sequenced order or an instruction of procedure. We’ll do more exercises after class.We’ve been talking about the text for a while, now let’s move back to the topic of the unit —generation gap. The Finch family must spend the whole day distasteful because of the unpleasant morning. But generation gap could affect far beyond families, and in that case, it will lead to a grave consequence. You are interested in sports. So I picked up two pieces of sports news of the week. Collins, the couch of Philly Sixers, has resigned for the poor performance of the team. News commentators believe, it is the generation gap to be blamed. On the other hand, Lang Ping did a better job than Collins. The Chinese women’s volleyball team has just won a second place in the World Championships. As you can see, Lang Ping said there is no gap between her and the 90s generation. If we don’t take generation gap seriously, the consequence may become worse and worse.In order to solve the problem, we should first analyze what are the causes. Pictures on the screen may be helpful. Generally speaking, the causes are threefold. First, the two generations areliving in different times. Second, parents are always busy working, and children learning. So they are short of communication. Finally, let’s take the Finch family into consideration, why there are quarrels? Perhaps Sandy misunderstood her parents concern for interference.Next question: How to overcome the problem of generation gap? Here are some tips: keep your minds open to your parents and never lie to them and so on. I can use one word to summarize: mutual understanding. We don’t need to eliminate the differences between our parents and us. What we need to do is only to understand each other. Only in this way could generation gap be bridged.Now let’s make a review on what we have learned today. Generation gap and how to bridge the gap. Useful word, structure, and writing skill.Here come your assignments: write a paragraph using sequenced order and time markers. Second, send our parents a card or letter to tell them you love them. And if you feel a little bit embarrassed, the mid-autumn day is coming, seize the chance and don’t be shy.。