新编大学英语(第三版)综合1 教师用书-答案.doc

Unit 1 Personal Relationships Part 1 Preparation 1 Welcoming to Our Group! 1 Group Work Group work is an important activity students are required to do throughout the semester. In the activity students can listen to each other and share each other’s ideas and experiences. Interpersonal relationships will develop during the process of working together. What’s more, working in small groups, say, between 3 and 5, students will have greater opportunities to improve their listening and speaking skills than they can when the whole class works together. In addition, group work can help practice and develop four key skills: problem-solving, decision-making, critical thinking and creative thinking. To involve students in this activity each group should have a group leader to help the teacher achieve this goal. Students may change their groups every 5 or 6 weeks so as to be able to know more of their classmates. They may also take turns being group leaders. 2 The Procedures of Group Discussion In an ideal small group discussion, group members are encouraged to contribute their personal opinions or knowledge of a particular issue, support those opinions, discuss differences of opinion within the group, and eventually, report to the whole class. A small group discussion can be generally divided into the following procedures: i Forming Groups In the first class of small group discussion, the whole class is divided into several groups. How many groups are produced? Are the groups student-selected or teacher-selected? Are they gender-mixed or proficiency-mixed? All these will be decided according to the practical situation of the class, for example, how many students there are in the class, the purpose of the activity and so on. ii Instructions The instructions given at the beginning are crucial: If the students do not understand exactly what they are to do, they will be confused and a lot of time will likely be wasted. iii Processes The teacher’s job during the activity is to