Unit 1 World News: International Relations
I Teaching objectives and requirements:
Objectives:
1 To let students master certain English listening skills;
2 To let students learn about the world news, focusing on international relations;
3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about world news by way of listening extensively.
II Difficult and key points:
Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on international relations
Difficult points: Some of the words and ntence structures and ntences on international relations.
雷锋事III Teaching approaches:
1. Task-bad instruction, 培养孩子专注力
2. Learner-centered instruction,
3. Interactive teaching
4. Communicative language teaching,
5. Cooperative learning.
IV Time allotment: 4 class
V Teaching procedures:
Main teaching contents and steps
Step 1 Discussion (10 minutes)
Two topics for discussion:
Topic one: How to develop our English listening well?
Topic two: What do you know about international relations?
Goal: To learn some skills on English listening and to begin the content to be learned in Unit One.
太阳山Step 2 Main content in Chapter 1 (145 minutes)
Part I Warming up
Part II News report
Part III Anti-piracy mission全家福艺术照
Part IV Speeches
Part I Warming up
A
Words learning:
radical change (根本变革), further fighting (进一步的战斗), bomb (炸弹, 爆炸), depleted uranium (贫铀), allay (减轻，缓和), disquiet (使不安, 使担心), ammunition (弹药), Macedonian (马其顿人, 马其顿的), Albanian (阿尔巴尼亚人, 阿尔巴尼亚人的) guerrilla (游击队, 游击战), 大猩猩(gorilla), Bosnia(波斯尼亚), Kosovo (科索沃), Kuwait (科威特), navy aircraft (海军飞机), hit (袭击, 碰撞), push for (奋力争取), NATO (北约: 北大西洋公约组织, North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
Tape listening:
Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.
1. The former American Defen Secretary William Perry has recommended a radical change of policy towards North Korea.
2. Hundreds of thousands of mothers from across the United States gathered here in Washington Sunday to push for tougher gun control laws.
3. There’s been further fighting between Macedonian forces and Ethnic Albanian guerrillas inside the Macedonian border with Kosovo.
4. A bomb dropped by United States navy aircraft during training in Kuwait has hit a group of military obrvers, killing six of them.
5. NATO is taking a number of steps to allay growing disquiet about the possible health risks from ammunitions containing depleted uranium, which it ud in Kosovo and Bosnia.
B
Words learning
summit (峰会), collision (碰撞, 冲突), eradicate (根除, 消灭), shrug off (摆脱), denunciation (谴责), regime (政体, 政权, 管理体制), pluck (摘, 拔, 扯), upsurge (高涨, 高潮) breach (破坏, 打破), vesl (船, 舰), West Bank (约旦河西岸), Gaza (加沙地区)，rever ( 扭转, 颠倒), ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( 东南亚国家联盟, 简称东盟), rank (n.
1. 等级; 地位,身份 2. 社会阶层;军阶,军衔 3. 高地位,高身份,显贵 4. 排,横), Rangoon (仰光:缅甸首都) USS(the United States Ship: 美国军舰) Greenville:军舰名 emergency surfacing drill (紧急海上演习), Coast Guard (海岸警卫队), Israeli (以色列的, 以色列人的, n 以色列人), troops (部队,军队), Palestinian (巴勒斯坦的, 巴勒斯坦人的，n 巴勒斯坦), gunmen (枪手), rage (vi. 大怒；流行，风行).
Tape listening:
Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.
1. To make commitments to eradicate poverty, promote democracy and education, and rever the spread of AIDS.
2. Burma, Cambodia, and Laos.
3. A US nuclear submarine tore through a Japane fishing vesl, sinking it within minutes.
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4. Gun battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen have been raging overnight.
5. Some nuclear facilities 国共十年内战have breached many health and safety laws.
More than half of the nuclear plants failed some basic tests, such as checking radiation measurements.
Part II News report
A
Words learning:
Ballot ((以无记名)投票下象棋的口诀,xp画图工具投票表决[(+for/against)], e.g.: They balloted for a new chairman. 他们投票选举了新主席), contention (争论，争辩，论点), lobby (v 游说, n 大厅, 休息厅), UN General Asmbly (联合国大会), Mauritius (毛里求斯), Security Council (安全理事会), Organization of African Unity (OAU, 非洲统一组织，1963)，allot (分配，分派), balloting (投票), King Harald (哈拉德王),
Tape listening:
Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.
会计证查询
Summary
