实用英语 第一册 上海交通大学出版社B 1 U 4

Unit Four

A Teaching Objectives

a. Contents of the text:

Focus 1: Help the young students appreciate youngsters’ naivety and genuineness as depicted in the text.

Focus 2: Help students understand the instructions on the use of online dating services and be able to write an e-mail to a friend known through the Internet.

b. Key language points in the text:

Focus 1: 1. Words such as go and move may function both as a noun and as a verb. This is

a case of conversion, which can also be regarded as a means of word formation.

2. Perfective infinitives used with the modal verbs of can (could) and must:

could (must) + have + -ed participle.

c. Vocabulary:

Focus 1: 37 B-level words, 9 A-level words, and 9 phrases and expressions listed under Vocabulary.

Focus 2: 31 B-level words, 9 A-level words, and 14 phrases and expressions listed under Vocabulary.

d. Comprehensive skills:

Understand a passage at the pre-intermediate level of difficulty and on this basis, be able to write a summary of the text.

e. Functions:

Focus 1: Introduction and Greeting.

Focus 2: Writing an E-mail.

B Procedures and Methods

Eight teaching periods are needed to cover the present unit.

1. Period One and Period Two:

●Step One:

a. Background information:

Most westerners begin dating in their early teenage years. Young people often go out in groups and meet at school dances or house parties. After dating a number of different partners, many teenagers begin “going out with” or “seeing” one special person at about 16 or 17. The three most popular first dates for those over 20 are lunch, dinner or a movie. People are staying single longer than before. First-time brides are usually around 26 and grooms are about 28.

b. warm-up questions

At what age did you start dating?

How do you like your dating experiences?

What is your parents’ attitude toward teenagers’ dating?

(The warm-up exercise shall not take up more than 8 minutes.)

and explain language points meanwhile.

Questions about Para. 1

(1) What kind of teenagers were the girl and the boy in this story?

(2) What did they want to do while dating for six months?

(3) What was it that they were too shy to do?

Notes of Para 1:

so:连词，意同also.So引导的子句是倒装句。正常的语序应该是：…and my boyfriend was so(also a shy teenager.)

e.g. (1) My father is a teacher, so is my mother. 我的父亲是老师，我的母亲也是老师。

(2) My father teaches English, so does my mother. 我的父亲教英语，我的母亲也教英

语。

在例（2）中，谓语动词teach属于do一类的动词，而不是be类动词，所以连词so后面用的是does。

date: 当date用作动词时，意为安排社交约会。这个非正式的用法，在美式英语中尤为多见。在本句中date是不及物动词的用法，但是它也可用作及物动词。

e.g. She’s been dating him for months but it’s still not very serious. 她跟他约会几个月了，但

他们的关系还不是很认真的。

Date也可以用作名词或动词。作名词时，它的意思是“提前预约的，异性之间的社交约会，幽会”。

e.g. My parents would not allow me to go out on dates.我的父母不会同意我出去与异性约

会的。

此外，date还有“日期，年、月、日”的意义。

in particular: especially尤其，特别

e.g. What kind of books do you like in particular? 你有什么特别喜欢的书吗？

particular在这里是个名词，表示详情，细目等。particular更通常地被当作形容词使用，表示“特殊的，特别的”。

e.g. There is nothing in the letter of particular importance. 信里没有什么特别重要的事。come close to: get near to a point where something may happen 接近，将要e.g.

(1) Tom came close to falling off the high wall. 汤姆差点从高墙上掉下来。

(2) The child came close to being run over by the bus. 那个孩子差点被公共汽车碾死。

通常这个动词短语的意思是“离……只差一小段距离”。

e.g. The boat came close to the shore. 船快靠近岸了。