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 Course1课程名称：大学英语精读课Intensive Reading2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 Class2.1 阅读：ReadingUnit 1, Reading: A School with No RulesThis unit discusses different ideas aboutdiscipline in schools by looking at thecontext of the “free” school of Summerhillwhere the students make the rules. This unitrelates discipline to learning and motivationUnit 2, Reading: Fear of the Unknown, Not the knownThis unit has a mystery poem and a mysterystory.Unit 3, Reading: Reporting the NewsThis unit looks at the job of newspaperreporting and the role of the internationalnews agencies.Unit 4, Reading: Living in Virtual RealityThis unit looks at the world of virtualreality: special helmets and clothing andcomputers.Unit 5, Reading: The Richest Man in the WorldThis unit looks at the stories of how some ofthe richest people became rich.Unit 6, Reading: Practical JokesThis unit takes up the topic of practicaljokes and reports on some tricks which havebeen played by the media.Unit 7, Reading: Life is Just a DreamIn this unit there is an interview with adoctor who explains why we dream and whatdreams are.Unit 8, Reading: Project “ORBIS”—the Flying Eye HospitalThis unit describes a medical project whichis working to reduce the problems which affectpeople’s sight in some countries. Foundation Test 1,2This 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：grammarUnit 1: PrepositionsUnit 2: Singular and Plural NounsUnit 3: AgreementUnit 4: Connecting ideasUnit 5: PronounsUnit 6: InfinitivesUnit 7: Auxiliary VerbsUnit 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 DailyAdvertisements (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 9/4VOABBC3. Learn through the Internet：chatting online/ white lies / pen-friend4. 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 readThe purpose of this section is to get students to think about the topic and have discussions.ReadingThe 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 VocabularyThere 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 shouldfind the word in the checking Vocabulary section. Then they can read the appropriate definition and notice the pronunciation and Chinese meaning.Thinking about your readingThis 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 wordsThis 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 LanguageThis 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 translationIn 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 previoussection.。