Unit 8 视野大学英语第二册.docVIP

A Teaching Plan for Unit 8 (In New Horizon College English Book 2) I. Time: 10 class hours II. Contents: ·Listening and Speaking ·Section A: There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job ·Section B: What Youngsters Expect in Life III. Suggested Timetable: The first two-class-hour session for listening and speaking (Unit 8 in College English Listening and Speaking Course Book 2). Next four-class-hour session for Section A The fourth two-class-hour session for exercises of Section A The fifth two-class-hour session for Section B and Section C IV. Aims and Requirements: Listening and Speaking: 1. Improve the students’ ability to understand the long conversations and the passages. 2. Give the students a chance to exchange views on the texts they have heard to enable them to have a deeper understanding of the texts. Section A: There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job Let the students get familiar with some new words: formal, resident, specialize, corporation, confine, occupation, preferable, contribution, accumulate, distinguish, according to, be fond of, be meant to do. Teach the writing skill: find some supporting facts to support the argument Section B: What Youngsters Expect in Life 1. Teach the reading skill: Distinguish between Facts and Opinions Enable students to grasp the main idea of the text V. Focal Points and Difficult Points: Listening and Speaking: 1. Enable students to be familiar with the passage listening skill 2. Grasp some words and expression which often appear in CET-4 Section A: There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job 1. Analyze the structure of several compound sentences and comprehend them. 2. Grasp several CET-4 key words Section B: What Youngsters Expect in Life 1. Ask students to retell the main idea Review the subjunctive mood VI. Suggested Teaching Procedure and Methodology: Listening and Speaking: (an interactive approach is introduced) 1. Pre-listening Task: let the students form in pairs and ask them to discuss the follo