the dinner party.doc

讲 课 稿 姓名： 专业： 学历： 毕业院校： 日期：2013年8月3日 Unit 1 The Dinner Party 1. Teaching material: College English for Intensive Reading (Book 2) 2. Teaching content: Unit 1 Text A paragraph 1--2 3. Teaching objective: Help students to: 1. have a right attitude on women. 2. understand the main idea and structure of these two paragraphs. 3. grasp the language points and grammatical structures in this part. 4. Important points: a. New words and expressions b. Text structure analysis 5. Teaching method: Students-oriented; Explanation; discussion; exemplification. 6. Teaching steps 1. Lead in to Text A (introduce some background information). 2. Ask students to read the text quickly and then do the following exercise. 3. Get students actively involved in analyzing and explaining the text. 4. Introduce vocabulary items in the text and assign vocabulary exercises as a follow-up. Lead-in 1. The author Mona Gardner, an American woman writer. Most of her short stories were written for the Saturday Evening Post magazine and Collier’s Weekly magazine during the 1930s and 1940s. The Dinner Party first appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. 25, No.5, January 31, 1941. 2. India India, officially called Republic of India, is a country in southern Asia, located on the subcontinent of India. New Delhi is the country’s capital and one of its largest cities. Britain and other European countries established trading companies and trading posts in India in the early 1700s. gradually the Britain named its first Governor General to India and formally began to rule the country as a British colony. India underwent a long series of wars between the ruling British colonialists on the one hand and various regional and political groups or religious sects on the other. In 1947 at last, the Indian people, under Gandhi’s leadership, won their struggle for independence and British rule in India ended. 3. Prejudice against women Women have been prejudiced against f