学术英语第一单元.pptVIP

Unit One Giving Thanks for the Invisible Hand Teaching steps 1. Lead-in: Ask students to work in pairs to do the task in Lead-in/Text A. Then invite several students to share their answers with the whole class. 2. Overview Ask students to preview Text A before class. Or, allocate some time for students to read the text quickly in class. Then invite several students to summarize the main idea of Text A. 3. In-depth analysis of Text A 1) Show students some key words and ask them to contribute as much as possible what they know about them. Provide additional information when necessary. 2) discuss with students the function of Thanksgiving in the text on the basis of Task 1/Critical reading and thinking/Text A 3) Guide students to focus on some of the difficult sentences in Text A by doing Task 2/Critical reading and thinking/Text A. Ask them to report their answers to the class. 4) Organize a group discussion about the questions in Task 3/Critical reading and thinking/Text A. Encourage students to think independently, critically and creatively. Supplementary information 1. Thanksgiving It is an annual national holiday in the U.S. and Canada. Amercans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November, honoring the early Plymouth settlers and their harvest feast. They commonly trace the Thanksgiving holiday to a 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the Plymouth settlers held a harvest feast after a successful season. Although prayers and thanks were probably offered at the 1621 harvest gathering, the first recorded religious Thanksgiving in Plymouth happened two years later in 1623. On this occasion, the colonists gave thanks to God for rain after a nearly catastrophic drought. 2. The Invisible Hand It is a metaphor used by Adam Smith to describe the natural force that guides free market capitalism through competition for scarce resources. The general idea is that individuals pursuing self-interest end up doing what is best for s