Unit 3 Why I Teach Study & pratice

Topic 3 Could you give us some advice on how to learn English well?Section AⅠ. Material analysis本课是九年级第三单元第三话题的第一课时。

主活动是1a和2。

1a通过王俊峰与孩子们交流在美国所碰到的困难引出话题：英语学习的困境。

除了引出话题，还引出了语法：how/what+ to do。

1b是个听力任务，以此来训练“边听边排序”的能力，这也是课程标准要求学生掌握的技能。

1c 初步呈现构词法，2重点学习一些常见的构词法。

3a与1a 相似，只是把王俊峰换成了李明，除了要听问题，还要听解决方法，学生在无形中也可以学到一些学习技巧。

3b是一个完全开放式的口语任务，主要是模仿3a来口头描述问题，然后给出合理的建议。

这个任务要综合1a 和3a 的内容，要经过准备、演练、展示三个环节，故作为课后练习，并要求学生在下一次课进行展示。

通过学习本课，可以培养学生相互沟通、相互帮助的美德，也让学生知道前缀和后缀是英语词汇的重要构词方式。

Ⅱ. Teaching aims1. Knowledge aims：掌握本课的重点词汇和短语，初步学习“how/what to do sth.”。

2. Skill aims:能通过学习构词法，来猜测新词的含义，读出新词的发音。

能够通过听前的阅读，猜测部分听力答案。

如：3a 的听力任务。

能够综合所学知识，进行替换性会话。

如：3b 的对话。

3. Emotional aims: (optional)培养学生相互沟通、相互帮助的美德。

4. Culture awareness: (optional)Ⅲ. The key points and difficult points1. Key points:Words and phrases: sleepy, real, granddaughter, pronounce, dialog, copy, notebook, diary, tape, dare, keep a diary, feel like doing, give up, be afraid of, work hard at, make oneself understoodSentences: Could you make yourself understood?I don’t know what to do.I dare not speak English in public.At times, I feel like giving up.Grammar: how/what + to do2. Difficult points：能正确地运用dare。

Unit 3 Topic 1(考试时间：90分钟, 满分：80分)Ⅰ. 单项选择。

（10分）( )1.Wu Rui likes keeping clean very much. She _______ a bath twice a week.A.takesB.takeC.haveD.washes( )2.Wang Yanbo’s mother is fond of _______.A.cookB.cookerC.cookingD.cooked( )3.Why _______ go out for a walk after supper?A.don’tB.didn’tC.notD.doesn’t( )4.Hobbies can _______ us happiness, friendship and knowledge, so we have hobbies.A.getB.takeC.tookD.bring( )5.—What’s your hobby?—I _______ listen to music, but now I enjoy dancing.A.am used toed toC.am usede to( )6.Mr. Wu is sitting _______ Miss Zhang.A.in frontB.front ofC.in the front ofD.in front of( )7.Our English teacher is _______ and never _______ to us, so we like her very much.A.funny; friendlyB.funny; unfriendlyC.fun; friendD.fun; unfriendly( )8.His mother taught him _______ and read.A.writeB.writingC.to writeD.writes( )9.I have an _______ reading book. Are you _______ in it?A.interesting; interestingB.interesting; interestedC.interested; interestingD.interested; interested( )10.I don’t know _______ he will come or not tomorrow.A.thatB.whenC.whatD.whetherⅡ. 情景交际。

Unit 3 Why I TeachPeter G. BeidlerEvery teacher probably asks himself time and again: What are the reasons for choosing teaching as a career? Do the rewards teaching outweigh the trying comments? Answering these questions is not a simple task. Let's see what the author says.Why do you teach? My friend asked the question when I told him that I didn't want to be considered for an administrative position. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a "step up" toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.Certainly I don't teach because teaching is easy for me. Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: mechanic, carpenter, writer. For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession. Red-eye, because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late I stay up preparing. Sweaty-palm, because I'm always nervous before I enter the classroom, sure that I will be found out for the fool that I am. Sinking-stomach, because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more boring than usual.Nor do I teach because I think I know answers, or because I have knowledge I feel compelled to share. Sometimes I am amazed that my students actually take notes on what I say in class!Why, then, do I teach?I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research and writing.I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change —— and, more important, my students change.I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, I'm my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook, who is to say I can't? Such courses may be huge failures, but we can all learn from failures.I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. While teaching, I sometimes find good questions.I teach because I enjoy finding ways of getting myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world. I once taught a course called "Self-Reliance in a Technological Society." My 15 students read Emerson, Thoreau, and Huxley. They keptdiaries. They wrote term papers.But we also set up a corporation, borrowed money, purchased a run-down house and practiced self-reliance by renovating it. At the end of the semester, we would the house, repaid our loan, paid or taxes, and distributed the profits among the group.So teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning.I have left out, however, the most important reasons why I teach.One is Vicky. My first doctoral student, Vicky was an energetic student who labored at her dissertation on a little-known 14th century poet. She wrote articles and sent them off to learned journals. She did it all herself, with an occasional nudge from me. But I was there when she finished her dissertation, learned that her articles were accepted, got a job and won a fellowship to Harvard working on a book developing ideas she'd first had as my student.Another reason is George, who started as an engineering student, then switched to English because he decided he liked people better than things.There is Jeanne, who left college, but was brought back by her classmates because they wanted her to see the end of the self-reliance house project. I was here when she came back. I was there when she told me that she later became interested in the urban poor and went on to become a civil rights lawyer.There is Jacqui, a cleaning woman who knows more by intuition than most of us learn by analysis. Jacqui has decided to finish high school and go to college.These are the real reasons I teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe.A "promotion" out of teaching would give me money and power. But I have money. I get paid to do what I enjoy: reading, talking with people, and asking question like, "What is the point of being rich?"And I have power. I have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a pathway. What other power matters?But teaching offers something besides money and power: it offers love. Not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher's life and begins to breathe. Perhaps love is the wrong word: magic might be better.I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them.我为何教书你为什么教书呢？当我告诉我的朋友我不想做任何行政职务时，他向我提出了这个问题。

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Unit 3 Why I TeachPeter G. BeidlerEvery teacher probably asks himself time and again: What are the reasons for choosing teaching as a career? Do the rewards teaching outweigh the trying comments? Answering these questions is not a simple task. Let's see what the author says.Why do you teach? My friend asked the question when I told him that I didn't want to be considered for an administrative position. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a "step up" toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.Certainly I don't teach because teaching is easy for me. Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: mechanic, carpenter, writer. For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession. Red-eye, because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late I stay up preparing. Sweaty-palm, because I'm always nervous before I enter the classroom, sure that I will be found out for the fool that I am. Sinking-stomach, because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more boring than usual.Nor do I teach because I think I know answers, or because I have knowledge I feel compelled to share. Sometimes I am amazed that my students actually take notes on what I say in class!Why, then, do I teach?I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research and writing.I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change —— and, more important, my students change.I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, I'm my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook, who is to say I can't? Such courses may be huge failures, but we can all learn from failures.I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. While teaching, I sometimes find good questions.I teach because I enjoy finding ways of getting myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world. I once taught a course called "Self-Reliance in a Technological Society." My 15 students read Emerson, Thoreau, and Huxley. They kept diaries. They wrote term papers.But we also set up a corporation, borrowed money, purchased a run-down house and practiced self-reliance by renovating it. At the end of the semester, we would the house, repaid our loan, paid or taxes, and distributed the profits among the group.So teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning.I have left out, however, the most important reasons why I teach.One is Vicky. My first doctoral student, Vicky was an energetic student who labored at her dissertation on a little-known 14th century poet. She wrote articles and sent them off to learned journals. She did it all herself, with an occasional nudge from me. But I was there when she finished her dissertation, learned that her articles were accepted, got a job and won a fellowship to Harvard working on a book developing ideas she'd first had as my student.Another reason is George, who started as an engineering student, then switched to English because he decided he liked people better than things.There is Jeanne, who left college, but was brought back by her classmates because they wanted her to see the end of the self-reliance house project. I was here when she came back. I was there when she told me that she later became interested in the urban poor and went on to become a civil rights lawyer.There is Jacqui, a cleaning woman who knows more by intuition than most of us learn by analysis. Jacqui has decided to finish high school and go to college.These are the real reasons I teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe.A "promotion" out of teaching would give me money and power. But I have money. I get paid to do what I enjoy: reading, talking with people, and asking question like, "What is the point of being rich?"And I have power. I have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a pathway. What other power matters?But teaching offers something besides money and power: it offers love.Not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher's life and begins to breathe. Perhaps love is the wrong word: magic might be better.I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them.我为何教书你为什么教书呢？当我告诉我的朋友我不想做任何行政职务时，他向我提出了这个问题。