Unit2 office
ⅠTeaching Objectives
①To require students think what office is.
②To help students master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text.
③To enrich students’ English in office.
④To improve students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
ⅡTeaching Focus
①Comprehension of reading A.
②Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text.
③Listening and writing skills.
ⅢTeaching methods and stra tegies
①Communicative method
②Task-oriented method
③The audio-lingual method
④The grammar-translation method
⑤Cognitive method
ⅣTeaching Procedures
Step1. Warming-up
Task1: Ss to read Mr. Thomson’s schedule for Tuesday. Then write their schedules for today.
Objective: Ss can organize their activities in one day and make a time schedule. Task2: Group discussion
Objective: Ss can grasp the main ideas of the secretary so as to understand the reading A well.
Step2 Language points
A variety of: a lot of things of the same type that are different from each other in some way
. The girls come from a variety of different backgrounds.
reflect: v. to show or be a sign of a particular situation or feeling
. That choice reflects your good taste.
depend on: be decided by
e. g. The price depends on the quality.
It depends (on) whether you want to do it or not.
minimum: n. the smallest amount of something or number of things that is possible or necessary
. You must practice each day for a minimum of 30 minutes.
handle: v .to do the things that are necessary to complete a job.
. Computers can handle huge amounts of data.
keep track of: to pay attention to someone or something so that you know what is happening to them
. It’s difficult to keep track of all the new discoveries in medicine.
operate: v. to use and control a machine or equipment; to run
. Mary was experienced in operating the computers.
The company operates five factories.
appropriate: adj. correct or suitable for a particular time, situation or purpose . I didn’t feel that this was an appropriate tine to mention the subject of money. deal with : to take the necessary action, especially in order to solve a problem . Some secretaries may deal with budgeting,bookkeeping and personnel paperwork. efficient: adj. working well and effectively without wasting money or energy
. All staff think Maria is a very efficient secretary.
anticipate: v. to expect that something will happen and be ready for it
. It is anticipated that next year the workers' wage will increase.
confidential: adj. spoken or written in secret and intended to be kept secret
. Doctors are required to keep patients' records completely confidential. Prospect: a person, job, plan, etc, that has good chance of success in the future;
a possibility that something you hope for will happen
. The manager held out bright prospects for me if I would accept the position.
I see little prospect of his recovery.
individual: n. one person, considered separately from the rest of the group or society . It is important to know that the virus can be passed from individual.
adj. considered separately from other people or things in the same group
. Each individual leaf on the tree is different .
pursue: v. to continue doing an activity or trying to achieve something over a long period of time
. Tom pursued his acting career with great determination.
challenging: adj. difficult in an interesting or enjoyable way
. Teaching young children is a challenging and rewarding job.
Step3 Reading A Explanation
A. Students read the passage and find out the correct answers of task 1 on page20.
B. Ask students to divide this passage into several parts and sum up the main ideas.
C. Teachers explain the text in details one paragraph by one paragraph and give the translation.
Step4 Reading B
⑴In this part, it will give students some brief introduction to the companies’ newsletter.
⑵Enlarge students’ vocabulary.
Step5 Listening & Speaking
Listen to the tape and practice the listening skills from page 24 to page 25 in listening course.
Step6 Writing
1.Make an introduction of an Agenda.
An agenda is a written list of topics or matters to be discussed at a meeting. A good meeting agenda will serve as a guide to participants, making the meeting more efficient and productive. The format of an agenda is comparatively fixed.
Step7 Mini-project
Help your foreign teacher to make a three-day travel plan in China. Remember to cover flights, hotels, transport and expenses.
Objective: this project asks Ss to design a travel route and make an itinerary (旅行计划) according to the sample in our book.
①Grouping.
②Defining the project.
③Timing &cooperation.
④Presentation
Step8 Tenses
英语中表示动作或状态发生时间和方式的动词形式称作动词时态。不同时间和方式发生的动作或状态要用谓语动词的不同形式来表示
16种动词时态
ⅤAssignments
Language Lab from page28 to page29 based on the reading A and reading B.Ⅵ Feedback From Students