新编大学英语教案 第四册 Unit7

新编大学英语教案（4）

Unit 7 college life

Aims of Teaching

Master the words describing college life

Introducing methods of making one’s college life colorful

Aspect should be paid attention to in college life

Key Points

Leading students to pay attention to their effective and efficient college life

Learning to employ the following key words and phrases into practice.

adequate commencement crucial deserve formulate

forgiving garrulous mediocre parlous preparatory presentation

quote semester slipshod act out after all be rid of by no

means come in deprive somebody of something drop out

for the sake

of get away with look back on get down to make it

preparatory on one’s own take a close look

Through the analysis of the text, helping students to be realistic and non-imaginative about

college life

Master the important grammar (掌握本课重要语法――虚拟语气)

Methods of Teaching

Using multi-media teaching equipment

Group-Discussion－discuss college life.

Living performance－invite some student to talk about their troubles and unsatisfied aspects

with college life.

Analyze the text.

Time Arrangement(课时安排):

1 Preparation

2-3 In-Class Reading: The Commencement Speech You’ll Never Hear

4 After-Class Reading

5 Exercises

Unit 7 College Life

Part one:preparation

Classroom Teaching/learning Designing

Read the names of colleges and majors listed below and talk about your high school classmates

and your college life

The students are given ten minutes to read the names of colleges and majors listed below, and

talk in pairabout their high school classmates and the college life. Some volunteers are to talk to

the whole class. Sample answers

Talking about your college life.

A.Campus

Expectations---large and beautiful campus with green grass everywhere and a large sports

ground where you can always see students busy and full of vitality(活力，生气.)

Reality---large campus but only with a little grass

B.Classroom buildings

Expectations---large new classroom with modern facilities

Reality---old with no modern facilities

C.Dormitories

Expectations---crowded with little space for everyone

Reality---true.

D.Students’ dining hall

Expectations---spacious dining halls, full of hungry students

Reality---true except that there many teacher diners as well.

E.Library

Expectations---large collections of books, journals and periodicals; spacious and well-lit reading

room

Reality---true except that the reading rooms are not large enough and students have to get there

early in order to find a seat.

F.Classmates

1) Expectations---friendly and speaking different dialects.

2) Reality---true

G.Teachers

Expectations---old, gray-haired and wearing thick glasses; strict and formally dressed

Reality---not true, because many teachers are very young, especially English teachers; many

teacher do not wear glasses and many teachers wear casual clothes.

Language Points

A. In-Class Reading:

Essay I The Commencement Speech You’ll Never Hear

Essay II College: An All-Forgiving World?

Essay I

1. suppose (L.3) v.

1) to assume; to consider to be probable 假定；猜想，料想

a. Suppose A equals B.

b. I suppose him to be not yet 20.

c. The situation was even worse than was supposed.

2) to believe; have as an opinion 认为

a. She was supposed (to be) extremely rich.

3) to have a duty or responsibility to do something; to be intended to [常用于被动语态]期望；认为应该，认为……必要

a. We are supposed to be there at 6.

b. You are not supposed to kick people.

conj. what would / will happen if 假使; 假使…结果会怎样 a. Suppose he is absent, what shall we do?

b. Suppose my mother were to see us in this place!

supposedly adv. as is believed, perhaps wrongly; as it appears根据推测，据称，大概

a. Economic recovery is supposedly getting under way.

supposing conj. what would / will happen if如果，假如

a. Supposing he is not at home, what then?

b. Supposing something should go wrong, what would you do then?

2. demand (L. 12) v. to ask for firmly and not be willing to accept a refusal; claim as if by right要求，请求

a. They demanded that their voice (should) be heard.

b. This sort of work demands great patience.

c. I demand to know what it is.

n. claim 要求

a. This work makes many demands on my time.

demanding adj. needing a lot of attention and effort要求高的；需要技能的；苛求的

a. An operation on the brain is the most demanding work for me as a surgeon.

b. He is very demanding with his friends.

3. quote (L. 27) v. to repeat in speech or writing the words of (a person, a book, etc.) 引用；引述

a. Is Shakespeare the author most frequently quoted from?