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Book4
Unit 1 Big Bucks The Easy Way
Teaching Time: 4 hours
Students’ level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 2nd semester. Teaching Objectives:
1. Help Ss get to know the lesson “No pains, no gains” and there is no “big bucks the easy way”.
2. About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section.
Words: cash, echo, competitive, leisurely, pain, sour, finance, marvelous, party, stack,
cram, harm, minimum, range, thoughtful, deadline, inform, normally, sale, trash, delivery, inquire, odd, shrink
Phrases & Expressions: pull up, a piece of cake, even as, know better than, be at,
make a dent, cut into, have no business, settle for, settle one’s account, quite awhile, draw attention to, for sale, for rent, be done with, may as well Grammar: p14
3. About the reading, Ss should learn avoiding vocalization and inner speech. 4. About the writing, Ss should learn word choice..
5. About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 1 directed by teacher.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Pre-reading Activities
1. Background information
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1) Montgomery Ward 2) Sears, 3) Roebuck 2. Warm-up questions
1) Do you depend on your parents financially? 2) Is it easy to earn money by working part-time? 3) Are there any easy ways to make much money?3. Key words and expressions:
New words and old word
Teacher (old words or expressions) U.S. dollar Door handle Unhurried Relaxed Profitable Sent out Endure Beg Tell Fill Tie -可编辑-
students (new ones) buck doorknob leisurely leisurely lucrative deliver live with panhandle inform cram band
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Increase reproduce Extra money bonus Part section A path walk An easy job a piece of cake Pay Have no reason Come to terms with Strange Money Finish English and Chinese phrases
Teacher(Chinese) 考虑 总是 可以容忍 令我痛心 易如反掌 壮汉 干快些 好几卡车的 百货商店 settle
have no business settle for odd finance be done with Students( English) look into all the time live with it pains me a piece of cake a big guy get busy truck loads of department store
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廉价商店 a dime store 小杂货店 drug store 汽车行 auto store 外卖餐馆 takeout restaurant 提高嗓门 voice rises 超过极限 out of the range of 恍然大悟 work a profound change in 教会某人做人 work a profound change in
one’s personality
经过调解 in mediation 结账 settle the account 劳务支出 labor cost 相同数额 a like amount 托某人做 enlist sb. To do
II. While-reading Activities
1. Ss have the silent reading on the text (10 mins) 2. Text and questions for discussion Lines 1-9
1. what did the father tell his college sons to think about?
(to deliver bags of magazines to make some of their own money.)
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2. what was the father worried about?
( the sons would become used to or feel content with living by asking for money all the time.) Lines 10-22
1. why did the mother phone the father?
( she wanted him to know what was going on at home.) 2. How do you understand the word “super” she snapped?
( “super” means very good. But,she “snapped” it, which means she was very angry. She was being sarcastic,i.e. she meant the opposite of what she said.) 3. can you paraphrase the sentence “Another truck just pulled up out front”? (Another truck has stopped outside in front of our hous to deliver more materials.) Lines 23-29
1. which company did the two sons do the delivery job for? ( the Sunday Newspaper Company.) 2. why did each truck deliver 4000 of the inserts?
( Each one was from a different company and had the ads the sons were required to deliver to 4000 houses.) 3. why did he think so?
( He had no idea of how much work it would mean.) Lines 30-35
What did the father mean when he said “they are college men.”?
He meant that they were grown-ups, and should be capable of dealing with the
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