世纪大学英语读写教程教案

Syllabus

For

Twenty-first Century College English

Book III

Preface

Twenty-first Century College English is based on Teaching Program of College English (Revised Edition) , which is promulgated newly by the Ministry of Education.

Reading and Writing Course consists of ten chapters. Each chapter is made up of three articles sharing the same topic. In each chapter, Text A is for intensive reading while Text B and Text C is for extensive reading.

This course, which covers intensive and extensive reading, emphasizes the development of students’ reading ability, writing ability and the ability of translation.

Contents

Unit 1

Text A How I Got Smart (2)

Text B Coming of Age (23)

Text C Romance and Reality (30)

Unit Two

Text A The Titanic Puzzle (36)

Text B Unjust Desserts (55)

Text C Will You Go Out with Me? (62)

Unit Three

Text A The Sense of Wonder (68)

Text B The Innocent Eye (86)

Text C If I Were 21 (94)

Unit Four

Text A College Pressures (98)

Text B College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening ? (116)

Text C What Is College for? (124)

Unit Five

Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.: America Seen with

European Eyes (130)

Text B American Values and Assumptions (149)

Text C A Foreign Anthropologist’s Observation of

Americans (159)

Unit Six

Text A Every 23 Minutes (164)

Text B Needed: A License to Drink (181)

Text C My Daughter Smokes (190)

Unit Seven

Text A So What’s So Bad About Being So-So? (196)

Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness (215)

Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job (223)

Unit Eight

Text A The Highs of Low Technology (228)

Text B Why I’m Not Going to Buy a Computer (245)

Text C Obsolete Technology (252)

Unit Nine

Text A Space Politics (258)

Text B Message to the Unknown (275)

Text C Your Future in Space (283)

Unit Ten

Text A Plain Talk About Handling Stress (290)

Text B Energy Walks (307)

Text C Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry (316)

Teaching Contents

UNIT ONE

TEXT A How I Got Smart

1.Teaching Aims:

1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used

in the text.

2)To enable Ss to master the language points.

3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus.

2.Contents :

1)Brief introduction to the text.

2)Word formation:

(1)prince----princess

(2)quick-----quicken

(3)romance-----romantic

3)Some useful expressions:

Out of focus

While the fish were biting

Intellectual gulf

4)Grammar focus:

Rather than

Make+ noun/pronoun + past participle

5)Writing Skill: Introducing a concept in order to show that it’s wrong

is a very common way to begin an essay.

TEXT B Coming of Age

1.Teaching Aims:

1) To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill.

2) To enable Ss to master the language points.

2. Contents :

1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill:

Appreciating Figurative Language

2)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related.

3)Some useful expressions:

Sit behind the wheel

Be towed off to the junkyard

Talk about everything and nothing