新标准unit 1

Unit one

Teaching objectives

Theme

Bill Gate’s views on education

Vocabulary

education, count, e-mail, advice ,suggestion, success, advantage, lifetime,

company , part-time , programmer, discourage, diploma, project, spirit, highly,

focus, software, range, attend, automatically, ability, subject.

Speaking How to introduce yourself and talk about education

Grammar nouns

Practical writing How to introduce yourself

Text A

Background Information

William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader

in software. Microsoft employs more than 61,000 people in 102 countries and regions.

Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle. Gates began programming

computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman. While

at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC. In his

junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had

begun in 1975. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on

every office desktop and in every home, he began developing software for personal

computers. Gates’ foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central

to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.

Gates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. They have three

children. Gates likes reading, and enjoys playing golf and bridge. Philanthropy is

important to Gates. He and Melinda believe every life has equal value. In 2000, they

created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with more than $28.8 billion to support

health and learning in the United States and around the world.

Group Discussion

1.It is believed that education is essential to one’s success. Does it mean that

education is important merely in that it helps people get a good job? Do you think that

education is important to people’s success in different dimensions of life?

2. What does campus life mean to you? What does it offer you besides courses and

exams?

Part Division of the Text

The text can be divided into four parts:

Part 1 (Paragraph 1):

Part 1 is made up of the topic paragraph of the text. It puts forward the main idea of

the text: one should get the best education one can.

Part 2 (Paragraphs 2-3):

Part 2 illustrates the main idea with the examples of Bill Gates and his employees.

Part 3 (Paragraph 4):

Part 3 points out the importance of high school education and college education.

Part 4 (Paragraph 5):

Part 4 is a conclusion of the text. The conclusion is that education does count.

Detailed reading

Ⅰ. vocabulary

1. count

a) count最基本的意思是“数（数字）”，可以作及物动词，也可以作不

及物动词。如：

Please count the apples in the fridge.

The baby cannot yet count.

b) count还有“认为，看作”的意思，作及物动词。如：

Einstein is counted one of the greatest scientists in the world.

c) count在课文中的意思是“有价值，有重要意义”，作不及物动词。如：

The general manager is a man that counts in a company.

What really counts is not your present but your care.

Phrasal Verb:

count as: 可被认为

This university counts as the most renowned one in the country.

count in: 把„„包括在内

There are twenty-nine students in our class, counting in the sitting-in students.

count on: 依赖

You can count on me for help when you are in need.

Comparison:

count & matter

这两个词都有“重要”的意思，是近义词，count比matter更强调重要性，matter常用于这样的句型中：it doesn’t matter+从句。如：

It doesn’t matter where you are educated.

Your happiness matters to me.

2. advice

advice作为名词时是不可数名词。它的动词形式是advise。

Collocations:

take one’s advice

give sb advice

follow one’s advice

a piece of advice

Patterns:

advise sb sth

advise doing sth

advise sb to do sth

advise that-clause

Examples:

Doctors always advise doing a proper amount of physical exercise.

The teacher advised him to read more books on that subject.

Derivation:

advisable adj. 明智的，合理的

advisory adj. 咨询的，顾问的

3. a number of

a number of的意思是“大量的，许多的”，和复数可数名词搭配。如：

a number of students

a number of books

a number of people

但是，不可以说a number of water，因为a number of不修饰不可数名词。和a

number of意思相近的表达还有：

many a

quite a few

a large amount of

a great deal of

a lot of / lots of

plenty of

其中，many a只能修饰单数可数名词，quite a few修饰复数可数名词，a large

amount of和a great deal of只能修饰不可数名词，a lot of / lots of和plenty of既可修饰可数名词，也可修饰不可数名词。

Comparison:

a number of & the number of

a number of是限定词，修饰可数名词，表示“许多的”，如果a number of 修饰的名词词组作主语，谓语动词要用复数形式。the number of不是限定词，后面加上名词后整个名词词组的意思是“„„的数目”，中心词仍然是number，如果作主语，谓语动词要用单数形式。如：

A number of university students do part-time jobs to learn socialization skills.

很多大学生做兼职的工作来学习社交技巧。

The number of students in this university exceeds 5,000.

这所大学的学生人数超过了5 000人。

4. success

a) success的动词形式是succeed。