New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing) ---- Book 1
NAME, Business English Department, Harbin Finance University
UNIT ONE
Learning a Foreign Language
Unit One Learning a Foreign Language
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NAME, Business English Department, Harbin Finance University
1. To arouse the students’ interests for the topic of this unit and to make them take part in the language
learning activities on their own initiative。
2. To let students reflect on their own experiences of language learning and identify the problems in
learning English.
3. To let students learn the important new words and expressions
4. To let students master the writing skills: cause-and-effect
5. To let students master the reading skills: make out the meaning of unfamiliar words through context
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Unit 1
Section A
I Comprehension of The Text
1. The attitude is that if one is not moving ahead he is falling behind.
2. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. (People budget
it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; they also charge for it.)
They do this because time is a precious resource.
3. Everyone is in a rush — often under pressure. City people always
appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, restlessly seeking
attention in a store or elbowing others as they try to complete their
shopping.
4. Don’t take it personally. This is because people value time highly
and they resent someone else ―wasting‖ it beyond a certain
appropriate point.
5. New arrivals in America will miss opening exchanges, the ritual
interaction that goes with a cup of coffee or tea and leisurely chats.
... ... 新视野大学英语读写教程 2 unit5 课后习题及答案（翻译）
Vocabulary
Ⅲ.
1.After a while as an ambulance driven, you gethardenedto what you see
at accidents.
作为一个救护车司机一段时间后 ,你得到坚强在你所看到的事故中。
2.My sole object was to get shelter from the snow, to get myself covered
and warm.
我的唯一目的就是为了避开雪 ,让温暖覆盖我。
3.If was take all the facters into account, his chances of winning the
election were slim.
如果是把所有的模型考虑 ,他赢得大选的机会渺茫。
4.It will only weaken his position if he continues to stick to his strange
ideas.
它只会削弱他的立场 ,如果他继续坚持他的奇怪的想法。
5.Literally thousands of people watched the football game.
数千人观看了足球比赛。
6.The most noticeable change was in my younger brother, who had grown
quite a bit and was now a third-grader.
最明显的变化是在我的弟弟 ,他已经足够大了 ,现在是三年级学生。
7.I am supposed to be resting and relaxing, but it is just a wholebunch of
different things that have happened.... ... 我应该休息和放松 ,但这只是一大堆不同的事情。
1 Unit 1 Time-Conscious American
Detailed Reading of Main Reading
I. Teaching Objectives and Demands
In this period, students will
1. learn about cultural differences;
2. study Passage A and understand the main idea of the text;
3. understand the structure of the text and the devices for developing it;
4. grasp some keys words, phrases and useful sentence patterns.
II. Important Points and Difficult points
Words and expressions:
Budget; acute; replace; elbow; leisure; assess; probe; significance; competent; account for; due to; pour
into....
Sentence patterns:
Americans believe no one stands still; We are slaves to nothing but the clock; much less do they take
them out for dinner, or around on the golf course....
III. Time Allotment (2 periods)
Lead-in Review the main idea of the main reading, and ask students to answer some questions.(20
