新编英语教程第四册教案.doc

UNIT ONE Text 1 This Year It’s Going to Be Different Objectives 1. In this unit, the students continue to learn the essential elements of narration, such as “time sequence, suspense, tone and style” etc. 2. Help the students to appreciate the use of various rhetorical devices that create the comic effect in the story. 3. Let the students grasp the basic language points in this article. Teaching steps Pre-reading activities: Starting from the Interaction Activities on page 16, ask the students to talk about their new term’s resolutions. Conclusion: It’s often easier to make resolutions than to carry them out. The main idea (timed reading) Ask the students to go over the text once without worrying about the new words and phrases, the n discus the main idea of it. Vocabulary A topic outline of Text 1 Anxious to carry out his new year’s resolutions Disappointed by the result in every effort The ironic end 5. Explanation of language points and Analysis of the text Exercise in the workbook Background knowledge 1. Hippie member of a youth movement of the late 1960s that was characterized by nonviolent anarchy, concern for the environment, and rejection of Western materialism. Also known as flower power, the hippie movement originated in San Francisco, California. The hippies formed a politically outspoken, antiwar, artistically prolific counterculture in North America and Europe. Their colorful psychedelic style was inspired by drugs such as the hallucinogen Lysergic Acid Diethylamid (LSD). This style emerged in fashion, graphic art, and music by bands such as Love, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Pink Floyd. 2. Popular Music,?music?produced?for?and sold to a broad audience. Types of popular music include jazz, music from motion pictures and musical comedies, country-and-western music, soul music, and rock music. Shaped by social, economic, and technological forces, popular music is closely linked to the social identity of its performers and audiences.