英语听力策略5第二版unit 1-6.docVIP

UNIT 1 NEW CONCEPTS OF HEALTH Objectives: The training focus of this unit is the understanding of different concepts of HEALTH in modern society and the symptoms of subhealth. When listening to the tape of this unit, students should listen carefully for the symptoms. Note-taking forms a big part of the exercise in this unit. Therefore, it is very important to tell the students not to try to write down every word that they hear. They are supposed to distinguish between items of high and low information value. So they will focus their attention on the key words that carry the most essential meanings of the speakers’ utterances. Names of the diseases in this unit also deserve the students’ special attention. Teaching Methods and facilities: listen to the tapes, discussion, in language lab Time Allotment: 2 periods Teaching Outline Part I Getting ready ,There are new concepts of health in the modern society: health, subhealth and disease. On the whole, there are basically four types of families in the world: joint families, nuclear families, enlarged families and incomplete families, among which nuclear families are becoming more and more popular with the rapid economic development in most countries. Key words: 1. wrest: change 2. the practitioners of medicine: doctors 3. exercise regime: method or system of government to be healthy by doing exercises regularly 4. penance: punishment 5. cross training techniques: borrow training techniques from other sports 6. subhealth: the third state or gray state, a borderline state between health and disease. 7. the digestive tract: 消化道 8. pediatric: of children. Pediatrician : childrens doctor 9. psychiatry: study of mental illness 10. psychology: study of the mind and the way it works 11. preemies: those babies who are born earlier than expected 12. suck: draw air… 吮吸 13. pacifier: US comforter BRE dummy 橡皮奶嘴 14. pacify: calm, soothe. 15. incubator: boxlike apparatus for keeping babies’ body temperature 16. ward off: