第一单元 新视野第三版第二册

辽宁工程技术大学基础教学部外语教研室大学英语（2）教案

use English learning strategies consciously

教学重难点

Using proper language to talk about English learning

How to apply the reading skill – reading for the key idea in a sentence

教学材料教学方法

1. 教学材料：TextA课文、练习

2. 教学方法：Under the guidance of student-centered principle, apply communicative and heuristic teaching methods, stimulate students’ interest in learning English and get students involved in class participation

教学过程

一、课前导入

Talking about your experience of learning English

Watch the video clip and discuss the following question in pairs.

1）According to the speaker, in what ways did Chinese students learn English?

Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.

2）Do you agree with what he said about Chinese students learning English? Why or why not.

Yes, I just learned English exactly that way.

No, we have learned English in different ways.

3）How do you learn English? What do you think of your way of English learning?

I learn English by:

listening to the teacher carefully in class

taking notes …to go over lessons later

catching every chance to practice speaking

listening and reading a lot

doing enough exercises to practice grammar rules

I think my way of English learning is:

effective, ineffective, interesting, boring

challenging but rewarding

examination-oriented

二、文本学习

1. Global understanding of the text

1）Scan the text in three minutes and fill in the blanks.

After I read the passage, I know the text talking about how _________ and __________ can be taught efficiently. The writer might be a ________ and a ________________ as well.

2）What is the writing style of the text? Why?

The writing style of the text is relaxed, which is proved by a lot of short sentences and paragraphs, casual verbs, daily talks and simple modifiers.

3）Map the text structure and fill in the blanks.

2. Detailed understanding of the text

Read the text again and answer the following questions.

1) Why does the son think that his father is a tedious oddity?

Because he is tired of listening to his father and he is not interested in grammar rules.

2) Why does the author think that students’ language deficits should be blamed on schools?

Because the schools fail to set high standards of language proficiency. They only teach a little grammar and less advanced vocabulary. And the younger teachers themselves have little knowledge of the vital structures of language.

3) What does the father teach the son while giving him a grammar lesson?

He familiarized his son with different parts of speech in a sentence and discussed their specific grammatical functions including how to use adverbs to describe verbs.

4) What are the two things that the author uses to describe grammar and vocabulary?

The author uses ―road map‖ and ―car‖ to describe grammar and vocabulary. Here, ―road map‖ is considered as grammar and ―car‖ as vocabulary.

5) How do you understand the interjection “whoa!” said by the father toward th e end of the text?

Since the subjunctive mood his son used is a fairly advanced grammar structure, the interjection ―whoa!‖ reflects the tremendous pride the father had toward his son; it also reflects the author’s humor in using the word because it was once used by his student, though in two different situations and with two different feelings.

第二次课

一、文本拓展

1) Text Summary

An Impressive English Lesson

To my son, I am a _____________: a father he is __________ listen to and a man ____________ the rules of grammar. And I got ______________ this because my student was unable to describe properly her feeling on her __________ to Europe.

However, it doesn’t ________________ to criticize our students. They unfairly bear the bulk of the criticism for these __________________ because there is a sense that they _________________. On one hand, they are misled by the____________. On the other hand, school fails to _________________ the essential framework of language, accurate grammar and proper vocabulary.Perhaps, language should be looked upon as a _________ and a ___________________: often study the road map (check grammar) and ________ the car engine (adjust vocabulary). Learning grammar and a good vocabulary is just like driving with a road map in a ________________ car. __________, _________, and __________ communication depends upon grammar and a good vocabulary, the two __________ assets for students, but they are ________________ in schools.

2) Language Points

3. Criticl thinking

1）What do you think of the “impressive English lesson”? Is it effective?

●Yes. Because the lesson aroused children’s interest in learning English grammar.

●Yes. Because the way to learn grammar is more natural, interesting and enjoyable.

●Yes, because learners become more motivated when learning something they like.

●No. because it’s like a street learning without formal instruction.

2) Do you think English grammar helps you a lot in learning English? Why or why not?

English grammar helps a lot:

●Order sentences correctly.

●Use words properly.

●Talk with other English speakers confidently

English grammar is of little help:

●Only give rules that are hard to remember.

●It is not helpful in a real-life setting due to the limited time to think and recall the rules.

●Not always applicable to the real language, especially idioms.

3) How can you effectively enlarge your vocabulary?

●Read more English from online sources.

●Watch English TV / listen to English radio / watch English online videos.

●Talk often with English speakers.

●Listen carefully and extensively.

●Use dictionaries to look up unfamiliar words.

●Use new words as often as possible.

二、写作训练 (P13)

1）Structure Analysis

As the name of our textbook implies, we read English in order to write in it. But how to write in the English way?As is known to all of us, what we write reflects what we think; and how we write mirrors how we think. In that light, our best way of writing in English is to know well how to think in English as the American or British people do. What is their way of thinking then?

Different from us who think in the spiral way (螺旋式), they tend to think in the linear way (线性方式). As far as paragraph writing is concerned, deduction (演绎法) is typical of their linear way of thinking, as shown below:

Starting from this book, you are moving from paragraph writing to short essay writing. In a likely manner, however, we will go through the same process for essay writing as we did for paragraph writing. In college writing, an essay normally has three main parts: introduction, body,

What are minor details and what are the main ideas. (Many words in a sentence describe things about the subject of the sentence but they merely find the details to it. If we ask when, what, where, or why, we will find out these details, which further help us to see the key idea of the sentence.)

4) What to keep in mind to find out the key idea of a sentence?

Of course, we cannot always easily decide which details are simply descriptive and which add much to the key idea. However, the starting point for determining the key idea in

a sentence is to find who or what the sentence is about and what the person or object is

doing.

2. 文本学习

1) Applying the reading skill

What can the title “The Great Journey of Learning” tell us?

The title ―The Great Journey of Learning‖, coupled with the topic ―Language in Mission‖ of the unit, tells us the central idea—The process of learning has a profound effect on one’s life.

2) Detailed understanding of the text

Read Text B and choose the best answer to each of the questions (Page 24)

Read the text again and think about the following questions:

1. Why did Malcolm X want to learn English? (Para.2)

Because he was poorly educated, he felt inadequate to teach his new beliefs to others.

2. What motivated Malcolm X to launch on a quest to overcome his language deficiencies? Malcolm X’s considerable frust ration at his inability to read and write launched him on a quest to overcome his deficiencies.

3. How did Malcolm X move from basic literacy toward true proficiency? (Para. 5)

He copied dictionary, read everything he had written aloud and logged important things that happened every day. Repetition helped move him from basic literacy toward true proficiency. 4. What did Malcolm X obtain from language learning? (Paras. 9-10) Reading had changed forever the course of Malcolm X’s life. As he ac quired knowledge, his horizons expanded. He had left behind the narrow, ignorant world of his youth to join the world community of thoughts and actions ever since he started with his great journey of learning English in prison.

3. 知识总结

听说训练

第四次课

教学目的及要求

Talk about learning experiences

Listen for signal words for listing

Give and respond to advice

Talk about learning / teaching methods

教学过程

1. Listening to the world

Sharing

1) Watch a podcast for its general idea.

The podcast is mainly about the things people are learning at the moment and the most difficult thing they have ever learned.

2) Watch Part 1 and fill in the blanks

●new things

●At the moment

●quite difficult

3) Watch Part 2 and check the true statements.

Listening

Listening skills

Listening for signal words for listing

●Listen for the total number of items at the beginning

●Listen for words and expressions that signal the beginning, following and end of the listing

? e.g. the last, the final, lastly, and finally

●Listing items with equal value

? e.g. to begin with, to start with, furthermore, moreover, in addition, besides, what’s

more, the last but not the least, lastly, finally

●Words and expressions indicating importance

?expressions: above all, the most important / obvious / noteworthy

?Adjectives: main, vital, significant, chief, central, principal, primary, major,

distinctive, and the –est forms of adjectives

1)Listen to a radio program and rearrange the following expressions.

e-c-a-g-d-h-b-f

2) Listen to the radio program again and complete the table.

●speak

●saying the wrong thing