Teaching Plan for Unit 6
Cour：College English
Instructor | | Module | Unit 6 A TheTrashmam; B The Company Man |
Time | 180m | Teaching Aids | 精彩生活Multi-media |
Teaching Objectives | 1. To help the students have a good understanding of the passages in this unit； 2. To help the students grasp the usages of some important words, phras and expressions in the unit； 3. To enable the students to analyze the structure of the 2 passages in this unit； 4. To introduce the basic reading skills of this unit：Understanding idiomatic expressions, in order for the students to achieve truly effective communication; 5. To help the students master how to u examples to illustrate his statements or viewpoints； |
Chief Points & Difficult Points | 1. Get the main idea of the passage. 2. Master some uful expressions & ntence structure in the passage. 3. Understand the structure of the text. |
Prerequisites | Before coming for class, students should 1. identify some important words for the topic. 2. scan the text for main ideas. 3. visit library to rearch about information concerning the unit. | 用成语
Teaching Methods | The mixture of listening, speaking, reading, practicing and writing |
Reference Books | Teacher’s Book of New Horizon College English Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (English-Chine) Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chine Dictionary Longman Dictionary of American English |
Teaching Contents | Time Allotment |
Section A I. Warm-up Activity 1. Topic Discussion i. Student’s Discussion ii. Teacher’s Summary 2. Questions on the Topic and the Passage 苹果手机蓝牙II. Background Information III. Text Structure Analysis IV. Structured Writing V. Detailed Study of the Text i. Words and Phras Study ii. Language Points VI. Text Summary 1. Student’s Prentation 2. Teacher’s Summary VII．After-text A Exercis Section B I. Reading Skill II. Warm-up Activity 1. Topic Discussion 2. Questions on the Topic and the Passage III. Text Structure Analysis IV. Text Study 1. Paragraph Meaning 2. Words and Phras Study 3. Language Points 4. Summary or Main Idea of the Passage i. Student’s Prentation ii. Teacher’s Summary V. New Words Dictation VI. After-text B Exercis VII．Supplementary exercis | 我很伤心15m 5m 10m 5m 50m 5m 30m 5m 10m 5m 小说封面底图20m 5m 15m |
Assignments | 1. Hand in the exerci of TRANSLATION. 2. Finish the other after-text A & B exercis after class. 3. Supplementary Exercis i. English-Chine Translation （5 ntences） ii. Chine-English Translation （10 ntences） 4. Preview Unit 7 |
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Section A The Trashman
I. Warm-up Activity
1. Topic Discussion 怎样知道被异性暗恋了
i. Student’s Discussion
1) Why did the man enjoy doing the work of collecting garbage?
Becau it was good exerci, and it wasn’t as dirty as he had expected.
ii. Teacher’s Summary
Ever since ancient times, human beings have learned how to deal with large amount of garbage in urban areas. As early as the cond century BC, Chine had established a workforce that gathered garbage in its major cities. In the United States, Benjamin Franklin was the first to implement sanitation rvices in the form of street cleaning and some trash removal during the 1700s in Philadelphia. Today, most governments in the wo
rld manage their own waste management rvices. The employees who collect garbage are called trashman. The writer, finally, concludes that society should have respected for both economist and trashmen; otherwi, they will both leave garbage behind.
2. Questions on the Topic and the Passage
1) Why did the man take the work picking up garbage?
He took the work for money.
2) What did the trashman think he should do when he made the rounds on Saturday?
He thought there would be more exchanges between him and the people he offers rvice.
3) How did people respond in most cas when the trashman said hello to them?
Most often they either said nothing or stared at him in surpri.
4) How did the trashman think of his job later?
He thought his job was as necessary as that of a police officer or a fire fighter.
火玩5) Why did the trashman change his mind to stay at the job?
Becau he thought the job was good for him and necessary for people.
II. Background Information
1. I.Q. stands for intelligence quotient. Intelligence refers to how effective one’s mental ability is, including the abilities to understand, learn, recall, think and reason. Quotient is the figure that results when one quantity is divided by another. The IQ or intelligence quotient is the score that results when a person takes an established test of short tasks designed to measure mental ability. The score at age level or mental age compared to the actual age gives the IQ score. An average IQ score is 100. IQ scores may range from a low of 40 to a high of 160 resulting in the terms low or high intelligence.
2. John William Gardner, (October 8收据怎么写, 1912–February 16, 2002), President of the Carnegie Corporation, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson, was subquently the founder of two influential national U.S. organizations, Common Cau and Independent Sector, as well as the author of numerous books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Gardner's term as Secretary of HEW was at the height of Johnson's Great Society Domestic agenda. During this tenure, the Department undertook both the huge task of launching Medicare, which brought quality health care to nior citizens, and oversaw a massive investment in education with the passage of the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that redefined the federal role in education and targeted funding to poor students. Gardner also presided over the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 1970, Gardner created Common Cau, the first non-profit public interest group in the United States.
3. Brooklyn Dodgers: It is a name of one baball team. In 1955, Brooklyn Dodgers won World Series against longtime rival New York Yankees. In 1957, Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, and then left for California and became L.A. Dodgers.
4. Tashman: People can be especially nsitive about their work, especially if they believe their job is not respected by the society. Trashmen, also called garbagemen or garbage collectors, sometimes prefer to be called “sanitation engineers” or “environmental engineers”. The terms make their work em more important.
III. Text Structure Analysis
The passage is a first person narrative in form of a diary about the experiences of being a trashman. It is made up of four parts.
Part One (Para 1-3): The introduction. Paragraph 1 tells us who they are and what kind of work they are doing. Paragraph 2 introduces collecting trash as a dull job; Paragraph 3 is what the trashman has thought about the greetings they would receive from the people they rve for.
