《基础英语IV》教学大纲

1、 6/6基础英语IV教学大纲.doc 语IV教学大纲 、课程名称：基础英语IVComp rehens i ve Engl ish IV 课程负责人：陈鸿琴 二、学时与学分：95学时，6学分 三、适用专业：英语专业（2年级学生） 四、课程教材：杨立民，徐克容.2004,现代大学英语（精读4）。北京：外语教学与 研究出版社。 五、参考教材：杨立民，徐克容.2000,大学英语教程第四册。北京：外语教学与研究 出版社。 宋兴蕴，王军.2004,现代大学英语全程辅导（精读4）。大连：辽宁师范大学出版社。 郭正行，刘庆秋.2000,高校英语专业精读精讲精练（下）。天津：南开大学出版社。 章振邦.1995,

2、新编英语语法教程。上海：上海外语教育出版社。张道 真.1988,实用英语语法。北京：外语教学与研究出版社。曾庆茂，赵蔚 群.1998,4-8级英语词汇必备。南昌：江西高校出版朱次榴.1990,英 语读写教程。北京：高等教育出版社。 张维友.1997,英语词汇学。北京：外语教育与研究出版社。 王桂珍.1996,英语语音语调教程。北京：高等教育出版社。 六、开课单位：外国语学院 七、课程的目的、，性质和任务： 高等学校英语专业基础阶段的教学任务和目的是“传授英语基础知识，对学生进行全面的、严格的基本技能训练，培养学生实际运用语言的能力，培养学生良好的学习作风和正确的学习方法，培养学生逻辑思维能力和

3、独立工作能力，丰富学生社会文化知识，增强学生对文化差异的敏感性，为学生升入高年级打好扎实基础。” 在大纲指导下开设的基础英语是一门综合英语技能课，目的在于培养和提高综合运用英语的能力。本课程主要通过语言基础训练与篇章讲解分析，使学生逐步提高语篇阅读理解能力，了解英语各种文体的表达方式和特点，扩大词汇量和熟悉英语常用句型，具备基本的口头与笔头表达能力。同时，本课程的教学还包括对学生进行比较系统的语音语调（学生在校期间必须通过相关的语音考试）。学生通过大量地参与课堂教学的各种语言交际活动获得基本的交际能力，达到大纲所规定的听、说、读、写、译等技能的要求。本课程口头作业采取朗读、背诵、故事复述、情景

4、对话、表演以及语音模仿等形式；书面作业一般为听写、句子或短文翻译、周记、作文及便条写作等。考试分为笔试和口试两部分。口试内容主要包括所学内容的复述、问答以及利用所学内容就某一话题进行曰头作文。本课程为专业必修课程、学位课程。 除此外，木课程还要帮助学生为英语专业四级考试作准备。四级考试的目的是全面检查己学完英语专业四级课程的学生是否达到教学大纲所规定的各项要求，考核学生运用各项基本技能的能力以及学生对语法结构和词语用法的掌握程度，既测试学生的综合能力，也测试学生的单项技能。同时，基础英语课为高年级所开设的高级英语课奠定了基础。 八、课程的基本要求： 1)总述 基础英语的教学对象为英语专业二年级

5、上期的学生。其课程要求：传授系统的基础语言知识(语音、语法、词汇、篇章结构等)，训练基本语言技能(听、说、读、写、译)，培养学生初步运用英语进行交际的能力，同时指导学习方法，培养逻辑思维的能力，为进入高年级学习打下扎实的基础。 2)具体要求 ?评分标准：平时成绩(30%) +期末考试(70%)=期末总成绩(100%) ?考勤：迟到、早退、旷课、病假、事假 ?课堂表现： 课堂参与：I叫答问题，作报告，演讲等 课堂纪律 ?作业： 口头作业：朗读、背诵、故事复述、情景对话、表演以及语音模仿等 书面作业：听写、句子或短文翻译、周记、作文及便条写作等 ?测验：每课后单元测验 九、课程的主要内容：Book

6、 IV (* ) Lesson One Text A: Thinking as a Hobby (by William Golding) L Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: slip, integrate, rule, integration, lest, to stand 3.Grammar Focus: parallel construction; subject complement; tenses ways of making suggestions; verb forms 4.Related information about the text About

7、the author: J. Jefferson Farjeon Background Synopsis of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): Describe the character you like best. Or: Comment on the relationship that existed between the guests at the boarding-house. 8.Recite the poem: The Wind by Robert Louis Ste

8、venson 9.Text B: The Hitch-hiker by Francis Greig (%1)Lesson Three Text A: Why Historians Disagree (by Allen F. Davis) L Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: oppose; conclude; cause; loan; by way of 3.Grammar Focus: transitional words or p hrases; the uses of “one”； three ways of defining; prepositions 4.Re

9、lated information about the text About the author: Allen F. Davis Background J Synopsis of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): How should history be taught? 8.Recite the poem: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 9.Text B: The Third Man (Excerpts) by Graham Greene (

10、%1)Lesson Four Text A: A Drink in the Passage (by Alan Paton) L Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: suspend; avert; guard; exhibit; envy 3.Grammar Focus: subject-verb agreement; it is/was said/ believed, etc.; connectives 4.Related information about the text About the author: Alan Paton Background Synopsis

11、 of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): Why does Edward Simelane think that van Rensburg is Tike a man trying to run a race in iron shoes and not understanding why he cannot move”？ 8.Recite the poem: The White House by Claude Mckay 9.Text B: The Bench by Richard R

12、ive (%1)Lesson Five Text A: Man of the Moment (by Alan Ayckbourn) 1.Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: increase; prop; land; grip; value 3.Grammar Focus: tag question; ways of emphasizing 4.Related information about the text About the author: Alan Ayckbourn Background Synopsis of the text 5.D etailed stud

13、y of text A 6.E xercises 7.W ritten Work (Topic): Write a character sketch of Vic or Douglas in about 200 words. 8.R ecite the poem: To Have Succeeded by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9.T ext B: Climbing the Moimtain of Success by Sydney J. Harris (%1)Lesson Six Text A: Groundless Beliefs (by A. E. Mander) L

14、Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: disp ose; extend; result; some uses of “stock (n. abbreviated adverbial clauses; implied condition (both real compare; burst; rebel; dot 3.Grammar Focus: sentence analysis; some uses of as”； absolute construction; tenses relieve; neutralize; prevail; prospect 3.Grammar F

15、ocus: sentence analysis; ways of expressing time; prepositions 4.Related information about the text About the author: Robert J. Samuelson Background Synopsis of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): What is your understanding of globalization? In what way do you thi

16、nk it will affect your career? 8.Recite the poem: Two Love Poems by Sara Teasdale and C. D. B. Ellis 9.Text B: The International Language of Gestures by Paul Esman, Wallace V. Friesen, and John Bear (%1)Lesson Nine Text A: The Most Dangerous Game (by Richard Connel) L Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: dr

17、ess; score; strain; focus; but for 3.Grammar Focus: sentence analysis; where-clause; inversion; verb forms 4.Related information about the text About the author: Richard Connel Backsround J Synopsis of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): Chinese-English Translatio

18、n 8.Recite the poem: Opportunity by Edward Rowland Sill 9.Text B: The Big Buffalo Bass by Weldon Stone (十)Lesson Ten Text A: The Telephone (by Anwar E Accawi) 1.Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: charge; crack; drill; shift; object 3.Grammar Focus: ways of comparing things; expressions of exemplification;

19、 tense and verb forms 4.Related information about the text About the author: Anwar F. Accawi Background Synopsis of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): How a product of modern technology, say, the telephone, the computer or the Internet affect your life or the lif

20、e of your community. 8.Recite the poem: The Telephone by Edward Field 9.Text B: The Hour of Letdown by E.B. White (十一)Lesson Eleven Text A: The Pen of My Aunt (by Josephine Tey) 1.Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: offend; demand; consult; distinguish; anticipate 3.Grammar Focus: the subjunctive; conjunct

21、ions of (necessary) condition; verb forms 4.Related information about the text About the author: Josephine Tey Background Synopsis of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): Write a synopsis of the play. Or: Make a character sketch of either Madame or Simone 8.Recite

22、the poem: Leisure by W. H. Davies 9.Text B: Only Three More Days by William L. Shirer (十二)Lesson Twelve Text A: Lions and Tigers and Bears (by Bill Buford) 1.Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: drift; appeal; tear; element; pick up 3.Grammar Focus: sentence analysis; elliptical sentence; subject-verb agree

23、ement 4.Related information about the text About the author: Bill Buford Background Synopsis of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): The kind of people the narrator met during his night in Central Park. Or: How his mood changed as he explored the park. 8.Recite the

24、 poem: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare 9.Text B: Two Cities by Stanley Cauffmann (十三)Lesson Thirteen Text A: Soldiers Heart (by Louis Simpson) L Pre-class Work 2.Word Study: sweep; stuff; clear; subject; export 3.Grammar Focus: sentence analysis; the passive; “than” a s relative pronoun verb for

25、ms ban; lift; bail; addict 3.Grammar Focus: sentence analysis; ways of enumeration; verb forms 4.Related information about the text About the author: Gore Vidal, Clarence Page & Charles Krauthammer Background Synopsis of the text 5.Detailed study of text A 6.Exercises 7.Written Work (Topic): Suggest two or three specific measures that yo