高职高专实用英语教程教案Unit 6

高职高专实用英语教程教案Unit 6

Unit 6 Hobbies

Lecturer: Cai Jie

Students (Ss) will be able to:

Have a deeper understanding about different shopping behavior of men and women. Mastering the key language points and grammatical structures in the text.

How to talk about one’s hobbies.

Master the Grammar of Tenses

Translating skill：Translation of Tenses

Writing and replying to Invitation Letters.

Vocabulary: enrich, be crazy about doing, assistant, in stock, promptly, proceeds, lightly,

substitute, persuade, patience, opposite, companion, in advance, to one’s satisfaction, base…on / upon, in every respect, make up one’s mind, strength, exactly, poverty, go back to liquid, estate, suffer from, be equal to, before long etc.

How to talk about one’s hobbies.

Master of the grammar of Tenses

Explanation Group discussion Questions and answers Multi-media Performance

st1. Warming up for the new class:

What do you enjoy doing the most?

Are your hobbies good for your work or health? Try to explain.

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3. Speaking

Dividing the students into groups of four or five

Task 1

Ask the students to work in groups and practice sample dialogues

Talk about your favorite outdoor activities with your partner.

Talk about one of your favorite movies with your partner.

Talk about one of your favorite sports with your partner.

Ask the students to work in groups to

1) Understand the short dialogues on Page 121-122 of the Textbook

2) To act out

Task 2

Work in pairs and make a short dialogue based on the information given below.

My Hobbies

Listening to pop songs sung by…

Listening to famous

How to Enjoy My Hobbies

Listening to the radio

Listening to an MP3 playe

Act out in front of the class

4 Focus on Listening

1) Word tips:

prefer宁愿，更喜欢

prefer sth.

prefer sth. above all others

prefer A to B

prefer doing A to doing B

prefer to do sth.

prefer doing sth.

prefer to do sth. rather than do sth.

prefer+that-clause

enrich v. to improve the quality of something by adding something else

e.g. Reading can enrich your mind.

e.g. I have more time to enrich myself/learn more.

be crazy about doing sth. 为……疯狂

e.g. The boy has been crazy about computer games for a year.

2) Finish the exercise of listening comprehension on page 124-125

nd1. Lead-in story:

Is there any gender difference in the shopping behaviors of men and women?

Give students a short video of FIVE minutes to talk about the different habits of men and

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women, and ask students to discuss the differences after watching it.

2. Intensive Reading (Text A) Pre-reading:

After the lead-in story and questions, the teacher asks the students to look at the theme of Text A and try to answer the questions as follow:

1. Do men and women have the same experience when they shop?

2. What do you usually buy while shopping?

3. What is your mother’s shopping behavior?

rdth1. Warming-up Activities:

Ask some students to share their oral passage with the whole class.

1. shopping for clothes is the same experience for a man as it is for a woman, isn’t it?

2. Why does a man go shopping?

3. Why can a man simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want?

4. “If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it.” In this sentence, what does “produce” mean?

5. What does the name “salesman” imply?

6. What is a woman’s shopping based on?

7. Does a woman buy clothes in haste?

8. Why do the husbands just wait but not involve in their wives’ shopping?

2. While-reading (Text A)

1) Text Organization

After scanning the whole text, students are required to find the top sentences of each paragraph. And try to divide the text into 3 parts and summarize the main idea of each part.

Part 1 (Para 1-2): Men’s shopping behavior. A man goes shopping because he needs something. Part 2 (Para 3): Women’s shopping behavior. A woman goes shopping often for leisure instead of

buying what they need.

3). Language points

Explain the difficult words and sentences, including language and grammatical points.

Focus:

in advance: before a particular time, or before doing a particular thing

e.g. If you’re going to come, please let me know in advance.

e.g. They finished the task in advance.

e.g. Is it cheaper if we buy our tickets in advance?

consideration [U]. when you think about something carefully

e.g. The whole matter needs careful consideration.

take sth. into consideration

e.g. Time factor is what we must first take into consideration.

in stock 有现货，有存货

e.g. We don't have the book in stock but we can order it.

in store 贮藏着；准备着, 将要发生

promptly: quickly, without delay

e.g. We’ll have to leave fairly promptly if we want to catch that train.

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e.g. So that we can promptly help you to solve the problem!

proceed v. to continue as planned

e.g. The work is proceeding according to plan.

proceed to do…

e.g. She sat down and proceeded to tell me about her skiing holiday.

proceed with sth.

e.g. Please proceed with what you are doing.

e.g. Tell us your name and then proceed with your story.

proceed from …

e.g. All these evils proceed from war.

in this/that case 既然这样/ 那样，假若这样/ 那样

e.g. In this case, price is an important consideration.

in no case无论如何不，决不

in the case of至于……，就……来说

in case假使；免得，以防万一

in any case无论如何，不管怎样

in some/many/most cases一些/许多/大部分情况下

imply v. to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly

e.g. His silence implied agreement.

e.g. I think freedom does imply responsibility.

substitute n. 代用品,替补；代替者, v. 代替

substitute A for B

e.g. The coach substituted Smith for Jones.

substitute teacher / doctor

in every respect在每一个方面

in this respect 在这点上

e.g. In his respect, they indeed played a critical role in this event.

in respect of 关于，涉及

e.g. We reviewed China’s progress of the previous year in respect of economic growth and cultural development.

base on … / upon 把……建立在某种基础上, 基于

be based ... on/upon

e.g. I base my conclusion on facts.

e.g. My conclusion is based on facts.

e.g. A good marriage is based on trust.

e.g. Teaching is an art based on a science.

make up one’s mind (to do) 下定决心

e.g. I made up my mind to study harder.

e.g. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it.

make up one’s mind that …

e.g. She made up her mind that, no matter what happened, she would stay there.

change your mind 改变主意

bear/keep sb/sth in mind牢牢记住

cross/enter sb’s mind 想起来，想过

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be out of one’s mind 发疯了

bring/call sth to mind 回想起来

companion n. a person who is frequently in the company of another

e.g. They’re drinking companions.

companionable adj. 友善的

company n. v. 陪伴

in company with 连同，一道

e.g. I, in company with many others, feel this decision was wrong.

in the company of与 ... 一起

e.g. It is in the company of such music that I feel most at home.

apparently adv. used when the real situation is different from what you thought it was

e.g. She looks about 10 but apparently she’s 14.

e.g. But apparently time has not solved any of our problems.

something seems to be true, although it is not certain

e.g. Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of bad temper.

4) Explain some difficult sentences, encourage students paraphrase some sentences.

4. Post-reading Exercises

Reading comprehension exercises (see textbook P129-131)

5 Assignment

Review the phrases and expressions

Try to retell the Reading Text A

thth 1. Lead-in

Ask several students to retell the Reading Text A.

2. Extensive Reading Text B

1) Pre-reading：discussion

Students are required to discuss the topics in a group of four or five,

Do you like drinking tea?

Do you know how many kinds of tea are there in China?

Green Tea / Black Tea / Oolong Tea / Brick Tea / Scented Tea

Give a brief instruction about the afternoon tea in Britain. And showing a short film about ten minutes about the afternoon tea in Britain.

2) While-reading: Scanning

1. Scanning and find these statements True or False?

T 1. This passage tells the reader what part tea plays in British people’s life.

T 2. “To take some slight refreshment” means to drink some tea and eat some cakes to bring back one’s strength and energy.

T 3. The English custom of afternoon tea has been observed for over two hundred years.

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F 4. In fact, the English custom of afternoon tea, it is said, goes back to the early eighteenth century.

T 5. Today Englishmen drink more tea than any other nation.

F 6. Tea only grows in warm countries. The British first heard of tea in 1598.

F 7. In Britain tea is very expensive.

F 8. Life is far from cheerful for many of those who produce tea in other parts of the world.

3) Explain some key words and language points in Text B.

customary: usual, traditional adj. 习惯的；通常的

e.g. In my village, it is customary for a girl to take her mother’s name.

go back to 返回到，追溯到

e.g. It’s a tradition that goes back at least 100 years.

suffer from: v. to experience physical or mental pain

e.g. Our town suffered from floods last year.

e.g. She suffers from headaches.

e.g. All over the world many people still suffer from hunger .

bring back拿回来；使…恢复；使…回忆起来

e.g. This win will bring back our long lost confidence.

e.g. Warm home may bring back our sense of safety

bring back to memory / bring back to one’s mind

average n. 平均数，平均；一般水平，中等水平

e.g. The boy’s work at school is above (the) average.

e.g. The average age of the boys in this class is fifteen.

be well (quite) up to the average 完全达到一般水平

below the average 在一般水平(或平均数)以下

on (the) average 按平均值，平均来说，平均起来，

一般说来；通常[亦作on an average]

in times of 处于…时刻，正当…时

in times of trouble

患难时期，困难时期

in times of war / crisis / prosperity / peace / danger

deal in: to buy and sell particular goods as a business

e.g. We deal in hardware but not software.

e.g. I’ve dealt in motorcars for twenty years.

poverty n. the condition of being extremely poor

e.g. The novel shows a surprising poverty of imagination.

e.g. The real poverty is ignorance, not want of money.

poverty gap / level / line

be equal to 相等的，相同的, 胜任

e.g. The task took quick thinking, but John was equal to it.

e.g. Helen is quite equal to Jack in brains.

before long : soon

long before: long ago

e.g. Long before, there was a big museum.

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e.g. I hope I can write to you before long.

Assignment

Review the phrases and expressions \

7th –8th Periods

1. Post-reading of Text B

Do the exercises and check the answers. （133-134）

2. Translation Skills: (Tenses)

3 Writing: (Invitation Letters)

1) Explanation of Leave-taking Memo or Notes

邀请信有两种形式：正式邀请信和非正式邀请信。正式邀请信通常用于正式的社交活动，在格式习惯上，邀请人与被邀请人均用第三人称；非正式邀请信的形式多样。写邀请信时一定要简明扼要，将活动的内容、时间、地点说清楚。被邀请人受到邀请信后，不管接受与否，最好都及时予以答复。

邀请信常用句型：

You are cordially invited to the party.

Will you do us the honor of attending our party?

It would be very nice if you could come.

I would be grateful if you could give me a prompt reply.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

We would be very pleased if you could join us.

回复邀请常用句型：

We are delighted to accept…

Please accept my sincere regrets for not being able to attend your birthday party.

I’m awfully sorry that I cannot attend the meeting.

2) Write Leave-taking Note according to the following information given in Chinese.

写一封邀请信，请Julie于2005年12月16日（周五）下午3：00-6：00 到你家参加Edward两岁生日宴会。届时有热狗和各种上乘色拉，下午4：30左右可享用蛋糕和欣赏音乐。 请发电子邮件给sally@或致电774-5978，告知能否参加。

4 Summary of the whole unit.

5 Assignment

Review the phrases and expressions of the unit and ready for dictation.

Journal

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