unit 3

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Unit 3 Love and Marriage

Teaching objectives:

Students are helped to achieve the following aims through the learning of Unit 3

1. help students enlarge their lexical accumulation

2. help students better understand difficult sentences

3. help students do C-E translation & E-C translation

4. help students practice writing

Teaching focus:

1. key lexical accumulation: gracious, swear sb. to secrecy, reluctant, bounce, participate, schedule

2. Grammar focus: with或without+复合结构

Teaching steps:

This unit will be conducted within two teaching periods and each period of teaching will be on one central topic.

Period 1: Passage 1 Reading in Depth (50 minutes)

Step 1: Titles reading and texts understanding (10 minutes)

Step 2: Lexical Chunks Accumulation in Reading 1 (10 minutes) (Key Point)

Step 3: Difficult sentences understanding and translation in Reading 1 (20minutes) (Difficult Point)

Step 4: Summary on with structure (10 minutes) (Difficult Point)

Period 2: Reading comprehension of Reading 2 and writing practice (50 minutes)

Step 1: Reading comprehension check of Reading 2(30 minutes)

Step 2: Exercises of sentence translation(15 minutes) (Key & Difficult Point)

Step 3: Homework on writing(5 minutes)

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Detailed Teaching Plan of Unit 3 Love and Marriage Period 1: Passage 1 Reading in Depth (50 minutes)

Step 1: Titles reading and texts understanding (10 minutes)

The teacher asks students to browse the titles of 5 reading in this unit and help them to predict each reading for a general understanding of this unit.

The titles are presented as follows:

1. A Surprise Gift for Mother

2.Marriages Improve After Children Fly the Coop

3.The Difference Between Loving and Being in Love

4.Mastering the Fundamentals for Marriage

5.Mother’s Day

Step 2: Lexical Chunks Accumulation in Reading 1 (10 minutes) (Key Point)

The teacher asks students to finish the following vocabulary work to help them enlarge their vocabulary and better their reading comprehension.

A. Find the English translation of the following Chinese expressions:

喉咙哽咽feel a catch in the throat

不情愿做be reluctant to do

使某人誓守秘密swear a person to secrecy

深度昏迷的状态 a state of deep unconsciousness

从坐椅上一跃而起bounce out of chair

B. Translate the following into Chinese

pick up the receiver 拿起听筒

gracious hostess 亲切的女主人

in my father’s absence 我父亲缺席，不在场

finishing touches 最后的几笔

to my astonishment 让我吃惊的是

smile broadly 咧嘴笑，眉开眼笑

Step 3: Difficult sentences understanding and translation in Reading 1 (20minutes) (Difficult Point)

Put the following sentences into Chinese and pay attention to their grammatical structure.

1. The smells of roasted turkey, Southern Baked ham and home-made bread hung in the air.

2. All the joys of a close family relationship radiated throughout our parents’ home.

3. With a tear escaping down one cheek, he mumbled.