《基础英语I》教学大纲
课程编码：
适用专业：翻译
课程类别：专业基础课
课程性质：必修
学分：6
学时：96 其中：讲课学时：96 实践（验）学时：0
先修课程：无
一．课程的地位与作用
本课程是为高等学校翻译专业本科生基础阶段开设的专业基础课，是翻译专业本科生的一门必修必考主干课程。本门课程的教学内容主要包括词汇、习语、句子、语篇等从简单到复杂的多层次的语言知识的讲授，同时还涉及了对学生的听、说、读、写、译等多种语言技能的培养。通过该门课程的学习，使学生了解英语构词法基本知识，掌握基本的英语词汇包括单词用法、习惯搭配等，扩大基本词汇量，巩固语法所学知识，掌握基本句型结构和常用句型，培养基本的语言技能，并能具备一定的语言使用和交际能力。
二．课程教学要求
1. 语音：掌握英语音标及基本的语音、语调和朗读技巧，能够朗读与课文难度相当的短文并进行简单交流。
2. 语法：掌握英语基本构词法知识；能识别词类，掌握基本词类的用法；了解动词的主要种类和时态、语态及非谓语动词的用法；掌握基本句型和句子种类；初步掌握句子和段落之间的衔接手段，能连贯地表达思想。
3. 词汇：通过基础英语课、阅读课和其他途径认知词汇大约5000-6000个，熟练掌握运用其中的2000-2500个词汇的基本搭配；掌握基本的构词法规则和词形变化，根据所学构词法能猜测派生词的词义。
4. 写作：能根据作文题目或所给话题，在30分钟内写出长度为150字左右的短文，要求内容切题、语言通顺、语法正确、结构严谨、条理清楚，并能对所学课文进行故事梗概、内容小结，做到表达得体，思想深刻。
5. 口语：能就所学课文回答问题，对与课文有关话题进行个人观点陈述，语音语调自然，无重大语法错误，语言表达基本得体。
6. 翻译：能运用所学知识独立完成课程中的翻译练习，做到理解正确，译文基本通顺。
三．课程教学重点、难点
本课程是一门旨在培养学生基础英语技能的学科，教学重点应放在让学生熟练掌握重点词汇、习惯用语、动词搭配、同义词和一词多义及常用句型，并能借助构词法扩大基本词汇量，大力盘活中学所学知识，打好坚实的语言基础，为后期高年级学习奠定坚实基础。难点
在于培养学生独立使用工具书，掌握正确的英语学习方法，注重语言的运用和交际能力，提高学生的阅读兴趣与实际语言应用能力等方面。
四．课程教学内容
Unit 1 Half a Day
1. Teaching Objectives:
a. To be able to grasp long sentences from the perspectives of both sentence structure and meaning;
b. To learn new words and to grasp common collocations;
c. To be able to retell some key paragraphs in English;
d. To be able to deal with all the after-class exercises independently.
2. Language Focus & Difficulties:
a. Vocabulary
i. Suffixes: -(a)tion/-sion), -ment, -ness, -er/or, -ful, -less,-ed, -ly;
ii. Phrases: ahead of, to bring about, to give rise to, to make…out of, in vain, to burst into, to show off, to cling to, to resort to, to take advantage of, be convinced, on one’s own, etc.
b. Grammar
i. Past participle as attributive modifiers;
ii. Relative clauses with those, who.
c. Difficulties: the writing skill of the text
3. Teaching Contents:
a. Theme: The story tells about a boy’s activities and feelings on his first day at school and the world’s changes after school.
b. Text Structure
Part I (1-7): The narrator’s unwillingness to go to school;
Part II (8-16): The narrator’s experience at school;
Part III (17-20): The changes the narrator found after school.
Unit 2 Midnight Visitor
1. Teaching Objectives:
a. To be able to grasp long sentences from the perspectives of both sentence structure and meaning;
b. To learn new words and to grasp common collocations;
c. To be able to retell some key paragraphs in English;
d. To be able to deal with all the after-class exercises independently.
2. Language Focus & Difficulties:
a. Vocabulary
i. Prefixes: dis-; un-; tele-
ii. Phrases: to deal in, for one thing, to check on, to take one’s chances, to learn about, to read about, may as well, to send away, to block off, to slip into;
