③Appreciate the narrative skills demonstrated in the text (selection of details, repetition, and coherence);
⑤Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities centred upon the theme of the unit.
2.
Teaching approaches & means
教学方法与手段
Task-based Approach ;
Communicative Language Teaching;
Activity Teaching Approach; Question-answer Teaching Approach.
Teaching Procedure:
Period 1 – 2
I.Lead-in:(15minutes)
Discussion
A)What do your group like or dislike about English? Give two or three reasons.
B) English is a required course for most college students. Apart from passing exams, are there any other reasons for studying English?
Teaching emphasis & difficulties
重点与难点
1.Vocabularies of CET4 level; Phrases and sentence structure;
Appreciating the narrative skills demonstrated in the text (selection of details, repetition, and coherence);
II. Cultural notes(5minutes)
1.Grade schools in the US.: It is necessary to have some knowledge of grade schools in the U.S. because Ss have to realize that“the third year in high school”(para. 1) equals“the eleventh grade”(para.9). U.S. students generally go through elementary schools (kindergarten to 5th or 6th grade), middle schools (grades 6-8) or junior highs schools (grades 7-9), and high schools (grades 9-12 or 10-12).
Multi-media Video PPT Picture Blackboard
课
堂
进
程
次序
内容
1
第1—2节:Text ALead-in, Culture notes, Global analysis of the text
2
第3—4节: Detailed Reading
3
第5-6节: Detailed Reading, Post-reading tasks
2.What American teachers wear in school: Nowadays, people in the U. S. love to dress causally. Even among those companies with a rigid dress code some now allow employees not to wear suits on Fridays. U.S. teachers were fairly formal clothes to school, but not necessarily suits and ties. Bow ties are considered even more old-fashioned than ties.
3.Spaghetti and the proper way of eating it: Spaghetti is the Italian-style thin noodle, cooked b boiling and served with sauce. Usually you would put a fork into a plate of spaghetti, turn the fork several times so that spaghetti will wind around the fork, then place the fork into your mouth. It’s impolite to suck.
2) Listen to a song and ask information about the song.
3) And ask Ss to guess what the text is about based on the title.
4) Give some background information: grading system, What American teachers wear in school, Spaghetti and the proper way of eating it
Unit One Growing up
Teaching Objectives教学目标：
Students will be able to:
①Grasp the main idea and understand the structure of the text;
②Enlarge the vocabulary, and master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;