(新世纪高职英语)Unit_2

Unit 2 Capital Cities

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课程名称：新世纪高职高专英语授课教师：

Unit 2 Capital Cities

授课容：

1. Understand the Text：Capital Cities

2. Explain the key words and structures in the text.

目的要求：

1.Learn the noticeable characteristics of the

capital cities of some countries.

2. Master the key words and structures in the

text

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板书设计：

Unit 2 Capital Cities

Can you say something about some capital cities:

Beijing

London

Washington D. C.

Paris

Tokyo

Athens

Ottawa

Vienna

………………………………

I.Lead in ( 15 minutes)

Task 1: Ask the students to talk about noticeable characteristics of some capital cities

Task 2: List the name of their favorite capital cities, give their reasons.

Teacher should give some related words and expressions.

II. Read in (65 minutes)

1. Background Information (5 minutes)

city center: the main shopping or business area in a city, called “downtown” in American English

city fathers:the group of people who govern a city city planning:the study of the way cities work, so that the roads, houses, services, etc. can be provided effectively. City planning is getting more and more important with the development of economy and society. Now the government of almost any big city has a department of city planning.

2. Developing vocabulary (30 minutes)

1) advantage: n. a favorable circumstance 优势

e.g. As we all know, computers have both advantages and disadvantages.

These are the advantages of radios over TV.

2) characteristic: n. a special and easily recognized quality of someone or something

特征，特性

e.g. A useful characteristic of the cat is its ability to catch and kill mice.

The newly invented device has the following characteristics.

3) explosion: n.

●(a loud noise caused by) an act of exploding爆

炸; 爆炸声

e.g. population explosion 人口爆炸

information explosion 信息爆炸

● a sudden bursting out (of the stated feeling or

its expression) 发出（感情或表达该感情的言语）

e.g. explosions of great anger 勃然大怒

explosions of loud laughter 一下子哄堂大笑

4) seat: n. a place of a particular power or activity; center 中心; 所在地

e.g.Paris is the seat of the French government

5) commercial: a. of, related to or used in commerce 商业的；商务的

e.g. Nowadays, commercial banks and state-owned banks coexist and compete with each other.

6) imagine: v. form a picture of sb. or sth. in mind 想象；假设

e.g.It is hard to imagine what life would be like in 2050.