《享在剑桥大学实用英语综合教程》

Unit One

A Teaching Objectives

a. Contents of the text:

Focus 1: Help the students learn a lesson from the story—Look beyond the obvious and allow miracles to be created in our life.

Focus 2: The importance and necessity of crying.

b. Key language points in the text:

Focus 1: 1. Words such as graduate, purchase, hand, regret, desire may function both as a verb and

a noun.

2. Present participle used as adverbials of time, cause and result, etc.

3. Absolute construction introduced by the preposition with.

c. Vocabulary:

Focus 1: 31 B-level words, 11 A-level words, and 4 phrases and expressions listed under Vocabulary.

Focus 2: 30 B-level words, 20 A-level words, and 8 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: Expressing Thanks.

Focus 2: Writing a Thank-you Letter.

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:

Graduation Day in the West “There’s a time for joy/A time for tears/A time we’ll treasure through the years/We’ll remember always Graduation Day…” This is a song entitled Graduation Day by Beach Boys. For graduates and their families, Graduation Day marks a unique moment in time: a celebration of years passed, while looking forward to the endless possibilities of the countless hours that lay ahead. To celebrate, a ceremony is usually held at school on which students wear cap and gown for this special moment and the song “Pomp & Circumstances” is

the standard march. At home, parents usually throw a party for their children and special gifts are also necessary.

b. warm-up questions

How is the relationship between you and your father?

What is the best gift you have ever received from your father?

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

Step Three: Start to teach the text para. by para. Help students understand the text and explain language points meanwhile.

Questions about Para. 1

(1) What was the young man in our story getting ready to do?

(2) What did he want from his father as a gift for him?

(3) Could his father afford it?

Notes of Para 1:

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. 一个年轻人即将从大学毕业。

get ready to do sth.: to get prepared to do sth. 准备好做某事

该词组在本句中用进行时态，表示“正准备”的意思，意指通过了所有课程，完成了学业。

e.g. (1) We’d better get ready to leave. 我们最好准备出发吧。

(2) The children are getting ready to go to school. 孩子们正准备去学校。

graduate:vi. to complete education at a school or a university 毕业

e.g. (1) He graduated from Beijing University in 1998. 他1998年毕业于北京大学。