21世纪大学英语第一册unit1教案

21st Century College English (Book I)

Unit One The Secrets of A Students

I. Teaching Objectives

1.Get to know some effective ways to study well.

2.Grasp the key words, Phrases and structure.

3.Master the skills of writing and reading in this unit.

1) Developing a paragraph with a general statement supported by examples.

2) Learning to read passages for the first time understanding the general idea and for the

second time finding out the details and the answers to the questions .

II. Teaching Content

1. Lead-in activities

2. Text Organization

3. Skill learning in writing and reading

4. Language points ( key words, phrases and difficult sentences)

5. Grammar Focus (subjunctive mood with if-clause, ”if” as the formal subject for an infinitive clause.)

6. Guided Practice (exercises, oral practice and group work)

III .Teaching Process

1. Warm-up Activity

1). Discussion

A)What do your group like or dislike about English? Give two or three reasons.

B)What are the greatest problems your group has in English study? If you don’t have any

problems, recommend, as a group, two or three study effective habits your group find .

C)English is a required course for most college students. Apart from passing exams, are there

any other reasons for studying English?

2). Questions about the Text

A)Based on the title, guess what the text is about.

B)Look at the subheadings, 1-8, in the text. Which of these activities have you already done?

In which areas do you feel you need improvement?

C)Are there any “secrets” to your own success as a student? In other words, do you have any

special study techniques which have been very successful for you?

3) Background Information

A) grading system

Grading is just a means for teachers to measure and assess students study. There ususlly are two grading system: the five-grade-marking system and percentage scales.（五分制和百分制）

Schools, colleges and universities in Great Britian and the United States commonly use letter grades to indicate the quality of a student’s academic performance: A (excellent), B (good), C (average), D (below average), and F (failing). In the United States, work rated C or above is

ususlly required of an undergraduate student to continue his / her studies; work rated B or higher is usully required of a graduate student to continue. In percentage scales, 100 percent is the highest mark, and 70 percent (or 65 percent) is usually the lowest passing mark.

B). students at university

A university student who has not yet taken his or her first, or “bachelor’s” degree is an undergraduate. In the United States, a first-year student at a college or university, and in a high school as well, is called a freshman, a second-year student a sophomore, and a third-year student a junior, and a fourth-year student a senior. A graduate is a person who has completed a university degree course while a posrgraduate (or graduate in the United States) is a person doing studies that are done at a university after one has received a first degree.

C) speed-reading

Also known as rapid reading, speed-reading is a method of reading rapidly by skimming and scanning. The aim is to increase the number of words read in a certain length of time, as well as the reader’s comprehension of the text.

2. Text Organization

Part I (para.1-para. 3) presenting the importance of the study skills by two specific examples. Part II (para.4- para.12) giving the 8 study skills concretely

3. Skill learning in writing and reading

1) Reading skill: read the assigned passage twice. The first time concentrate on understanding

the general ideas and on the second reading concentrate on the details and any questions in your mind after the first reading. please take Text B and Text C as your reading materials and finally you will become an efficient reader.

2) Writing skill:

The type of writing is an exposition.

This text is a ty pical “how-to-do-things essay”. This kind of article is ususlly divided into two parts: Part 1, the importance of doing this; Part 2, the concrete methods or procedures of doing it. And the second part is the main body of the article.

Generally spe aking, there’s a topic sentence at the beginning of the text to express the thesis and a conclusive sentence in the end.

In this text, after the examples at the beginning, the author tells us the topic sentence “The students at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can easily learn.”. To match the topic sentence, the author gives us the conclusion sentence “After all, the secrets of A students are not so secret. You can learn and master them and become an

A studen t, too.”.

4. Language Points

1)perform Para. 2 vt/vi.A)) do; accomplish; carry out.

B)) act, play, sing or do (tricks) before audience.

eg. When will the play be ~ed?

The surgeon was ~ing a dangerous operation.

performance n. carrying, acting out, playing music

eg. He is excellent in the ~ of his duties.

His ~ of Hamlet was very good.

performer n. the person who act, play, practice and carry out

[C] perform one’s job perform an experiment