新编大学英语教案(第二册)_Unit 5 Dreams.docVIP

Unit Five Dreams Teaching Objectives Be aware of different understanding about dreams; Acquire the awareness of some psychologists’ explanation about dreams; Some important new words and phrases should be mastered; Listening practice and skill training. Teaching allotment Six academic hours. Focus Points Key words, phrases usages: Analysis, ancient, conscious, frustrating, impulse, predict, recur, cancel, crack, impact, spot, tremble, upset, depressed, disturbing, neutral, relieve, vision, dream up, work through, call off, run into. difficult sentences: 1. Is there such a thing as a dream in which the events seen by the dreamer come true? Paraphrase: Is there such a thing as a dream, in the dream the events which are seen by the dreamer happen just as one dreamed? Scientific advances in the past few decades have revealed more about the physical process of sleep, but they still don’t offer any final answers to the many questions about dreams that continue to puzzle us. 3. Everyone dreams?it’s just that some of us can’t remember doing so. 4. Dreaming of walking on hot coals, for example, may well be caused by sleeping with your feet too close to a heater. Class Activity I. Related Information: How much do we know about dream? We may know when dreams occur, we know they can be either “good dreams” or “bad dreams”, but there is still much disagreement about what significance dream have to our life while we are awake. The interpretation of dreams had been a favorite activity of people for as long as we have had recorded history. Some of these dream interpreters, like the European psychologist Sigmund Freud, felt that all dreams have meanings which relate to our personal relationships with family members and friends. Freud felt that many dreams have sexual meanings, but other dream experts reject this idea. Good dreams include those in which we see ourselves succeeding in some difficult or pleasant activity such as singing, dancing, talking with our frie