Unit Six Women, Half the Sky
Name of Cour: College English
Grade Level: First-year non-English majors
Name of Unit: Women, half the sky
Topics to be considered within the unit:
1. The issue of “female discrimination”in Chine society an d across th e worl d.
2. Skills to write a coherent essay.
3. Langrage points and grammatical structure
General objective for the lesson:
Encourage students to have an in-depth discussion about the topic of “gender discrimination”, its toots and effects.
Specific objective for the lesson:
By working on Text A “I’m going to buy Brooklyn Bridge”, students will be able to:
1.have a deeper understanding of women working in societies, their roles and
frustrations faced in daily life.
2.appreciate the cohesive narration of the author to develop her ideas.
3.master the key language points and grammati cal stru cture in th e text;
theme of the unit.
Content to be considered:
1.Main idea of the text.
2.Structure of the text.
3.Cultural background.
4.Language points.
5.Grammatical structures.
6.Writing strategy.
7.Coherence in writing.存在问题和不足
Methods to be ud: Lecture and group discussion
Skills to be developed:
U the proper words and structure to write cohesively.
生意对联大全Key points:
1.the title of the text is very unique, try to appreciate it.
Teaching Process:
Period 1---3 (135 minutes)
Step 1 Homework checking.(Dictation, recitation, reading or testing etc.) (10--15
minutes)
Ask the students the following questions to check whether the students have
previewed the text:
1.What does the author’s friend mean by saying if the author believed everything in
the report, she had a bridge I Brooklyn she’d like to ll her?
2.Explain what the author’s “own version of that bridge in Brooklyn”is. What does
she say “it was a wi investment after all”?
3.What is the tone of the article? Give facts to support your view.
Step 2 Text review (5--10 minutes)
1. Listening to the recording only once to make sure that students are more familiar
with the text.
2. A brief introduction to the social status of women across the world. (China, elwhere in the world)
牙釉质发育不良3. Language points emphasized:
Brief的用法
短语: In brief 简而言之
hold no brief for 不赞成,；不支持
eg. I hold no brief for the policies of this government
Alumnus的用法
(pl.) alumni
n. 毕业生，校友; 学徒
Item的用法
n. (清单上一组事物中的)一项，一件
eg. The police examined veral items of clothing.
adv (用于列举在一览表中除第一项外的逐项) 此外还有，又办皈依证后的忌讳
短语: Item by item 逐条地
Former的用法
adj.往昔的，原来的
短语: The former…the latter…前者…后者…
eg. We keep hors and cattle:the former for riding, the latter for food.
Principal的用法
adj. 主要的，首要的;
立志名言
eg .The Nile is one of the principal rivers of Africa.
n .校长，院长(常要大写); 本金; 主角;
Despite的用法
prep. 尽管(相当于in spite of)
武踏星空eg. Despite the bad weather,we went out for dinner
(in) despite of 不把…当一回事
Charm的用法
v. 迷住，陶醉
eg. She was charmed by V enice.
(好象)用魔法控制
eg. to charm snakes 耍蛇
短语: prince charming 白马王子
Occasion的用法
短语: On occasion 偶尔，间或
Ri to the occasion 表现出能应对(困难局面)
eg. When the guest speaker failed to arrived,the chairman ro to the occasion and made a very amusing speechhimlf.
比较：incredible & incredulous
incredible 不可信的，带有被动意义
< In most cas politicians are incredibl e as th ey l dom tell th e truth.
大多数情况下政客都有是不可信的，因为他们很少说实话。Incredulous不轻信他人的，带有主动意义
< She was so credulous that the other children coul d f ool h er easily.
她如此轻信别人，别的孩子都很容易愚弄她。
Consume的用法
毁灭，消耗；消费，花费；吃光，饮尽；消费掉；枯萎e.g. In the mid-venties Americans consumed about venteen million barrels of oil daily.在70年代中期美国人每天耗油约达1700万桶。
Consume on sth\in doing sth消费
Be consumed with被……所吞噬；因……而变得憔悴
c语言 She was consumed with curiosity.她心里充满了好奇。
Anchor的用法
n.锚；给人安全感之物或人；v.抛锚，停泊；把……系住，使固定；担任（某固定电视节目的）主持人
be anchored = be strongly connected with
< A steam boat arrived and anchored in the bay.
汽船到达后停泊在港湾里。
Connie anchors the 7 o’clock news.
康妮主持7点新闻栏目。
Reproach的用法
n/vt 责备，指责
< I have nothing to reproach mylf for.我问心无愧。
Above/beyond reproach 无可挑剔，完美无缺
< Her manner was beyond reproach.她的行为无可指责。Reproach sb for sth /with 指责某人某事
< He reproached her with laziness/for being lazy.他指责她懒惰。
比较：condemn & blame & reproach &scold
condemn常用于较正式的，严重的场合，意味着从道义上谴责。
blame 表示埋怨
reproach表示责备，往往是一种不满的意见
scold 表示责骂，训斥
橱柜有哪些品牌Remainder的用法
n.剩下的人、东西或时间，余下的部分
20 came in and the remainder stayed outside.
比较：remainder & left-over & rest & remains
Remainder 指剩菜饭等还能吃的食品
Remains 指果皮，骨头等要扔掉的餐后残物
Left-over 指剩菜等，通常用复数形式
Rest 指还未上桌的食品
Investment的用法
投资，投资额；时间，精力等的投入
< It ems that your investmen t of time an d eff ort doesn’t work at all.
