Unit6 Book1Section B: Earn As You Learn?I. Teaching Objectives:1. Key words: soar; tremendous; relevant; claim; endure; illustrate; exhaust; relieve; convince; ensure; advanced2. Key phrases: in spite of; be envious of; be in the/a minority; a matter of doing sth.; relieve sb. of sth. ; look back.; as for; catch/get/have a glimpse of3. Reading Skill: Understanding signal wordsII.Teaching Procedures:1. Warming-upDiscuss in group some critical questions concerning the relationship between work and study.2. Text learning1) Reading skills2) New words3) Practical phrases.4) Text comprehension.5) Structure analysis of the text3. Assignment.III. Suggested Class Activities1)What part time jobs are suitable for undergraduates?2)What are the advantages of studying full-time, if compared with working while studying?3)How can students strike a balance between work and study?(Tips: good time management; modest working hours; efficiency in work and study; good health...)4)How do you feel about the students who work to pay their own tuition?IV. Assignments1. Finding out and underline the signal words in Paragraph 1 and 7 in text B.2. Complete the excises.Text learningI. Reading skills: Understanding signal wordsStep 1. Why signal words are needed?Signal words can be a valuable aid in predicting what is coming next; they can also help to identify the pattern the writer is using to get the point(s) across. Signal words may be found anywhere in a paragraph to show relations between sentence parts, between sentences, or even between paragraphs.Step 2. The types of signal words?a.Words that signal additional informationb.Words that signals an example or explanationc.Words that signal a summary or conclusiond.Words that signal a change of thoughte.Words that signal comparison or contrastf.Words that signal a sequence or time orderg.Words that signal cause, condition, or resulth.Words that signal emphasisII. New words1.soar vi.a.Increase to a high level (amount, level, value or volume)❖The prices of houses have been soaring in recent years. 房价近几年一直在飞涨。
b.(birds) rise quickly into the air;(tress or building) are very tall eg: The lamp tower soars above the horizon.(spirits) soar means sb. start to feel very happy2. absorb vt.a. accept changes, effects or costs and deal with them successfully❖The banks would be forced to absorb large losses.b. Take in liquid, gas, or another substance from the surface or space around❖In order to grow, plants needs sunlight and absorb nutrients from the soil.植物需要阳光并从土壤中吸收养分才能生长。
c. Interest sb. So much that they do not pay attention to other things❖be absorbed in sth. eg. The children were so absorbed in their game that nobody felt hungry.3. tremendous a.a. You use tremendous to emphasize how strong a feeling or quality is, or how large an amount is❖That's a tremendous amount of information. 海量的信息。
❖There's tremendous tension between the local population and the government.当地居民与政府之间关系非常紧张。
❖The success of the event requires tremendous effort on the part of many volunteers.b. You can describe someone or something as tremendous when you think they are very good or very impressive❖He was a tremendous person.4.relevant a. be relevant todirectly relating to the subject or problem being discussed or considered❖I don't think his remarks are relevant to our discussion. 我认为他的话不切我们的议题。
❖We have passed all relevant information on to the police.Antonym: irrelevantRelevant, relative, related●relevant:有关的、切题的，往往表示与手头的事情或目前的状况有直接关系，尤指在逻辑上有关系的，be relevant to... 与……有关的, relevant + n. (relevant details/information 有关细节/信息)●relative:相对的、比较的、较……而言的，relative + n. (relative comfort比较舒适);也表示相关的、有关系的、表关系的，be relative to4. relevant5.claimvt.a. State that sth. is true, even though it has not been proved❖They claim to have discovered a cure for the disease.❖ A man claiming to be a journalist threatened to reveal details about her private life.一个自称是记者的人威胁要公开有关她的私生活的细节。
b. claim responsibility or claim credit 声称负责/邀功n. a statement that sth. is true, even though it has not been proved.6.endure vt.a.be in a difficult or painful situation for a long time without complaining❖Dreams of a beautiful life make it easier for a person to endure difficulties.b.If something endures, it continues to exist without any loss in quality or importance.❖Somehow the language endures and continues to survive.那种语言以某种方式保存下来，并继续存在下去。
7.illustrate vt.a.be an example which shows that sth. is true or that a fact exists❖He quoted some old Chinese sayings to illustrate his points.b.show sth. by using pictures, diagrams, lists of numbers, etc❖The author gives us some diagrams to illustrate the production process.c. put pictures, photographs or diagrams into a book❖He has illustrated the book with black-and-white photographs.8.exhaust vt.e all of sth.❖We have exhausted all our material resources.我们已经耗尽了所有的物资。