Unit 3 A Successful Career
Teaching Focus
Theme Text A My First Job Text B The Biggest Risk is Not Taking Any Risks Vocabulary fellow, self-respect, lack, alike, genius, code, contact, site, launch, pride, confidence, lend, faith, investment, devote, pretend, judge, invest, apply, eventually, plus, resist, central, impact, operate, annual, print, mount, bill vision, achieve, purpose, fiercely, priority, means, successful, motivate, fortune Phrases and look up to; take pride in; as take a risk; sign up for; devote… Expressions soon as; dream of; share… with; to; be bound to do something; stick come true; apply for; end up to; turn down; in the neighborhood of; by chance Grammar 1) How to use the word “alike” and the structure “no… more… than” (“Focusing on Sentence Structure”) 2) How to make shifts in tense (“Basic Writing Skills”) Writing Understanding and filling in application forms (“Practical Writing”)
Teaching Plan
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单元 主题 A Successful Career 课时8 安 排 教育 教学 目标 (学生) To know your opinion of success and consider what you would like to do as a career in the future. To find out the qualities which attribute to the success of the two main characters in Text A and Text B and see what you can learn from them. To be familiar with the context meaning and the use of those vocabulary of the two texts listed in the above table. To be familiar with the collocation of those phrases and expressions listed in the above table. To be able to make sentences with learn a lesson from, come true, end up,, and as soon as. To be able to rewrite sentences after models, using the word “alike” or the structure “no more… than.” To get familiar with some rules of shifts in tense on some special occasions. To be able to understand and fill in an application form. 教 学 设 计 Section A Text A: My First Job 教 学 Section B 内 容 Text B: The Biggest Risk Is Not Taking Any Risks Section C Practical Writing: Understanding and Filling in Application Forms 2
Leading In and Exploring the Topic ? Divide the class into groups of four and allow the Ss 5 minutes to finish the exercise in Exploring the Topic. ? Give the Ss 5 minutes to discuss the following two questions: 1) What do you intend to choose as a career in the future and why? 2) How will you prepare yourself for your future career? ? Ask some volunteers to share their answers to the above question with the class. Section A Reading Through ? Ask Ss to go through Text A quickly and then finish the exercise of Getting the Message on P44 of SB. ? Check the understanding by eliciting answers from some 教学活动students. 安排建议 ? Highlight some difficult sentences and elicit explanations from students and give helps where necessary. ? Allow the Ss 3 minutes to write down a sentence showing he or she has learned from the story. Give the Ss some sentence structures to help them write longer sentences. ? Ask some students to share their sentences with the class. Basic Writing Skills ? Prepare a PPT with the exercise on P48 of SB. ? Ask some students to tell their choices to the class and explain why they have those choices. ? Analyze the keys to those choices by explaining the rules of shifts in tense listed on P47-48. 3