大学英语精读预备级读写教案Unit 6

1、大学英语精读预备级读写教案Unit 6授课教师教 材大学英语精读预备级. 董亚芬. 2015. 上海外语教育出版社.授课内容Unit 6 CompassionText A: The Old Bag Lady学时2 periods教学目的To know about compassionTo master important language pointsTo understand the main idea and structure of the textTo understand the devices for developing text教学重点与难点Teaching emphasis:

2、 To master important language points and understand the main idea of the text;Teaching difficulties: To understand the structure of the text and the devices for developing it.教学方法与手段Teaching method: heuristic teaching; communicative language teachingTeaching means: multi-media and blackboard教学参考书大学英

3、语精读预备级 教师用书.董亚芬. 2015. 上海外语教育出版社.教 学 进 程ITeaching Plan (2 periods) The first period: theme-related questions for warming up; global understanding (introductory remarks; title analysis; author introduction; writing style; main idea); detailed understanding(Para 1-5)The second period: structure analys

4、is; detailed understanding(useful words and expressions; language appreciation; difficult sentence patterns); summary and discussion; assignmentIITeaching StepsStep 1. Warming-upa. Ask students to observe three pairs of pictures and then answer some questions:1. What can you see in these pictures? 2

5、. Are you willing to help the poor?3. Do you think it is a good way to help the poor by giving them money or things?b. Present and explain the topic of Unit 6 - compassion.Compassion is sharing the suffering of others. It is being there for them, and listening to them patiently. When friends show co

6、mpassion, it feels as though they are helping us carry our burden. The joy of experiencing their love reduces our suffering. Caring for others is something basic to human nature. To care is to express humanness. Step 2. Global understandingAsk the Students to read the passage as quickly as they can

7、and then answer the questions on the screen. Let them get the main idea of each paragraph and be clear about the text structure.1. How to translate the title of Text A?2. What is the style of the text?3. What is the theme that this story tries to convey?4. Can you summarize the main idea of Text A i

8、n your own words?Step 3. Detailed understandinga. Students are required to master the basic content of the text and teacher gives a brief presentation of the scenes of the story in class.Scenes of the story:ScenesParasHappenings11-5The heroine showed up.26-11The old lady found two half dollars.312-1

9、5She went to the vendor to buy food.416-20The talk between Joe and a rich man.521-23The woman and her children got the food.624-26The rich man died in an accident.727-33They rode off to a better life.b. Teacher gives a detailed analysis of the whole text in terms of scenes. As for each scene, teache

10、r designs several questions to help students master the structure, main idea and writing method of the text.Scene 1 questions: What is the image of the old lady? How is the old ladys living condition?Scene 2 question: What is the old ladys response when she found two half dollars?Scene 3 questions:

11、What did she think about when she got money? What did she buy with the coins?Why did the vendor put the coins in his special pocket?Scene 4 question: How did the rich man think of Joes action?Scene 5 questions: Did the old lady eat the food? How do you think of her deed?Scene 6 questions: What did t

12、he old woman see on the street? Why didnt the old woman rescue the rich man?Scene 7 questions: What was written on the card the old lady got from Joe? What is the ending of the story?c. In the process of detailed understanding, teacher explain the following difficult words, phrases and sentence patt

13、erns: the hot dog vendor; noble heart; noble deeds; pay off; several layers of torn; filthy clothing; a shopping cart; have a bath; in bad / good shape; bend down; do with; come to (sb.); hold up;think about (sb. / sth); in exchange (for); care for (sb.); give the food away; break her hot dog in hal

14、f;cross the road; race around the corner; be finished with sth; gather up; pack up; ride offDifficult sentence patterns:1. living out on the street with her on the corner of Eighth and Chestnut Streets. (Para. 13) living out on the street with her in the place where Eighth Street and Chestnut Street

15、 met.2. Now, this particular hot dog vendor made it a practice to do at least one good deed every day. (Para. 15)Now this particular vendor selling hot dog had a habit of doing at least one good thing every day.The word “now” is used at the beginning of a sentence to explain, warn, comfort, etc.3. Y

16、ou mean in keeping them dependent. (Para. 19)You mean there is no harm in keeping them dependent.The rich man thought that in giving his food away to the poor, the vendor was keeping them dependent.4. When they were finished with her. (Para. 26)When they completed asking her the questions concerning

17、 the death of the rich manStep 4. Summary and discussionStudents are asked to make a summary of the text in no less than 100 words. After that, they are required to fill in the blanks. Caring for others is something basic to human nature. To care is to express humanness. And inability to care, more

18、than anything else, shows a human being to be inhuman. In this story, we will meet an old bag lady and a hot dog vendor who always tried to help others, and a rich man who showed no compassion for those in need. Being nice to others doesnt cost you much in most cases, but it may have a great impact on the person you have been nice to. So why not be nice to others? Your kindness can make our world more be