教案-商务英语阅读-Unit 13-叶兴国

Unit 13

Teaching Objectives:

1. To remember and use new words and expressions; 2. To learn how to deal with marriage frictions;

3. To learn what is the difference between work with your head and work with your heart; 4. To deal with the language points in Text A and Text B.

Focuses:

1. To learn how to deal with marriage frictions;

2. To learn what is the difference between work with your head and work with your heart;

Difficulties:

What is the difference between work with your head and work with your heart ?

Teaching Time: 2 periods. Teaching Procedures:

Part I Pre-reading Questions

It can be used as lead-in questions. For students, they can discuss with each other and will have free answers. Part II Extensive Reading

In this part, there are two texts and their relevant exercises. By reading the texts in limited time, Teacher

helps students understand the contents and the reading methods to build reading abilities gradually.

Text A Married, with Money

a. Let the students skim and scan Text A as quickly as possible to get the answers to Exercises I ⅈ b. then Check the answers to Exercises I ⅈ c. Analyze the language points in the text:

1. The husband wanted her to incorporate to reduce their income, thereby allowing the son to qualify for more aid. 丈夫要她把公司与别家合并以减少收入，这样一来就可让儿子有资格获得更多的经济援助。

2. get bogged down with: 由于……而陷入困境。如：You must not get bogged down with details. 你不必纠缠于细节之中。

3. Think big and put it in buckets. 做大规划，并把你的梦想分门别类。

4. talk-show host: 访谈节目主持人。访谈节目是一档电视或广播节目，在该节目中，某些名人参加讨论或被采访，并且经常会回答观众或听众提出的问题。 f. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.

Text B Positive Thinkers

a. Several minutes for students to use some basic reading skills to read the text only once, then ask them to do Exercise I;

b. Check the answers to Exercise I; c. Point out some language points:

1. Panda Express: “熊猫快餐”是著名的中式快餐连锁店，分店遍布美国各州。

2. After all, it’s hard to eat Chinese food while driving down the freeway. 毕竟在高速公路上开车时很难享用中餐。

3. They also share a leadership philosophy that flies in the face of conventional management strategy. 他们还在某一与传统经营策略背道而驰的领导哲学上取得共识。

fly in the face of: 敢于违抗，悍然不顾。如：Anyone who is tempted to fly in the face of discretion had better think twice. 任何想轻举妄动的人都要三思而行。

d. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.

Part III Reading Skills

Before dealing with Text A and Text B, ask students to read through the whole passage of reading skill, to

lead them to understand the details about professional knowledge and background information, especially the examples.

Part IV Supplementary Reading: Yours, Mine & Mine

Ask students to read it in a limited time after class, and then write a summary. Part V Test Yourself

Ask students to do it and check the answers by themselves. Questions for Discussion and Reflection:

1. Have you ever experienced marriage friction in your family? If so, can you tell us your story? 2. In your opinion, what is the difference between work with your head and work with your heart?

Assignments

1. Write a short summary of about 50 words to express the main idea of Supplementary Reading; 2. Finish all exercises in this unit.

3. Review the contents learned and preview what is not learned in Unit 14.

References:

《商务英语阅读教程Ⅰ教师用书》《牛津英汉双解词典》

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