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1、Book4Unit 1 Big Bucks The Easy WayTeaching Time:4 hoursStudents9 level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 2nd semester.Teaching Objectives:1. Help Ss get to know the lesson “No pains, no gains“ and there is no “big bucks the easy way”.2. About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text s
2、tructure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section.Words: cash, echo, competitive, leisurely, pain, sour, finance, marvelous, party, stack, cram, harm, minimum, range, thoughtful, deadline, inform, normally, sale, trash, delivery, inquire, odd, shrinkPhrases & Expressions: pull
3、up, a piece of cake, even as, know better than, be at, make a dent, cut into, have no business, settle for, settle ones account, quite awhile, draw attention to, for sale, for rent, be done with, may as wellGrammar: pl43. About the reading, Ss should learn avoiding vocalization and inner speech.4. A
4、bout the writing, Ss should learn word choice.5. About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 1 directed by teacher.Teaching Procedures:1 Prereadi,iR Activities1. Background information1) Montgomery Ward2) Sears,3) Roebuck2. Warm-up questions1) Do you depend on your parents financially?2) Is it easy to e
5、arn money by working part-time?3) Are there any easy ways to make much money?3. Key words and expressions:New words and old wordTeacherstudents(old words or expressions)(new ones)U.S. dollarbuckDoor handledoorknobUnhurriedleisurelyRelaxedleisurelyProfitablelucrativeSent outdeliverEndurelive withBegp
6、anhandleTellinformFillcramTiebandIncreasereproduceExtra moneybonusPartsectionA pathwalkAn easy joba piece of cakePaysettleHave no reasonhave no businessCome to terms withsettle forStrangeoddMoneyfinanceFinishbe done withEnglish and Chinese phrasesTeacher(Chinese)Students( English)考虑look into总是all th
7、e time可以容忍live with令我痛心it pains me易如反掌a piece of cake壮汉a big guy干快些get busy好几卡车的truck loads of百货商店department store廉价商店a dime store小杂货店drug store汽车行auto store外卖餐馆takeout restaurant提高嗓门voice rises超过极限out of the range of恍然大悟work a profound change in教会某人做人work a profound change inones personality经过调解in
8、mediation结账settle the account劳务支出labor cost相同数额a like amount托某人做enlist sb. To doIL While-readinq Activities1. Ss have the silent reading on the text (10 mins)2. Text and questions for discussionLines 1-91. what did the father tell his college sons to think about?(to deliver bags of magazines to make
9、 some of their own money.)2. what was the father worried about?(the sons would become used to or feel content with living by asking for money all the time.)Lines 10-221. why did the mother phone the father?(she wanted him to know what was going on at home.)2. How do you understand the word “super“ s
10、he snapped?(super means very good. But,she “snapped it, which means she was very angry.She was being sarcastic,i.e. she meant the opposite of what she said.)3. can you paraphrase the sentence Another truck just pulled up out front”?(Another truck has stopped outside in front of our hous to deliver m
11、ore materials.) Lines 23-291. which company did the two sons do the delivery job for?(the Sunday Newspaper Company.)2. why did each truck deliver 4000 of the inserts?(Each one was from a different company and had the ads the sons were required to deliver to 4000 houses.)3. why did he think so?(He ha
12、d no idea of how much work it would mean.)Lines 30-35What did the father mean when he said “they are college men.?He meant that they were grown-ups, and should be capable of dealing with the situation.Lines 36-501. In what cases does peoples voice become unnaturally high and quavering?When they are
13、excited, angry, upset and the like.2. what does magazine sections mean?Parts of magazines,8 or 12 pages long.3. how many steps are there in the process before delivering?Five: take out, roll, slip, band and slide.Lines 51-661. what do you think of the fathers answer?Clever and sensible. It is a lie,
14、 a harmless lie, one told in order to avoid upsetting somebody.2. why did the father say Thats encouraging”?the sons were learning how to solve the problem of manpower shortage;they hired other people to help, and learnt to improve efficiency by establishing assembly lines.3. why did the mother say
15、“it is very discouraging”?the measures weren9 working at all.Lines 67-771. what do you think of the father bonus program ?It is reasonable and logical. Bonus is a popular incentive that management adopts. Sometimes we have to lose something in order to gain something. If you are reluctant to use a s
16、mall bait, you can hardly get a big fish.2. did the son understand that at first thought?No. he thought the more the workers got, the less he obtained.3. why did the son answer Yes, Sir”?he had come to realize it was a business and he took the fathers instructions as and order.Lines 78-861. what doe
17、s “see the color of cash mean?See Note 7 in your text book.2. whafs the difference between the original payment and the demanded one?The original payment was five dollars per person, shile now they demanded five dollars per hour.3. who probably played the mediating role?The mother.Lines 87-94Why did
18、 the son think it “enough”?No matter how much, it was the money they made by themselves with great efforts and they learnt a lot from the experience.Lines 95-1091. what did the youngest sons learn from their college brothers?They learnt to make their own money in order to avoid having to ask fbr mon
19、ey all the time.2. what were they going to do to try to earn money?They were going to sell or rent the familys books.3. do you agree youre never done with books”?Yes. BecauseNo. because4. T asks Ss to come out the main idea, structure of the text (lOmins)5. T summarizes the main idea and structure o
20、f the text (5 mins)HL Post-reading ActivitiesL Let the students do the exercises in the textbook which are related to the new words.2. Ss hand in the summary of the text.Summary questions and concluding remarks1) Do you think it necessary fbr the sons to make some money fbr themselves? Give reasons
21、for your answer.I think it necessarybecause2) what do you think is needed in accomplishing something difficult?I think it is self-confidence, perseverance, co-operation or team work, reasonable management, strategies of solving problems, etc.3) what is the fathers tone in telling the story?The tone
22、is light and ironic because the story is meant to be funny. The problem in the story was one that people think is very serious when it happens, but later they can laugh about.3. Ss discuss the questions on the topic related to the text.4. Let Ss do the exercises in the text book which are mainly rel
23、ated to the new words and topic.5. Exercise:Sentence making in dialoguesTeacher: now Id like you to complete the following dialogues by makingSentences with the giver phrases.Pull up1. what do you ask your driver to do when you reach your destination?1 ask the driver to pull up near the place I want
24、 to go.2. what does a bus driver do when a passenger wants to get off?He pulls up at a bus stop.3. what does the red light mean to a moving vehicle?It means that the vehicle must pull up at the zebra.A piece of cake1. can you recite the 26 English letters?Sure. Ifs a piece of cake.2. do you think it
25、 difficult to use a tape recorder?No. its a piece of cake.Make a dent in1. have you finished your outline?No, Ive hardly made a dent in it.2. How are you getting along with your project?We have made only a small dent in it.Cut into1. do you watch TV in your study period? No. that would cut into my s
26、tudy time.2. what cuts into the factory9s profit?The rise of the labor costs, material prices, the increased consumption of power, etc.Settle for1. if you cant sell your bicycle at a high price, what will you do?I have to settle for a lower price.2. If you cant get a well-paid job, will you settle f
27、or a lower-paid job?Might/may/could as well1. what do you suggest we do during the winter vacation?If you have nothing to do, you might as well take up a part-time job.2. what should I do if I cant afford a house?You may as well rent an apartment and set aside your money fbr a new house.Unit 2 Deer
28、and The Energy CycleTeaching Time:4 hoursStudents5 level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 2nd semester.Teaching Objectives:1. Get Ss to know the energy cycle and instruct them to observe the animafs living instinct in order to value the natural resource; learn about fbod-enery-life-death.2.
29、About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section.Words: tendency, rate, area, plentiful, possessions, currency, scarce, ample, drowsy, fundamental, accumulate, internal, hencePhrases & Expressions: to meet the needs, turn
30、 of mind, convert intoGrammar:3. About the reading, Ss should know the usage of dictionary.4. About the writing, Ss should get to know the writing skillcoherence .5. About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 2 directed by teacher.Teaching Procedures:/, Pre-reading Activities1. Warm-up questions1) Allo
31、w Ss to go over the text fbr 10 mins.2) Ask them to list the facts about the life of deer in the four seasons respectively.3) Sum up Sss results2. Introductory remarks:1) What do you think life depends on?Money, love, or something else?2) where does energy come from?Food, spirit, God, or what?3)what
32、 happens to life there is no food , or source of energy?if life useless after it comes to an end?4) Life is energy, isnt it? What do you think?The planet we live on is made up of 2 major components: living organisms and inorganic substances. As far as living things are concerned, life spans vary. So
33、me may live fbr thousands of years, while others live only a few seconds. Regardless of the this difference, every life develops from a lower stage to a higher stage until its death, and every species develops in this way, too. But what makes life perform in this way? What happens after life? Our ea
34、rth has been functioning fbr billions of years. What has made it work for so long? Lets have a careful study of the text3. New words and phrases studyStudy of the words and phrasesNew words and old wordsTeacherstudents(old words or expressions)(new ones)tendencyturn of mindmoneycurrencychange intoco
35、nvert intoautumnfallsomething storedreservesrarescarceto satisfy the demandsto meet the needsarearegionplentifulamplepossessionsresourcestoredepositspendexpendsleepydrowsybecome liquidmeltat the same timemeanwhilebasicfundamentalthereforehenceinsideinternalsmall wooden housecabinEnglish and Chinese
36、PhrasesTeacher(Chinese)students(English)注重/有的倾向a . turn of mind生态系统an ecological system倚赖to depend on年复一年from year to year尽可能多as much as one can旺季times of plenty储存的脂肪reserves of fat/stored fat不甚出名,鲜为人知less well known能说明问题的例子a good case in point营养食品nutritious food生理成熟physically mature生育to give birth
37、to食物资源food resources熬过冬天to survive the winter/to pull through the winter大雪deep snow小雪light snow基本规律a fundamental rulecollectaccumulateIL While-reading Activitiesl.Text and questions for discussion .Lines 1-61. what does “love makes the world go round mean?People with a romantic turn of mind think th
38、at love, romantic love, is what makes life worth living.2. why does the author say that energy is the “currency of the ecological system? An ecological system is ail the plants, animals and people, and their surroundings, considered as a whole, In the commercial world, money is the currency , or mea
39、ns of survival. For life, the most important support is food, the source of energy for life, which allows growth, reproduction, and survival.Lines 7-121. what do wild animals do with the food in different seasons? Why do they do so? Wild animals seem to know when there will be plenty of food and whe
40、n there wont, so they eat as much as they can when there is plenty of food so that they can become fat and strong and grow well. In winter, they have little to eat. But they do not starve because the fot they have stored in their bodies brings them through this hard time.Lines 13-221. what does “ th
41、is is good timing mean?This means that the female deer uses the most suitable seasons, i.e.summer and fall, for the birth of fawns and the production of milk because both the conception and production cost the female deer much energy and in both seasons there is plenty of food, which meet the deers
42、physical needs.Lines 23-311. to what does the author compare the process of fat reserving?A bank savings account, from which one can draw when he needs the money.Lines 32-442. what is the phenomenon of lowering metabolism?The heart rate slows. The animal becomes slow and drowsy. Therefore, the use o
43、f and need for energy is reduced.3. what protects the deer from cold winter? How does it work?They undergo physical and internal physiological changes, i.e. the hair growth and the slow metabolism. The thick hair keeps the deer warm and the slow metabolism makes the deer consume less energy, which i
44、s stored in the form of fat for use when they need it for growth.Lines 45-561. what decreases as winter progresses?The deers activities.2. why were people advised to behave like that?To use less oil and electricity fbr conserving energy to pull through the crisis.3. what does the author imply by “wa
45、tched the deer”?He implies that men can learn from the deer to reduce unnecessary cost of energy. Lines 57-641. .to pull them through”. Can you say it in other words?.to help them survive the winter.2. what is the fundamental rule of life?The more fat the deer reserve, the more chance there is fbr t
46、hem to survive the crises. Only the largest and strongest are likely to survive.3. Is the fundamental rule of life applicable to human beings?Yes. If we human beings do not protect nature and ourselves by saving energy, we will be punished by nature and will eventually be wiped out from this planet.
47、Lines 65-681. what is the life cycle?Food-energy-life-survival-reproduction-death-fbod-energy-other life.Food -energy-seek more fbod-new energy-foodEnergy is vital to our world. But energy is not always plentiful. The supply can vary, either seasonally or fbr other reasons. Some animals, the white-tailed deer, fbr instance, have developed natural ways or varying