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Unit 1 College Life
I.Teaching Objectives:
After finishing this unit, students will be able to:
● get familiar with college life: what they can learn; what activities they can participate in, etc.
● learn to use the key words and expressions in this unit ● learn how to form compound and complex sentences ● learn to adopt the reading skill :reading with purpose ● learn to fill in registration forms and design name cards
II.Teaching Keys and Difficulties:
1. Key words and expressions related to the Listen and Talk golden time in one’s life explore the unknown make a life-long friend develop one’s personal interests
outstanding scholar keep a good balance
lay a solid foundation open doors to one’s dreams 2.Key words and expressions related to Passage A move into gorgeous historic diversity sample
involve remarkable responsible highlight
in terms of think to oneself share with be filled with
be proud of be blown away It’s a relief to ...
3. Key words and expressions related to Passage B
look back turn back cherish come to involve
at the idea of feel like commitment 4. Form compound and complex sentences
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III.Teaching Method: Task-based method
IV.Suggested teaching procedures and class activities
Session 1 (3 periods)
Introduction of college life (1 period)
1.Your course: compulsory/required course and optional/elective course
Compulsory/Required course, studying for a degree or diploma; Optiona/Elective course, not studying for a degree or diploma. 2. Your name: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
3. College students’ psychological changing (in my opinion) Freshman: Don’t know you don’t know yourself. Sophomore: Don’t know you know yourself. Junior: Know you don’t know yourself. Senior: Know you know yourself.
4. Education: Junior college student; Undergraduate student
Postgraduate{master student and doctor student} 5. Degree
Bachelor degree; Master degree; Doctor degree 6. Teacher’s professional title
Instructor or lecture; Associate professor; Professor
7. Some other aspects of college life
Certifications (CPA,CET 4/6, the Certificate of the Primary Computer Examination ,etc.) Activities ( martial arts ,etc .)
Leisure Time ( Library, Dormitory, Sleeping, Seeing a film , Playing computer, Etc. )
( introduce the contents)
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Section I Listen and Talk (2 periods) Step 1 Lead in (25 mins) 1. Warm up questions:
What’s your first impression of our school? What do you expect to learn in your college?
What are your main activities in college life? Can you describe them? 2. Listening: (Listen to the passage and fill the missing words in the blanks. Listen three times)
Keywords: spend, golden, explore, experience, lifelong, various, develop, scholars, lay, open 3. Words and Phrases
golden: adj. 黄金的,宝贵的 lifelong: adj. 终生的,一生的 Opportunity 机会、机遇
Outstanding scholar 杰出的学者 keep a good balance: 保持良好的平衡 lay a solid foundation: 打下坚实的基础
4. Answer: 1.explore 2.experience 3.various 4.develop
5.scholars 6.lay
5. Talking about the pictures or say something about your college life (Pair-work) Keywords: discuss, meet, chat, communicate Step 2 Dialogues (40 mins)
1. Listen to the two sample dialogues and try to answer some questions
Dialogue 1 Meeting on Campus
Who is Mike? What help did Mike need? Who is Dr. Wang? Dialogue 2 At the Registration Office
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Where are the two speakers? What are they doing? Which elective course does Mike choose at last? 2. Practice
Read two dialogues in pairs (pair work) 3. Learn some useful phrases and expressions:
have been looking forward to doing sth.: 一直希望着
I’m here to see whether you need any help. 我能帮你什么忙吗?
show sb. the way: 带某人去 both … and …: 既有…也有… drop out: give up refund: pay back
fill in the forms: 填表格 4.New words and expressions
Step 3 Communicative Tasks (25 mins)
Work in pairs and act the dialogues to the whole class.
Task 1: Meeting with a foreign student and talking about studies
Tips: (P7 ) Glad to meet you.
Where are you from? Which are you in? I’m majoring in …
About your major name: Accountant
Task 2: Helping a foreign friend select his course at the registration office
Tips: (P7) What’s your favorite subject … What course do you like most?
Insightful, informative, boring, practical, fantastic, be interested in
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Step 4 Assignment for this session 1. Pair task
Role-play Communicative task 2 according to the topic and the situation of the task. Performance in class is expected in the next class. 2. Individual tasks
1) Learn the useful words & phrases of Liatsen and Talk. 2) Listen to and read Passage A aloud for at least two times. 3. Group tasks
1) Do the pre-reading exercise of Passage A in groups.
2) Analyze the organizing structure of Passage A in groups.
Session 2 (4 periods)
Lexical preparation for Passage A Step 1 Pre- reading Tasks (15 mins) 1.Culture notes:
The Introduction of Harvard University
Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the eastern coast of the United States. Harvard University, which was established in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United Sates. Most of Harvard University’s campuses are located in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, on the eastern coast of the United States of America.
It has about 2 100 faculty members and more than 10 000 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals. Harvard University is made up of 11 principal academic units — ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The ten faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees. There are about 21 000 students — about 6 700 undergraduates and 14 500 graduate and professional students.
Seven presidents of the United States — John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford
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