教案-商务英语阅读-Unit 16-叶兴国

Unit 16

Teaching Objectives:

1. To remember and use new words and expressions;

2. To learn how a boss handle his men in the office to make business prosperous;

3. To learn how to help people with different cultures and languages in a community to overcome the

difficulties in communication;

4. To learn the three steps of reading by evaluating;

5. To deal with the language points in Text A and Text B.

Focuses:

2. To learn how a boss handle his men in the office to make business prosperous;

3. To learn how to help people with different cultures and languages in a community to overcome the

difficulties in communication.

Difficulties:

How to do effective reading by evaluating.

Teaching Time:2 periods.

Teaching Procedures:

Part I Pre-reading Questions

It can be used as lead-in questions. For students, they can discuss with each other and will have free answers. Part II Extensive Reading

In this part, there are two texts and their relevant exercises. By reading the texts in limited time, Teacher helps students understand the contents and the reading methods to build reading abilities gradually.

Text A Handle Your Men In the Office

a. Let the students read Text A as quickly as they can to find the answers to Exercise I;

b. Check the answers to Exercise I &analyze the language points in the text:

1. That doesn’t mean that you ought to coddle idleness, or to be slack with viciousness, or even to carry

on the pay-roll well-meaning incompetence. 那并不是说你应该纵容懒惰，或疏忽恶意，甚至给善良但不胜任的员工发放薪水。

2. For a fellow who mixes business and charity soon finds that he can’t make any money to give to charity;

and in the end, instead of having helped others, he’s only added himself to the burden of others. 对一个把企业和慈善机构混淆起来的人来说，他很快就会发现赚不到任何钱捐给慈善机构了，并且最后他不但不能帮助别人，自己反而成了他人的负担。

3. …sits around waiting to be hunted up. ……坐等被人发现。

4. Indiscriminate blame is as bad as undiscriminating praise—it only makes a man tired. 不分青红皂白的指

责和不加区别的褒奖一样，是不可取的—只会使人感到厌烦。

5. Once you do, and it’s only a matter of time before you’ve got to place the remnants in the hands of a

doctor as receiver. 一旦你这么做了，那么何时把你的余生交到医生手里就只是个时间问题了。

f. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.

Text B How to Make the Multicultural Work Force Work

a. Several minutes for students to use some basic reading skills to read the text only once, then ask them to do Exercise I;

b. Check the answers to Exercise I & point out some language points:

1. Immigrants will account for nearly two-thirds of the country’s population growth between now and

2050, according to the US Department of Labor.

account for: (在数量方面)占。如：

Petrochemicals today account for one fourth of all the chemicals made, and in 10 years this account is expected to double.石油化工产品现在已占所有化学制品的四分之一，预计十年后这个数目还要翻一番。

2. To learn how to stack a cooler, for instance, employees study photos of how the contents can be

arranged so that drivers don’t have to reach deep inside to grab any drinks. 例如，为了学会如何在冰箱里放置食品，雇员研究食品能够被如何放置的照片，这样司机就不用把手伸得很深去抓取饮料。

3. Otherwise, he says, ESL classes come and go without much to show for them. 他说，否则的话，非母

语英语课程昙花一现，对他们并没有什么效果。

4. Chefs from the Caribbean know how to whip up such specialties as mondongo (cow intestine),

stewed goat, and salted codfish. 来自加勒比地区的厨师知道如何迅速准备好他们的特色菜，如“焖炖沟”（牛肠）、炖羊肉和腌鳕鱼。

d. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.

Part III Reading Skills

Before dealing with Text A and Text B, ask students to read through the whole passage of reading skill, to lead them to understand how to evaluate the text by reading.

Part IV Supplementary Reading: On Breaking Rules

Ask students to read it in a limited time after class, and then write a summary.

Part V Test Yourself

Ask students to do it and check the answers by themselves.

Questions for Discussion and Reflection:

1.What can you do to help people with different cultures and languages in a community to overcome the

difficulties in communication?

2. In your opinion, if you were a boss, How would you do to make business prosperous?

Assignments

1. Write a short summary of about 50 words for Supplementary Reading;

2. Finish all exercises in this unit.

3. Review all contents learned in this book.

References:

《商务英语阅读教程Ⅰ教师用书》《牛津英汉双解词典》

Appendix: Key to Test Yourself