College english 3 The course curricular Participants: Second-year Students Majoring Time: 9/2001-2/2002 First semester of the Academic Year 2001-2002 Teaching Material: College English(Revised edition, published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester O Text Learning (10 units altogether) C Learning to wri te English composition O Integral Training: trying to improve the students proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking General Goals or Objectives of This Semester V try to improve the students reading speed and the ability to get information from reading materials correctly. V Students acquisition of the skills involved through supplementary materials and texts V More attention will be given to the understanding of discourse: focus on globaI understanding. Enlarge students'vocabulary(Key words and structure, lEarn the features of English composition and learn to write. Teaching Plan This terms teaching content covers 10 units. Basically every hwo units will be finished within 3 weeks. Except the one-week holidays in National Day there are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9 unit should be finished at the end of this term. Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6 Teaching Task Week I to Week 3 Unit 1. A Brush With the law Unit 2 The Woman Who would not tell Week 4 to Week 6 Unit 3: Why I Teach Unit 4: Down But not Out Week 7 to Week 9 Unit 5: The Day Mother Cried Unit 6: A Days Wait Week 10 to Week 12 Unit 7: The Shelter Unit 8: Daydreaming a Little Week 13 to Week 15 Unit 9: The Death of Hitler Unit 10: The Fantastic Spurt of Technology Week 1 General Review
1 College English 3 The Course Curricular Participants: Second-year Students Majoring Time: 9/2001-2/2002 First semester of the Academic Year 2001－2002 Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition，published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester ◆Text Learning（10 units altogether） ◆Learning to write English composition ◆Integral Training: trying to improve the students proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking. General Goals or Objectives of This Semester ▼try to improve the students’ reading speed and the ability to get information from reading materials correctly. ▼Students acquisition of the skills involved through supplementary materials and texts. ▼More attention will be given to the understanding of discourse: focus on global understanding. ▼Enlarge students’ vocabulary (Key words and structure) ▼Learn the features of English composition and learn to write. Teaching Plan This term’s teaching content covers 10 units. Basically, every two units will be finished within 3 weeks. Except the one-week holidays in National Day, there are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9 unit should be finished at the end of this term. Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6 periods. Weeks Teaching Task Week 1 to Week 3 Unit 1: A Brush With the Law Unit 2: The Woman Who would not Tell Week 4 to Week 6 Unit 3: Why I Teach Unit 4: Down But not Out Week 7 to Week 9 Unit 5: The Day Mother Cried Unit 6: A Day’s Wait Week 10 to Week 12 Unit 7: The Shelter Unit 8: Daydreaming a Little Week 13 to Week 15 Unit 9: The Death of Hitler Unit 10: The Fantastic Spurt of Technology Week 16 General Review
Unit 1A Brush with the law I Intensive reading Objectives:1. Understanding the main idea(法律的适用性和界限性) derstand the structure: Comparison and contrast(对于犯罪的 界定的前后强烈对比) 4. Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text 5. Conduct a series of speaking and listening task based on the text Teaching focus: 1. understand the arbitrariness of the british law and the hypocracy in capitalist society(提醒学生注意成长过程中的青春困惑期,不可 随意行事) 2. The understanding of“ arbitrary”and“ fate in court” counter ulture的认识。 4. Shades of meaning:对 Brush一词的文体特征的理解 Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 2nd period 3rd period 4th period 5th period 6th period Intensive While-reading While-reading questions for (questions for Language Extensive Listening points, read ing While-read language Post-read i (structure points) characteristics of lady hermits Pre-reading Tasks (45 minutes) 1. Warming up activities Pair work/ group work: students work in pairs or groups to discuss the following questions 1)What does the word"law remind you of? 2)What are the basic requirements of law 3)What's the function of law? 4)Do you think law can always fulfill its function, and why? 5)On what basis should police be able to arrest somebody? 6)Is it the case in this story? 2. Nicknames of the British and American policeman and the different use or stylistic meaning of them(10 minutes) 2
2 Unit 1 A Brush with the Law I Intensive reading Objectives： 1. Understanding the main idea (法律的适用性和界限性) 2. Understand the structure : Comparison and contrast (对于犯罪的 界定的前后强烈对比) 3. Learn related law terms 4. Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text. 5. Conduct a series of speaking and listening task based on the text Teaching focus：1.understand the arbitrariness of the British law and the hypocracy in capitalist society(提醒学生注意成长过程中的青春困惑期，不可 随意行事) 2. The understanding of “arbitrary” and “fate in court” 3. 对 youth counterculture 的认识。 4. Shades of meaning: 对 Brush 一词的文体特征的理解 Time allotment (This unit will be finished within 6 periods) 1 st period 2 nd period 3 rd period 4 th period 5 th period 6 th period Intensive reading: Pre-reading; While-reading (structure, characteristics of lady hermits While-reading (questions for discussion) While-reading (questions for discussion, language points) Language points, Post-readi ng Extensive reading Listening and speaking Pre-reading Tasks (45 minutes) 1． Warming up activities Pair work/ group work: students work in pairs or groups to discuss the following questions 1) What does the word “law” remind you of ? 2) What are the basic requirements of law? 3) What’s the function of law? 4) Do you think law can always fulfill its function, and why? 5) On what basis should police be able to arrest somebody? 6) Is it the case in this story? 2. Nicknames of the British and American policeman and the different use or stylistic meaning of them(10 minutes) cop /brush…
While-reading Tasks (90 minutes) Reading comprehension 2. In what circumstances can someone be in trouble with the law' 3. What follows then? 4. What are“ arbitrary circumstances”? 5. Do arbitrary circumstances of arrest conform to the principle of law? 6. What are" the arbitrary circumstances"the author referred to? 7. How long do the Chinese students stay at home after leaving school and before going to 8. What did you do during these two months? 9. What is a"temporary job 10. How could the"obvious aimlessness"cause the trouble? 10. Why did he go to the local library? 11. Why didnt he recognize the first man as a police officer? 12. Why did the author take the officers words as a joke? 13. What does“ a perfectly straight face”mean? 14. In what circumstances will one wear"a perfectly straight face"? 15. Do you think that age is one of the factors in suspecting people of committing a crime 16. What is usually thought of a boy with "long untidy hair"? 17. Why does the author prefer appearing"cool and unconcerned with the incident"? 18. What is "this sort of situation"? nguage Polr brush, a couple of, temporary, save up, take ones time, in uniform, wander, turn out, regard as, harge, conduct, call up, stand a chance, respectable, reliable, take up, complain Structure a. "it turns out that b "given"in conditional clause 1. lawyer, solicitor, barrister Lawyer is the general term for anyone whose work it is to advise his clients about the law and ent them in court A solicitor is a lawyer who gives advice, appears in lower courts, and prepares cases for a barrister to argue in a higher court a barrister is a lawyer who has the right of speaking and arguing in the higher courts of law. 2. brush--- a short fight or quarrel; an argument or disagreement It is his third brush with the law in less than a year 3. take sb to court-- take legal action against sb I told him that I would take him to court if he did not repay the money in a week If you go on ill-treating your wife like this, you will be taken to court 4. arbitrary ---based on one's own wishes or will rather than reason
3 While-reading Tasks (90 minutes) Reading comprehension 1. Understanding the meaning of the title 2. In what circumstances can someone be in trouble with the law? 3. What follows then? 4. What are “arbitrary circumstances” ? 5. Do arbitrary circumstances of arrest conform to the principle of law? 6. What are “the arbitrary circumstances” the author referred to? 7. How long do the Chinese students stay at home after leaving school and before going to university? 8. What did you do during these two months? 9. What is a “temporary job” ? 10.How could the “obvious aimlessness” cause the trouble? 10. Why did he go to the local library? 11. Why didn’t he recognize the first man as a police officer? 12. Why did the author take the officer’s words as a joke? 13. What does “a perfectly straight face” mean? 14. In what circumstances will one wear “a perfectly straight face” ? 15. Do you think that age is one of the factors in suspecting people of committing a crime? 16. What is usually thought of a boy with “long untidy hair” ? 17. Why does the author prefer appearing “cool and unconcerned with the incident” ? 18. What is “this sort of situation” ? Language Points: brush, a couple of, temporary, save up, take one's time, in uniform, wander, turn out, regard as, charge, conduct, call up, stand a chance, respectable, reliable, take up, complain Structure: a. "it turns out that" b. "given" in conditional clause 1. lawyer, solicitor, barrister: Lawyer is the general term for anyone whose work it is to advise his clients about the law and represent them in court A solicitor is a lawyer who gives advice, appears in lower courts, and prepares cases for a barrister to argue in a higher court. A barrister is a lawyer who has the right of speaking and arguing in the higher courts of law. 2. brush --- a short fight or quarrel; an argument or disagreement - It is his third brush with the law in less than a year. 3. take sb to court --- take legal action against sb - I told him that I would take him to court if he did not repay the money in a week. - If you go on ill-treating your wife like this, you will be taken to court. 4. arbitrary --- based on one’s own wishes or will rather than reason
If a leader makes decisions without conducting investigations, he is being arbitrary The arbitrary decisions of the factory owners caused dissatisfaction among the workers 5. circumstance ---condition, fact, etc connected with an event or a person Because of circumstances beyond our control the meeting was cancelled The story will be continued in subsequent issues of the magazine 7. due---expected or scheduled to arrive or be ready, supposed to; to be paid or returned The next train is due to leave at ten The books are due today but I want to renew some of them 8. temporary ---lasting for a short time only Ant. permanent This is not my permanent address; it is only a temporary one 9. save up---keep for future use It took him a year to save up enough money for a computer They are now saving up to buy a house in the suburbs 10. take ones time---not to hurry, do sth in an unhurried way Just take your time and tell me clearly what happened at the meeting yesterday It's better to take your time over a piece of work and do it properly than to hurry and make mistakes 11. commit--.do sth wrong. bad. foolish or unlawful If we fail to understand this, we shall commit a lot of mistakes I'm perfectly satisfied with your arrangements 13. turn out---be found or discovered to be, prove to be The weather turned put pretty nice that da 14. regard . as---consider Einstein is regarded by many as the greatest scientist of the twentieth century 15. confirm---strengthen, make firmer; prove to be true or correct The result of my experiments has confirmed my belief that your theory is correct The Mayor confirmed the report that his son had been kidnapped 16. charge -- blame sb officially for having broken the law The police charged the driver with drunken driving 17. conduct---manage, direct, carry out After failing a dozen times or so, he decided to conduct the experiment in a different way He was often called upon to speak at these gatherings 19. dismiss ---(of a judge)stop(a court case), refuse to consider a(complaint, plea, etc)in a The magistrate dismissed the case because of lack of evidence 20. stand a chance -- have a chance I would apply for the post if I were you. I think you stand a good chance 21. respectable---deserving respect Cf respectful -- showing respect to others Dr Smith is a respectable professor and all his students are respectful 22. reliable---worthy of trust, dependable I got these figures from reliable sources
4 - If a leader makes decisions without conducting investigations, he is being arbitrary. - The arbitrary decisions of the factory owners caused dissatisfaction among the workers. 5. circumstance --- condition, fact, etc connected with an event or a person - Because of circumstances beyond our control the meeting was cancelled. 6. subsequent --- coming after, following - The story will be continued in subsequent issues of the magazine. 7. due --- expected or scheduled to arrive or be ready, supposed to; to be paid or returned - The next train is due to leave at ten. - The books are due today but I want to renew some of them. 8. temporary --- lasting for a short time only Ant. permanent - This is not my permanent address; it is only a temporary one. 9. save up --- keep for future use - It took him a year to save up enough money for a computer. - They are now saving up to buy a house in the suburbs. 10. take one’s time --- not to hurry, do sth in an unhurried way - Just take your time and tell me clearly what happened at the meeting yesterday. - It’s better to take your time over a piece of work and do it properly than to hurry and make mistakes. 11. commit --- do sth wrong, bad, foolish, or unlawful - If we fail to understand this, we shall commit a lot of mistakes. 12. perfectly --- very, completely - I’m perfectly satisfied with your arrangements. 13. turn out --- be found or discovered to be, prove to be - The weather turned put pretty nice that day. 14. regard ... as --- consider ... - Einstein is regarded by many as the greatest scientist of the twentieth century. 15. confirm --- strengthen, make firmer; prove to be true or correct - The result of my experiments has confirmed my belief that your theory is correct. - The Mayor confirmed the report that his son had been kidnapped. 16. charge --- blame sb officially for having broken the law - The police charged the driver with drunken driving. 17. conduct --- manage, direct, carry out - After failing a dozen times or so, he decided to conduct the experiment in a different way. 18. call on --- invite, require, appeal to - He was often called upon to speak at these gatherings. 19. dismiss --- (of a judge) stop (a court case), refuse to consider a (complaint, plea, etc) in a court - The magistrate dismissed the case because of lack of evidence. 20. stand a chance --- have a chance - I would apply for the post if I were you. I think you stand a good chance. 21. respectable --- deserving respect Cf. respectful --- showing respect to others - Dr Smith is a respectable professor and all his students are respectful to him. 22. reliable --- worthy of trust, dependable - I got these figures from reliable sources
23. given---considering, if one takes into account Given their inexperience, they' ve done a good job 24. revolve around---move in circles around, have as its centre or main topic or concern The moon revolves around the earth, and the earth revolves around the sun The dispute at the moment revolves around whether we should go on with the experiment 25. meanwhile---during the same period of time Bob went to post office to send a letter. Meanwhile Lily was preparing lunch at home 26. complain ---speak in an unhappy, dissatisfied way For my own part, I have nothing to complain about 27. turn against---cause to be hostile or opposed to He tried in vain to turn the students against their professors 28. take off one's cap(or hat)to sb---to show respect or admiration for sb Post-reading(49 5 minutes) Group discussion: (25 min) Topics: 1. Why does the author think his arrest arbitrary 2. Why does the author think his release from the charge arbitrary Exercises:(20 min) Do exercises in Vocabulary, Word Building, Structure, Cloze, Reading Activity, and Guided Writing after class II Extensive Reading(45 min) 1. Reading Tasks: Extensive Reading Unit1第一篇 2. Reading Skills: 1) How to use a dictionary 2)Get the meaning from context clue: prefix and suffix Ill Listening and Speaking (45 min) 1. See VCD-. Consolidation 2. Listen to the dialog and then answer the following questions disco terrific picca (1)Who called Susan? (2)Why did he call Susan? (3)What did Susan think of the offer (5)At what time would they meet 3. Listen to the following song and fill in the blanks with the words you hear from the tape angel imagining measure fade
5 23. given --- considering, if one takes into account - Given their inexperience, they’ve done a good job. 24. revolve around --- move in circles around, have as its centre or main topic or concern - The moon revolves around the earth, and the earth revolves around the sun. - The dispute at the moment revolves around whether we should go on with the experiment. 25. meanwhile --- during the same period of time - Bob went to post office to send a letter. Meanwhile Lily was preparing lunch at home. 26. complain --- speak in an unhappy, dissatisfied way - For my own part, I have nothing to complain about. 27. turn against --- cause to be hostile or opposed to - He tried in vain to turn the students against their professors. 28. take off one’s cap (or hat) to sb --- to show respect or admiration for sb Post-reading (45 minutes) Group discussion: (25 min) Topics: 1. Why does the author think his arrest arbitrary 2. Why does the author think his release from the charge arbitrary Exercises: (20 min) Do exercises in Vocabulary, Word Building, Structure, Cloze, Reading Activity, and Guided Writing after class. II Extensive Reading (45 min) 1. Reading Tasks: Extensive Reading Unit 1 第一篇 2. Reading Skills：1） How to use a dictionary 2）Get the meaning from context clue: prefix and suffix III Listening and Speaking (45 min) 1. See VCD --- Consolidation. 2. Listen to the dialog and then answer the following questions. disco terrific pizza (1) Who called Susan? (2) Why did he call Susan? (3) What did Susan think of the offer? (4) Where would he pick up Susan? (5) At what time would they meet? 3. Listen to the following song and fill in the blanks with the words you hear from the tape. angel imagining measure fade