高职英语教案

Teaching Course：College English

Textbook:New Practical English Comprehensive Course

Teaching Unit：Unit 4 Passage 1 Punctuality and Keeping Promise Teaching Objectives:

1.Get the students to understand the main idea of the passage and realize the importance of punctuality and keeping promise.

2. Have a better understanding of some important words usages and the complicated

sentence pattern

Significant Points

Cultivate students’ competence of reading comprehension by guiding them to learn Passage I: Punctuality and Keeping Promise

Difficult Points:

1. Finding topic sentences

2. Identifying key words

3. Writing an outline of the essay

Teaching Key Points:

1. Important words:

emphasized; concerned; embarrassed; whenever; apologize; inform; unexpected; 2. Important sentence patterns:

(1) How +adj. ;

(2) What’s the use of sth/doing sth;

(3) Whenever clause

(4) The same is true with…

(5) In this case,…

Teaching Methods: Task-based; Communicative Language Teaching Approach;

Teaching Procedure:

I. General Procedure:

1.Raise Warm-up Questions and Introduce Text-related Information. (3-5 Minutes)

2.Ask the students to read the whole passage quickly and find out the topic

sentences of each paragraph and the key words. (3-5 Minutes)

3. Ask the students to read paragraph by paragraph, trying to find out the answer

with the information from each paragraph. (5-8 Minutes)

4.Explain some language points and the complicated sentences. (15 Minutes)

5.Analyze the passage structure and write an outline of this passage (5 Minutes)

6.Role-Play: Students are asked to make up a conversation based on some supposed

situations. (8 Minutes)

7.Assignments: (1) Summarize what have learned in this lesson

(3-5 Minutes) (2) Discussion: Divide students into different groups and let them have a discussion on “The importance of being punctual”.

(3) Preview Passage II

II. Detailed Teaching Procedure:

1.Raise Warm-up Questions and Introduce Text-related Information. (3-5

Minutes)

(1) Warm-up Questions:

(1)If you were late for class, what would say to the teacher and your classmate?

(2)What do you think of people who are not punctual? Why?

(2)Related Information

(1) Punctuality

Punctuality is important in social activities because nobody likes to be kept waiting. A punctual person is usually considered reliable and responsible. Lack of punctuality implies that the person does not have consideration for other people’s time.

(2) Make an Appointment

Many people schedule their time carefully so it’s polite to make an appointment first if you need to see anybody. It's usually necessary to make a phone call well in