《英语阅读》 教学大纲

《英语阅读》 教学大纲

一、课程名称：英语阅读 二、课程类别：专业必修课

三、教学时数：周学时数 2学时 ，总学时数 136学时 四、学分：8

五、开课时间：第 1─4 学期 六、开课专业：英语专业

七、教学对象：英语专业本科1─2年级学生

八、教学目的：阅读课的主要目的是通过广泛的阅读来培养学生的阅读能力。因此本课程的教学目的是通过广泛的阅读，培养阅读技能及良好的阅读习惯，提高阅读速度与理解能力，拓宽知识面，扩充词汇量和加大词汇的接触频度，增强英语语感，逐步掌握篇章概括方法，最终达到自如地阅读日常生活中常见的英语篇章，如：英文报纸，杂志，广告的目的。

九、课程内容：向学生系统介绍英语阅读的策略与技巧，诸如预测、速读、浏览、把握文章主题、分辨细节问题、根据上下文猜测词义、批判性阅读以及查阅资料等。同时教学内容要题材广泛， 体裁多样。题材既包括社会生活方面的内容， 如文学， 政治， 经济和科技等， 也包括与日常生活紧密联系的内容， 如家庭、就业等。 体裁既包括记叙文、说明文、散文及新闻报导、传记、评论等类型，也包括日常生活中常见的各类应用文体。

十、教学时间安排： 学 期

周 内 容 学 时 1

2 3

4 5

6 Greeting and brief introduction to this course

2 7 Word Study (Context Clues; Stems and affixes)

4 8 Sentence Reading

2 第 1 学 期

9

Sentence Reading and relevant exercises

4

10 Paragraph Reading

2 11 Paragraph Reading (understanding the main idea) 4 12 Paragraph Reading (Making a Judgment) 2 1

3 Paragraph Reading (Drawing a conclusion)

4 14 Paragraph Reading (Making an Inference) 2 1

5 Article Reading (Scanning and Skimming)

4 16 Article Reading (some exercises) 2 17 Self study and Prepare for the final exam

2 1 Climate and Vegetation 2 2 The Marvels of Colour

2 3 Knowing Everybody in Bardfield by Sight 2 4 In an Enemy Country Area

2 5 The Pennsylvania Dutch 2 6 The San Francisco Earthquake 2 7

The Marketplace on the Internet 2 8 Texas; The First Seven Years

2 9 Cigarettes 2 10 Like Father, Like Son?

2 11 Vocabulary

2 12 Pollution: A Threat to Our Environment

2 1

3 Faithful Hachiko

2 14 Chinese-Americans: Success of an Ethnic Group

2 15 The Two Generals 2 16 Through the Tunnel 2 第 2 学 期

17 Problem Solving Made Easier

2 1

The Dry Rock 2 2 Looking For a Job 2 3 How to Say Thank You

2 4 Friends, Good Friends-and Such Good Friends

2 第

3 学 期

5

The Bet

2

6 Mother Tongue 2

7 They are a Weird Mob 2

8 Letter to the Lady of the House 2

9 The Night the Ghost Got in

2 10 A Brother’s Death 2 11 An Old Man

2 12 The Challenge of College Education

2 1

3 The Sniper 2 1

4 Crash

2 15 The Ransom of Red Chief 2 16 In Defense of Voluntary Euthanasia 2 17 Divorce: Sometimes a Bad Notion

2 1 The Virtues of Ambition

2 2 Hard Times 2

3 The Boarding House 2

4 Think about It

2 5 The Duchess and the Jeweller 2 6 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

2 7

The Value of Working 2 8 Recollections of the Gas Buggy 2 9 A New Declaration of Independence

2 10 The Broken Boot 2 11 The Most Dangerous Game

2 12 Heroin 2 1

3 In the Gloaming 2 1

4 The Fate of Thomas Paine 2 1

5 Long Day’s Journey into Night 2 1

6 An Enemy of the People 2 第 4 学 期

17

The Flatering Family

2