教案-商务英语阅读-Unit 5-叶兴国

Unit 5

Teaching Objectives:

1. To remember and use new words and expressions;

2. To have general ideas of “financial management”;

3. To review some basic reading skills and learn some word formations;

4. To know about the word formations of Business English vocabulary;

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

Focuses:

1. To review some basic reading skills;

2. To have general ideas of “financial management” by reading to practice basic reading skills;

3. To learn some word formations and deal with the language points in Text A and Text B.

Difficulties:

Review how to use basic reading skills to do reading exercises.

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.

1. Text A Ways to Keep More Cash

a. Let the students read Text A as quickly as they can for the first time to get the general idea;

b. Ask students to tell others the general idea of the text;

c. Then use some basic reading skills to read through the text again to find the answers to Exercise I;

d. Check the answers to Exercise I;

e. Analyze the language points in the text:

1. Bureau of the Public Debt:公共债务局,成立于1940年6月30日,其主要职责是筹措联邦政府所需的款项,核算公共债

务,发行和回购国库券,执行债务管理政策。比如：出售国库券和债券、向投资者支付利息、归还贷款、赎回投资者的证券等。此外，它还通过行政资源中心向各联邦政府实体提供无偿的行政、财务管理和信息技术等服务。

2. Series EE Bonds: 一种固定利率的系列电子储蓄债券。该债券没有对通货膨胀的调节。

3. Series I Bonds: 一种低风险、具有对通货膨胀的调节的储蓄产品。

4. payroll deduction: 从雇员薪水中扣缴。

5. Vanguard: 美国先锋基金管理公司，于1974年由约翰·鲍格尔(John Bogle)创立，其前身威灵顿基金则早在1929年就

诞生了。在不长的时间里面公司已经在基金行业里占有突出的地位，是世界上第二大基金管理公司。

6. eBay:亿贝电子商务公司的门户网站，世界上最大的网上交易平台。

f. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.

2. Text B When Stocks Tank, Some Investors Stampede to Alpacas

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;

c. Point out some language points:

1. Andy Pick, a 49-year-old stay-at-home father at Atlanta, recently bypassed the stock market for liquid

assets — $120,000 in champagnes. 现年49岁、家住亚特兰大的家庭主夫安迪·皮克最近避开股市，转向流动资产—在香槟酒上投资了12万美元。