院校名称 保定学院 演示者姓名 肖莉艳 《新视界大学英语 综合教程》 Book 4 Unit 6 Make yourself at home 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班

NVCE Book 4 Unit overview –Introduction –Teaching objectives –Teaching plan Demo class Unit 6 Make yourself at home 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班

Unit overview (5 mins) Introduction –Target students: 2nd year non-English major students in a college –Textbook: New Vision College English Integrated Course Book 4 Unit 6: Make yourself at home 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Unit overview (5 mins) Teaching objectives –Knowledge-oriented: Key words and phrases concerning “home”; How to describe the history of a house; –Skill-oriented: Integrated language skills; Reading skill: humanizing the non-human; Writing skill: making generalizations; 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Unit overview (5 mins) Teaching objectives –ability-oriented: Understanding how the family and the home has been tremendously affected by the social and economical changes –Affection-oriented: Love of home 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Unit overview (5 mins) Teaching plan –2 periods Leading-in Active reading: “Golden memories” (focus) –1 period Dealing with unfamiliar words Language in use 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Unit overview (5 mins) Teaching plan –1 period Further reading: “It was home”: reflections on losing place (only focusing on vocabulary of buildings and destruction) Reading across cultures (combined with Guided writing): both reading and writing parts focus on writing skills 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Golden memories 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Teaching objectives –To express personal ideas concerning “home” and “house” with newly learnt words and expressions; –To develop critical thinking. –Reading skill: humanizing the non-human; –Structure: inversion –Binomials: up and down, clean and tidy –Collocation of “install, tend, appliance, breeze, memory” 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Teaching procedures –Pre-class activity: students read the text Golden memories and remember the new words –To get students familiar with the topic 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Text learning –Step 1 students watch the film trailer of the movie Monster House, then share with the class the impression they have about their own home in childhood or describe the house which impress them most when they are children in one or two sentences. After that, some of students will speak in class. (10m) 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Step 2 read the quotations about home in starting point. Work in pairs and discuss their meanings.(10m) 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) 1 Home is where the heart is. Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and statesman 2 A house is not a home. Song by American singer Dionne Warwick 3 Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse. George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer and critic 4 An Englishman’s home is his castle. English proverb 5 Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do. Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister 6 Home is a shelter from storms-all sorts of storms.... 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Students can understand the meaning of home from different aspects so that they can get prepared for understanding the text. 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Step 3 ask students to describe the illustrations of home in the text.(5m) 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Students can look at typical houses of different countries and of different characters. Cultural background knowledge can be introduced so that students can know the housing conditions in the UK and the sentimental feelings old houses evoke in British people. 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Step 4 pre-reading activity(5m) Look at the sentences from the passage and think about who “I” is. 1) I can still remember the men who built the walls… 2) My neighbour is an acquaintance but I only see him from an angle to the side. 3) My windows are my eyes, and they look onto trees and fields… 4) At home I had another family to look after. 5) But around the corner, I can hear a very loud engine noise coming closer… 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Whose golden memories are we going to read? Can a house have a “personality”? 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Step 5 skimming of the text (10m) Browse the passage to get the general idea about it and choose the best summary of the passage in exercise 2. 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Step 6 explaining the new words (20m) After explaining the usages of the key words and expressions, test the students through the way of translating and making sentences. 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Step 7 intensive reading of the text. (20m) After listening to the record or students’ reading of the text, understand the text part by part. Raise some questions concerning the contents of the text to test whether students understand the text. E.g. What is the narrator’s earliest memory? What are we told about the location of the house? 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) As to those long and difficult sentences, help students to unpack them through some questions concerning the meaning of the sentences. –…and then a boy with powerful lungs, who kept us all awake. (Line 2, Para 5) –What do we know about the boy? –The baby boy cried very loudly. 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Focus on the following several points. –Inverted sentence: High up in the branches of one of the apple trees rested the boy, reading his favorite book. First let the students observe the structure of the sentence, then find the similar sentences in the text and summarize the characteristics of the structure. (input) After that, finish the related exercises after the text. (output) 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) –Binomials: up and down, clean and tidy etc. Let students pay attention to the forming and meaning of these structures and list more examples through brainstorming. 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) –Emphasize the collocations in the text and compare their past and present habits using the structures “used to do” and “be used to doing” 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Step 8 sum up the text. (9m) Let students have a discussion with other students and summarize the change of the house with the variation of its owner. Then find what does the house think of the change and how social and economic changes influenced the house. 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) –For example: –The first owner: the builder of the house, later together with his wife, his daughter and his son. –Change of the house: from new (young) state to old state. –Attitude of the house: It felt good to look after the happy couple. –Social and economic changes: world war I 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

Demo class (15 mins) Step 9 Assignment (1m) Let students write a composition to describe the change of their own home, based on the discussion in leading-in. To make it easier, students are allowed to write in the first person from the point of themselves or in the third person. 外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班 NVCE Book 4

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