新编大学英语Unit教案.docVIP

Unit Six Nature and Nurture I. Theoretical basis: College English Syllabus (1999); College English Curriculum Requirements (2004) II. Teaching Aims: In this unit students are required to: 1) get to know some useful information concerning the topic of the reading passages in this unit and to know more about English culture; 2) do some preparation activities such as discussion, group work, etc. to practice their spoken skill and communicative skills; 3) grasp some new words and try to use these words which help them to enrich their vocabulary(alike, except for, adopt, respond to, maintain, likeness, polish, foster, considerable, considerable, be liable to, no more than, bring up, be responsible for, make the most of); 4) read the in-class reading passage in a limited time and grasp some expressions and grammatical points in the in-class reading passage to improve their reading comprehension; 5) do some post-reading exercises and some after-class reading to practice what they have got to know in class to improve their English comprehensive skills.; 6) translate some typical sentences into Chinese or English by using some expressions learned in the reading passages to acquire some translating skills and better their translating abilities. III. Teaching Methodology Mainly applying task-based approach and communicative one to construct a student –centered classroom The whole learning and teaching proceed is tended to follow the model of pre-tasktask cyclepost-task IV. Time Distribution According to Ss’ English learning traits and regulations, the focus of the learning strategies, and the English level of current students; we are going to finish this unit in 10 periods: Listening Speaking (2 periods); In-class Reading (5 periods); Exercise After-class Reading (2 periods); Further Development Writing (1 periods). Period 12 listening and speaking I、Teaching Content 1) T’s background knowledge introduction as recruitment and Ss’ discussion on the topic of learning sk