基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Technology and our society”相关的词汇和表达式及未来科技展望 重点及难点：
Expressing speculations, assumptions and predictions 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and answer the questions about the story 2）Pair work: speculate what had happened if the following things had not been invented (telephone, atomic energy, television, internet, car, and so on)
3）Group work: Look at a prophet’s predictions for the future. Discuss how probable you think each of the predictions is
Unit Eight Harmony Between the Young and the Old
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Generation Gap”相关的词汇和表达式 重点及难点：
Expressing opinions 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the discussion
2）Role play: Contradictions between parents and children are common. Now work in groups of three. Assume the roles of a parent, son or daughter a consultant. The parent and the child will discuss the problems in their relationship while the consultant will give advice. 3）Tell a story about something that happened between you and your parents.
Unit nine Honesty
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Honesty”相关的词汇和表达式 重点及难点：
A review of expressing opinions 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks
2）Interview: Interview your classmates or group members on their opinions about cheating or plagiarism.
3）Pair work, role play and Discussion
·why is it so difficult for people to be honest to one another?
·Can you name some typical circumstances under which it is justifiable not to tell the truth? ·Why is it that even the smartest people are often fooled by those around hm?
Unit Ten Do Appearances Really Matter?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Attitudes to appearances”相关的词汇和对美的含义理解 重点及难点：
Giving opinions about clothes and appearance 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks
2）Group work: Tell your group members who you think is the most attractive man or woman in the world .Describe what he or she is like 3）Discussion
·Ideas of beauty change with time and culture.
·Chinese have different ideas of beauty from Westerners. ·Who and what decide the standards of beauty? ·what makes a person beautiful?
Unit Eleven What Is Success?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Success”相关的词汇和对成功含义的理解 重点及难点：
Giving opinions about clothes and appearance 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks
2）Group work: First summarize what you have learnt from the Text Four, and then give a speech with the title “How can we be successful” 3）Discussion
·What is your own definition of success?
·Who are the most successful people in your mind? ·Do you know any stories of their success?
Unit Twelve Have You Read the News?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“News”相关的词汇和新闻的特点 重点及难点：
Comparisons；Preferences 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks 2）Group work
·Imagine that you are editors of China Post， a serious newspaper targeting English-speaking readers in and out of China. Hold an editorial meeting and decide which 10 out of the 20 subjects on the next page will appear in today’s paper and on which pages/sections
Unit Thirteen Man’s Best Friends
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“ Man and Animals”相关的词汇和有关动物保护的话题 重点及难点：
Showing disagreement and disapproval 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks 2）Group work
·What animals do you know that are used to represent characteristics in Chinese, for instance, pig, snake? ·World Animal day was started in 1931 as a way of highlighting the plight of endangered species. Imagine your group wants to introduce World Animal day to china. How would you promote he idea among different groups of people such as government officials, college students, business people?
Unit Fourteen Advertising
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Selling and advertising”相关的词汇和有关的话题
重点及难点：
Interpreting and talking about reactions 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks 2）Discussions
·What are the functions of advertising? ·Do advertisements inform or influence?
3) Group work: Each describes an advertisement that you dislike or that offended you, and remember to answer the following questions ·What was being advertised? ·What was wrong with it?
Unit Fifteen Thanking Positively
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Thanking positively”相关的词汇和如何保持积极的人生态度 重点及难点：
Paying compliments 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks
2）Pair work: Are you satisfied wit your present life? If not, what are your troubles? Share them with your partner and try to find a positive attitude towards them
3) Discussion: We are now living in an information age, a modern age, a high-tech age. Do you think it has brought us more happiness? Why or why not? Think of the arguments on both sides
第三学期
Unit One Who Am I?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握：New words; How to describe and introduce yourself to others 重点及难点：
Describe a person’s physical appearance and character 主要教学内容：
1）Vocabulary Builder