新视野大学英语4第5单元.docVIP

Book 4 Unit 5 Section A Choose to Be Alone on Purpose Section B Roommate Conflicts I. Teaching Objectives: Students will be able to: a. Share their ideas of personal relationships. b. Learn to understand modern patterns of interrelationships, e.g. living alone, sharing a room with others and arranged marriage, etc. c. Learn to understand and appreciate the ideas in the text. d. Develop their ability in understanding reading texts and listening materials. e. Develop their ability in expressing their ideas in both spoken and written form. II. Teaching Time 6 periods III. Teaching Method Task-based approach, communicative approach IV. Teaching Process Step 1 Questions for Discussion 1 Do you sometimes want to be alone? 2 In what situation you choose to be alone? 3 What can you benefit from being alone? 4 What is the disadvantage of being alone? Step 2 Background Information Lonely Poets and Philosophers: 1. Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 US thinker, essayist, and naturalist. Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and taught school for several years before leaving his job to become a poet of nature. In the years 1845-1847, to demonstrate how satisfying a simple life could be, he lived in a hut beside Concord’s Walden Pond; essays recording his daily life were assembled for his masterwork, Walden, or Life in the Woods 1854 . Famous quotations by Henry David Thoreau: * The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance 偶然, 恐怕 , a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed 贮放柴薪的木棚 with them.Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. * Books, not which afford us a cowering 畏缩, 退缩 enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution--such call I good books. * If you have built cas