新进阶3 综合Unit 1

New Progressive College English Book III

UNIT 1 Working Holiday Abroad

课程名称 大学英语〔三〕 使用教材 全新版大学进阶英语

综合教程〔3〕

授课内容 Text：How My Working Holiday Changed Me

(精读)

Reading 1：Five Jobs I Never Knew I’d Have Abroad

〔泛读〕 授课学时 6

教学

目的 1. Discuss the relevant topics

2. Understand the text with skimming and scanning

3. Learn languages, e.g. words, phrases, difficult structures

教学

重点与

难点 1. Analyze the structure and grasp the main idea of Text

2. Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text

3. Learn some techniques in writing

教学

方法

与

手段 1. Audio-visual method and audio-lingual method.

2. Task-based language teaching method

3. Communicative approach

4. Using CAI, PPT

5. Smart teaching (using online tools or materials)

教学

过程 1. Lead-in

Step 1. Warm-up activities

Step 2. Discussion about taking a working holiday abroad

2. Global Reading

Step 1. Approaching the theme

Step 2. Analyzing the text organization

3. Detailed Reading

Step 1. Understanding the text in a deeper level

Step 2. Learning useful expressions

Step 3. Learning difficult sentences

Step 4. Learning new words

4. Comprehending Reading 1

Step 1: Skimming the text

Step 2: Explaining the difficult sentences of the text

Step 3: Doing sentence translation

5. After reading

Step 1. Viewing and Listening

Step 2. Speaking

Step 3. Assignment

作业 Assignment：

1. Read the text in Reading 2 and finish the exercises.

2. Write a short essay about your summer job experience

3. Preview the next unit. Unit 1 Working Holiday Abroad

1. Teaching Objectives:

Students will be able to

A. discuss the relevant topics

B. understand the text with skimming and scanning

C. learn languages, e.g. words, phrases, difficult structures

D. think further

2. Time Allotment:

1stPeriod: Lead-in Activities (Warm-up activities; Discussion about working holiday

abroad )

2nd Period: Global-reading Activities (Text: Approaching the theme; analyzing the text

organization)

3rd Period: Detailed reading Activities (Understanding the Text in a deeper level, analyzing

difficult sentence structures)

4th Period: Detailed reading Activities (Learning new words, summarizing good usage)

5th Period: Comprehending Reading 1 (Skimming the text, explaining the difficult sentences

of the Text, doing sentence translation)

6th Period: After-reading Activities (Viewing and Listening; Speaking; Assignment)

3. Teaching Procedures:

3.1 Lead-in Activities

Step 1. Warm-up activities

Introduce the topic to the class: Working Holiday Abroad, and ask students the question:

“What a working holiday is ?〞

Ask the students to watch twice a video clip of a talk about a working holiday in Opener

Ask the students to understand the main points by filling blanks of the summary given in

Opener

Help the students to sum up the main points of the talk about a working holiday:

 A working holiday is when you spend a significant amount of time in another country

and have the working rights to back it up. You are able to pick up a job or two (or 6) and

break that arrangement up by traveling or moving on to a new location in the country.

 With a working holiday visa, you can work as you go

 A working holiday could end up being a life-changing experience.

 A working holiday can do wonders for really introducing you to a new culture.

Method: Method: PPT; communicative approach.

Step 2: Discussion about joys and challenges of taking working holidays overseas

Have students work in pair talking about joys and challenges of taking working holidays

overseas and invites some students to report to the class.

Method: Using task-based language teaching method, communicative approach.

3.2 Global reading

Step 1. Approaching the theme

The teacher asks students questions: How would you like to take a working holiday abroad ?

Do you think it would suit you or take too far away from the world in which you feel comfortable ?

Do you want to experience joys and challenges of taking working holiday? The students’ answers

may vary. Then the teacher tells students that they will learn a text about a person’s real

experience of taking working holiday abroad, and they will know what it is really like to take

working holiday abroad.

Method: PPT; communicative approach.

Step.2 Analyzing the text organization

The teacher tells students that the text can be divided into six parts which have been given

in the Text Organization. Then students should summarize the main idea of each part and

compare notes with each other.

Method: skimming and scanning, communicative approach

Text Organization

Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas

Part One Paras. 1-3 Desiring for a change in her life, the author fled Australia

for a working holiday in Canada.

Part Two Paras. 4–5 The author has always been a shy person, but in Vancouver