实用英语第一册教案unit 1 上海交通大学出版社

Unit One

A Teaching Objectives

a. Contents of the text:

Focus 1: Help the students learn a lesson from the story—Look beyond the obvious and allow miracles to be created in our life.

Focus 2: The importance and necessity of crying.

b. Key language points in the text:

Focus 1: 1. Words such as graduate, purchase, hand, regret, desire may function both as a verb and a noun.

2. Present participle used as adverbials of time, cause and result, etc.

3. Absolute construction introduced by the preposition with.

c. Vocabulary:

Focus 1: 31 B-level words, 11 A-level words, and 4 phrases and expressions listed under Vocabulary.

Focus 2: 30 B-level words, 20 A-level words, and 8 phrases and expressions listed under Vocabulary.

d. Comprehensive skills:

Understand a passage at the pre-intermediate level of difficulty and on this basis, be able to write a summary of the text.

e. Functions:

Focus 1: Expressing Thanks.

Focus 2: Writing a Thank-you Letter.

B Procedures and Methods

Eight teaching periods are needed to cover the present unit.

1. Period One and Period Two:

●Step One:

a. Background information:

Graduation Day in the West “There’s a time for joy/A time for tears/A time we’ll treasure through the years/We’ll remember always Graduation Day…” This is a song entitled Graduation Day by Beach Boys. For graduates and their families, Graduation Day marks a unique moment in time: a celebration of years passed, while looking forward to the endless possibilities of the countless hours that lay ahead. To celebrate, a ceremony is usually held at school on which students wear cap and gown for this special moment and the song “Pomp & Circumstances” is the standard march. At home, parents usually throw a party for their children and special gifts are also necessary.

b. warm-up questions

How is the relationship between you and your father?

What is the best gift you have ever received from your father?

(The warm-up exercise shall not take up more than 8 minutes.)

●Step Two: Go over the key words and expressions in the text.

*graduate vi. 毕业

n. [C]（大学）毕业生，研究生He graduated from Beijing University in 1998.

☆admire vt. 羡慕，赞赏，钦佩I really admire you for having

such a big house.

*faithful a. 忠诚的，忠实的；如实的One cannot be too faithful to

one’s du ty.

☆prosperous a.（经济上）成功的；繁荣的，

昌盛的

His business is prosperous.

*business n. [C, U] 商号，企业；商业，

生意；事务

He works for a shoe business.

*afford vt. 买得起，负担得起；提供，

给予This sofa is expensive. I am afraid that I can’t afford it.

*graduation n. [U, C] 毕业典礼；毕业Some of my classmates

didn’t attend the graduation.

☆approach vi./vt. 靠近，接近

n. [U, C] 接近；途径，入门；

方式，方法As summer approached, the weather became hotter.

☆await vt.（人）等候，期待，（事件等）

等待（处理）

I am awaiting your reply.

*purchase vt. 买，购买

n. [C, U] 购买的物品She purchased a new car last month.

*private a. 私人的，个人的；秘密的，

私下的Don’t read my private letters without my permission.

*curious a. 好奇的When I mentioned his name,