全新版大学英语综合教程教案1-unit2

授课题目（教学章节或主题）：Unit Two

Friendship 授课类型 Classroom teaching

授课时间 第3、4 周第 节

教学目标或要求：

Students will be able to:

 grasp the main idea(never delay expressing your true feelings to a friend) and structure of the

text(developing a story around a letter);

 appreciate that spoken English is much more informal than written English;

 master key language points and grammatical structures in the text;

 conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.

教学内容（包括基本内容、重点、难点）：

Part I Pre-reading tasks

1. Explain the word friendship and the suffix –ship;

2. Listen to the tape and discuss several questions:

a) What does a fair weather friend mean?

b) What do you usually do to keep your friendship?

(via telephone, emails, letters, gatherings, QQ, MSN and etc.)

c) Do you often write a letter?

(frequently, sometimes, rarely or never)

Part II Text: Friendship

1. Structure of the text

Para.1-20------The cab driver told the author something about his friend.

Para.21-35------The author read the letter by himself.

Para 36--------The influence of the driver’s experience on the author.

2. Cultural points

1) One out of five American families moves every year, until they are old.

2) Hallloween (all saints’ day): It is on the night of 31 october. “trick or treat”

3. Grammatical points

1) Subjunctive mood: as if

4. Words, phrases and sentence structures

[1] be lost in/ lose oneself in: be absorbed in, be fully occupied with

e.g. He was lost in playing computer games so he was unaware of my entering the room.

e.g. She was lost in her novel. I had lost myself in thought.

[2] available: able to be used, had, or reached

e.g. Since 1990, the amount of money available to buy books has fallen by 17%. e.g. If you don't want to buy a kite, you can make your own using directions available in the book.

e.g. We have already used up all the available space.

[3] or something: used when you are not very sure about what you have just said

e.g. The air fare was a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something.

e.g Here's some money. Get yourself a sandwich or something.

or something like that

[4] go ahead: continue, begin (sometimes followed by with +n.)

e.g. The board of directors will vote today on whether to go ahead with the plan.

e.g. Henry will be late but we will go ahead with the meeting anyway.

[5] know/ learn (sth.) by heart: memorize, remember exactly

e.g. You have to know all the music by heart if you want to be a concert pianist.

e.g. The pupils are required to learn a classic poem by heart every day.

[6] At least they do with me because I'm on the road so much.: At least letters from home mean a lot to

me because I travel a lot in a car for long distances.

[7] estimate: form a judgement about (a quantity or value) (Sth. be estimated at)

e.g. I estimate that the total cost for the treatment of the disease will go from $5,000 to $8,000.

e.g. Bill's personal riches were estimated at $368 million.

[8] This isn't family. : This isn't a letter from my family.

[9] might/ may (just) as well: If you say that you might/ may (just) as well do something, you mean that

you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly reluctant

about it.

e.g. Anyway, you're here; you might as well stay.

e.g. The post office is really busy — we'll have to queue for ages to get served. We might as well go

home.

[10] I'm not much of a hand at writing.: I'm not good at writing.

not much of a : not a good

e.g. Some people may think that doing housework for others is not much of a career.

e.g. He is not much of a father, but he is an outstanding professor.

[11] keep up: continue without stopping

e.g. They risk losing their homes because they can no longer keep up the repayments.

e.g. I was so hungry all the time that I could not keep the diet up for longer than a month.

[12] correspondence: 1) the act of writing, receiving or sending letters (不可加 s，但可加 a , often

followed by with + n.)

e.g. His interest in writing came from a long correspondence with a close college friend.

2) the letters that sb. receives or sends (used as an uncountable noun)

e.g. Mary really never mentions her step-mother in her correspondence.

e.g. Any further correspondence should be sent to my new address.

[13] But I take it he's someone ... : But I expect that he is someone ...

The sentence pattern "I take it (that)" is used to say that you expect someone will do something, know

something etc..

e.g. I take it (that) you've heard that all the students in my class have done a very good job in CET Band