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北师大版(2019)选择性必修二Unit 5 EducationLesson 1 Enlightening a Mind 教学设计一、整体设计思路1. 《普通高中英语课程标准》(2017年版2020年修订)将高中英语核心素养凝练为语言能力、文化品格、思维品质和学习能力。
在日堂教学中分阶段、分层次、有侧重地培养学生的英语核心素养。
本节课定位于高二学年第一学期,学生通过参与对教材第五单元第一课教育·启迪心灵(海伦·凯勒接受教育的故事)作基于文本、深入文本和超越文本的阅读理解过程,实现从理解过渡到应用,最终达成迁移。
2. 内容分析本节课所使用的文本来自新北师大版选择性必修二第五单元第一课,主要是介绍海伦·凯勒如何从安娜·莎莉文老师那里学习知识的故事,文章中词汇虽一定的难度,但不影响学生理解,语篇结构和段落结构清晰。
通过文本解读,我们发现语篇表面上是对海伦·凯勒学习方式的介绍,但是深层次的发现是对其学习态度,学习动力,以及教育对一个人所产生的重大影响。
而这些暗含在文段背后的深层内涵非常有利于培养学生的思维品质。
3. 过程分析本节课采用语篇模式分析,分四个方面(结构、细节、情感、主题)对文本进行全面解读。
课堂设计按照“导入-读结构-读细节-读情感-思主题”的步骤进行,最后,通过在单元主题意义下的升华来让学生思考并迁移课堂内容。
(1) 通过作品《假如给我三天光明》的图片导入,自然而然引出文本的主人公海伦·凯勒,引发学生思考“是谁对海伦·凯勒的巨大成就做出了突出的贡献?”激活学生对文本主人公已有的相关知识。
(2) 要求学生浏览全文,理清文章的思路及结构,以及各部分的主旨大意,掌握获取主旨大意的能力。
(3) 通过语篇模式分析,从细节和情感两个维度对文章3-11段的内容进行全面解读,掌握字面意义和隐含意义,获取细节理解的能力。
(4) 在对文章的结构、细节、情感分析的基础上,通过单元主题的介绍,引导学生基于文本提出一些与单元主题和文本话题两者相结合的一些问题。
Unit 5 EducationLesson 1 Enlightening a Mind 教学设计科目:英语课题:Lesson 1 Enlightening a Mind 课时:1课时教学目标与核心素养:知识目标:Students can learn some new words and expressions and present participle.能力目标:Students can have a further understanding of the passage.情感目标:Students can think individually and learn cooperatively.教学重难点教学重点:How to learn the new words and expressions and present participle.教学难点:How to make students have a better understanding of the passage.课前准备:多媒体,黑板,粉笔教学过程:一、Pre-reading1. Greeting2. Leading-inACTIV ATE AND SHARE教师活动:(1) 学生活动。
Think of some possible ways to teach someone who is blind to read and write. Then think of ways to teach someone who is both blind and deaf to read and write.二、While- readingREAD AND EXPLORE1. 学生活动:Pair WorkRead paragraphs 1-2 of the story. Discuss Helen Keller and her teacher's characteristics and personalities.(Helen was frustrated, stubborn and troublesome. She got angry easily when she was not understood.Anne was a superb teacher who could understand Helen's difficulties. She was sympathetic.)2. 学生活动:阅读文章,回答问题。
小学英语pep第五册第一单元教学设计英文版Unit 1 My New TeachersTeaching objectives of the whole unit:1 Ability Objectives(1) Learn how to describe teacher’s appearance and character, eg: We have a new English teacher. He’s tall and strong. He is very funny.(2) Finish ”Let’s try”.(3) Sing the song “My New Teacher”.2 Knowledge Objectives(1) Understand the dialogue in Read and Write.(2) Learn the new words and sentences in Let’s Learn and Read and Write.3 Emotion, tactics, culture objectives(1) Emotion manner: foster the students’ability to study on their own.(2) Study Tactics: foster the students’manner and method to cooperate with each other when studying.(3) Culture: find out the difference of calling names between China and the western country.Unit One My New Teachers教学内容Let’s start Main scene A Let’s learn Let’s find out C Let’s sing课时1教学目标1 Ss Can understand the sentences: Who’s your new teacher? What’s he like?2 Learn the new words: old short thin tall strong3 Finish Let’s Find Out.4 Ss can sing the song My New Teacher.教学重、难点1 All the words in Let’s Learn.2 The difficult point is Let’s Start.T can draw the new dialogue through Let’s Start.教具1 Teaching pictures and new word cards2 Figure picture3 The photos of the teachers and school4 The radio and tape教学过程1 Warm-up(1) Broadcast Let’s Start. Let the Ss guess the topic of this unit.Learn to sing the song My New Teacher.T: Hi, everyone. Nice to see you again. What grade are you in now?Ss: We’re in Grade 5.T: Do you like your new English books?Ss: Yes!T: What are we going to talk about in Unit 1? Guess! What’s the topic of Unit 1?(2) Practice the oral English.Broadcast the Let’s Chant, Let’s sing, Let’s do that the Ss had already learned. 2 Preview Review the words: strong tall short thin3 PresentationLet’s start and Let’s learn(1) Present the teaching picture of Let’s learn. The T describe the picture and let the Ss guess who is the new T.(2) Present the hanging picture of Let’slearnT: They are Sarah’s teachers (describe these teachers). Get the Ss review the words: strong tall short thin. And then present the new words: young kind old funny(3) Read the new words.(4) Listen to the radio and read the words after the radio.Teach the students how to write the words Finish Let’s Find Out.Sing the song My New Teacher.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do the work book: A Let’s learn(2) Read Let’s Learn to your friends and parents.Sing the songBlackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersYoung funny tall strong Who’s your art teacher/?Kind old short thin Mr Hu.What’s he like? He’s short and thin.教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容A Let’s try Let’s talk C Good to know课时2教学目标1 Ss can understand and say: Who’s your math teacher? Mr Zhao. What’s he like? He’s thin and short. He’s very kind. And Ss can replace the key words to make new sentences and use the sentence in true situation.2 Do Let’s Try3 Get to know the difference that how tocall names between China and the western country.教学重、难点1 The new sentence: Who’s your math teacher? Mr Zhao. What’s he like? He’s thin and short. He’s very kind.2 Let’s try教具1 the hanging pictures2 the figure pictures3 some photos and pictures of the teachers4 radio and tape教学过程1 Warn-up(1) Sing the song My New Teacher(2) Practice oral English2 PreviewReplace the key words in the sentence and review the new words that they learned last period.3 PresentationLet’s tryBroadcast Let’s try, get the Ss finish the exercise. Get the students listen to the voice of their familiar teachers and guess who they are.Learn the dialogue in Let’s talk.Let’s talk(1) Present the figure pictures. Let the Ss remember them quickly. And then get Ss to recall which subject they teach.(2) Listen to the radio and read after the tape. Get the Ss to replace the key words and make sentences. We can do the group works.(3) Let the Ss make figure cards anddescribe the figures using the sentences: Who’s this man\woman? What’s he\she like?Good to knowLet the Ss find out the differences of calling names between China and the western countries.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do A Let’s talk in work book.(2) Listen to the dialogue in Let’s talk and read them to your friends and parents.(3) Describe some photos with your partner.Blackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersWho’s your math teacher?Mr Zhao.What’s he like?He’s thin and short . He’s very kind.教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容A Read and write Pair work C Pronunciation课时3教学目标1 Understand the dialogues and use the dialogues in the situation.2 Learn the sentences: Who’s your English teacher? Mr Carter. What’s he like? He’s tall and strong.3 Understand the pronunciation rules of the letters ”ea, ee, br”.教学重、难点1 Learn the sentences and use them in the situation.2 Pronunciation.教具1 the teaching pictures2 the figure pictures3 some photos4 radio and tapes5 word cards and figure cards教学过程Warn-up(1) Show out different teachers’ pictures and let the Ss guess who they are.(2) Practice the oral English.2 PreviewSpell the words using the word cards3 PresentationRead and write(1) Tell a story: Zhang Peng has three new teachers this term. Let’s go and have a look!Who are they?(2) Read the dialogue in pairs and find out the difficult points(3) Raise some questions and let the Ss answer the questions and fill in the blanks(4) Teach the Ss how to write the sentences.Pair workDescribe the figures using the word cards.Pronunciation(1) Guide the Ss to find out the pronunciation rules of the letters “ea, ee”.(2) Listen to the tape and read the rhyme.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do work book: Read and write.(2) Listen to the tape of Read and write, Pronunciation.Blackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersWho’s that man?He’s our math teacher.What’s he like?He’s tall and strong. .教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容Let’s chant and B Let’s learn Let’s chant C Story timeUnit 1 My New TeachersTeaching objectives of the whole unit:1 Ability Objectives(1) Learn how to describe teacher’s appearance and character, eg: We have a newEnglish teacher. He’s tall and strong. He is very funny.(2) Finish ”Let’s try”.(3) Sing the song “My New Teacher”.2 Knowledge Objectives(1) Understand the dialogue in Read and Write.(2) Learn the new words and sentences in Let’s Learn and Read and Write.3 Emotion, tactics, culture objectives(1) Emotion manner: foster the students’ability to study on their own.(2) Study Tactics: foster the students’manner and method to cooperate with each other when studying.(3) Culture: find out the difference of calling names between China and the western country.Unit One My New Teachers教学内容Let’s start Main scene A Let’s learn Let’s find out C Let’s sing课时1教学目标1 Ss Can understand the sentences: Who’s your new teacher? What’s he like?2 Learn the new words: old short thin tall strong3 Finish Let’s Find Out.4 Ss can sing the song My New Teacher.教学重、难点1 All the words in Let’s Learn.2 The difficult point is Let’s Start.T can draw the new dialogue through Let’s Start.教具1 Teaching pictures and new word cards2 Figure picture3 The photos of the teachers and school4 The radio and tape教学过程1 Warm-up(1) Broadcast Let’s Start. Let the Ss guess the topic of this unit.Learn to sing the song My New Teacher.T: Hi, everyone. Nice to see you again. What grade are you in now?Ss: We’re in Grade 5.T: Do you like your new English books?Ss: Yes!T: What are we going to talk about in Unit 1? Guess! What’s the topic of Unit 1?(2) Practice the oral English.Broadcast the Let’s Chant, Let’s sing, Let’s do that the Ss had already learned. 2 Preview Review the words: strong tall short thin3 PresentationLet’s start and Let’s learn(1) Present the teaching picture of Let’s learn. The T describe the picture and let the Ss guess who is the new T.(2) Present the hanging picture of Let’s learnT: They are Sarah’s teachers (describe these teachers). Get the Ss review the words: strong tall short thin. And then present the new words: young kind old funny(3) Read the new words.(4) Listen to the radio and read the words after the radio.Teach the students how to write the wordsFinish Let’s Find Out.Sing the song My New Teacher.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do the work book: A Let’s learn(2) Read Let’s Learn to your friends and parents.Sing the songBlackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersYoung funny tall strong Who’s your art teacher/?Kind old short thin Mr Hu.What’s he like? He’s short and thin.教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容A Let’s try Let’s talk C Good to know课时2教学目标1 Ss can understand and say: Who’s your math teacher? Mr Zhao. What’s he like? He’s thin and short. He’s very kind. And Ss can replace the key words to make new sentences and use the sentence in true situation.2 Do Let’s Try3 Get to know the difference that how to call names between China and the western country.教学重、难点1 The new sentence: Who’s your math teacher? Mr Zhao. What’s he like? He’s thin and short. He’s very kind.2 Let’s try教具1 the hanging pictures2 the figure pictures3 some photos and pictures of the teachers4 radio and tape教学过程1 Warn-up(1) Sing the song My New Teacher(2) Practice oral English2 PreviewReplace the key words in the sentence and review the new words that they learned last period.3 PresentationLet’s tryBroadcast Let’s try, get the Ss finish the exercise. Get the students listen to the voice of their familiar teachers and guess who they are.Learn the dialogue in Let’s talk.Let’s talk(1) Present the figure pictures. Let the Ss remember them quickly. And then get Ss to recall which subject they teach.(2) Listen to the radio and read after the tape. Get the Ss to replace the key words and make sentences. We can do the group works.(3) Let the Ss make figure cards and describe the figures using the sentences: Who’s this man\woman? What’s he\she like?Good to knowLet the Ss find out the differences of calling names between China and the western countries.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do A Let’s talk in work book.(2) Listen to the dialogue in Let’s talk and read them to your friends and parents.(3) Describe some photos with your partner.Blackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersWho’s your math teacher?Mr Zhao.What’s he like?He’s thin and short . He’s very kind.教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容A Read and write Pair work C Pronunciation课时3教学目标1 Understand the dialogues and use the dialogues in the situation.2 Learn the sentences: Who’s your Englishteacher? Mr Carter. What’s he like? He’s tall and strong.3 Understand the pronunciation rules of the letters ”ea, ee, br”.教学重、难点1 Learn the sentences and use them in the situation.2 Pronunciation.教具1 the teaching pictures2 the figure pictures3 some photos4 radio and tapes5 word cards and figure cards教学过程Warn-up(1) Show out different teachers’ pictures and let the Ss guess who they are.(2) Practice the oral English.2 PreviewSpell the words using the word cards3 PresentationRead and write(1) Tell a story: Zhang Peng has three new teachers this term. Let’s go and have a look! Who are they?(2) Read the dialogue in pairs and find out the difficult points(3) Raise some questions and let the Ss answer the questions and fill in the blanks(4) Teach the Ss how to write the sentences.Pair workDescribe the figures using the word cards.Pronunciation(1) Guide the Ss to find out the pronunciation rules of the letters “ea, ee”.(2) Listen to the tape and read the rhyme.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do work book: Read and write.(2) Listen to the tape of Read and write, Pronunciation.Blackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersWho’s that man?He’s our math teacher.What’s he like?He’s tall and strong. .教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容Let’s chant and B Let’s learn Let’s chant C Story timeUnit 1 My New TeachersTeaching objectives of the whole unit:1 Ability Objectives(1) Learn how to describe teacher’s appearance and character, eg: We have a new English teacher. He’s tall and strong. He is very funny.(2) Finish ”Let’s try”.(3) Sing the song “My New Teacher”.2 Knowledge Objectives(1) Understand the dialogue in Read and Write.(2) Learn the new words and sentences in Let’s Learn and Read and Write.3 Emotion, tactics, culture objectives(1) Emotion manner: foster the students’ability to study on their own.(2) Study Tactics: foster the students’manner and method to cooperate with each other when studying.(3) Culture: find out the difference of calling names between China and the western country.Unit One My New Teachers教学内容Let’s start Main scene A Let’s learn Let’s find out C Let’s sing课时1教学目标1 Ss Can understand the sentences: Who’s your new teacher? What’s he like?2 Learn the new words: old short thin tall strong3 Finish Let’s Find Out.4 Ss can sing the song My New Teacher.教学重、难点1 All the words in Let’s Learn.2 The difficult point is Let’s Start.T can draw the new dialogue through Let’s Start.教具1 Teaching pictures and new word cards2 Figure picture3 The photos of the teachers and school4 The radio and tape教学过程1 Warm-up(1) Broadcast Let’s Start. Let the Ss guess the topic of this unit.Learn to sing the song My New Teacher.T: Hi, everyone. Nice to see you again. What grade are you in now?Ss: We’re in Grade 5.T: Do you like your new English books?Ss: Yes!T: What are we going to talk about in Unit 1? Guess! What’s the topic of Unit 1?(2) Practice the oral English.Broadcast the Let’s Chant, Let’s sing, Let’s do that the Ss had already learned. 2 Preview Review the words: strong tall short thin3 PresentationLet’s start and Let’s learn(1) Present the teaching picture of Let’s learn. The T describe the picture and let theSs guess who is the new T.(2) Present the hanging picture of Let’s learnT: They are Sarah’s teachers (describe these teachers). Get the Ss review the words: strong tall short thin. And then present the new words: young kind old funny(3) Read the new words.(4) Listen to the radio and read the words after the radio.Teach the students how to write the words Finish Let’s Find Out.Sing the song My New Teacher.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do the work book: A Let’s learn(2) Read Let’s Learn to your friends and parents.Sing the songBlackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersYoung funny tall strong Who’s your art teacher/?Kind old short thin Mr Hu.What’s he like? He’s short and thin.教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容A Let’s try Let’s talk C Good to know课时2教学目标1 Ss can understand and say: Who’s your math teacher? Mr Zhao. What’s he like? He’s thin and short. He’s very kind. And Ss can replace the key words to make new sentences and use the sentence in true situation.2 Do Let’s Try3 Get to know the difference that how to call names between China and the western country.教学重、难点1 The new sentence: Who’s your math teacher? Mr Zhao. What’s he like? He’s thin and short. He’s very kind.2 Let’s try教具1 the hanging pictures2 the figure pictures3 some photos and pictures of the teachers4 radio and tape教学过程1 Warn-up(1) Sing the song My New Teacher(2) Practice oral English2 PreviewReplace the key words in the sentence and review the new words that they learned last period.3 PresentationLet’s tryBroadcast Let’s try, get the Ss finish the exercise. Get the students listen to the voice of their familiar teachers and guess who they are.Learn the dialogue in Let’s talk.Let’s talk(1) Present the figure pictures. Let the Ss remember them quickly. And then get Ss to recall which subject they teach.(2) Listen to the radio and read after the tape. Get the Ss to replace the key words and make sentences. We can do the group works.(3) Let the Ss make figure cards and describe the figures using the sentences: Who’s this man\woman? What’s he\she like?Good to knowLet the Ss find out the differences of calling names between China and the western countries.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do A Let’s talk in work book.(2) Listen to the dialogue in Let’s talk and read them to your friends and parents.(3) Describe some photos with your partner.Blackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersWho’s your math teacher?Mr Zhao.What’s he like?He’s thin and short . He’s very kind.教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容A Read and write Pair work C Pronunciation课时3教学目标1 Understand the dialogues and use the dialogues in the situation.2 Learn the sentences: Who’s your English teacher? Mr Carter. What’s he like? He’s tall and strong.3 Understand the pronunciation rules of the letters ”ea, ee, br”.教学重、难点1 Learn the sentences and use them in the situation.2 Pronunciation.教具1 the teaching pictures2 the figure pictures3 some photos4 radio and tapes5 word cards and figure cards教学过程Warn-up(1) Show out different teachers’ pictures and let the Ss guess who they are.(2) Practice the oral English.2 PreviewSpell the words using the word cards3 PresentationRead and write(1) Tell a story: Zhang Peng has three newteachers this term. Let’s go and have a look! Who are they?(2) Read the dialogue in pairs and find out the difficult points(3) Raise some questions and let the Ss answer the questions and fill in the blanks(4) Teach the Ss how to write the sentences.Pair workDescribe the figures using the word cards.Pronunciation(1) Guide the Ss to find out the pronunciation rules of the letters “ea, ee”.(2) Listen to the tape and read the rhyme.4 Consolidation and extension(1) Do work book: Read and write.(2) Listen to the tape of Read and write, Pronunciation.Blackboard writing:Unit 1 My new teachersWho’s that man?He’s our math teacher.What’s he like?He’s tall and strong. .教学后记Unit 1 My New Teachers教学内容Let’s chant and B Let’s learn Let’s chant C Story time。
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现;另外,读图能力也是科学能力当中非常重要的一种,因此,在这个过程中,笔者大胆采用了此方法,旨在提高学生的参与感和读图能力。
中文的句子和图片中的绘制相统一,让学生在寻找细节的同时也寻找原因所在,环环相扣,最后结论的给出也显得更加自然和流畅。
七、板书设计。
Unit1 My New Teachers1.Design ConceptAccording to the English Curriculum Standards, the revolution of new curriculum has attached much importance to transiting from the traditional way of paying most attention to grammar and vocabulary teaching to a new w ay of emphasizing students’ comprehensive language application ability. That is to say, English teaching has evolved from the teacher-centered way to the student-centered way, which is characterized in students’ autonomous research. According to the theory of constructivism, language acquisition is not achieved through teachers’ teaching, but naturally happens when students are under a certain circumstance, taking advantage of teachers’ help and necessary materials.On the basis of this concept, inspiring s tudents’ active research will be the main approach of this unit’s teaching. The teacher should at first lead the students to a visual and direct understand ing about the target knowledge by showing pictures and the text. Then some phasic questions and phasic task-based activities should be put forward. Through such a process, the meaning construction and practical application ability will be finally achieved.2.Main Information of the unitThe topic of this unit is “My New Teachers”, which requests students to use some adjectives like strong, thin, tall, short, old, young, funny, strict, etc. to describe the appearance and characteristics of their teachers. With a repeated presentation for sentences like “Who is…?”“What’s he/she like…”“Is he/she…”“He/she is…”, it’s beneficiary for students to remember the main sentence patterns naturally and consolidate their memory again and again. The reasonable layout of from easy to difficult, from simple to complicated also enables students to learn step by step. The transition from input to output is very natural. And the setup of task-based activities such as Pair Work and Group Work is a good way for students to express themselves.New term starts, students will meet some new teachers. This is an interesting and hot topic among students. Students’ passion for this unit will be certainly great.3.Students’ Conditions Before Studying this UnitIn Grade4, in the unit of “My Friends”, the students have already met some words to describe people’s appearance, including strong, thin, short, long, tall, big, small, quiet, cute, etc. They have got a basic impression about describing a person. However, due to the restriction of the learning experience and cogitation for English, these words may not be acquired for use among many students. So it’s advisable for the teacher to review the old materials and gain new knowledge by a further teaching. On the other hand, as Grade-5 students, through years of learning English, they have got some basic knowledge about English and become more curious and interested in English.And students at this age are willing to show themselves while not able to understand conceptual knowledge and form mechanical memory when learning English. Therefore, vivid materials andflexible methods are needed to inspire and keep students’ learning interest and to consolidate the acquired knowledge in various ways.4.Teaching Objectives of the whole Unit4.1Ability ObjectivesA. Students can simply describe the appearance and characteristics of their teachers, e.g. “We havea new English teacher. She is short and thin. She is very kind.”B. Students can ask questions about teachers and introduce their teachers, e.g. “Who's yourEnglish teacher? Mr. Carter.He's from Canada.What's he like? He's tall and strong. He’s very funny.C. Students can listen and understand simple dialogues about describing people’s features, andfinish the exercise in Let’s Try.D. Students can understand and sing the song “My New Teacher”. Furthermore, they can flexiblychange the subject name and adjectives related to people’s features in the lyrics.4.2Knowledge ObjectivesA. Students can understand the dialogues in Read and Write of both Part A and Part B, and fill inthe blanks in the sentences and answer some questions according to the text.B. Students can listen, speak, read and write four-can words (old, young, tall, short,strong, thin,funny, kind) and sentences (Who’s your…? What’s he /she like?) in Let’s Talk and Read and Write of both Part A and Part B, and properly use them in different situations according to their own experiences.C. Students can understand the pronunciation rules of the letter-groups “ea, ee, bl, br”.4.3Emotion ObjectivesA. Cultivate students’ emotions of loving their teachers and respecting their teachers through thediscussion. Help students to build good relations with their teachers.B. According to the features of senior primary students, help them to develop independent studyability, inspire their interests for English learning and improve their self-confidence in English learning4.4Tactics ObjectivesA. Develop students’interest, consciousness and approach for cooperative study by making themost use of Pair work, Group work, Talk and draw and Task time in the text book.B. Improve students’ ability and method of studying on their own.4.5Culture ObjectivesStudents can understand the deference in calling names between China and western countries.5.Keys and Difficulties5.1Key PointsA. Key Words: old, young, tall, short, strong, thin, funny, kindB. Key Sentences: Who’s your…? What’s he/she like? Is he/she… He/she is… Yes, he/she is. No,he/she isn’t.C. Topic: Talk about new teachers in both appearance and characteristics.5.2Difficult Points:Students should replace the key words in a sentence to make newsentences and use different sentences in different situation.6.Teaching ApproachCooperative learning, role-playing, task-based activities, CAI, chanting7.Period Arrangement: 6 periods in total8.Process of the Class8.1Period 1 (Section A: Let’s start, Let’s learn, L et’s find out)A. At first, the short dialogue in Let’s start is broadcast to lead to the topic.B. By doing the task in Let’s start, old words (strong tall short thin) and new words (young kindold funny) are presented for the first time.C. Then by listing, reading and spelling, the words are presented for the students again. InActivity1 “Let’s guess”, new sentence patterns ( Who’s your … teacher? What’s he /she like?) are presented.D. Activity2 “Chanting” is a good way for students to review what has learnt in previous steps in arelaxed atmosphere.E. The interesting Activity 3 “Introduce teachers by rolling a snowball” is really interesting and itfosters students’ ability of innovation and comprehensive language use.F. At last, some homework is assigned to consolidate what has learnt and servers for the nextperiod.Topic New teachersFunction Describe teachers with different adjectivesV ocabulary young, old, kind, funny, strong, thin, tall, shortStructure Who’s your … teacher? What’s he /she like ?Activity Guessing, listing, chanting, speakingGrammar The asking and answering of special questionsTeaching aids Multi-media, radio and tape, some pictures of different teachers8.2Period 2 (Section A: Let’s chant, Let’s try,Let’s talk, Good to know)A. Review the words and sentence patterns by asking questions to several students.B. B roadcast Let’s try, get the Ss finish the exercise.Do activity1 “Let’s guess”to have the students listen to the voice of their familiar teachers and guess who they are. This is a process of input, during which students may improve the ability to listen to native speakers and Chinese teachers.C. Present the figure pictures. Let the Ss remember them quickly. And then get them to recall which subject they teach. Ss shall make figure cards and describe the figures by answering the questions: Who’s this man\woman? What’s he\she like?D. Listen to the radio and read after the tape of the dialogue in Let’s talk. Get the Ss to replace the key words and make sentences with each other.E. Broadcast the song in Section A, and get Ss to chant together for a relaxation and a review for the words.F. Let the Ss find out the differences of calling names between China and the western countries through the learning of Good to know.Topic TeachersFunction Describe teachers by replacing different adjectivesV ocabulary young, old, kind, funny, strong, thin, tall, short, art, science, principal, Mr.Structure Who's your math teacher? Mr. Zhao.What's he like? He's thin and short.He's very kind.Activity Listing, guessing, chanting, speakingGrammar The difference of the position of family name and the given name between China and western countriesTeaching aids Multi-media, radio and tape, hanging pictures, figure pictures8.3Period 3 (Section A: Read and write, Pair work Section C: Pronunciation)A. Practice oral English.B. Spell the words, using the word cards to set up a basis for the next task.C. Tell a story: Zhang Peng has three new teachers this term. Let’s go and have a look! Who are they? Read the dialogue in pairs and find out the difficult points. Raise some questions and let the Ss answer the questions and fill in the blanks.D. Teach the Ss how to write the sentences by analyzing the differences between declarative sentence and interrogative sentence.E. Do the pair work. Describe the figures to each other, using the word cards and replace key words in the sample given in the text book.F. Listen to the tape and read the rhyme. Guide the Ss to find out the pronunciation rulesTopic People’s appearance and featuresFunction Describe people with different adjectives and sentencesV ocabulary young, old, kind, funny, strong, thin, tall, short, art, science, CanadaStructure Who’s that man/ woman? Who’s your …? What’s he/she like? He’s…Activity Practicing, reading, talking, writingGrammar The correct structure of a question. Differences between a declarative sentence and a interrogative sentence.Teaching aids Multi-media, radio and tape, figure picture8.4Period 4(Section B: Let’s learn, Let’s chant, Section C: Story time)A. Broadcast the rhyme in Let’s chant and get the Ss to be familiar with the content and rhythm. Sing the song and guide the Ss to replace the words and read it in front of the class.B. Finish Let’s learn. Show out the photo of our principal: “ Who’s this lady?” Ss: “…”T: She’s our principal. Present the new word: principal. And then describe: She’s strict. Guide the students to describe the characters of other teachers or other people by using new words such as smart, active, funny, strict, etc. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the word: university, strict.C. Read the mew words after the tape and learn to write.D. Story time: Listen to the radio and watch the VCD. Try to get some students to play a role.Topic People’s charactersFunction Describe people’s characters with different adjectivesV ocabulary Strict, principal, kind, university, smart, funny, activeStructure Who’s that young lady? Is she …? Y es, she is … No, she isn’t…Activity Practicing, reading, talking, chantingGrammar The assertive and negative answer to a general questionTeaching aids Multi-media, radio and tape, figure pictures8.5Period 5 (Section B: Let’s try, L et’s talk, Group work Section C Let’s s ing,Let’s checkA. Review the sentence: “ Who’s your principal? Miss Lin. Is she young? No, She’s old. She’s very kind.”Replace the key words and make sentences, using the photos and pictures. Go over the words we learned in the last period.B. Listen to the tape and finish the exercise in Let’s try.C. Watch the VCD and at the same time describe our principal. And then learn the dialogue in Let’s talk. Teach the new words: strict, active, quiet. Show out the teaching pictures and describe one figure. Let the Ss guess who he is. The figures’ respective characters are: smart, kind, and funny. Listen to the radio and read the dialogue. Practice the sentence: Is he\she…? Y es, he\she is. No, he\she isn’t.D. Group work. When the Ss grasp the sentences like “ She’s our teacher. She’s kind. Who’s she? Guess.”, let the Ss use “ Is she young? Is she pretty?” to get more information about the teachers. Let’s guess who the teacher is.E. Broadcast the song “My New Teavhers”, and the whole class sing the song together.F. Let’s check. Listen to the tape and give the right order.Topic People’s charactersFunction Get information about people’s characters by asking general questions.V ocabulary Lady, principal, strict, active, quiet, kind, young, oldStructure Who’s that young lady? Is he\she…? Y es, he\she is. No, he\she isn’t.Activity Practicing, talking, listeningGrammar The structure of a general questionTeaching aids Multi-media, radio and tape, figure picture8.6Period 6 (Section B: Read and write, Talk and draw Section C: Task time)A. Go over the new words, using the word cards. Let the students have a competition of spelling words.B. Show out the pictures and ask the students to describe the teacher in the picture.C. Read and write. Let the students read the dialogue, and find out the words and sentences they don’t understand. Read after the tape and then finish filling the blanks.D. Talk and draw. Practice the dialogue as pair work when drawing.E. Task time. Let students design a card for their favorite teachers and describe it to others.Topic People’s appearance and charactersFunction Describing a person’s appearance and characters with various adjectivesV ocabulary University, fun, pretty, young, quiet, active ,strict .kind, cool, tall, short, thin Structure Is she quiet? No, she isn’t. She’s very active.Is she strict? Y es, she is, but she’s very kind.Activity Reading, speaking, drawingGrammar The structure of a general question and the answer to a general questionTeaching aids Multi-media, radio and tape, figure picturesDetailed teaching design for Period 1Step 1: W arming upBroadcast the short dialogue in Let’s start. Let the Ss guess the topic of this unit.T: Hi, everyone. Nice to see you again. What grade are you in now?Ss: We’re in Grade 5.T: Do you like your new English books?Ss: Y es!T: Please listen to the tape. Guess! What are we going to talk about in Unit 1?Ss: My new teachers!Design illustration: This is a very natural opening for a new class. In the new semester, students get new books and meet new teachers. Through the short dialogue, they can quickly understand the topic of this unit.Step 2: Presentation1. Present the hanging picture of Let’s learn and find out who is Sarah’s new art teacher by describing these teachers. Get the Ss review the words: strong tall short thin. And then present the new words: young kind old funny. At last, let them guess who Sarah’s art teacher is.T: They are Sarah’s teachers. Her music teacher is tall and strong. He is young and kind. Her math teacher is short and thin. He is very funny. Her art teacher is tall and thin. He is old. Who is Sarah’s art teacher?Ss: The man in the middle.Design illustration: Via the guessing activity, many new words are presented, which is considered as an input.2. Read and spell those words.(1) Listen to the radio and read the words after the radio.(2) List those words on the blackboard and get the students to read and spell after the teacher.T: Please look at the blackboard. Read after me. Tall, tall, t-a-l-l, tall.Ss: Tall, tall, t-a-l-l tall.T: Short, …Ss: Short, …T: …Ss: …Design Illustration: Through the recognizing, reading and spelling the new words in the blackboard, the students will get a direct impression for the new words, which contributes to a further study as input.3. Activity 1:Let’s Guess(1)The teacher show his/her own pictures whose face has been concealed by an animal in the PPT and get students to guess who he/she is. When the students give the right answer, guide them to know the sentence pattern “Who’s your…teacher?Mr./Miss.T:Hi,boys and girls. Can you guess who is he/she?Ss:She is Miss A,our English teacher.T:Who’s your English teacher?Ss:Mr./Miss A,,(2)Show another three teachers’ pictures in the same way and let student guess, one by one, that who is the person in the picture and give the sentence pattern the same way. And ask what he/she is like.T: V ery good. How about this one? Who is he?S1: He is Mr. B, our math teacher.T: Who’s your math teacher?S1: Mr. B.T: What’s he like?S1: He is tall and thin.T: Who is this man?S2: He is Mr. C, our Chinese teacher.T: Who is your Chinese teacher?S2: Mr. CT: What’s he like?S2: He is short and strong.T: …S3: …Design illustration: Starting from the English teacher himself/herself, and then to other others, this activity is very interesting and students’motivation for English learning and speaking shall be greatly improved by the process of satisfying their curiosity. All thewords learnt previously will be used at once, naturally transiting from input to output. Themain sentence patterns “Who is your … teacher? What’s … like?” are also presented inthis game.Step 3: Practicing.1. Activity2: Let’s chantWho’s your English teacher?Miss Chen,Miss Chen.What’s she like?Thin,thin,thin,English teacher is thin.Who’s your Chinese teacher?Miss Liu, Miss Liu.What’s she like?Old, old, old,Chinese teacher is short.Who’s your math teacher?Mr. Zhou,Mr. Zhou.What’s he like?Strong,strong,strong,math teacher is strong.Who’s your music teacher?Miss Qiu, Miss Qiu..What’s she like?Y oung,young,young,music teacher is young.Funny,funny,kind,they’re funny and kind.This activity should be started by the whole class with their hand clasping, and then between deskmates by one asking and the other answering.Design illustration: A rhythmic chant can make the atmosphere more active and relaxed.Students can remember and consolidate the words and sentence during the shortest time.What’s more, this is an activity that involves all the students in the class.2. Activity 3: Introduce teachers by rolling a snowballS1:She’s my English teacher.S2:She’s my English teacher. She’s tall.S3:She’s my English teacher. She’s tall and funny.S4:She’s my English teacher. She’s tall and funny. She has long hair.S5:She’s my English teacher. She’s tall and funny. She has long hair. She likes music.Design Illustration: through the practice step by step, from easy to difficult, when the snowball becomes bigger and bigger, students’ speaking ability shall be certainly trained and they will accumulate more vocabularies, including old and new ones.4. HomeworkFinish the relative exercises in the text book and the activity brochure.Write a short article named My Favorite Teacher.。
Book 5 Unit 1 Great ScientistsA general review of Unit 1Period 1 Word study, Warming up, pre-readingPeriod 2 Reading (P2)Period 3 Language points, learning about languagePeriod 4 Using language( listening), GrammarPeriod 5 Listening & Reading (p44-45)Period 6 Reading & writing (p6)Period 7 Exercises & SummaryPeriod 1Pre-class task:1. Preview new vocabulary of Unit 1, and especially pay attention to the pronunciation of the new word2. Finish the quiz in Warming up( p1) in groups of four by referring to books or surfing the net.Step 1 Learning GoalsGet Ss to go through the summing up form on p 8 in order to have a general idea of the learning goals of Unit 1Step 2 Word Study1. (Pair work) Get Ss to learn the new words and phrases on p92 within 3 mins, by reading them aloud to each other to make sure that they can pronounce the words correctly---- Get Ss to read aloud the words in pairs by turns, e.g. 1 pairs read 4 words then go to next pair2. Practice3.1)Mrs. White bought a pan with a long ________. (handle)2)The pollution is so ________ that we have to take some measures to stop it.(severe)3)He has a big nose that is a ________ of his family. (characteristic)4)Water and salt are ________ into our blood stream every day. (absorbed)5)If a doctor or a medical treatment ________ someone’s illness, they make theperson well again. (cure)6) A ________ is a kind of germ that can cause disease. (virus)Step 3. Warming up(Group competition) Check the answers to the quiz to find out which group know the most . Show pictures to introduce some scientists while Ss giving the correct answers-- congratulations to the winning groupStep 4 Pre-reading1. (Pair work) What five most important qualities do you think a scientist should have? Give reasons.clever/talented strict patient creative determined/strong-willed positivehonest energetic intelligent/hard-working ambitious careful co-operativeconfident brave2. (Group work) Ex2, p1Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research? Discuss in groups the stages in examining a new scientific idea. What order would you put them in?Draw a conclusion Think of a method Collect results Make up a question Find a problem Analyse the results Repeat if necessaryStep 5. Summary1.Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are three pillars (支柱,要素) of learning.2.learning without thought is a labour lost; thought without learning is perilous(危险的)3. To know the disease is half the cure. 找出病根等于医治了一半。
Unit OneTEXT I Hit the Nail on the Head(恰到好处;一语中的)•III. Library Work•1. 1) Gustave Flaubert (1821 –1880), French novelist, was associated with, though not representative of, the movement of naturalism and known as one of the greatest realists of 19th-century France. He devoted his life to long hours spent in heavy toil over his work. His writing is marked by exactness and accuracy of observation, extreme impersonality and objectivity of treatment, and precision and expressiveness in style, or the principle of the mot juste.•1. 2) Mrs. Malaprop is a famous character in Sheridan’s comedy The Rivals(1775). She is noted for her blunders in the use of words. ―As headstrong(不受管束的)as an allegory(比方;寓言)(alligator) on the banks of the Nile‖ is one of her grotesque(荒唐的)misapplications. She also requests that no delusions(欺骗;迷惑)(allusions) to the past be made. She has given us the word malapropism(用词错误,尤指误用发音相似而意义全非的词)as a name for such mistakes. •2. Hindi(印地语)is a literary and official language of northern India. Swahili(斯瓦希里语)is a Bantu(班图) language that is a trade and governmental language over much of East Africa and in the Congo region. Bantus are people belonging to a group of tribes found in equatorial and southern Africa.•IV. Organization of the Text•1. An analogy between the unskilled use of the hammer and the improper choice of words (Paragraph 1)•2. The significance of finding the right words (Paragraphs 2 --- 3)•3. Semantic differences between words having the same root (Paragraphs 4 --- 7) •(1). Example 1 (human vs. humane) (Paragraph 4)•(2). Example 2 (anxiety vs. eagerness) (Paragraph 5)•(3). Example 3 (singularity vs. singleness) (Paragraphs 6 – 7)•4. Wrong choice of words caused by failure to recognize their connotations (Paragraph 8) •Examples: imprison, contain, sum up, epitomize and distill•5. Stylistic differences between synonyms (Paragraph 9)•Examples: in my childhood vs. when I was a child; love to watch vs. love watching; die vs. expire; poor vs. in indigent circum-stances•6. The abundance of specific words in English for general notions (Paragraph 10)•7. Conclusion (Paragraph 11): the importance of a good control and command over known words (A good writer is not measured by the extent of his vocabulary, but by his skill in finding the word that will hit the nail cleanly on the head. )•V. Key Points of the Text•Paragraph 1•knock over: hit … to fall 捶翻•drive something home: force (the nail) into the right place; make something unmistakably clear 把(钉子等)打入;使明确无误•E.g. (1). He slammed the door and drove the bolt home. 他砰地关上门,把门闩插好。
U5L1 Enlightening A Mind教案【学习主题】本课属于“人与社会”主题群中的“教育”子主题。
本文主要讲述了幼年时期因病丧失视觉和听觉的海伦·凯勒的励志故事。
海伦·凯勒两岁的时候,不幸患上了“猩红热”病,这种病很可能危机生命。
经过一段时间的治疗,小海伦的生命保住了,但是她却成了一个又聋又哑又盲的小姑娘。
后来,小海伦通过靠她的家庭教师莎莉文的循循教导和自己的顽强毅力终于走出黑暗、学业有成的故事。
其主题意义在于让学生加深对学生对当代西方作家的文学作品中语言的应用的理解,理解传记类记叙文的特点;并通过欣赏传记故事,激发学生对故事背后折射出的在本单元主题下的道理进行感悟---教育在改变命运方面所发挥的重大意义以及教师对个人成长、启迪心灵所启的关键作用。
【文本分析】What海伦·凯勒在十九个月的时候,因患急性胃充血、脑充血而丧失视力和听力。
自此,小海伦坠入了孤独和黑暗之中,性格也变得乖张暴戾,犹如一匹无法驯服的野马。
小海伦快到7岁的时候,一位名叫安妮的家庭教师来到了她的身边,传授给海伦知识,重塑海伦·凯勒的人生。
莎莉文老师开始用独特的方法打开了海伦的眼界,教海伦摸盲文,拼单词。
她们在花园闻紫罗兰的花香,享受温暖阳光,学习'love' 的含义,有时通过做手工项链,领悟'think' 的意义,小海伦在生活情境和脑海想象中感知着这个世界。
学习和教育增强了海伦面对生活的勇气和信心,走向人生成功之路。
海伦与莎莉文老师之间,是人间罕见的师生至情的传奇。
How本课文体属于传记类记叙文。
语篇由安妮·莎莉文成为海伦·凯勒的老师的背景以及安妮·莎莉文教与海伦·凯勒师生间展开的教与学的具体方法及过程两个部分组成。
第一部分陈述海伦·凯勒小时候有耳目失聪的艰难状况和暴躁脾气;海伦的父母经人推荐聘请来了安妮·莎莉文作为海伦·凯勒的家庭教师。
ComprehensionI. Judge which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the article.A. To be able to use the right word is an important component of one’s mastery of the English language.B. To facilitate one’s own process of cognition and one’s communication with others, one must be able to choose the right word from the extensive vocabulary of the English language.C. It is more important to know exactly the meaning and use of a relatively small number of words than to know vaguely a larger number.II. Determine which is the best choice for each of the following questions.1. “Clean English” in the first paragraph means .A. English of a dignified styleB. English free from swear wordsC. English which is precise and clear2.The word “realization” in the sentence “Choosing words is part of the process of realization…” means .A. articulating soundsB. fulfilling one’s goalsC. becoming aware of what one thinks and feels3. The example given in para. 3 of a man searching for the right word for his feelings about his friend illustrates the function words perform in .A. defining out thoughts and feelings for ourselvesB. defining our thoughts and feelings for those who hear usC. both A and B4. The word “cleanly” in the last sentence means .A. squarelyB. clearlyC. neatly5.The examples of the untranslatability of some words given in para. 11 best illustrate which sentence of the paragraph?A. The first sentence.B. The second sentence.C. The third sentence.III. Answer the following questions.1. Which sentence in the first paragraph establishes the link between the driving of a nail and the choice of a word?2. What does the word “this” in sent ence 1, para. 2, refer to?3. Do you agree with the author that there is a great deal of truth in the seemingly stupid question “How can I know what I think till I see what I say”?Why or why not?4. Explain why the word “imprison” in the example given in para. 9, though not a malapropism, is still not the right word for the writer’s purpose.5. What is the difference between “human” and “humane”? And the difference between “human action” and “humane action”, and also that between “human killer” and “humane killer”?6. What does the word “alive” in the sentence “a student needs to be alive to these differences” (para. 9) mean?7. Why is it difficult and sometimes even impossible to translate a word from one language into another as illustrated in para. 11? Supply some such examples with English and Chinese.8. The writer begins his article with an analogy between the unskilled use of the hammer and the improper choice of words. Identify the places where the analogy is referred to in the rest of the article.Language WorkI. Read the following list of words and consider carefully the meaning of each word. Then complete each of the sentences below using the correct form of an appropriate word from the list.Creep Loiter March Meander Pace Patrol Plod Prowl Ramble Roam SaunterShuffle Stagger Stalk Step Stride Strut Stroll Toddle Tramp Tread Trudge Walk1. After the maths examination Fred, feeling exhausted, across the campus.2. The soldiers reached their camp after 15 miles through the deep snow.3. It is pleasant to in the park in the evening.4. After the cross-country race Jack to the changing room.5. Last night when he sleepily to the ringing telephone, he accidentally bumped into the wardrobe.6. We saw him towards the station a few minutes before the train’s departure.7. The old couple through the park, looking for a secluded bench to sit on and rest.8. The newly-appointed general about the room like a latter-day Napoleon.9. Peter whistled happily as he along the beach.10. These old people liked to about the antique ruins in search of a shady picnic spot.11. Many tourists about the mall, windowshopping.12. We were fascinated by the view outside the room----a beautiful verdant meadow and brooks through it.13. Mary used to about the hills and pick wild flowers for her mother.14. Eager to see the pony in the stable, the children down the staircase, their hearts pounding violently.15. The lion had the jungle for a long time before it caught sight of a hare.16. My brother began to when he was ten months old.17. The farmers often let their horses freely in the meadow so that they could eat their fill of grass.18. The patrols were along through the undergrowth when the bomb exploded.19. The thugs were reported to be the streets for women workers who were on their way home after the afternoon shift.20. The first-year students not only learned how to , they were also taught how to take aim and shoot when they had military training.21. Sometimes Tom, our reporter, would up and down the study, deep in thought.22. When he was Third Street, Fred found the little match girl lying dead at the street corner.23. Secretaries hated seeing their new manager in and out of theoffice without even casting a glance at them.24. Mother asked us to lightly so as not to wake Granny.25. The refugees for miles and miles all day hunting for a place to work.26. When the pop singer out of the car, his fans ran to him, eager to get his autograph.27. The laborers on their way home after working in the plantation the whole day.28.The lion was feeling pretty good as he (A) through the jungle. Seeing a tiger, the lion stopped it.“Who is the King of the jungle?” the lion demanded.“You, O lion, are the King of the jungle,” replied the tiger.Satisfied, the lion (B) on, until he came across a large, ferocious-looking leopard.“Who is the King of the jungle?” asked the lion, and the leopard bowed in awe. “You, mighty lion, you are the King of the jungle,” it said humbly and (C) off.Feeling on top of the world, the lion proudly (D) up to a huge elephant an d asked the same question. “Who is the King of the jungle?”Without answering, the elephant picked up the lion, swirled him round in the air, smashed him to the ground and jumped on him.“Look,” said the lion, “there’s no need to get mad just because you didn’t know the answer.”II. Make a list of more specific words for each of the following general terms. For example, for WALK, you could list stride, stroll, saunter, plod, toddle and so on. Give sentences to illustrate how the words may be used.1. SAY2. SEE3. BEVERAGE4. EXCITEMENT5. DELIGHT6. SKILFULIII. In the following sentences three alternatives are given in parentheses for the italicized words. Select the one which you think is most suitable in the context.1. A clumsy (heavy, stupid, unskillful) workman is likely to find fault with his tools.2. As John was a deft (skillful, clever, ready) mechanic, he was hired by the joint-venture in no time.3. The writer made a point of avoiding using loose(vague, unbound, disengaged) terminology in his science fiction.4. We didn’t appreciate his subtle(delicate, tricky, profound) scheme to make money at the expense of the customers.5. Annie Oakley became famous as one of the world’s most precise (accurate, scrupulous, rigid) sharpshooters.6. The government in that newly-independent country has decided to make ashift (alteration, turn, transference) in its foreign policies.7. Misunderstanding arose on account of the vague(undetermined, confused, ambiguous) instructions on the part of the manager.8. If soldiers do not pay scrupulous (exact, vigilant, conscientious) attention to orders they will not defeat the enemy.9. In some areas, the virgin forest has been cut through ignorance (blindness, want of knowledge, darkness) of the value of trees.10. Since many pure metals have such disadvantages (harm, unfavourableness, drawbacks) as being too soft and being liable to rust too easily, they have little use.11. My colleague, Mr. Hill, has a small but well-chosen library, where it is said he spends most of his spare time cultivating(nourishing, tilling, developing) his mind.12. If you think photography is my hobby, your belief is quite mistaken (fraudulent, erroneous, deceitful).13. What appears to the laymen as unimportant (minute, trivial, diminutive) and unrelated facts is often precious to the archaeologist.14. The lounge has a seating capacity of 30 people but it is too dark (dim, dingy, gloomy) to read there.15. These career-oriented women are used to flexible (adaptable, willowy, docile) working hours in the office.16. Only experts with a professional eye can tell the fine(fair, pleasant,subtle) distinction between the two gems.17. The goose quill pen has a great sentimental (tender, emotional, soft) appeal to Emily as it was a gift from her best friend.18. Being thoughtful of and enthusiastic towards others is the essence (gist, kernel, quintessence) of politeness.19. When Iraq destroyed some of its nuclear and chemical weapons, it acted under coercion (repression, concession, compulsion).20. My uncle’s oft-repeated anecdotes of his adventures in Africa were fascinating (catching, pleasing, absorbing ) to listen to.IV. Give one generic term that covers each of the following groups of words.1. artificer, turner, joiner, carpenter, weaver, binder, potter, paper-cutter2. volume, brochure, pamphlet, treatise, handbook, manual, textbook, booklet3. painter, sculptor, carver, poet, novelist, musician, sketcher4. grin, smirk, beam, simper5. donation, subscription, alms, grant, endowment6. bandit, poacher, swindler, fraud, embezzler, imposter, smuggler7. nibble, munch, devour, gulp8. drowse, doze, slumber, hibernate, coma, rest, nap9. manufacture, construct, weave, compose, compile10. ancient, antique, old-fashioned, obsolete, archaic11. slap, tap, pat, thump, whack12. alight, descend, dismount, disembarkV. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word.In discussing the relative difficulties of analysis which the exact and inexact sciences face, let me begin with an analogy. Would you agree that swimmers are (1) skilful athletes than runners (2) swimmers do not move as fast as runners? You probably would (3) . You would quickly point out (4) water offers greater (5) to swimmers than the air and ground do to (6) Agreed, that is just the point. In seeking to (7) their problems, the social scientists encounter (8) resistance than the physical scientists. By (9) I do not mean to belittle the great accomplishments of physical scientists who have been able, for example, to determine the structure of the atom (10) seeing it. That is a tremendous (11) yet (12) many ways it is not so difficult as what the social scientists are expected to (13) . The conditions under which the social scientists must work would drive a (14) scientist frantic. Here are five of (15) conditions. He can perform (16) experiments; he cannot measure the results accurately; he (17) control the conditions surrounding (18) experiments; he is of the expected to get quick results(19) slow-acting economic forces; and he must work with people,(20) with inanimate objects…VI. Following Warner’s model of establishing an analogy between two dissimilar things, write a passage, discussing the learning of a foreign language. You are supposed to use an analogy to help you explain. For instance, you may compare the learning of a foreign language to that of swimming, bike-riding, etc.UNIT 1 TEXT 1Exercises KeysComprehension:I. B ;II. 1.C 2.C 3.C 4.A 5.C ;III. 1. “So with language; …firmly and exactly.”2. Getting the word that is completely right for the writer’s purpose.3. Yes, I do. It sounds irrational that a person does not know what he himself thinks before he sees what he says. But as a matter of fact, it is quite true that unless we have found the exact words to verbalize our own thoughts we can never be very sure of what our thoughts are; without words, our thoughts cannot be defined or stated in a clear and precise manner.4. “Malapropism” means the unintentional misuse of a word by confusing it with one that resembles it, such as human for humane, singularity for singleness. But the misuse of “imprison” is a different case. It is wronglychosen because the user has failed to recognize its connotation.5. human=of, characterizing, or relating to manhumane=characterized by kindness, mercy, sympathyThus: human action=action taken by man; humane action=merciful action; human killer=person that kills humans ; humane killer=that which kills but causes little pain6. sensitive, alert7. Those are words denoting notions which are existent only in specific culture, not universally shared by all cultures. English words difficult to be turned into Chinese: privacy, party, lobby (v.), etc. Chinese words difficult to be turned into English: 吹风会,粽子,五保户,etc.8. “We don’t have to look far afield to find evidence of bad carpentry.”“It is perhaps easier to be a good craftsman with wood and nails than a good craftsman with word s.”“A good carpenter is not distinguished by the number of his tools, but by the craftsmanship with which he uses them. So a good writer is not measured by the extent of his vocabulary, but by his skill in finding the ‘mot juste’, the word that will hit t he nail cleanly on the head.”Language Work:I. 1. shuffled/trudged 2. trudging 3. stroll 4. staggered 5. staggered 6. striding 7. strolled 8. strutted 9. sauntered/strolled 10. ramble/roam 11.loitered 12. meandering 13. roam 14. crept 15. prowled 16. toddle 17. roam 18. creeping 19. prowling 20. march 21. pace 22. patrolling 23. stalking 24. tread 25. tramped 26. stepped 27. plodded 28. A. prowled/strutted B. strolled/sauntered C. walked/crept D. marched/struttedII.1.SAY: speak, tell, declare, pronounce, express, state, argue, affirm, mention, allege, recite, repeat, rehearse2. SEE: behold, look at, glimpse, glance at, view, survey, contemplate, perceive, notice, observe, discern, distinguish, remark, comprehend, understand, know3. BEVERAGE: liquor, wine, beer, tea, coffee, milk drink, soft drink4. EXCITEMENT: agitation, perturbation, commotion, disturbance, tension, bustle, stir, flutter, sensation5. DELIGHT: joy, gladness, satisfaction, charm, rapture, ecstasy, pleasure, gratification6. SKILFUL: apt, ingenious, handy, ready, quick, smart, expert, capable, able, gifted, talented, dexterous, cleverIII. 1. clumsy----unskillful 2. deft----skillful 3. loose----vague 4. subtle----tricky 5. precise----accurate 6. shift----alteration 7. vague----ambiguous8. scrupulous----conscientious 9. ignorance----want of knowledge 10. disadvantages----drawbacks 11. cultivation----developing 12.mistaken----erroneous 13. unimportant----trivial 14. dark----dim 15. flexible----adaptable 16. fine----subtle 17. sentimental----emotional 18. essence----quintessence 19. coercion----compulsion 20. fascinating----absorbingIV. 1. craftsman 2. book/publication 3. artist 4. smile 5. contribution 6. law-breaker 7. eat 8. sleep 9. make 10. old 11. hit 12. get offV. 1. less 2. because/since/as 3. not 4. that 5. resistance 6. runners 7. solve 8. greater/more 9. that 10. without 11. achievement/feat 12. in 13. do 14. physical 15. those 16. few 17. cannot 18. the 19. with 20. not。
pepBook5Unit1教案unit 1 my new teachers第一课时教学目标与要求1、能听、说、认、读,并理解本课的五个新单词:young, heavy, old , funny, kind;2、能掌握句型:who’s your…? what’s he /she like? 并能在具体的语境中运用;3、培养学生热爱、尊敬老师的情感。
教学建议ⅰ.warm-up1、show a picture of some classrooms. (采用图片或cai的形式呈现,根据不同学校的条件而定)music room /art room /computer room / lab2、点击cai,各个教室出现不同的老师或继续采用图片的形式:将各个教师贴到相应的教室里。
who is he/she?he /she ‘s our music / art / computer / science teacher.3、根据以前学过的描述人物的形容词,结合呈现的教师自编一个chant,营造课堂气氛,激发学生的积极性,同时也为下面引出新词作铺垫。
chant: tall, tall, tall, computer teacher. is tall.short , short ,short , science teacher. is short.thin , thin ,thin , art teacher. is thin.fat , fat ,fat ,music teacher. is fat.funny , funny, funny ,they’re so funny!ii. presentation1、采用cai 的形式设计一位转学来校就读的新朋友:zip让他做一个有趣的动作.t: this is zip, he is….s: funny!t: yes, he is funny, do you like him ? this term he will be our new classmate.2、cai点击zip,让zip自己介绍:hello! i’m zip .i’m glad to be your new classmate. this is a picture of my former school.(cai出示主情景图)3、cai: zip介绍自己的老师:(a) look! this is my math teacher (教师拿出一本数学书解释).he’s tall and thin.t: who is your chinese teacher? zip假装听不清,教师适时让全班学生一起问他:who is your chinese teacher?t:miss zhang. what’s she like? (学生read,教师用态势语帮助学生理解)can you tell me ?ss: he’s short and fat!zip: yes, he’s short and heavy . (read 用夸张的的体态语描述) practice: “heavy”. (出示一些卡通胖人物的图片:zoom, zhu bajie , etc) (b) ss:(教师启发学生问) who is your music teacher and who is your art teacher?zip:guess !ss guess.ss: what’s he /she like ?(compare)zip: she is young and he is old(长着胡须). (read)practise: t:i ’m old ,you are young.让学生逐个说:i’m young , you are old.(c) ss :who is your computer teacher?zip:m r li.t:(出示这位老师和蔼可亲的笑脸)what’s he like?ss: he’s…(让学生随意描述,之后教师导出kind)播放常识老师悉心辅导zip的一个片段,zip:my science teacher is kind ,too.t: let’s see, in our school, who is kind? am i kind?practise: my …teacher is kind./ xx is kind.(让学生说说自己的老师和同学)ⅲ. practice/consolidation●活动设计①:make a new chant. (cai)共7页,当前第1页1234567 my grandma is old, my mother is young.my father is tall, my little brother’s short.zoom is heavy, zip is funny.they are all very kind. and i’m kind, too.活动目的:综合呈现新学单词,在歌谣中得以巩固,避免机械地朗读。
Unit1 EducationTEXT AThe revolution that turned education sentimentalAt some point in the mid-1960s the picture of the classroom in the national imagination changed. Before, it consisted of ranks of traditional, slope-surfaced wooden desks at which sat uniformed children, their heads bowed, before an authoritarian and perhaps eccentric teacher. After, there were tables organized into groups, no uniforms and a nice, friendly teacher who probably liked the same pop music as his pupils.This is a cartoon view, but it depicts a real change. It was an educational revolution that was well-meant, benignly inspired by concern for children and apparently, endorsed by some of greatest minds of our age. Its ideal was to help children grow and its politics were egalitarian. With Shirley Williams’ abolition of most grammar schools and the introduction of comprehensives, the plan was in place.It was, as we and the Prince of Wales now know, an unmitigated disaster. Understanding why we did it and it fails is a gloomy but necessary business.Perhaps it was simply because it seems like a nice thing to do. Of course teachers should help children to grow up; of course comprehensives should break down class divisions; of course grim authority should give away to happy enthusiasm. These were simple ideals, but they were created by a thought process and it is this that now has to be dismantled.The first point is not to be confused by the politics. Today’s teachers are not the raging extremists of Tory and tabloid mythology. Indeed, more than 50% of them, according to one estimate, vote conservative.The real root of the problem is inadequately understood and misapplied theory. Take, for example, the specific issue raised by the prince—why Shakespeare was not being widely and enthusiastically taught. The immediate reason is that educationists and teachers have colluded on a view that contemporary and multicultural work is more relevant and that Shakespeare, indeed all pre 1990 literature, is left to be inaccessible to less able pupils.At one level this is a result of the “child-centered” philosophy defined by the Plowden report in the 1960s. Lady Plowden’s committee led us all into unstructured classroom and the accompanying glorification of childish ignorance. It effectively wrote the script for the liberal education establishment that has dominated our schools ever since.Keeping the Plowden faith alive now is the wildly misguided figure of Frank Smith, preacher of the “real books”approach to reading. This is the liberal theory in its most decadent phase: children are expected to read almost solely by being in the presence of books. Some benign osmosis is supposed to function. What smith and his followers cannot see is that reading is an artificial activity, an arbitrary code demanded by our culture.Emerging from ill-digested Fred, which, in turn, was modified Nietzsche, and a corrupted version of Rousseau, the beliefs of these people aspired to turn education into a process whereby the child dictated the pace. The whole educational emphasis swung from transmitting a culture to nurturing individual development. It encouraged sentimentality, the primary emotional evil of our day, and a sort of caring blandness. More alarmingly, itoffered teachers the chance to be social engineers.In practical terms, it undermined the authority of what was being taught. It is not necessary, indeed it is impossible, for a primary school child to understand the principle behind the eight times table. Numbers of theorists over the world would dearly like to know that principle for themselves. But child-centeredness demands understanding rather than learning, so tables are not taught properly and children are severed from a culture which depends for its coherence on the simple, authoritative certainty that seven times eight is 56.Literature in schools was specifically compromised by other cases of remote high-intellectual theories trickling down into the classroom. In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, structuralism swept through British universities to be followed later by post-structuralism. A whole generation of French thinkers- Derrida, Barthes, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Foucault -appeared to have discovered that literature was dead.All that was left was “the text”. Great authors and their intensions were exposed as elaborate delusion. Meaning was unconsciously embodied in the text, any text. Hamlet, from this perspective, has no greater intrinsic worth than the list of ingredients on a can of beans.Barthes and Derrida were brilliant and Rousseau and Freud, the cultural grandfathers of the 1960s revolution, were geniuses. The average teacher has probably never read any of them, but without knowing, he has absorbed an intellectual tradition that had distorted their thought into cheap sentimentality. Handing such tradition to a low-grade educational establishment is like giving a Kalashnikov to a four-year old.There is one final layer of intellectual corruption that needs to be exposed---cultural relativism. This is the most deeply hidden of all because it is the most pervasive. In essence, it is the deadening conviction that all cultures are equal and that, therefore, ours is of no special value. It can even be glimpsed in the current moronic Nationwide Building Society television advertisement in which dancing natives carrying spears are unquestioningly characterized as springing from an “older, wiser” culture. Hamlet and the eight times table are cast aside. Anything can be taught.Why do we feel the need to believe this? Why have we lost the power to celebrate what we are?Yet cultural relativism is the instinctive belief of our entire educational establishment and, consequently, of their pupils. It explains all the supposedly “relevant”material that makes its ways into classrooms as well as the abject “multiculturalism” that destroys our ability to assert that hamlet is better than either a baked bean can or the latest rap star.Prince Charles began to see the point when he read of a speech delivered by George Walden, the Tory MP, in June 1990. Walden is the Jonathan swift of our age, hurling dangerously literate abuse at the tat and trash of our culture.The speech, ostensibly on the subject of diplomacy, veered into a withering evocation of a culturally depraved nation---whose economic recovery is as recent as it is likely to change, whose educational and culture levels remain lamentably low, and whose main conurbations---which already include some of the most desolating cityscapes in Europe---are becoming environmentally suffocated. He spoke of “a trashed society, trashy broadcasting, trashy newspapers, trashy values, a national past trashed by a trashyeducation system”. We were “the thick man of Europe”.It is difficult to imagine anybody wishing to be king of such a place. So Walden, who is very clever, met Charles, who is not, and helped to steer him in the direction of education as the root of the malaise.As with architecture, it was a potentially explosive populist issue. People seemed unable to get what they wanted from a band of haughty professionals. And, as with architecture, throwing the prince into this morass was to play a highly risky wild card.The key to what the prince, and therefore Walden, is saying is bewilderment. After 12 years of radical Tory rule and in a climate of popular conviction that the state education system has been a disastrous failure, why are our schools still so bad? And why do they still seem so vulnerable to the kind of ideas that have proved so disastrous for so long?The political problem was that schools never made Margaret Thatcher angry in the same way as unions or nationalized industries. She felt that people ought to look after themselves and bad schools become, in this context, a kind of bracing, self-improving hazard of life.It was a terrible, tragic mistake. Of all the failed establishments of post-war Britain, education was the one most urgently in need of a Thatcher revolution. But her ministers, with their children at private schools, never did enough to force her to re-examine her prejudices.So the bewilderment of the prince is inspired both by a political failure and by deeply-embedded intellectual corruption. The hope must be that his intervention will focus the popular conviction that something is badly wrong and force the issue out of the wilderness to which Thatcher consigned it.Unfortunately taking on the liberal educational establishment is like trying to disperse a fog with hand grenades. To discuss the issue with them is to run into a damp barrier of terrifying complacency. They will focus on “resources”, on the specialist expertise of teachers or on the availability of Shakespeare on video. What they will not do is to accept the bad and violent failure of the education system to transmit the most glorious cultural heritage in the world. This is, of course, because they themselves are substantially ignorant of that culture.The prince is aspiring to exalted company. Apart from Walden, in this country the historian, Correlli Barnett, has damned the education system for producing “a segregated, subliterate, unskilled, unhealthy and institutionalized proletariat hanging on the nipple of state maternalism”. And in America, Allan Bloom with his book, the closing of the American mind, has indicated liberal educationists for the almost total destruction of the nation’s culture.But the truth is that, both in the United States and Britain, these prophets are surveying a defeat. The damage has been done. As a result, both countries have resigned themselves to living with a swelling, disaffected, subliterate underclass.Teaching Shakespeare or tables has nothing to do with such vast social problems, the liberals will say. The horror is that they still believe it.TEXT B Engineer schools neglect innovationAn engineering school that merely imparts information is an expensive waste. So began “Education for Innovation”, an article by Daniel V. De Simone questioning the relevance of standard engineering education. A staff member of the U.S. Department of Commence, De Simone maintained that real-life problems were losing out to mysterious scientific discovery.His fear was that the business of engineering, defined as the synthesis of invention and innovation for the extension of man’s capabilities, was being subverted by a lack of creative design courses in U.S. engineering schools. He expressed alarm that Ph.D. candidates often focused on science, not on likely uses for their work.This situation was, he felt, the fallout of a shift in the philosophy of academia. Though engineering schools still taught the fundamentals well, he said, they had failed their students—and society as a whole—by emphasizing the “knowledge and skills of analysis to the virtual exclusion of all else”. Remarking on U.S. engineering schools’ reaction to the launch of Sputnik by the USSR, he reminded readers that “this spectacular feat of engineering innovation…was hailed…as a scientific miracle, and the educational reforms thereby generated…were science-oriented.” In his view, this emphasis had caused the art of creative engineering to be orphaned by the schools.De Simone insisted that skills and attitudes essential to innovation can be nurtured in an environment where their elements are taught and divergent thinking is both encouraged and required. He felt the problems of modern society would not be solved under the system in place in 1968 because “original or unconventional approaches to problems were discouraged and their proponents often penalized.”Sensing that U.S. society was being shaped increasingly by the technologies of communication and information processing, foresaw its being “at the center of an electrically contracted global village.” A possibility he imagined was the erosion of boundaries between formal disciplines.He also mentioned a benefit computers would provide freedom from the chore of managing masses of data. As he saw it, computers would perform many of computational and analytical functions that preoccupied students, freeing them to devise creative solutions to social problems. De Simone hoped that universities would respond to this shift by basing grades on ingenuity rather than retentive skills or abilities.According to the man from commerce, the philosophical realignment needed to change engineering students’ view of their profession and the methods schools used to train them would come only at the insistence of industrial and governmental agencies. To the complaint by industry and government that innovators were in short supply, he responded that they could change things—they could supply universities with money and personnel for programs designed to stimulate innovation.He listed several ways of getting the educational climate to warm to creative and entrepreneurial processes. One was to bring celebrated inventors to universities as “masters” to work with students on engineering projects. The mentoring would exist withina program designed to melt the barrier between student inventors and end-users. Companies would take part in hope of benefiting from new technology; students would learn first hand about the importance of entrepreneurship to innovation.Greater cooperation among universities, government, industry, foundation, and professional associations could have other consequences. One was the endowment of traveling fellowships. At schools nationwide, specialists could instruct students in creative problem-solving techniques and demonstrate their methods to other teacher. Each school would keep the system going by asking faculty members to incorporate the teaching methods into existing programs of study.De Simone also called for on-campus design laboratories: knowledge and creativity should be easier to synthesize in a quasi-real-life environment embracing economic and social concerns familiar to a practicing engineer, as well as the triumphs and failures of invention.Some of De Simone’s predictions have come true, in ways he might not even have dreamed of. Today, the world is often called a global village because of the immediacy of communication and relative ease of data transmission and international commerce brought on by computers. Computers have also changed the way research is done, making exhaustive searches possible in a very short time. Web search engines and servers enable anyone to pull up information on a topic from any discipline reporting on the subject.Pressures on engineering from other fields of study have increased the need for the synthesis of science with problem-solving shrewdness. “During the past 5-10 years there has been a marked increase in the number of engineers hired by companies not engaged in traditional engineering activities,”commented Lyle Feisel, dean of the School of Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton and president of the American Society of Engineering Educators.”“This will expand the horizons of engineering students by marking the potential for opportunity greater and placing increased pressure on schools to provide the flexibility these extremely large number of opportunities demand.”Suggestions for fostering innovation among engineers made by De Simone 30 years ago are just beginning to catch on. Most U.S. engineering schools still judge a student by his or her ability to repeat data without thinking from lectures and lab sessions. According to Jerry Yeargan, a professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and vice president of the IEEE Educational Activities board: “ There has been a lingering perception on the part of engineering faculty that creativity has been stifled by ABET”—Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, based in Baltimore, MD. , that watches over engineering programs of U.S. colleges and universities.Yeargan indicated that the correlation between official approval standards and the absence of classes on creativity may not be as direct as administrators and professors make it out to be. Although official approval standards now focus more on creativity, he has yet to detect a corresponding change in curricula. There are other reasons schools have been slow in adopting new methods, Yeargan maintains, among them: the feeling that the current system is successful and needs no overhauling; increased pressure to include technology within the four-year curriculum; and the conservatism of university faculties.Even if they exist, creativity and entrepreneurship courses tend to be elective. Anexample is Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., which has an undergraduate minor in Management of Technology. Its 15 credit-hours include two required course: an introduction to all facets of technology-based businesses, and the impact of law, public policy, and regulatory standards on technology. Others are principles and management of technological innovation, and technology marketing.Only 40-50 of each year’s 250 BE graduates complete this minor. ”I would like the courses to be taken by more students, but the university dose not have the space or faculty,”said David V. Kerns, professor of electrical engineering and program director. Students find it hard to fit the full minor into their four-year program.Scripts for listening comprehensionPart AThough simply completing high school improves earnings outlook, the average high school graduate will earn an estimated average annual income of $30,109 and $1.2million in a life time.The average college graduate stands to net nearly twice as much, with a $51,097 average annual income adding up over 40 years of earning potential to more than $2.04 million.Linder herself became a good example of how an education can help the bottom line. She ended up making a decent salary -$42,000-working as a field anthropologist in Thailand trying to help women find alternatives to prostitution. And, her compensation rose when she became an AIDS researcher with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.She has since managed to parlay her field experience into a successful career at a New York City public relations firm where she earns approximately triple her starting salary.“All the skills I learned out there-including trying to persuade married men to use condoms when they are with prostitutes-have helped a lot,”she says. “When it really comes down to it, learning how to speak in another person’s language is what P.R. people do with their clients”Today a college degree is as essential to a successful career as a high school diploma was years ago. Experts say a bachelor’s degree makes sense whether prospective students covet the corner office or just a comfortable life.Ranking among the most popular, and most profitable undergraduate majors, would be any business, technology and health-related course of study-management, accounting, computer science, nursing and biology. The more liberal arts based majors, like English, communications and education, are also in high demand, but tend to be harder to quantify.Add an MBA, JD or MD into the mix, and an individual’s marketability rises. An MBA, for instance, can help the right person become even more successful by teaching a complete business vocabulary, offering access to new career opportunities, developing leadership skills and greatly enhancing professional networks.A higher level of education not only tends to make finding a job easier, it helps retain a job, especially in trying economic times. Someone who finishes a degree is more likelyto have job security and find jobs more easily.In fact, EPF data shows that the demand for highly skilled personnel has grown by half a million people in 2001, despite the mild recession. And, the unemployment rate for all degree holders has stayed under 3 percent, far lower than the 5.9 percent national average.If there are no jobs in banking, for instance, an MBA will also help a person get a job in government, non-profit work, etc. Moreover, it is reported that in good times and bad, MBA alum s’ professional and personal networks- often built while getting degrees- are key to finding jobs.As important is the ability for students to get a taste of there career options through internship. An internship is a great way to figure out whether a person will be able to make a career out of his course of study. Think of how much time and money a person can save by finding out either that he loves his area of study, he should find a different interest or that he should go to graduate school to hone in his talents.Part B1.In helping to educate a student for adult work and adult life, America schools strive, above all, to be practical. John Dewey’s philosophy, which claims that the only worthwhile knowledge is knowledge that can be used, has greatly influenced America educators. They do not want to teach useless facts which will quickly be forgotten; they want to teach attitudes and skills which will help produce useful, responsible, happy adults. Schools consider it their job to educate the whole child, his mind, and his body, his intellect and his emotions, to cope successfully with adult responsibilities as wage earners, parents, and citizens.Dewey also influenced teaching techniques. Education must be meaningful and children learn best by doing, thus science is taught largely through student experimentations; the study of music involves making music; democratic principles are put into practice in the student council; group projects involving student leadership encourage creativity, individual initiative, and teamwork.2.Many people think school is just about teaching children what are often called “the Rs”, “reading, writing and arithmetic”, that is, reading, writing and arithmetic. But the purpose of the British education system is also to socialize children. Children are taught practical skills; but in school they also learn the rules and values they need to be good citizens, to participate in the community, and to contribute to the economic prosperity of an advanced industrial economy.It is no surprise, then, that the state is heavily involved in deciding when, where, how and what children are taught. It is also no surprise that these decisions are often very controversial. Should naught pupils be punished physically? What sort of English should children learn to speak? Should children be taught to speak in a standardized way rather than with regional accents and idioms? Or do local variations in the way people talk contribute to the richness of British culture?Such controversies are not just about education. They reflect the deeper division inBritish society as a whole. Britain is a society in which social class is still important: class inequality can be erased or continued according to educational policy.The enduring feature of British education is the continuing debate over how “equal”educational opportunity should be. Sociologists have found that 51 per cent British people are working class and 49 per cent are middle class. While the split about half and half, the opportunities for working class and middle class people can be very different. In Britain, the accent you speak with, the clothes you wear, the schools you attend are all markers that identify your social class.The school is a clear marker of social class. Even on informal occasions you will sometimes see men wearing their attendance at a certain school. To have attended the “right”schools and the “right”universities is still the single best way to guarantee a successful career. In 1994, 46% of Conservative Party members of Parliament were graduates of Oxbridge, as were three-quarters of the Government executive. Most senior civil servants are also Oxbridge graduates. When people in Britain talk about “the old boys network”, they mean this elite group of men who went to school and university together. Not only do they dominate government, but they are also very influential in banking, the media, the art and education. In Britain, where you are educated is still important to your future.Part COne aspect of American higher education that has drawn world’s attention is the community college and the role it plays. In the early 1900s, this kind of two-year colleges emerged to meet the immediate need of the economic expansion and rapid rise in immigrants of the times. Since then, is has undergone a rapid growth. By 1990, there were over 1,300 community colleges in the United States, two-thirds of which were public. These colleges, which grant associate degrees, make up 38.4 percent of the total student enrollment in American higher education and over 50 percent of all college freshmen enrollment.The community college calls for education to serve the good of both the individual and society. It embodies Thomas Jefferson’s belief that an education should be practical as well as liberal. It provides general and liberal education, career and vocational education and adult and continuing education. It performs five main functions. First it prepares students for transferring to a BA program at a four-year institution. Second, it provides vocational training for people who are already working or expect to be working in the near future. Third, it gives remedial instruction to higher school students who are underprepared for college academically and adults who did not learn basic skills in elementary or secondary school. Fourth, it offers recreational, cultural activities for adults who are not seeking regular vocational or academia skills. Fifth, it absorbs students in a four-year program who are not qualified into a lower-status vocational program.Among the reasons for the rapid growth of community college are their open admission policies, cheap tuition and fees, wide geographic distribution, convenient locations, flexible curriculum structures, and availability of financial aid through government loans and grants and private scholarships. And, though each four-year institution has its own policy for acceptance of transferred students, credits and courses taken at these two-year institutions are normally applicable to requirement for a four-year bachelor’s degree.The guiding principle of community college is higher education for everyone and the philosophy that equality must mean equal opportunity for self-realization and for the recognition of individual difference.The community college as an institution is one of the most important innovations in the history of American higher education. It has supported not only many high school students who would not otherwise have able to pursue a university education, but individuals capable of postsecondary education to gain the necessary basic skills and abilities to succeed. In this sense, the community college has played an important role in making higher education more accessible and in meeting the needs of educated adults, employees of local business, professionals requiring certification as well as community organizations.。