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Unit 5 一、授课时间：第9周3次课；第10周2次课 二．授课类型：课文分析8课时；习题讲解2课时 三．授课题目：Silent Spring 四．授课时数：10 五．教学目的和要求： 通过讲授课文使大学生了解有关环境保护的有关知识，学会用英语解释句子以达到学以致用的目的。要求学生主动地预习课文，课前准备练习，学会分析文章体裁和进行段落划分。 六．教学重点和难点： 1）背景知识的传授：About the author； 2）文章的体裁分析及段落划分； 3）语言点的理解： Word study: to change; to exchange; beside; besides; except; used to; be used to; to shiver; to tremble; to shake; to shudder Grammar Focus: Study and learn how the words such and so are used; Study such patterns as considering…; given time; it is no accident that; it is not my contention that. 七．教学基本内容和纲要 Part One Warm – up 1.1 Warm-up Questions 1. What is the message given to us in the essay? What are Rachel Carson’s main arguments? Have they stood the test of time? 2. We are faced with all kinds of environmental problems nowadays. But what is the one that Rachel Carson dealt with in her book Silent Spring? 3. How do chemicals affect the environment and people? 4. Does Carson mean that insecticides should never be used in agriculture? 1.2 Define the following words and phrases 1. be geared to introduce…into a great variety of… hold sth within bounds built-in check a limit on… set the stage for explosive (increases) live on (wheat) a/another factor in…is… Part Two Background Information 2.1 Rachel Carson (1907-1964) biologist, writer, ecologist 1. intense love for nature since her childhood→ “Humans have now acquired a fateful power to alter and to destroy nature. But Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” ―Rachel Carson She was once bitterly attacked: “an anti-humanitarian crank, a priestess of nature, and a hysterical woman” But she courageously went on fighting until her idea caught on and more and more people joined in. →the mother of modern environmental movement About the book: 1. When was it published? 2. Who was the author? 3. What is it about? What is its central argument? 4. How was it received? 5. How significant is it now? 6. Does i