Unit1新视野大学英语第三册.docx

A Teaching Plan for Unit 1(In New Horizon College English Book 3)1. Time: 10 class hoursIL Contents:, Listening and Speaking Section A: The Expensive Fantasy of Lord Williams, Section B: The Romantic Life of Secret Agent AlbertIII. Suggested Timetable:1. The first two-class-hour session for listening and speaking (Unit 1 in College English Listening and Speaking Course Book 3).2. Next four-class-hour session for Section A3. The fourth two-class-hour session for exercises of Section A4. The fifth two-class-hour session for Section B and Section CIV. Aims and Requirements:Listening and Speaking:1. Train the students* ability to understand the main idea and grasp important details of the listening texts.2. Give the students a chance to exchange views on the texts they have heard to enable them to have a deeper understanding of the texts.Section A: The Expensive Fantasy of Lord Williams1. Let the students acquainted with some new words:fantasy, live out, stick by, justify, furnish, considerate, restore, deposit, supervise, add on, buy up, stick by, fall upon dark days.2. Teach the following conjunctions: as; now that3. Teach the writing skill: use some specific details to support a general pointSection B: The Romantic Life of Secret Agent Albert1. Teach the reading skill scanning2. Enable students to grasp the main idea of the textV. Focal Points and Difficult Points:Listening and Speaking:1. Enable students to be familiar with the passage listening skill2. Grasp some words and expression which often appear in CET-4Section A: The Expensive Fantasy of Lord Williams1. Analyze the structure of several compound sentences and comprehend them.2. Learn to use conjunctions: as (means although); now that3. Grasp several CET-4 key wordsSection B: The Romantic Life of Secret Agent Albert1. Ask students to retell the story2. Review the subjunctive moodVI. Suggested Teaching Procedure and Methodology:Listening and Speaking: (An interactive approach is introduced)1. Pre-listening Task: arrange the students in pairs and ask them to discuss the followingquestions: Do you think parents, love for their children is the greatest love in the world? Do you often call or write to your parents? What do you usually tell your parents on the phone/in the letters? Do you turn to your father/mother for help when you have problems? Why or why not?Some key words and expressions in Language Focus: sacrifice: v. give up sth. as a sacrifice.e.g. She sacrifice her career to marry him.n. offering 供品make it a point to: do sth. Because one considers it important or necessarye.g. I always make a point to checking that all the windows are shut before I go out. There are bound to : It is sure that2. Background Information:In the United States many old people live by themselves either because they do not want to be a burden to their children or because they prefer to maintain their individual lifestyles. When they cannot take care of themselves, they are often sent to special nursing homes for the aged. They don't see their children on a regular basis. So for many people in America, old age can be a sad and lonely time. The text explores the loneliness of the old people and also the love between a son and daughter-in -law and their mother.3. Listening to text 1 and 24. Speaking Tasks: Ask the students to get into pairs and explain to them how to carry out Speaking Task A- Reflections on the texts, then select a pair to present their views in class.Section A The Expensive Fantasy of Lord Williams1. Background Information:Lord(男爵)“Lord/lady” itself is a title; the child of a duke or the heir of a count/earl was titled. The term is also used to denote the noble lord of a manor (a subdivision of land). These lords rarely hold land directly from the monarch, holding it instead from some other noble. Scotland YardThe headquarter of the London Metropolitan Police. The term is often used, popularly, to refer to one branch, the criminal Investigation Department (CID). Named after a short street in London, the site of a palace used in the 12th century as a residence of visiting Scottish kings, it became London's police center in 1892. New and separate headquarters for the Metropolitan Police were built in 1890 along the Thames embankment and were referred to as New Scotland Yard. In 1967, New Scotland Yard moved to new headquarters, also in the Westminster area.2. Pre-reading ActivitiesListen to short passage twice and answer questions Why initially did some villagers not trust ikLord Williams"?(2) At a later date why did many villagers suspect he was not the person he claimed to be? Why do the villagers still drink to their “Lord”?听原文:In a small village in Scotland the locals still drink to their “Lord Williams”. Some of the people in this beautiful village never quite trusted this rich stranger, who only visited on weekends, right from the beginning. Later many suspected he was not really a wealthy lord after he had spent great sums of money in the village buying up and improving a large number of properties with no hope ever getting his money back in the future. However all agree that he and "his" money helped the village back onto it's feet. Where his money came from and why he spent it on their village would only be revealed at a later date.Answers: Why initially did some villagers not trust "Lord Williams"?Williams" did not live in the small village but only visited it on weekends ever since he came to the village for the first time. For another, people of the small village were not quite sure about him. He was so strange to the local people that they may even have doubts about his identity.(2) At a later date why did many villagers suspect he was not the person he claimed to be? Because he had spent great sums of money in the village buying up and improving a large number of properties with no hope ever getting his money back in the future.(3) Why do the villagers still drink to their "Lord"?The villagers hold such friendly attitudes towards him just because they all agree one can deny the fact that this man invested so much money in the small village that used to be lifeless, and the villagers really benefited a lot from his generous investment. Therefore, the villagers highly appreciate his "great contribution" to the village and intend to extend their thanks to him.3. Work on Section AA) Structure of the Text (A method of analyzing the text structure is employed)Part I (Paras. 1-5) General background of the storyPart II (Paras. 6-8) The villagers, reactions to Mr. Williams, casePart III (Paras. 9-14) rhe major crimes Mr. Williams committed and how he spent the money Part IV (Paras. 15-17) The final result of Mr. WilliamsB) Raise some questions for students to answer. (Question and answer method is used) Part I (Paras. 1-5):Questions: - Where and who?-What did he do?-What is the truth?-What was the result?Answers: - Scotland; Lord Williams, or Tony. (Paras. 1- 2)- He provided such a large injection of cash into the village that he single-handedly brought the community back to life. ( Paras. 3)- Mr. Williams was not a lord at all but a government employee living out a fantasy that he was a Scottish noble and paying for it by stealing funds from Scotland Yard. (Paras. 4)- He was brought into court and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. (Paras. 5)Part II (Paras. 6-8)Question: What are the responses from the villagers to Mr. Williams?Answers: Response 1: At least some villagers are sticking by him. (Paras.6)Response 2: It's hard to understand how a clever person like him could mislead people like that. What he did benefited the village. A lot of the properties were beautifully restored. (Paras. 7)Response 3: Everyone wondered where the money was coming from. Why was he spending it in a little place in the mountains? He wouldn't have gotten it back in 100 years. (Paras. 8)Part III (Para. 9-14)Questions: What are the major crimes that Mr. Williams committed?How did Mr. Williams spend the money?Answers: Mr. Williams stole more than £ 8 million over eight years.(Paras. 9)Mr. Williams spent the money buying an estate and noble titles to become the Lord of Chirnside. (Paras. 11) Mr. Williams sunk his dishonest gains into this village with fine stone cottages, a central area of green grass , green rows of hedges. (Paras. 12) Mr. Williams spent the money buying multiple cottages, a pub and a run-down hotel and turned them into very good-looking places. (Paras. 13) Mr. Williams spent the money buying the crystal glasses, the most experience ones for the restaurant. (Paras. 14)Part IV (Paras. 15-17)Questions: How was it found out that Williams was dishonest?How did Williams described his own motive for stealing the money?Answers: His bank deposits were so large that they were noticed by the bank's management. The bank then notified the police, who discovered that the criminal was one of their own.(Para. 15)He said in an interview after he was arrested: 441 discovered this bloody huge amount of money. I went from the need to pay off a few debts to what can only be described as greed. There is no way to justify it.''(Para. 17)4. Language PointsPart I (Para 1-5) Tomintoul, Scotland - On Saturday night at The Grouse's Nest (Para. 1)At the beginning of a news report we usually have the name of the place where the event took place.e.g. New York 一 On Tuesday afternoon, September 11,2001,.The sentences in the text are relatively long, which is typical of news report. they're still willing to raise a glass or two to 44Lord Williams', though now his title prompts laughter. (Para. 1)Meaning: The villagers are still willing to drink a toast to 44Lord Williams'' although he is no longer 44Lord Williams'' and people would burst into laughter upon hearing the title, raise a glass: express good wishes to 向祝贺e.g. I think we should raise a glass to the combat hero.我想我们应该向战斗英雄致意。 3) There are those in this beautiful village in the mountains of Scotland (population,320) who say they were never quite sure about Anthony Williams, the soft-spoken, wealthy noble who arrived in 1986 with his well-dressed wife.(line 4-6)这个美丽的村庄坐落在苏格兰山区,总共只有320人。些村民说,他们一直不太了解安东 尼威廉斯。这位有钱的贵族说话和气,1986年和他时髦的妻子一同来到了这里。who 引导的定语从句修饰 those,介词短语 in this beautiful village in the mountains of Scotland 及括号中的插入语将who及先行词those分开。这个定语从句包括两个从句:个是省略了 引导词 that 的宾语从句 they were never quite sure about Anthony Williams,另个是定语从句 who arrived in 1986 with his well-dressed wife,修饰 noble.-soft-spoken; well-dressedWord-formation:A. adv.-p.p.a soft-spoken professor, doctor his well-dressed wife or lady a well-intentioned gathering or party ill-advised kidsB. adj.-p.p.big-headed man, lionnarrow-minded guysingle-handed sailing around the worldC. n.-p.p.self-taught coursesskill-based exercisesself-employed young manwood-paneled windowstimber-framed house And there are others who say their suspicions were aroused over time, as the 55-year-old Mr. Williams, who appeared on weekends turned out in fine suits, bought up property after property, providing such a large injection of cash into the village that he single-handedly brought the community back to life. (line7-10)另外一些人说,他们的怀疑在日益扩大,因为55岁的威廉斯先生总是西装革履地在周末出 现,他买下了一笔又一笔的地产,给小村投入大量现金,仅靠个人的力量使小村庄起死回 生。定语从句 who say their suspicions were aroused over time 修饰 others; as 引导的原因状语从句 中,主语55-year-old Mr. Williams和谓语bought up之间被非限定性定语从句who appeared on weekends turned out in fine suits 分隔;suspicion: n. a belief or feeling that sth. is wrong or that sb. has done wrong 猜疑，怀疑e.g. He was arrested on suspicion of having stolen the money.他因涉嫌偷那笔钱而被捕。above suspicion: too good to be suspected of wrongdoing 不受怀疑under suspicion: suspected of wrongdoing 有嫌疑 v. suspect n. suspicion adj. suspiciousarouse: a) cause sth. to happen 弓| 起e.g. Her behavior aroused no suspicion.她的举动未受到怀疑。b) wake sb. from sleep: awakenbuy up: buy all or as much as possible (of sth.)全部买进，尽量收购e.g. The agencies have bought up all the train tickets.代理人将火车票买空了。injection: v. -* inject inject sth. into sth./sb.a) force a drug or liquid intoe.g. inject penicillin into(with) sb's arm 给某人胳膊注射青霉素。b) introduce new thought intoe.g. Try to inject a bit of enthusiasm into your performance 你要尽力在演出中倾注一点热情。f reject拒绝;injecl投入,注射;eject喷射bring to life: give liveliness toe.g. The actor brings Hamlet to life.这个演员把哈姆雷特演活了 0 But no one could have possibly guessed the truth-that the man with endless money and a friendly manner was not a lord at all but a government employee living out a fantasy that he was a Scottish noble and paying for it by stealing funds from Scotland Yard.(line 11-13)可是谁也想不到真相竟是:这个财源滚滚,举止友好的人并非什么勋爵,而是一名政府公务 员。他幻想自己是位苏格兰贵族,并从苏格兰场盗用钱财购买了这个贵族头衔。本句有两个同位语从句:ihat the man with endless money and a friendly manner was not a lord at all but a government employee 修饰 the truth; that he was a Scottish noble 修饰 a fantasy living out a fantasy 和 paying for it by stealing funds from Scotland Yard 为并列的现在分词短语作定 语修饰a government employee»但被修饰fantasy的同位语从句分隔。live out: do or experiencee.g. I suppose some people create an idea of who they want to be, and then they live it out.我以为,有些人是先想象自己是什么人,然后实现这想法。Part II (Para. 6-8) And now that he has fallen upon dark days at least some villagers are sticking by him.(line21-22) (Seeing that he is now experiencing a difficult period, some villagers are still giving him their support.)如今他落难入狱,至少仍有部分村民支持他。now that: conj. seeing that; in as much as; sincee.g. Now that you are older, you should know better.你长大了,该更懂事 了 。e.g. Now that he is well again, he can go on with study.既然恢复了健康,他就可以继续学习。fall upon dark days: be in difficulties and troubles.遭到不幸,倒霉Similar phrases: fall on hard times; fall on evil dayse.g. We were very appreciated his help when we fell on dark days.我们很感激他在困难时候对我们的帮助。stick by sb.: continue to support and be loyal to sb.继续支持(该词组不用于被动语态)e.g. Fd like to thank my friends who struck by me during the difficult times.我想感谢我的朋友们,他们在我困难的时候支持了我。Her husband stuck by her in good times and bad.无论境遇好坏她的丈夫对她忠贞不渝。 .very friendly, considerate- not at all proud,.(line 23)considerate: thoughtfulconsiderable: plentiful; significantconsidered:经过考虑的(3) It *s hard to understand how a clever person like him could mislead people like that.(It is hard to understand how a clever person like him cause people to think mistakenly of him in such a way.)mislead: pt./pp. misledf mislead sb. into doing sth. : cause sb. to do sth. by deceiving him. 骗某人做某事e.g. He misled me into thinking he was rich.他使我误以为他很有钱。f adj. misleadingmis- misapplied adj.误用的,滥用的misarrange v,排错misbehave v,举止无礼 A lot of the properties were beautifully restored. (A lot of buildings he