全新版大学英语综合教程第1册第2单元教案

Unit Two
Friendship
教学目标:通过本单元的学习,掌握英文书信的写作技巧和方法,在生活中学会珍惜友情.
教学重点:掌握单词;available estimate correspondence practically
urge postpone reference reunion awful skip
掌握词组;be lost in or something go ahead not much of
lose touch on one's mind come up hang out
choke up
教学难点:1.to grasp the main idea (never delay expressing your true feelings
to a friend) and structure of the text (developing a story around
a letter);
2.to appreciate that spoken English is much more informal than
written English;
3.to master key language points and grammatical structure in the
text;
课时分配:1.Pre-Reading Tasks,New Words Explanation and Analysis 2学时
2.While-Reading Tasks and Analysis 4学时
3.Post-Reading Tasks and Exercises 1学时
4.Home-Reading Check up 1学时
课外练习:1.Vocabulary;PartI II III 2.Structure;PartI II 推荐读物:<<大学英语>>第一册第二课
教学过程:Study of the Text
Culture Notes
Halloween is celebrated annually. It is on the night of 31 October, when people once believed that ghosts could be seen. Now, in Britain and America, it is a time when children have parties, dress up as witches, make lanterns out of pumpkins from which the inside has been removed, and play "trick or treat'.
Trick or treat is a traditional activity at Halloween. Children dress in costumes and visit houses. At each house they say "Trick or treat'. This means that they will play a "trick', or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given a "treat', e.g. sweets or money. Most people prefer to give treats rather than having tricks played
on them.
Pre-reading tasks
1.T asks Ss the following questions on the song That's What Friends are For;
---What is a fair weather friend?(one who is happy to stay with you when things are going well but leaves as soon as trouble arrives)
---According to the song, what are friends for?(for both good times and bad times) 2.Warm-up Questions
Do you often write letters to friends?
1)T writes down the following words on the blackboard: frequently, sometimes rarely, never.
2)T invites several Ss to give reasons for writing or not writing letters.
3)T sums up by saying: letters are the best in expressing our innermost feelings.
3.Topic-related Prediction
1)Before you read the story, think about the answers to the following questions.
What does a cabbie do?
What is a letter used for?
Who wrote the letter to the cabbie?
Why was all the cabbie had only a letter?
2)Read the last sentence of Text A and try to guess what the story is about. While-reading tasks
1.Read Text A as quickly as possible, and find out if you are right. Can you summarize the story with three sentences?
key words: lost in thought, read a letter, an old friend, lifelong friendship, regret, author decided
2.Scan the text and find out how many questions the narrator asked the cabbie and what were the latter's responses.
----At first, did you mistake Ed for the writer of this letter?
----Which round of question-and-answer leads to the mistake?(the second round)
3.Ss do Text Organization exercise on page 40.
nguage study and text analysis
1)be lost in/lose oneself in:be absorbed in, be fully occupied with
e .g: He was lost in playing computer games so he was unaware o
f my enterin
g the room.
I had lost myself in thought.
2)available: able to be used, had, or reached
e.g. Since 1990, the mount of money available to buy books has fallen by 17%.
We have already used up all the available space.
3)He sounded as if he had a cold or something: This sentence implies the sad state mind the taxi driver was in.
or something: used when you are not very sure about what you have just said
e.g. The air fare was a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something.
Here's some money. Get yourself a sandwich or something.
4)go ahead: continue, begin(sometimes followed by with + n)
e.g. The board of directors will vote today on whether to go ahead with the
plan.
Henry will be late but we will go ahead with the meeting anyway.
5)know/learn by heart: memorize, remember exactly
e.g. You have to know all the music by heart if you want to be a concert
pianist.
The pupils are required to learn a classic poem by heart every day.
6)At least they do with me because I'm on the road so much: At least letters
from home mean a lot to me because I travel a lot in a car for long distances.
7)estimate: form a judgement about (a quantity or value)
e.g. I estimate that the total cost for the treatment of the disease will go
from$5,000 to $8,000.
Bill's personal riches were estimated at $368 million.
8)This isn't family.: This isn't a letter from my family.
9)might/may(just) as well: not have a strong desire to do and may even slightly
reluctant about something
e.g. Anyway, you're here; you might as well stay.
The post office is really busy --we'll have to queue for ages to get
served. We might as well go home.
10)I'm not much of a hand at writing.: I am not good at writing.
not much of a: not a good
e.g. Some people may think that doing housework for others is not much of a
career.
He is not much of a father, but he is an outstanding professor.
11)keep up: continue without stopping
e.g.: They risk losing their homes because they can no longer keep up the
repayments.
I was so hungry all the time that I could not keep the diet up for longer
than a month.
12)correspondence: a)the act of writing, receiving or sending letters(不可加s, often followed by with + n)
e.g. His interest in writing came from a long correspondence with a close friend.
b)the letters that sb. receives or sends
e.g. Mary really never mentions her step-mother in her correspondence.
13)But I take it he's someone...:But I expect that he is someone...
e.g.: I take it(that) you've heard that all the students in my class have done a very good job in CET Band 4.
14)practically: almost, but not completely or exactly
e.g.: He'd known the old man for practically ten years.
I know people who find it practically impossible to give up smoking.
15)Went to school together? The complete sentence is like this: You went to school
together?(In colloquial English a declarative sentence with a rising tone may serve as a question.)
16)neighborhood: one of the parts of a town where people live
e.g.: It seemed like an ideal neighborhood to raise my children in.
Houses in a good neighborhood are likely to be sold at a high price.
17)kind of/sort of:("kind of”is esp.AmE, "sort of' esp.BrE) a little bit, in some way or degree(used before v. or after a link verb)
e.g.: She wasn't beautiful. But she was kind of cute.
The boy's description kind of gives us an idea of what's happening.
18)lose touch(with sb.):meet or contact sb. less and less often, gradually stop writing,
telephoning, or visiting them
e.g.: I lost touch with my former classmates after graduation.
In my job one tends to lose touch with friends
19)a couple of:(infml)a few, more than one but not many
e.g. Do you have a moment? There are a couple of things I'd like to talk to you
about.
They promised the students that they would find a substitute teacher in a
couple of days.
20)But I realized that Old Ed was still on his mind when he spoke again, almost more
to himself than to me.: But I realized that the taxi driver was still thinking of
Old Ed when he spoke again. It seemed that he spoke more to himself than to me.
on one's mind: in one's thoughts; of concern to one(If something is on your mind,
you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.)
e.g.: Dealings on the stock market have been on his mind all the time.
This travel plan has been on my mind all week.
21)keep in touch(with sb): write, phone, or visit each other regularly
e.g. The old man kept in touch with his children while living in a nursing house.
While doing the research work in the antarctic, the professor kept in touch with his students via email.
22)come up: a)happen, occur, esp. unexpectedly
e.g.: "Sorry, I am late----something came up at home.'
b)be mentioned or discussed
e.g.: The term "Project Hope' has come up a lot recently in the newspapers.
23)urge: try very hard to persuade(often used in the pattern urge sb. to do sth.
or followed by a that-clause. In the that-clause, "should' or the base form of
a ver
b is used.)
e.g.: They urged the local government to approve plans for their reform
programme.
Sir Fred urged that Britain(should) join the European Monetary System.
24)postpone: delay(usu. followed by n./gerund)
e.g.: The couple had postponed having children to establish their careers.
The Russian experts postponed dumping Mir(和平号Russia's space station)
in the Pacific Ocean until March 23,2001.
25)It had references to things that...:The letter made mention of things that...
reference: a)the act of talking about sb./sth.,or mentioning them(usu. followed
by to)
e.g.: It was strange that he made no reference to any work experience in his
resume.
b)the act of looking at sth. for information
e.g.: Keep their price list for further reference.
26)"Like it says there,”..."About all we had to spend in those days was time.”: "As
the letter says there,”..."though we didn't have much money we had a lot of free time.”
27)absolutely: totally and completely
e.g. Funding is absolutely necessary if research is to continue.
There is absolutely no difference between the two oil-paintings.
28)reunion: a party attended by members of the same family, school,or other
group who have not seen each other for a long time
e.g.: The soccer club holds an annual/yearly reunion.
Before she went abroad for further study, the whole family had a big family reunion.
29)...there are fewer and fewer still around.:...fewer and fewer of us are left alive.
30)hang out: a)(infml: used mainly in AmE) stay in or near a place, for no particular
reason, not doing very much
e.g.: I often hung out in coffee bars while I was unemployed.
b)hang clothes on a piece of string outside in order to dry them
e.g.: What a pain!--It's raining and I've just hung the washing out.
31)every now and then: sometimes, at times
e.g.: Every now and then I have a desire to quit my tedious job.
I still see Jane for lunch every now and then, but not as often as I used to.
32)But for the last 20 or 30 years it's been mostly just Christmas cards.:But generally speaking we have sent only Chrismas cards to keep in touch with each other for the last 20 or 30 years.
mostly: almost all; generally
e.g.: They have invested their money mostly in expensive real estate.
The guests at the wedding party are mostly friends of the bride.
33)Your friendship over the years has meant an awful lot to me, more than I can say because I'm not good at saying things like that.: Your friendship over the years has been very important to me, more important than I can say because I'm not good at expressing my feelings.
awful:(infml; used to add force) very great; very bad or unpleasant
e.g.: I have got an awful lot of work to do.
I can't bear the awful smell of cigarette smoke.
34)choke up: become too upset to speak
e.g.: When he learned the news of his friend's sudden death, he was so choked up
he couldn't say a thing.
Losing my job left me completely choked up; I was so upset that I didn't know what to do.
35)destination: the place to which sb. is going or being sent
e.g. Singapore is still our most popular holiday destination.
Only half of the emergency supplies have reached their destination because of the bad weather.
36)skip: pass from(one point, etc.) to another, disregarding or failing to act on what
comes between
e.g.: The teacher skipped chapter five and said it wouldn't be on the test.
"As time is limited, we will have to skip some of the exercises in Unit 10,' said the teacher.
37)right away: (infml)at once
e.g.: Tom has got a high fever; he should go and see a doctor right away.
I wrote him a letter and posted it right away.
5.What was the lesson the storyteller learned from the cabbie?(Never delay
expressing one's true feelings to one's friend.)
6.T reads out the following sentences and Ss try to find out sentences of
silmilar meaning in the text:
---Go on reading your letter.(Go ahead and finish your letter.)
---I'm not used to writing letters.(I'm not much of a hand at writing.)
---We were friends since our childhood. So our friendship has a long history.
(We were kids together, so we go way back.)
---For one reason or another you lose touch even though you never forget.(You
kind of lose touch even though you never forget.)
---It is painful to lose any friend.(It's no fun to lose any friend.)
T explains that since this story is developed mainly through the conversation between the cabbie and his passenger, it's language tends to be simpler and more colloquial, sentences tend to be shorter or even incomplete.
Post-reading tasks
1.T guides Ss through some after-text exercises.
2.T checks on Ss' home reading(Text B).
3.Ss do Part IV: Theme-related Language Learning Tasks.。