Unit 7 when honesty disappears.docx

Unit 7 when honesty disappearsObjectives: 1.To discuss some social phenomenon about dishonesty 2.To further understand the text 3.To apply the phrases and patterns 4.To master the essay writing skill 5.To listen and understand Teaching Focus and Difficulties 1. understand the structure of the text 2. apply the writing skills to organizing a paragraph Teaching aids Multimedia, chalk and blackboard Warming up activities TeachingProcedures:Pre-readingActivitiesStep1.GreetingsGreetthewholeclasswarmly.Step2.Lead-inandpreparationforreadingShowthemsomepicturesonthescreen,andaskthem:1.Whatdoeseachpicturedepict?2.Whatarethecommonproblemsthesepicturesexpose?Step3.FastreadingAsktheStudentstoreadthepassageasquicklyastheycanandthenanswerthequestionsonthescreen.Letthemgetthemainideaofeachparagraphandmakeclearaboutthetextstructure.Textstructure:(structuredwriting)Thepassagecanbedividedinto3parts. Part1 (para.1) Problem Part 2 (para.2-4)Causes and Solutions Part 3 (Para.5-6) Evaluation Purpose: Improve the students reading and writing ability and understand the general idea of each paragraph. Method: Read the text individually and talk in groups; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach, communicative approach and total physical response method.Step4.PreparationfordetailsofthetextonthescreenStudentsarerequiredtolookattheWordsandPhrasesonthescreenandgiveabriefpresentationinclass.WordsandPhrases:Purpose:TraintheStudentsabilityofunderstandingandusingforeignlanguage.Method:Talkingroups,Usetask-basedlanguageteachingmethod,communicativeapproachandtotalphysicalresponsemethod.Words and Phrases: Purpose: Train the Students ability of understanding and using foreign language. Method: Talk in groups, Use task-based language teaching method, communicative approach and total physical response method. 1. (Para.1)not to mention sth. 更不用说某事了 All they have to do is pressing a button, and they can seeshows of every kind, not to mention the latest exciting football match. 他们只需按一下开关就可以看到各种各样的文艺节目。至于最近的激动人心的足球赛更是不在话下。2. (Para.1)rip off盗窃 He was arrested by the police for ripping off a watch after he walked into the store. 他被警察抓了，因为他走进商店后偷了一块手表。 3. (Para.2) exaggerate: v. make sth. seem better, larger, worse, etc. than it really is 夸大；夸张；言过其实Shelly admitted that she did sometimes exaggerate the difficulty of her job. 谢莉承认，她有时候确实夸大了自己的工作难度。 4. (Para.4)cope with（成功地）处理 To my delight, he was able to cope with the stress of his study. 令我高兴的是，他能够处理学习的压力。 5. (Para.4)Launch / wage a campaign发起一场运动 To improve the staffs comprehensive quality, the company launched a massive educational campaign. 为了提高员工的综合素质，该公司发起了一场大规模的教育运动。 6. (Para.4)plagiarism: n. U when sb. uses another persons words, ideas, or work and pretends they are their own 剽窃；抄袭 More than half of the teachers in the survey said they thought plagiarism from the Internet was a serious offense.7. (Para.4) all but: everything or everyone except sth. or sb. 除外全部 All but one of the passengers were killed in the accident. 除了一个乘客外，其他人都在这起事故中丧生。 8. (Para.4) reveal：vt. Make known sth. that was previously secret or unknown 揭示；揭露；透露 Many women do not want to reveal their true age in front of others. 很多女性不愿意在别人面前透露自己的真实年龄。 9. (Para.6)be confined to sth.局限于 For the young, the hunger for knowledge is strong, and it is not confined to any time or place. 年轻人对知识的渴望是非常强烈的，并不受任何时间或地域的限制。10. (Para.6)descend into 陷入状况 They have taken effective measures so as to prevent the city from descending into chaos and bloodshed. 他们采取了有效措施，阻止了整个城市陷入混乱和流血。 Step 5: While-reading Activities Language Points: 1. As numerous accounts of cheating, lying, and fraud crowd our newspaper pages and TV news, it seems that honesty is a rapidly vanishing value. (Para. 1) Meaning: From our newspapers and TV news, we read countless reports about people cheating,lying, and deceiving. Honesty as a valuable merit seems to be disappearing quickly. 2. But are these reports truly accurate or do they exaggerate the situation? (Para. 2) Meaning: But are these reports correct and exact or do they make the situation look worse than it really is? 3. If this is indeed the case, its deeply troubling as todays students are tomorrows leaders! (Para. 2) Meaning: If such a situation does exist, it is very worrying because todays students will become leaders in the future! 4. Modern students who want to fake a term paper dont have to browse long. (Para.3) Meaning: Nowadays, students dont need to spend a long time “stealing” online papers and ideas to be used in their own term paper. 5. Long ago, all American schoolchildren knew the historical story of how Abraham Lincoln walked five miles to return a penny he had overcharged a customer. (Para. 5) Meaning: According to historical records, Abraham Lincoln walked five miles to return a penny he had overcharged a customer. The story with its moral virtue has been passed on from generation to generation. The author uses this story to show what he is to convey in this article.Step 6: Typical patterns: Purpose: Further understand the text （Train further reading ability） to find out some difficult sentences and details of the text. Method: Read the text together; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach, communicative approach, grammar-translation approach and total physical response method. Typical patterns： 1. Travelers ripped off so many towels last year that it cost a major hotel chain $3 million to replace them. Especially troubling are the reports that dishonesty is increasing amongst student populations around the world. 去年一年，一家大型连锁酒店的大量毛巾被游客偷走，酒店因此花费了300万美元来添置新毛巾。尤其令人担忧的是，世界范围内有关学生不诚实行为的报道越来越多。Sb. did sth. / sth. happened. Especially troubling / surprising/annoying are the reports / facts that用于表达“表述一种更令人担忧/吃惊/烦恼的现象或者事实感受”。 应用： 投币坐车本来是给市民提供方便，然而仅一个月公交公司收就收到很多的残币，更令人气愤的是仅假钞的数额就多达三万元。The use of slot machine was aimed at facilitating the citizens, but within one month alone the public bus company received lots of incomplete coins. Especially irritating is the fact that fake money alone amounted to 30,000 Yuan. 2. Some people worry that the Internet, once hailed as the ultimate learning tool, could become the best aid yet for cheating. 有些人担心，曾经被奉为最棒的学习工具的互联网会成为作弊者最得力的帮手。 Sth., once hailed as sth., could become sth. 用于表达“表述一种事物或者一个人今昔境况的对比”。应用：曾经是一位美国警察，被称赞为英雄，现被控告有强奸等几项罪名，已被抓捕。 A former US police officer, once hailed as a hero, has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes. 3. Whether discovered or not, dishonesty has an undesirable effect on anyone who practices it. 不管是否会被发现，不诚实都会给任何一个作弊者带来不利影响。Whether discovered or not (whether conscious or unconscious), sth. will have an effect on sb.用于表达“表述不管在什么情况下某事都可能产生影响”。 应用1：不管是否被查出，剽窃他人的思想会对一个人的名声造成坏的影响，甚至会毁了前程。 Whether checked out or not, presenting another persons ideas as ones own may have bad effect on his name or even damage his future. 应用2：不管承认与否，今天，我们学会了追赶时间，却没有学会耐心等待；我们拥有的财富越来越多，道德品质却日益沦丧。 Whether admit it or not, today weve learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but lower morals.Step7. Consolidation Retell the passage according to the topic sentences. Purpose: To know if the students understand the whole text. At the same time, To show the text structure on the screen, so that they can retell it easily. Method: Read the text st