高级英语(新编5)教案 unit 1

新编英语教程第五册教案

Unit One Hit the Nail on the Head

Teaching Objectives:

1.Get to know the important words and useful phrases and of Text One and take down all the important language points the teacher explains.

2. Understand the implications of the complex sentences

3. Grasp the structure and the theme of Text One.

4. Learn the writing skills used in the text: analogy and selecting topic.

5. Revise and strengthen the grammatical knowledge from exercises in workbook.

6. Compose a paragraph using analogy.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1. Learn the important words and useful expressions:

drive something home/ subtle/ scrupulous/ subtle/far afield / rife/

malapropism /coercion/ epitomize/disprove/expire/indigent

2. Understand the application of analogy in Text One.

3. Grasp the writing skill—writing topic.

Teaching Procedures:

Session One

Text I Hit the Nail on the Head

I．Pre-reading Questions

Have you ever hit a nail into a box? What’s the correct way of doing it?

What dose the proverb “ hit the nail on the head”mean?

Can you see the connection between the proverb and our writing?

Force the nail to the right place

It means exactly right in words or action（恰如其分）

The author advises that the English students should try to get the words, phrases and sentences completely right for their purposes in their writing.

2. Useful Expressions:

Hardware: lock, padlock, bolt, keyhole, hinge, rivet, screwdriver, spanner vise, saw, plane,

Head: the head of the table: the end of a table usually occupied by the host/hostess, the

head over heels/ears: with one’s body turned upside down

somebody’s head rolls : somebody is executed or assassinated

one’s head rules : wisdom, commonsense, caution or self-interest, determines one’s conduct one’s head swells: one thinks very highly of onesel f

head to tail : placed, or following each other

II．Dictionary Work

1. drive something home:force (the nail) into the right place; make something unmistakably clear

2. Deft: effortlessly skilful

3. scrupulous: painstaking, meticulous

4. subtle : hardly noticeable

5. far afield : very far away

6. rife : widespread, common

7. leader : British English for newspaper editorial

8. Coercion: pressure, compulsion

9. epitomize : be typical of; serve as the typical example of

10. disprove : prove to be contrary; refute

11. expire : die, pass away; come to an end

12. indigent : poverty-stricken, penniless

III．Background Information.

1. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist, was associated with, thought not representative of, the movement of naturalism and known as one of the greatest realists of nineteenth-century France. He devoted his life to long hours spent in heavy toil over his work.. His writing is marked by exactness and accuracy of observation, extreme impersonality and objectivity of treatment, and precision and expressiveness in style, or the principle of the mot juste.（他的作品以细致观察和剖析之风而闻名，特别是他那“客观而无动于衷”的创作理论和精雕细琢的艺术风格，在法国文坛上独树一帜）

2. Mrs. Malaprop is a famous character in Sheridan’s comedy The Rivals (1775). She is noted for her blunders in the use of words. “As headstrong as an allegory (alligator) on the banks of the Nile” is one of her grotesque misapplications. She also requests that no delusions (allusions) to the past be made. She has given us the word malapropism as a name for such mistakes.

3．Hindi is a literary and official language of northern India. Swahili is a Bantu language that is a trade the governmental language over much of East Africa and in the Congo region. Bantus are people belonging to a group of tribes found in equatorial and southern Africa.

4．Carpenter The chief work of the carpenter is to cut, shape, and fasten lumber, timbers, and other materials according to the intention of the designer. Building plans show dimensions and locations, but rarely give the carpenter all the necessary information. A carpenter must draw on experience