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Teaching Plan for 21st Century College English (Book II, Second Semester) Unit Five Text A: Holding onto a dream Text B: The Soft Sell Teaching Aims: Key Words and Phrases Shift, program, setting, priority, postpone, hold onto/hold on to, come up with, get by, only if, take (a period of time) off, sign up (for), make (both) ends meet, qualify for, stay up, end up with/doing (sth.), test out, throw oneself into, put down Writing Skill Learn to write a paragraph in which a cause-and-effect relationship in a event is described. Reading Skill Learn to understand idiomatic expressions. Structure focus Learn the usage of “only if” and “if only”, present participle phrase used to take the place of a adverbial clause; V-ing phrase used as subject. Word building Prefixes over-; suffixes -ist and suffix –ion, -tion or –ation Teaching Difficulties: Structure: the different usages of “if only” and “only if”. Reading skills: hypothesizing the meaning of idiomatic expression according to context clues. Writing skills: how to describe a cause-and-effect relationship clearly. Time Distribution: Periods 1-2 3-4 5-6 Teaching Task Text A listening speaking Text B+ reading skill Teaching plan for 1-2 periods I Teaching aims Writing skill: Learn to write a paragraph in which a cause-and-effect relationship in an event is described. Text A explanation Key words and phrases II Teaching Steps: 1. Show students teaching aims of this unit 2. Warming up questions or discussion 3. Pre-listening 4. Detailed explanation of Text A III. Background information 1. The University of Washington The University of Washington is a state-supported institution of higher education occupying a campus of 684 acres in Seattle, Washington State, USA. Founded in 1861, the university is the oldest publicly supported institution on the US Pacific Coast. Instruction was first offered on a campus in what is now the central business district of Seattle. The move to the present c