高级英语教学大纲

《高级英语》教学大纲

一、课程名称

《高级英语》I，II，III

二、课程性质

《高级英语》是英语专业蒙授高年级的一门专业必修课，是在学生原有英语水平基础上，全面提高学生英语水平和综合运用能力的课程。

三、教学目的

本课程是继综合英语I-VI之后，继续帮英语专业蒙语授课学生加强听、说、读、写、译的训练，进一步培养综合技能，扩大学生的知识面，及熟练使用英语进行交际的能力，为学生今后的教学和研究工作打下扎实的研究基础。

课程重点要求学生应掌握的内容有语言体系和知识与能力发展两个方面，其中语言体系知识有：

语音知识： 在正确掌握元音音素和辅音音素的发音，了解读音规则及句子的读法等基础知识后，进一步掌握重音、音高、音强、停顿与语速及副语言特征在交际中的作用。

语法知识：在基本掌握英语语法的基础上，突破对长句、复杂句子的结构分析。 词汇知识：熟练掌握5000--6000个认识词汇中的2000--2500个词汇及其最基本的搭配,及相当数量的短语、习语，掌握常用的构词方法。重点突破同义词辨析 写作：掌握各种文体的基本特点及写作方法，能够根据所出的题目和列出的写作提纲或图表、数字统计表等(也附有写作提纲)写一篇150词左右的短文。能做到内容切题、完整、条理清楚，文章结构严谨，语法正确，语言通顺恰当。可根据提示写大约50--60词的通知、便条、请贴等。要求格式正确，语言得体。

阅读：能读懂英美国家出版的中等难度的文章和材料，掌握所读材料的主旨和大意，了解说明主旨和大意的事实和细节，既理解字面的意思，也能根据所读材料进行一定的判断和推论。既理解个别句子的意义,也理解上下文的逻辑关系。能在5分钟内速读900词左右中等难度的文章，掌握所读材料的主旨和大意。 要求学生能力发展的内容有： 1) 学习者的学习策略能力:

通过本课程的学习学生应具有很强的自学能力，了解并掌握一定的学习策略，具备独立工作的能力。 2）语言运用能力:

通过高级英语课程的学习，学生应在听、说、读、写、译五个方面得到充分发展，能够从口、笔两个方面对所学内容灵活应用。 3) 思维能力:

学生在通过本课程学习后，达到能用目的语进行符合交际要求的思维活动，达到

高级水准的语言运用能力及认知能力，形成良好的交际能力。 四、 教学原则与教学方法

本课程的教学应突出以下几个原则：知识与技能并重的原则；语言与文化并重的原则；学生自学与教师讲解相结合的原则；学生独立工作与共同合作相结合的原则；教师

课堂讲解与学生课下练习相结合的原则。教学方法应多样化。教师可根据文章的内容及体裁，在课堂上采取不同的教学方法，提高学生学习积极性与主动性。

五、 课程时间及学分

本课程开设时间为三学期，分别在第11、12、14学期开设，每周6学时，每学期102学时, 每学期4学分，共12学分。

六、 课程教学内容及学时分配

本课程采用杨利民主编的《现代大学英语》教材的第3，4册。 第11学期: （共102学时）

本学期的教学内容为教材第三册的前7个单元的基本内容和补充的课外阅读材料。每单元大约用13-15学时完成，每单元可分为以下五项基本内容: 教材中每个单元的课文; 部分课文讲解; 单词列表; 课后练习;

课后阅读材料;

每一单元的具体内容安排如下: Unit 1

Text A: Your College Years

1.About the author: Dr. Bob Hartman is a children’s story teller and part-time pastor. 2.Grammar: the way somebody did something, ways of expressing the object. 3.Vocabulary: to observe, to handle, to apply, to occur, to involve Text B: Preparing for College (out class reading) Unit 2

Text A: Discovery of a Father

1. About the author: Sshewood Anderson was born into a poor family in Camden,

Ohio, the U.S. in 1876.

2. Grammar: Grammatical functions of the participles, verb forms 3. Vocabulary: to strike, to remember, to cover Text B: The Last Word was Love (out class reading) Unit 3

Text A: Michael Dell’s Two-Billion-Dollar Dream

About the text: The text is taken from Reader’s Digest.

Grammar: grammatical functions of the infinitives, appositive clauses Vocabulary: to offer, to concern, to develop

Text B: Would You Know a Computer If You Met One? (out class reading) Unit 4

Text A: Wisdom of Bear Wood

1. About the author: Michael Welzenbach was an art critic as well as a poet and a

novelist. He wrote some of the most stimulating criticism of art and music for the Washington Post.

2. Grammar: ways of expressing adverbial, ways of expressing apposition 3. Vocabulary: to suspect, to regard, to earn,

Text B: Baby Birds (out class reading) Unit 5

Text A: Twelve Angry Men (Part One)

About the author: Reginald Rose is a native New Yorker, best known as a writer for television.

Grammar: the gerund, verb forms Vocabulary: to fix, to owe, to claim

Text B: Shot Actress—Full Story (Part I) (out class reading) Unit 6

Text A: Twelve Angry Men (Part Two)

1. Grammar: modals+ perfect infinitive, connectives 2. Vocabulary: to favor, to risk, to stick, to bear

Text B: Shot Actress—Full Story (Part II) (out class reading) Unit 7

Text A: The Rivals

About the author: Martin Armstrong, the author, was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Britain in 1882.

Grammar: unreal conditional clauses, passive infinitives present, Vocabulary: to inform, to adopt, to rob Text B: The Open Window (out class reading) 第12学期: （共102学时）

本学期的教学内容为教材第三册的后8个单元的基本内容和补充的课外阅读材料。每单元大约用11-13学时完成，每单元可分为以下五项基本内容:

1.教材中每个单元的课文; 2.部分课文讲解; 3.单词列表; 4.课后练习;

5.课后阅读材料;

每一单元的具体内容安排如下: Unit 8

Text A: We are Only Human

1. About the author: Dr. Laura C. Schlessinger was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947. She has a Ph. D n physiology from Columbia University and a post- doctoral certification in marriage, family and child counseling from the University of Southern California.

2. Grammar: object complement, more about passive form 3. Vocabulary: to load, to commit, to honor Text B: Button, Button (out class reading)

Unit 9

Text A: The Dill Pickle

1. About the author: Kathering Mansfield is an outstanding short story writer. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888.

2. Grammar: rhetorical questions, exclamatory sentences

3. Vocabulary: to snap, to fix, to stretch

Text B: The Valentine Generalization (out class reading)

Unit 10

Text A: Diogenes and Alexander

1. About the author: Gilbert Highet was born Glasgow, Scotland, educated at Glasgow and at Oxford, and became a naturalized American citizen in 1951. He was known for his scholary and critical writing.

2. Grammar: subject-verb inversion, the +comparative adjective 3. Vocabulary: to possess, to roll, to appoint

Text B: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast (out class reading)

Unit 11

Text A: Silent Spring

1. About the author: Rechel Carson is a writer and scientist and ecologist. 2. Grammar: functions of prepositional phrases, such/so, verb forms 3. Vocabulary: to intend, to hold, to devote

Text B: Of Man and the Stream of Time (out class reading)

Unit 12

Text A: The Need that Driving Us All

1. About the author: William Glasser, the author, is a doctor and therapist who turned his attention to the schools when he began to believe that schools systematically deprive students of a chance to behave and learn in responsible ways. 2. Grammar: noun clauses

3. Vocabulary: to gain approach, to benefit

Text B: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (out class reading)

Unit 13

Text A: In My Day

1. About the author: Russell Baker was born in Virginia in 1925. He is a famous columnist for the New York Times, in charge of the column “The Observer” in which he applies his unique brand of humor to social commentary. 2. Grammar: preposition + which/ whom in relative clauses, preposition + noun clauses introduced by wh- words

3. Vocabulary: to utter, to amount, to mind, to resign, to clear Text B: My Grandmother, the Bag Lady (out class reading)

Unit 14

Text A: Mercy at Appomattox

1. About the author: William Zinsser was born in New York in 1922. 2. Grammar: absolute construction, verb forms, 3. Vocabulary: to doubt, to spare

Text B: A Horseman in the Sky (out class reading)

Unit 15

Text A: The President as Corporate Salesman

1. About the author and the text: Michael Parent is considered one of the nation’s leading progressive thinkers. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1962. 2. Grammar: revision

3. Vocabulary: to settle, to occupy, to deny, to expose, to issue Text B: Our Leaders Don’t Know Best (out class reading)

第14学期: （共102学时）

本学期的教学内容为教材第四册的前8个单元的基本内容和补充的课外阅读材料。每单元大约用13学时完成，每单元可分为以下五项基本内容: 1.教材中每个单元的课文; 2.部分课文讲解; 3.单词列表; 4.课后练习;

5.课后阅读材料;

每一单元的具体内容安排如下: Unit 1

Text A: Thinking as a Hobby

1. About the author and text: William Golding (1911-1993), a British writer who

won the Noble Prize for Literature in 1993, and who is known especially for his novel Lord of the Files. His novels are remarkable for their strikingly varied settings.

2. Grammar: parallel constructions, subject complement, tenses & verb forms

3. Vocabulary: to slip, to integrate, integration, idioms of “ to stand” Text B: The Pleasure of Learning (out class reading)

About the author: Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) was a classical scholar, critic, author,

for many years professor of the Latin language and of Latin literature at Columbia University. This text is a condensation from the last book, which first appeared in Reader’s Digest, September 1976. Unit 2

Text A: Waiting for the Police

1. About the author and text: J. Jefferson Farjeon (1883-1956) was born in

London, one of a family of four, all of whom were writers. He is best known for his mystery stories and was one of the first modern authors to mix romance and humor with crime.

2. Grammar: parenthetical elements, ways of making suggestions, verb from 3. Vocabulary: to oblige, to pop, span, spot

Text B: The Hitch-hiker (out class reading)

Unit 3

Text A: Why Historians Disagree

1. About the author and the text: The present text is based on the introduction to a

book entitled conflict and consensus in modern American history edited by

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