New Horizon College English Book Four Major Task Text Learning （ 10 units altogether ） Learning to write English composition Integral Training: trying.

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Book Four

Major TaskMajor Task

• Text Learning （ 10 units altogether ）

• Learning to write English composition

• Integral Training: trying to improve students’ proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking.

Teaching Plan

• This term’s teaching content covers 10 units. Basically, every two units will be finished within 3 weeks. Except the one-week holidays of the National Day and the oral English test, there are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9 unit should be finished at the end of this term. Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6 periods.

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Unit 1Unit 1

General Goals or Objectives

• Try to improve students’reading speed and the ability to get information from reading materials correctly.

• Students’ acquisition of the skills involved through supplementary materials and texts.

• More attention will be given to the understanding of discourse: focus on global understanding.

• Enlarge students’ vocabulary (Key words and structure)

• Learn the features of English composition and learn to write.

Stage 1: Warming-up ActivitiesStage 1: Warming-up Activities Stage 1: Warming-up ActivitiesStage 1: Warming-up Activities

Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

Stage 3: After-Reading ActivitiesStage 3: After-Reading Activities Stage 3: After-Reading ActivitiesStage 3: After-Reading Activities

Stage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking Practice

Warming-up ActivitiesWarming-up Activities

Group work Group work Group work Group work

Questions for thought and discussionQuestions for thought and discussion

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Comparing the following wordsComparing the following words

Group workGroup work

Go over the preview, the pre-reading questions and the title of the text before listening to the summary of the story and anticipate what we are going to read.

Questions for thought and Questions for thought and discussiondiscussion

Listen to a short passage Listen to a short passage carefully and then answer carefully and then answer the following questions.the following questions.

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Read the sentences carefully and guess the meaning of the italicized term in each sentence according to the context and your own experiences.

• I know I shouldn't eat chocolate cake when I'm dieting, but I find it hard to resist the temptation.

• a rubber plantation

• plantations of fir and pine

• I don‘t know why I asked — just idle curiosity.

• There are few idle people in their department.

• The new financial supervisor intends to make full use of the company‘s idle capital.

诱惑种植园

树林

无意义的

闲散的 闲置的

• The rain penetrated through to his skin.

• They claimed that the noise from the concert was causing a public nuisance.

• You‘d better roll your sleeves up or you’ll get them dirty.

• The trousers are a bit tight around my waist.

湿透

反感

袖子

腰部

• They think the government‘s new ideas are nonsense.

• The document must be signed in the presence of a witness.

• sheer nylon tights

• It would be sheer folly to buy such a large car - we wouldn't be able to afford to run it.

一派胡言

当着…的面透明的

complete

• Oscar Wilde was a famous wit.

• a conversation full of wit

• He made some interesting observations on the current economic situation.

机敏风趣的

机智风趣的

评论

• Some species of bats are on the edge of dying out.

• Just because I had a bat and had played at school, they assumed I was some kind of expert.

• The crowd of demonstrators melted away when the police arrived.

• The spring sun usually melts the snow by mid March.

蝙蝠

球拍

逐渐散去

融化

• She behaved as any upright citizen would have done under the circumstances.

• Stand upright when you‘re being spoken to!

• We tipped the porter for each box.

• The hotel porter will call a taxi for you.

正直的

站直

搬运工

门卫

• He packed his trunk and sent it to China by sea.

• I sawed through the tree trunk.

• She was overcome with emotion.

• He deserves our special thanks for all his efforts.

旅行箱

树干

她激动得不能自持。

应得到

• She gave him a tender look.

• My steak was juicy and beautifully tender.

• If your stomach feels tender and you have a slight temperature the best remedy is to go to bed and have a good rest.

gentle

easy to bite through

painful

• Their remarks are for the most part correct.

• Don‘t impose your company on them. They are busy with their work.

• I don't know what he wants to do, but for my part, I would be glad to go.

mostly; usually

缠着他们

personally

• I'm counting on my teacher to help me.

• Please don‘t make a fuss about such a small thing.

• He is run down because he‘s been working too hard.

• We've all objected to this proposal.

expect; depend on

大惊小怪

把身体搞垮

oppose; express opposition to

• They stopped for a moment to drink in the beauty of the scenery.

• They drank in the delicious music.

• He said he would give up smoking, but he ended up yielding to the temptation and took a cigarette.

欣赏

如痴如醉地倾听

•经不起诱惑

Vocabulary Comparing Vocabulary Comparing Vocabulary Comparing Vocabulary Comparing • mill manufactory factory• merry happy joyous cheerful pleasant d

elightful agreeable• fabric cloth textile stuff tissue material• lap thigh limb leg knee hip• wind breeze gust blast squall gale t

yphoon hurricane tornado cyclone• gaze stare gaze peer contemplate view

observe survey peek peep glance skim scan glimpse glare

• keen extreme strong active sharp acute

• keen eager ardent earnest intense

• farewells goodbye

• honorable respectable respective

• wholly completely entirely fully totally utterly

• now and then from time to time occasionally

• a succession of a series of

Homework Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text by heart.

• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of the text.

• Analyze the structure of the text.

Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

1. Global Reading Task s

• Reading Skills:

Reading between lines

• Text structure analysis:

• To make inferences about the author's ideas you have to do the following:

1. Make use of context clues, your common sense and your knowledge of the world.

2. Connect ideas and draw conclusions from the reading passage.

3. Form and test what you have understood between the lines.

• Example 3

• There was some talk of having him back during the summer that followed. That is, Gaston greatly desired it; but this desire yielded to his honorable wife's vigorous opposition. (Para. 21, Passage A, Unit 1)

• Question: Why did the wife strongly oppose to Gouvernail's coming to visit them again?

• Possible answer: She was afraid that she would yield to her passion.

• Example 4

• “Oh,” she told him, laughingly, after pressing a long, tender kiss upon his lips, “I have overcome everything! You will see. This time I shall be very nice to him.” (Para. 24, Passage A, Unit 1)

• Question: What do you think the wife had overcome?

• Possible answer: She had overcome her affectionate passion for Gouvernail and she was ready to accept him as a friend and as a guest.

• Text Structure Analysis:– What kind of writing does this

passage belong to?• Description, narration, exposition or

argumentation?

– What kind of order is this story related in?• In chronological (or time) order

– How is the story structured according to time sequence as a whole?

How many parts can the whole passage be divided into? 6 parts

general situation of the story

Mrs. Baroda's impressions of her guest

what happened that night

what happened the day after that night

Part 1: Part 2:

Part 6:

Part 4:

Part 5:

Part 3:

what happened later

what happened still later

• The first part of the passage is ______________, which is the general situation of the story and also the starting point of the story.

• What is the general situation ?

Paragraph 1

Mrs. Baroda was a little annoyed that her husband’s friend, Gouvernail, was to spend a week or two on their plantation.

• The second part consists of _______ paragraphs, from Paragraph 2 to Paragraph 10, telling us what happened and informing us about Mrs. Baroda's impressions of her guest — Gouvernail.

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chronological

after a few days then

one day in the morning until

• The descriptions are presented in _____________order.

• Can you find any time markers to certify it?

• Para. 2 deals with Mrs. Baroda’s impression of her guest ：

She was feeling puzzled, not being able to penetrate her silent guest

Mrs. Baroda was troubled to find Gouvernail ___________________— not a man of wit, but ____________ difficult to understand.

• Paras. 3 to 10 are about a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Baroda concerning their guest — Gouvernail:

a terrible nuisancea dull man

• The third part is made up of __ paragraphs, from Paragraphs 11 to 19, concentrating on what happened “that night”.

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• The author uses a succession of verbs and adverbs to describe ________________that night in chronological order.

• In this part, the author also describes some sort of _________________in Mrs. Baroda but all this came along with a succession of _________.

what happened

emotional change

actions

• The time markers:

that night, the next morning, then, when

• The fourth part is Paragraph_______. 20 only

• Paragraph 20 is about _____________ the day after “that night”.

what happened

• The next morning, Mrs. Baroda _________________ without even saying farewell. She did not return _______________________.

took an early train

until Gouvernail was gone

• The fifth part is Paragraph______. 21

• Paragraph 21 describes _____________ during the time after “that night”.

what happened

• During the summer that followed, Mr. Baroda greatly desired that ________________________________ but this was vigorously _________ by Mrs. Baroda.

his friend come to visit them againopposed

• The sixth part consists of Paragraphs _________, which is the continuing part of the story, still, according to ______sequence.

22 to 24

time

• _______________________, Mrs. Baroda proposed to have Gouvernail _______________ as she had ___________________.visit them againovercome everything

Before the year ended

Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

2. Detailed Reading Tasks

• Language points

• Simulated writing

• Summary of the text

After-Reading ActivitiesAfter-Reading Activities

• Vocabulary Exercises

• Translating and Writing

Listening and speaking activities

• Talking about the topic or retelling the text

• Listening and speaking practice in XP center