大学体验英语综合教程3_第三版_Unit 5_电子教案

Unit 5 Lifelong Education

Objectives:

After finishing this unit, students will be able to:

●first listen to and then talk about lifelong education

●read about why and how people pursue continuing education

●write about various ways of learning

●practice reading skills: contextual meaning

●practice translating skills: splitting

●learn and practice paragraph development by example

●learn to write an online program introduction

●visit Culture Salon about the concepts and practice of lifelong education Section I Listen and Talk (2 periods)

Step 1 Lead in (25 mins)

1.In what way do you usually learn English words? Do you often ask the native

speakers to explain English words for you?

2.How do you understand the German proverb ―Whoever cars to learn will always

find a teacher‖?

3.Do you think to teach is also to learn? Why?

Step 2 Dialogues (30 mins)

Listen for three times. First, listen to get the main information of the passage. (Play) Second, listen and fill in the blanks (Play and Pause) Third, check, and learn

Some new words or expressions:

Step 3 Communicative Tasks (35 mins)

Dialogue 1: Who Needs Continuing Education (Communicative Task 1)

Listen and follow:

Read and practice:

Communicative task 1:

Work in groups and make dialogues (Row 1&3, etc. )

Dialogue 2: A Freshman at 76 (Communicative Task 2)

Listen and follow:

Go through the dialogue

Read and practice:

Communicative task 2:

Work in groups and make dialogues (Row 1&2,etc. )

Step 4 Assignments

1.Read the dialogues and practice communicative tasks

2. Preview new words in Passage A

Section II Read and Explore (4 periods)

Passage A Tongue-tied

Step 1 Pre-reading Tasks (15 mins)

1.In what way do you usually learn English words? Do you often ask the native

speakers to explain English words for you?

2.How do you understand the German proverb ―Whoever cares to learn will always

find a teacher‖?

3.Do you think teaching is also learning? Why?

Culture notes:

1. The Concepts of Lifelong Education

The desire for knowledge is never-ending. Learning is a lifelong quest. It’s never too late and you’re never too old to learn.

University study isn’t just for school-leavers. The university culture is changing, with more and more people studying later in life.

And it’s a grea t way to get to know new people.

The story of your education is to be continued.

Education is a powerful tool —a tool you can use to shape your life and the world in which you live.

By making university study more accessible and achievable, continuing education programs place the tools of knowledge and learning within reach.

So, the story of your education doesn’t stop here. It’s only just beginning.

2. The Open University (UK)

The Open University calls it ―OU supported open learning‖. It’s a method of di stance learning that’s accessible to everybody living in the European Union. There are also a number of courses which can be followed online by those outside these countries.

Step 2 While-reading Tasks (75 mins)

1) Read the title and guess what type of writing this passage may be. (Narrative writing)

2) Read the passage for the first time and answer:

What was the author’s immediate response when the driver passed her a slip of paper?

What did the author mean by saying “clever is not clever if it doe sn't communicate”?

Why did the author hope that the driver owned a dictionary?

2. Skim the passage and try to find the main idea:

Main idea: This is an amusing short story that illustrates how little people sometimes know about their mother tongue. The narrator is a woman, the passenger in a taxi whose driver is a Pakistani man eager to learn English by asking his passengers about new words. Struggling to explain the meanings of a proverb and an idiom, she realizes how little she really knows about the vocabulary of her native language and also