Introduction

《大学英语预备级1》课程开篇导学
Introduction of College English (Foundation)
一. 课程简介：General Introduction of this Course
1课程名称：大学英语精读课
Intensive Reading
2授课教材：《大学英语》（综合教程预备级）(上海外语教育出版社, 2003)
College English -Integrated Course (foundation)
二. 课程任务：Content of Class
2.1 阅读：Reading
Unit 1, Reading: A School with No Rules
This unit discusses different ideas about
discipline in schools by looking at the
context of the “free” school of Summerhill
where the students make the rules. This unit
relates discipline to learning and motivation
Unit 2, Reading: Fear of the Unknown, Not the known
This unit has a mystery poem and a mystery
story.
Unit 3, Reading: Reporting the News
This unit looks at the job of newspaper
reporting and the role of the international
news agencies.
Unit 4, Reading: Living in Virtual Reality
This unit looks at the world of virtual
reality: special helmets and clothing and
computers.
Unit 5, Reading: The Richest Man in the World
This unit looks at the stories of how some of
the richest people became rich.
Unit 6, Reading: Practical Jokes
This unit takes up the topic of practical
jokes and reports on some tricks which have
been played by the media.
Unit 7, Reading: Life is Just a Dream
In this unit there is an interview with a
doctor who explains why we dream and what
dreams are.
Unit 8, Reading: Project “ORBIS”—the Flying Eye Hospital
This unit describes a medical project which
is working to reduce the problems which affect
people’s sight in some countries. Foundation Test 1,2
This book also has two test papers so that students can measure their progress. Each test paper has two texts and a series of text activities for reading comprehension, knowledge of vocabulary and language structures, cloze activities, translation and writing activities.
2.2 语法：grammar
Unit 1: Prepositions
Unit 2: Singular and Plural Nouns
Unit 3: Agreement
Unit 4: Connecting ideas
Unit 5: Pronouns
Unit 6: Infinitives
Unit 7: Auxiliary Verbs
Unit 8: Articles
三. 学习的重点与难点
本学期的教学内容为教材的8个单元，词汇和语法的学习为学习的重点。

每单元的(reading)精读课文是教学的重点，每单元的(reading by yourself)泛读课文是自学内容。

学习的重点是基本词汇、词组和相关的语法。

四. 学习方法;
Several ways to improve English study are as follows:
1.Read English Newspapers：
21st Century, China Daily
Advertisements (Ads):
1) Start ahead.
2) Fresh up with seven-up.
3) Everything goes better with Coca-cola.
2. Watch English Television Programs and Listen to English Radio Programs：
CCTV 9/4
VOA
BBC
3. Learn through the Internet：
chatting online/ white lies / pen-friend
4. Practice Tongue twisters:
I eat what I can and I can what I can’t.
Sally always suffers from seasickness when she is at sea.
She sells some seashells on the shining seashore.
5. Proverbs:
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
No fish without bones, no woman without a temper.
五，其他应注意的问题：
教材的使用要求：
How to Use this Book:
There are eight units in this book. Each Unit has two texts for reading: “Reading” and “Reading by yourself”. We focus on “Reading” in class. “Reading by yourself” is students’ homework.
There are seven parts in each section of “Reading”, they are “Getting ready to read”, “Reading”, “Checking vocabulary”, “Thinking about your reading”, “Working with words”, “Working with language” and “Working on translation”.
Getting ready to read
The purpose of this section is to get students to think about the topic and have discussions.
Reading
The reading is a short text on an interesting topic. In different units these texts are articles, reports, stories, explanations, poems or interviews. They will help learners to develop their language skills by focusing on different features of grammar and vocabulary. In this way they will extend students’ reading skills through a wide variety of activities.
Checking Vocabulary
There are several ways of using this section. Some readers may wish to work through this section before they read the text. This is a traditional habit: studying new words and then reading a text later. In this way, the students will not get used to looking at new words in their context before using a dictionary, and this means it will become more difficult for them to become independent in their reading. Therefore, we suggest another way of using this section.
Students should try to read through the text to get a general idea, even if they do not know all the words. Then they may read through the text a second time. To do this, they should
find the word in the checking Vocabulary section. Then they can read the appropriate definition and notice the pronunciation and Chinese meaning.
Thinking about your reading
This section has a wide variety of exercises such as multi-choice questions, true-false questions and open questions to help students to really understand the text.
Working with words
This section takes some of the words and phrases from the checking vocabulary section and other important vocabulary from the text and helps students to understand it, use it and learn it.
Working with Language
This section is based on the common errors which are often made by Chinese students. The focus is on propositions, uncountable and countable nouns and plural forms, subject-verb agreement, connecting ideas using conjunctions and so on.
Working on translation
In this section there are five sentences to translate from English and five to translate from Chinese. These sentences are carefully based on the texts and they use the same kind of language that has been used in the activities in the previous
section.。