新编大学英语教案（4）
Unit One Leisure Activities
1．Aims of Teaching
Master the words describing leisure activities.
Improve the students’ abilities of communication and making comments 2．Key Points
Learn something about leisure activities.
Learning to employ the following key words and phrases into practice.
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Using multi-media teaching equipment Group-Discussion Living performance 4．Time Arrangement:
1 Preparation 2-3 4 5 In-Class Reading: Entertaining Humor－What’s Funny? After-Class Reading Exercises Unit 1 Leisure Activities
Part I Preparation Useful Information
There are some people in society who either has to or want to work all the time. Most people, however, seek ways to socialize, to relax or to have fun during their leisure hours. Obviously people's tastes vary depending on their income and their age. But in recent years, the home entertainment, industry has grown all over the world. Instead of going out to see a movie or taking a walk in a park, people of all ages prefer to turn on the television and stay at home. More and more families have tape recorders, CD players, VCRs and VCDs to add to the variety of leisure activities in the home. In some countries, young people spend hours sitting in front of their computers, surfing on the Internet or playing computer games.
Despite the rise in home entertainment, there are still many people who enjoy spending some of their leisure time attending sports events or participating in competitive sports or other physical activities such as dancing and tai chi (shadow boxing). Exercise not only contributes to good health but also takes the mind away from worries and troubles.
Concerts, plays and other performances constitute another source of entertainment outside
the home. While some people prefer to be entertained, others prefer to be the entertainers. They derive great satisfaction in giving others pleasure by making them laugh or by enabling them to lose themselves in the imaginary world of a play or the relaxing sounds of musi3)
Age group College students Leisure activities playing tennis, playing table tennis, playing football, playing basketball, going swimming, going skating, going to Karaoke bars, playing cards, going to movies, watching VCDs, playing computer games, dancing, playing musical instruments, collecting stamps, collecting coins, going to the pub, traveling,. listening to music, reading novels, watching a sports match, going to a concert, going to theatres and museums, going shopping watching TV, going shopping, traveling, bowling, dancing, going to Karaoke, listening to music, reading novels, playing mahjong, watching a sports match, going to concert, playing chess watching TV, dancing, bird-raising, growing plants and flowers, drinking tea in the tea house, traveling, listening to music, reading novels, playing mahjong, watching a sports match, going to a concert Sports activities, dancing Watching TV, listening to music, reading novels, going to the pub, playing cards and mahjong, drinking tea (open) Watching VCDs Advan- tages 1) It’s more convenient, you don’t have to buy tickets, and be dressed formally. 2) You can watch a VCD wherever you like. 3) You can watch it over and over again if you like. 1) Movies are better in quality than VCDs. 2) You can watch undisturbed. 3) You have a relaxed holiday feeling. Going to movies Our parents Our grandparents Most active activities Most passive activities Most popular activities 4) It’s much cheaper than watching a movie. Disadvan- tages 1) The quality is not as 1） The cinemas are good as that of a sometimes too movie. noisy, and too dirty. 2) You are always 2） In summer there disturbed by telephone are many calls or other things mosquitoes in while watching. cinemas. Part II In-class Reading Passage Entertaining Humor — What’s Funny? I. The usage of some new words 1. bureau n.
1)（上有移动覆盖的）大书桌，写字台 2)（政府机构的）局，部，处
e.g. a) a travel bureau 旅游局
b) census bureau 人口普查局／调查统计局 c) the bureau of personnel 人事局 d)Public Security Bureau公安局 bureaucracy官员；（公司的）管理人员；官僚政治；官僚机构 2. clarify v.
1) 解释；澄清；阐明
e.g. a) clarify matters 澄清真相
b) The government has time and again clarified its position on equal pay for women? 政府已经反复阐明政府对男女同工同酬的立场。
2) 使（液体、黄油等）纯净 3. elderly a. 过了中年的, 稍老的
[注意] old, aged, elderly均可用来形容人，意为“老的”，old 为一般用语，意为年老的，如：
The older we grow, the wiser we become.；aged 的意思较为庄重，有很老、上了年纪的意思 The aged lady died of cancer.；elderly 指已过中年，日趋老境，如：The mayor is an elderly man about sixty.
4. irritate v. 1) 激怒
e.g. The noise of the children was irritating me.
孩子们的吵闹使我恼火。 2) 刺激
e.g. a) The smoke irritated my eyes.烟熏得我的眼睛怪难受的。
b) Wool irritates my skin. 羊毛刺激我的皮肤。
新编大学英语教案-第四册-Unit1
