大学体验英语综合教程2 unit-5-way-to-success 教案

Unit Five Ways to Success

Part one: Listen and Talk : (2 periods) Teaching objective:

To help students be familiar with successful celebrities;

To take listening/watching exercises concerning the topic of being successful; To master the skills of giving feedback to partners in the speaking area; To develop students’ fluency skills when they do the communicative task Teaching content:

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Step 1: (25minutes) 1. Guess: tell who they are

Teacher shows the pictures and students guess who they are. Ask students to find at least one common point among these people. 2. Discuss: why they are famous/successful

Ask students: if success equals money or power or social status, yes or no? and why?

Why are these people famous or successful?

Show some pictures and ask students what they think about them. 3. Group discussion: what does success mean to you? Step 2 Listening & Talking (55 minutes) 1. Listening

Success can be reached in different ways by people in different careers. Bill Gates began at age 13 to 1)_______ computers. His vision for personal

What success means to you Listening

What you know about these celebrities and how they succeed Watching: what leads to success Talking

Translating ---culture salon

computing has been central to the success of Microsoft Corporation, the company he 2)_______ with his childhood friend in 1975.

The former CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch, is a business legend. A famous quote by Mr. Welch is, “Change before you have to.” He believes in leading by example and 3)__________ his employees to do their best every day.

Michael Jordan said, “I accept 4)______, but I can’t accept not trying.” He is

one of the best athletes to ever play team sports. His great smile, athletic 5)___________, and pleasant personality have made him one of the most famous 6)_______ in the world.

Michael Jordan spent a lot of time playing basketball as a child but in senior middle school he was taken off the team. Instead of 7)________, he worked through adversity and became the greatest basketball player yet.

Celine Dion came from 8)_______ beginnings in a rural French Canadian town in Canada. The youngest of fourteen children, her voice is internationally known on such soundtracks as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Titanic”.

Ronaldo is Brazil’s greatest 9)_____ in soccer since Pelé. He began his professional 10)______ in the season 90 — 91, playing for the Social Ramos Club. FIFA (FéderationInternationale de Football Association) voted him best player of the year in both 1996 and 1997. In 2002, he won the Golden Shoe Award of the FIFA World Cup with 8 goals scored.

2. Group discussion: Choose one celebrity and later tell us about his/her story. Students read the paragraph and then try to retell their story. Choose one of the pictures and then tell the class about his/her story. 3. Group discussion:how do they succeed?

4. Video watching: what leads to success?

Watch the video and think about the following question:

What leads to success?

5. Communicative Tasks

Students listen to the two dialogues, pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation.

Read the dialogues with partners and then make up their own dialogues. Step 3 Translating---Culture salon (alternative)(10mins) Quotes from famous People Homework:

? To finish the communicative tasks by referring to sample dialogues ? To preview the passage A

Part 2 Read and Explore (2 periods) Passage A: Death of a Dream

Teaching objective: To guide students to get some ideas about Bill Gates’ opinion towards education;

To lead them to comprehend the passage by answering questions and exercises

Teaching content: Passage reading and question answering. Step 1 Pre- reading Tasks (30 mins)

1. Greetings and a brief revision (pair work or group work)

Ask one or two pairs (groups) to act out their own dialogues 2. Warm up activity: Do you know them?

What’s in common among them? Drop-out celebrities

Why did they drop out of college?

Does education count? What do we get from education?

Do you want to pursue graduate study after you get your BA or BS? Why? Step 2 While- reading Tasks (60 mins) 1. Fast reading:

Answer the following questions:

1. Who is Bill Gates? What do you know about him? 2. What do you think of school education?

3. Do you want to pursue graduate study after you get your BA or BS? Explain 4. Why do many students write to Gates every year? 5. Why do some parents write to Gates?

6. What does Gates think of dropping out of school?

7. Which university did Gates go to? Did he graduate with a degree?

8. Many students choose to work for a while before going to a university. What do you think of this?

Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.

___ 1 By “education counts”, Gates means that education is important to everyone.

___ 2 From the passage we know that Gates dropped out of college because he

didn’t do well.

___ 3 Gates tells us that it is easier to get a job with a college diploma than without one.

___ 4 According to Gates, one learns better by self-study.

___ 5 It can be inferred from the passage that it’s fine to become deeply interested in one

specific area.

2. Second reading --- Structure of the Text

Based on the passage, finish the table

Assignments:

? To learn the language points;

? To finish the exercises 3-8 in Language Focus.

Part 3 Read and Explore (2 periods) Language points Study (2 Periods)

Ask students to share their information on key words and phrases with each other, invite them to analyze language points one by one, instruct them if they’re wrong. Step 1 Key language points: 1. Count: be of value/importance

? We have only a few bullets left, so make each one count. ? Her opinion counts because of her experience.

2. claim: say that (sth.) is true or is a fact without having any proof

? She claims that she is related to the Queen. She claims to be related to the Queen. Jean

? Jean claims to own a car but I don't believe her. 3. perceivesth as sth: interpret sth. in a certain way; view ? I perceived his comment as a challenge. 4. let alone: without considering

? There isn?t enough room for us, let alone six dogs and a cat. ? The baby can't even walk, let alone run.

? I haven?t decided on the menu yet, let alone bought the food.

? He has a big house and an expensive car, not to mention a villa in France. 5. threaten: utter a threat; give warning of ? Giant pandas are threatened with extinction. ? The boss threaten an employee with dismissal. ? The clouds threaten rain

6. foster: help (something) to grow or develop Cooperative learning fosters a spirit of cooperation.

? The mother tried to foster her son's interest in music by taking him to concerts when he was young.

7. focus on: v. direct one's attention to

? As we can't study all the resources, I propose we focus attention on one of them.

? Today we're going to focus on the question of homeless people in London 8. lose oneself in sth.: become totally absorbed in, be preoccupied by ? I soon lost myself in the excitement of the film.

? On a dull winter afternoon, Harry would sit by the fire and lose himself in a book.

9. discipline: a method of training

? Learning poetry is a good discipline for the memory.

? In learning a foreign language, pronunciation drills and question and answer drills are good discipline.

10. take advantage of: make use of; profit from

? We should take full advantage of the exceptional opportunity open in experts.

? You?d better take advantage of the warm weather by going for a walk this afternoon.

11. opportunity: a favorable moment or occasion (for doing something) ? It will give you an opportunity to meet all kinds of people. ? Don?t let slip any opportunity of practicing your English. 12. discourage: prevent (an action) ? We discourage smoking in this school.

? We tried to discourage him from climbing the mountain without a guide. 13. sign up: sign an agreement to take part in something ? We will not have the picnic unless more people sign up ? How many people signed up for this course? 14. appropriate: correct or suitable

? Plain, simple clothes are appropriate for school wear. ? It seemed appropriate to end with a joke. Step 2 Important sentences

1. It's true that I dropped out of college to start Microsoft, but I was at Harvard for three years before dropping out--and I'd love to have the time to go back. (para. 4) It's true that I left college early to start Microsoft, but I was at Harvard for three years before I left, and if I had the time I'd love to go back (for my further study). 不错，为创建微软，我未完成大学学业，不过辍学之前我已经在哈佛呆了三年，而且我真心希望有一天能重返校园。

2. Since you are a success, my students perceive that as a reason not to care much about getting a good education. (para. 5)

As you are a success, my students tend to infer from your success that they don't have to worry very much about doing well in school.

你成功了，我的学生因此就认为没有必要接受良好的教育。

3. But somebody handing you a book doesn't automatically foster learning. (para. 10)

But if someone gives you a book you may not necessarily learn anything from it. 但人家递给你一本书并不能自动地让你学到东西。

4. In high school there were periods when I was highly focused on writing software, but for most of my high school years I had wide-ranging academic interests. (para. 12) Sometimes in high school I engaged myself wholly in writing software, but most of the time I studied a large variety of subjects.

读高中时，我有一段时间醉心于软件编写，但大部分时间里，我的学习兴趣相当广泛。

5. One parent wrote me that her 15-year-od son became completely preoccupied by the computer and ignored everything else.

One parent wrote me that her 15-year-old son \himself in the hole of the computer.\

有位家长写信说，她15岁的儿子“钻进计算机无底洞里了”。

6. It's fine to take a deep interest in computers, dance, language or any other discipline, but not if it jeopardizes breadth. (para. 15)

It's OK to be very strongly interested in any subject or activity such as computers, dance, or language, but not if it makes your interests too narrow.

你对计算机、舞蹈、语言或其他任何的科目有深入的兴趣也无可厚非，但太偏执而舍弃学习广度则不是一件好事了。

7. If you fall into an obsessive pattern in high school, you've got two problems. (para. 16)

If you fall into a bad habit of having strong but narrow interests in high school, you have two problems (not just one).

如果高中阶段兴趣过于集中，你会面临两个问题。

8. Graduate school is one way to get specialized knowledge, although extended college education isn't always a good investment from a purely economic standpoint. (para. 17)

Graduate school is one way to study a particular academic area , but it may not be the wisest way to invest your time and your tuition money. 读研究生是获取专业知识的一个途径，不过从纯经济角度来看，大学毕业后再接受教育不总是明智的投资。

Assignments:

1) Memorize words and phrases in context 2) Study Passage B by yourself

Part 4 Produce and consolidation (2 periods) Step 1 General writing ：Grammar (35mins)Relative Clauses

Relative clauses are dependent clauses, so named because they begin with a relative pronoun: who, which, or that. Relative clauses are used to modify nouns denoting people or things.

Example: The women who live in the same house on Green Street are cousins. To finish exercise 17&18

Step 2 Practical writing: Greeting Cards for Achievements (40mins)

Step 3 Revision (15 mins) 1) Make a quick review

2) Dictation of words and phrases which have been learned in this unit. Assignments

1) Writing task: write a CET-4 composition. 2) Preview Unit 6.

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