高级英语第二册第一课教案教学提纲

Teaching Plan for Unit 1

I. Warming-up conversation

1. What's the topic of your conversation after you came back from home

to the campus yesterday?

(Teacher show them some phrases and expressions about New Year, and let them have a formal conversation in standard English.)

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

dormitory or the conversation held in class? Why?

3.Analysis 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 language? How is it related to language? To King’s language which belongs to the upper class or the well-educated people. How could these two totally unrelated things put together?

II.Background Information of the Text and the Author

This topic can be introduced in several ways:

1.Chinese people’s oral English are commonly commented by

foreigners or foreign teachers as “bookish” English;

2.by telling a joke about the first Chinese delegation to visit

soviet union after China’s opening its door to the outside world.

The soviet union asked an old scholar as an interpreter and his

Chinese is like the ancient classic Chinese.

3.just to raise some question like the different expressions,

such as standard English, social dialect, regional dialect, or

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

China.

4.or the topic might be introduced by me ntioning the “plain

English movement” in academic writing.

III.Detailed Study of the text

Paragraph 1-4 Introductory part

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

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

animal. Conversation is human-specific. [remember that in the

first para animal is concerned and in the last para this is echoed

back.]

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

it ends. In this para, one sentence is special.

“… as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows”

how could we draw a tree diagram to illustrate its syntactic

structure?

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

pub talk –not deeply involved in other people’s lives.

sparkle verb [I]

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

The snow/sea sparkled in the sunlight.

2 If a person or performance sparkles, they are energetic, interesting and exciting:

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

4.in a pub talk, “the king’s English” became a topic. That is

a very natural way to introduce 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 introduced in a top-down fashion.