BOOK1 Unit5 LANGUAGE POINTS

Period Two Reading and Thinking—Language Points

Ⅰ.重点单词

1．drama n．戏；剧；戏剧艺术

2．imagery n．形象的描述；意象；像

3．literary adj.文学的；爱好文学的；有文学作品特征的

4．folk adj.民间的；民俗的；普通百姓的

5．diamond n．钻石；金刚石；菱形

6．dawn n．黎明；开端；萌芽

7．amateur n．业余爱好者 adj.业余的；业余爱好的

8．mood n．情绪；心情；语气

9．tease vi.& vt.取笑(某人)；揶揄；逗弄

10．syllable n．音节

11．format n．格式；总体安排；(出版物的)板式 vt.格式化

12．delicate adj.精美的；精致的；脆弱的

13．await vt.等候；期待；将发生在

14．revolve vi.旋转；环绕；转动

15．utter vt.出声；说；讲 adj.完全的；十足的；彻底的

16．sorrow n．悲伤；悲痛；伤心事 vi.感到悲伤→sorrowful adj.悲伤的①

17．rhyme n．押韵词；押韵的短诗 vi.& vt.(使)押韵 →rhythm n．节奏；韵律；规律

18．recite vt.背诵；吟诵；列举→recitation n．背诵②

19．respectively adv.分别；各自；依次为→respective adj.分别的；各自的

20．comprehension n．理解力；领悟力；理解练习→comprehend v．理解；领悟；懂

掌握规律 巧记单词

①sorrow n.悲伤；悲痛；伤心事 vi.感到悲伤→sorrowful adj.悲伤的 例如：hope→hopeful，care→careful

②recite vt.背诵；吟诵；列举→recitation n.背诵 例如：pronounce→pronunciation，explain→explanation

Objectives I Related Information II Reading Comprehension III Language Points IV Reading

Skills Unit 5 Cheating by Susan Shreve Susan Richards Shreve The Kratz Centers Spring 2002 Writer

in Residence is the author of ten novels more than twenty books for

children and is co-editor of three anthologies Ms Shreve is a founder of the MFA MFA Creative Writing Program at George Mason University where

she continues to teach She has taught Creative Writing at Princeton University Columbia University and the Breadloaf and Bennington writers

conferences An original board member of the PENFaulkner Foundation in

Washington DC she served as its president from 1985 to 1990 Her awards and honors include grants from the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundation

the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation The range of her extraordinarily active career includes writing and delivery

1 Unit 5 I Love This Game

Teaching Objectives

1. Vocabulary: rocket, stardom, draft, forward, look forward to, along the way, foreign-born,

shoot, brief, in brief, eye, work on, at present, funnily enough, in the long/short term, walking

2. Grammar: look forward to + V-ing; however; sentence completeness

3. Practical writing: Address Format

Time: Six periods

Procedure: Pre-reading Activities (1 period)

Intensive Study (3 periods)

Practical Writing and Exercises (2 periods)

Part 1 Pre-reading Activities

1. Background information introduction

The text A is about the sports, especially the basketball. So the teacher may ask students if

they know anything about the NBA and some famous NBA basketball teams and players. To help

the students, the teacher may spend a few minutes on a brief introduction of the NBA, the draft

Unit Five Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of

the U.S.S.R Teaching Periods: 8

Teaching Object:

English majors of junior year

Teaching Aims

·To acquaint students with the historical background of WWII.

·To help students learn to use new words and useful expressions in

the text ·To enable students to learn to paraphrase some complicated

sentences

·To help students appreciate the techniques of the speech, such as

Churchill's clever appealing to emotions and logical reasoning of the

audience.

·To enable students to appreciate the rhetorical devices in the

text.

Teaching Focus:

·Cultural Information

·Language points and expressions

·Main idea summarizing

·Figures of speech

·Writing practice

Teaching Difficulties:

·Appreciation of the lecture style of writing

·Paraphrasing some sentences

·Identifying figures of speech