新视野第四册unit5教案.docVIP

Unit 5 Teaching Objectives Students are supposed to acquire: The main idea of the text The key language points and sentence structures in the text The proper usage of words and expressions 4. Writing technique Teaching Contents Time Allotment Period Teaching Contents 1---2 Introduction of Background information. Giving topics for discussion. Explaining new words and expressions. Language points in the text. 3---4 More details interpretation in the text. Some exercises in the section. 5---6 Useful words Expressions in the passage. Language points in the section. Listening and Speaking Section A Choose to Be Alone on Purpose Warm-up Activities 1. Do you sometimes want to be alone? 2. In what situation you choose to be alone? 3. What can you benefit from being alone? 4. What is the disadvantage of being alone? Background Information Lonely Poets and Philosophers: 1. Henry David Thoreau: 1817-1862. U.S. thinker, essayist, and naturalist. The author of Walden Thoreaus House: Copied by Charles H. Overly from a drawing done by Thoreaus sister, Sophia. Famous quotations by Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance (偶然, 恐怕), a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length (最后), the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed (贮放柴薪的木棚) with them. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance (遗传, 遗产) of generations and nations. Books, not which afford us a cowering (畏缩, 退缩) enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring (大胆的); such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution--such call I good books. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. The heart is forever inexperienced. There is no remedy for love but to love more. 2. John Milton: 1608-1674. English poet, one of the greatest poets of the English