高级英语第二册第一课教案

Teach ing Pla n for Unit 1

I. Warmin g-up conv ersatio n

1. What's the topic of your con versati on after you came back from home

to the campus yesterday

(Teacher show them some phrases and expressi ons about New Year, and let them have a formal conv ersati on in sta ndard En glish.)

2. What kind of conversation do you prefer, the casual free talk in the

dormitory or the conv ersatio n held in class Why

of the Title

Pub is usually a place for low class people to get together. They meet friends there or go there to have a drink or just to relax. And what about the Ianguage How is it related to Ianguage To King ' s Ianguage which

bel ongs to the upper class or the well-educated people. How could these two totally un related things put together

Information of the Text and the Author

This topic can be in troduced in several ways:

people ' s oral English are commonly commented by foreigners or

foreign teachers as “bookish ” English;

telling a joke about the first Chinese delegation to visit soviet

union a fter China' s opening its door to the outside world. The soviet

union asked an old scholar as an in terpreter and his Chin ese is like the

ancient classic Chin ese.

to raise some question like the different expressions, such as

sta ndard En glish, social dialect, regi onal dialect, or writers

of local colorism, such as Mark Twain or Jia Pinwa in China.

the topic might be in troduced by men ti oning the “ pla in En glish movemen” in academic writing.

Study of the text

Paragraph 1-4 In troductory part

The students should pay special attention in this part to how the topic

is ushered in.

definition of conversation: how human is different from the animal.

Conversation is human-specific. [remember that in the first para

ani mal is concerned and in the last para this is echoed back.]

charm of conversation: no one knows where it starts and where it ends.

In this para, one sentence is special.

“…as it mean ders or leaps and sparkles or just glows ”

how could we draw a tree diagram to illustrate its syn tactic structure

introducing of pub talk in Britain. The characteristics of pub talk

- not deeply invoIved in other people ' s lives.

sparkle verb [I]

1 to shine brightly with a lot of small points of light:

The sno w/sea sparkled in the sun light.

2 If a pers on or performa nee sparkles, they are en ergetic,

interesting and exciting:

Alice is shy and quiet at parties, but her sister really sparkles!

a pu

b talk, “the king ' s English ” became a topic. That is a very n atural way to

in troduce the topic.

In a way, this reminds us of the ways to introduce a topic mentioned by Aristotle. Through an anecdote. And in the first two paragraphs, the topic is in troduced in a top-dow n fashi on.

desultory adjective FORMAL without a clear pla n or purpose and show ing