新视野大学英语New Horizon College English(Book Two)Unit One.ppt

Time-Conscious Americans Teaching Aims: 1. To help the students understand the structure and the main idea of the text; 2. To help the students understand the difficult sentences in the text; 3. To help the students learn some important words, phrases and structures in the text; 4. To help the students master the writing of a paragraph of a general statement supported by specific details and reasons; 5. To help the students learn some cultural differences between China and America. Preview: 1.Read the text again and again and try to understand the Band-4 words with the help of the context. 2. Divide the text into three parts and try to find the main idea of each part and the central idea of the whole text. 3. Pay special attention to the following difficult points: (1). This attitude results in…(L 2) (2). Time is one of the two elements… (L 3) (3). City people always… (L 11) (4). This is because… (L 18) (5). Americans do not assess… (L 27) (6). …we communicate rapidly… (L 33) (7). However, people…(L 40) (8). This is due partly to… (L 46) (9). Assignments are… (L50) 4. Try to find some famous sayings or proverbs about time. 5. What does “time-conscious” mean? Do you think you are time-conscious? Please give some examples of being time-conscious. 6. Active Words: replace, brief, convention, assess, generally, device, electronic, significance,conduct, obtain, whereas, skillful,skillfulness, competent, fulfill. 7. Try to find some great differences between Sino-American culture. Warming-up 1. Do you know any famous sayings or proverbs about time? 2. What does “time-conscious” mean? Do you think you are time-conscious? Please give some examples of being time-conscious. 3. What’s the Americans’ attitude towards time?(Paragraph 2) 4. How do Americans save time in their daily life ?(Paragraphs3,5-7) 5. How do they save time in doing business? (Paragraph 4) 1) Americans believe no one stands still. 2) We are slaves to nothing but the clock. 3) Time is tre