Ⅰ: Congratulations to the Freshman
Ⅱ: Self-introduction
Ⅲ. Timing (Freshman-Sophomore-Junior-Senior)算一笔时间帐
Four years? No
Two years+100,000 Yuan: Seize the time
Ⅳ. English Learning
1.Reading; Writing; Listening; Speaking; Translating
2.如何去强化每一个部分
3.Exams (mid-exam; final; CET-4)
Ⅴ. Teaching Plan of This Semester
1.Reading & Writing Course
2.Listening & Speaking Course
Ⅵ. Course Requirements
e.g. Attendance; Review & Preview…
Ⅶ. Websites for English Learning
Ⅷ. Suggestions
Unit 1 Writing for Myself
Russell Baker
Ⅰ. Warming-up
1.Have students listen to John Lennon’s song (lullaby) Beautiful Boy
2.Through this song ,we can feel the strong love of a father towards his son (the singer’s soft voice; the repetition of “beautiful boy”; the lyrics)
3.Q: Without the parents’ love, it is impossible for a baby to grow up. In the process of becoming an adult, parents ★have great influence over their children. Besides them, who else has affected you the most and why?
4.Lead into the text by saying: “Let’s read text A, unit 1 and find out who influenced the author Russell Baker and in what way.”
Ⅱ. Cultural Background Information
1.Russell Baker (1925- ): American journalist and writer. The text is taken from his autobiography Growing Up (1982), which won him a Pulitzer prize.
2.The Pulitzer Prize: an award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.
3.The American Educational System
In the United States, education is the responsibility of individual states, not of the federal government, so requirements may vary from one state to another. The following is a generalization
kindergarten: under 5 years old
★elementary / primary school (grades 1~6): 6~11 years old
junior high / middle school (grades 7~8): 12~13 years old
senior / high school (grades 9~12): 14~17 years old
4.Spaghetti and the proper way of eating it: Spaghetti is an Italian thin noodle, cooked by boiling and served with sauce. Usually you 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.
Ⅲ. Structure
Parts | Paragraphs | Main Ideas |
Part One | Paras.1-2 | Baker was bored by everything associated with English courses, including his new English teacher. |
Part Two | Paras.3-5 | Baker found himself attracted by one particular topic and wrote about it for his own joy. |
Part Three | Paras.6-9 | The experience of writing the essay helped him discover his talent for writing and realize what he wished to do in life. |
1.off and on/on and off: from time to time; now and again; irregularly
e.g. It has been raining on and off for a week. That’s why the clothes feel damp.
2. take hold: become ★established
e.g. Old habits die hard. That’s why you should stop playing computer games before the habit takes hold.
3. associate: vt. join or connect together; connect or bring in the mind
e.g. We often associate China with the Great Wall.
同义短语:be associated with/be connected with/be linked to,etc.
名词:association(NBA: National Basketball Assocation;CUBA)
4. turn out:1) produce; make
e.g. We are to turn out 100,000,586 computers next year to meet the market requirements.
2) prove to be
e.g. The experiment turned out to be a success.
5. anticipate: vt. expect (usu. followed by gerund or that-clause)
e.g. A good teacher is able to anticipate the students’ needs and concerns.
We anticipate running into problems in carrying out the educational reform.
名词anticipation
6. tedious: adj. boring and lasting for a long time
e.g. The movie was so tedious that many viewers left before it was over.
7. inspire: vt. fill (sb.) with confidence, eagerness, etc.
e.g. The last leaf on the tree that never fell off inspired the dying patient with the will to live on.
inspire sth. in sb. (= inspire sb. with sth.) 使某人产生某种感情;激发某人的某种感情
名词inspiration
8.rigid: adj.(often disapproving) fixed in behavior; based on correct or accepted rules
e.g. If he had been a little less rigid about things, his daughter would not have left home at such a young age.
9. severe: adj. 1) completely plain
e.g. Hemingway is known for his severe writing style.
2) stern; strict
e.g. Fu Lei was so severe with his son that even his wife would cry.
3) causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, etc
e.g. severe injuries to the head and neck
10.tackle: vt. deal with
e.g. Toshiba (东芝) recently designed a robot that can tackle almost any kinds of housework.
11. face up to: be brave enough to accept or deal with (a problem or difficulty)
e.g. They’ll never offer you another job; you might as well face up to it.
12. sequence: n. connected line of events, ideas, etc.
e.g. A sequence of bad harvests forced some African countries to ask for foreign aid.
相关短语in sequence;the sequence of events
13. recall: vt. bring back to the mind; remember (usu. followed by noun / gerund, or that-clause)
e.g. I recognize the face but can’t recall her name.
区分:recall, remember & remind
这三个词都与“记忆”有关,前两个词有时可通用。
recall“想起”,把忘记的东西又想起来了,其动作包含有意识的努力,因此常与 can,could 等词连用,强调一次的回忆。例如:
14. argument: n.
1) a disagreement; a quarrel
e.g. She has an argument with her husband.
2) a reason given to support or disprove sth.
e.g. The famous professor can always drive home an argument.
get into/settle/put off/off an argument
a bitter / violent / heated argument
15.★ violate: vt. act against
e.g. A country isn’t respected if it violates an international agreement.
If he continues to violate traffic regulations, he is going to lose his driving license.
名词:Violation
16. compose: vt. write or create (music, poetry, etc.)
e.g. The president’s speech is really brilliant. Do you think it was composed by himself or by someone else?
compose 常见于被动语态,构成 ★be composed of 的结构,表示“由…构成”;在用于主动语态时,一般包含着“融合为一”的意思,而且主语或者是复数名词或者是集体名词。例如:England, Scotland and Wales compose the island of Great Britain.
consist of 意为“由…构成”,强调结果是一个统一整体。例如:New York City consists of five boroughs.
名词:composer
17. turn in:
1). hand in; give over
e.g. For your final grade, each of you must turn in a 7-page paper.
2). deliver (a person or thing) to the police
e.g. The criminal turned herself in.
18. command:
1). n. order
e.g. The commander gave the command that all prisoners of war should be well treated.
2) v. give an order (to)
e.g. The captain commanded his men to leave the ship immediately.
If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.
像 suggest, demand 等动词一样,跟在 command后面的 that 从句中要用虚拟语气,谓语用“should+原形动词”或直接加原形动词,而不管从句中的人称或时态。例如:He commanded that all the gates (should) be shut.
19. ★avoid: vt. keep or get away from (usu. followed by noun / gerund)
e.g. The little boy who had broken a neighbor’s window ran away to avoid punishment / being punished.
20.★ career: n. a job or profession for which one is trained and which one intends to follow for the whole of one’s life
e.g. My career as an English teacher has lasted for 4 years.
Ⅴ. Text Analysis
Para. 1: 1. “The idea…took hold.”因为这个复合句比较长,可以向让学生分析一下其主干成分;注意句中★“not…until”的用法
2. “Until then I’d been bored by everything associated with English courses”.
Q: What can we infer from this sentence?
A: Up to then, Baker had had no interest in things related to English courses.
3.“I found English grammar dull and difficult”
find sb./sth. +adj.的用法
4. “I hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write”.
Paraphrase the sentence: I found it painful to write long, boring essays as required by teachers; neither did teachers enjoy what I wrote.
Para. 2: 1.“…another cheerless year in that most tedious of subjects”
Q: What can we learn from this phrase?
A: We can know from this phrase that before Mr. Fleagle became Baker’s English teacher, all English courses were dull.
2. There are 9 “prims” or “primly” in as few as 4 sentences: reinforcing Russell Baker’s depiction of Mr. Fleagle’s image
Para.3 1. “I ★prepared for an unfruitful year with Mr. Fleagle and for a long time was not disappointed.”
Q: What does the author really mean when he says “ I ... was not disappointed”?
A: He means that his expectation was right that Mr. Fleagle’s lessons were dull.
2. “I took the list home and did nothing until the night before the essay was due. Lying on the sofa, I finally faced up to the unwelcome task, took the list out of my notebook, and scanned it.”
Q: What can we infer from these sentences?
A: Baker was unwilling to write his essay.( “did nothing until … the essay was due”; “faced up to the unwelcome task”.)
Para.4 1. “This title produced an extraordinary sequence of mental images.”
Paraphrase the sentence and translate it into Chinese: At the sight of the title I saw an unusual series of pictures in my mind’s eye.
这个题目在我脑海里唤起了一连串不同寻常的图像
2. “Vivid memories came flooding back of a night in Belleville when all of us were seated around the supper table — Uncle Allen, my mother, Uncle Charlie, Doris, Uncle Hal — and Aunt Pat served spaghetti for supper.”
在这个长句中,came flooding back 是谓语,其余的都是主语。为了使句子结构平衡,避免头重脚轻,作者运用了割裂修饰法,把谓语前移,主语中心语的修饰成分后置,使谓语紧接主语。E.g. All is not gold that glitters.
3. “Neither Doris nor I had ever eaten spaghetti, and none of the adults had enough experience to be good at it.”
Q: What is the relationship between Baker and Doris?
A: Doris was Baker’s sister or his female cousin.
Two reasons for that:
1). Doris is a female name;
2). The author mentioned “none of the adults ...” which shows that they were still children, not adults.
4. “All the good humor of Uncle Allen’s house reawoke in my mind (as I recalled the laughing arguments we had that night about …)”
Para.5: 1. The repetition of “I wanted”(5 times): emphasize the author’s strong desire to write for himself.
2. “…the rules of formal composition (正式作文的种种法则)”
3. “…I had written this thing for myself”与文章标题呼应。
Para.6: 1. “I was preparing myself for a command to report to Mr. Fleagle immediately after school for discipline when I saw him lift my paper from his desk and knock for the class’s attention.”
1)Paraphrase this part of the sentence: “I was prepared … for discipline”: I was ready for Mr. Fleagle’s order to see him soon after school for the purpose of punishing me ...
2)Q: Why did Baker think he would be punished?
A: Because to his mind this time he had violated the rules of formal composition.
2. The function of the word “when (and then)”: He had just drifted off to sleep when the bell rang.
Para.8: the repetition of “my words” and “the entire class”: emphasis.
Para.9: 1. “…my words had the power to make people laugh”
2. “In the eleventh grade, at the eleventh hour as it were, I had discovered a calling.”: 就在十一年级,可谓是最后的时刻,我找到了一件今生想做的事
3. “It’s of the very essence of the essay”
Q: What’s the essence of the essay?
A: 1)to write what one enjoys writing
2)真情(人真,情真,语真)
3)have fun
4)move readers
Ⅵ. Conclusion
1.Selecting ★details to prove his point.
e.g. Para.2: the teacher’s image (his eyeglass; hairstyle; clothes; jaw; nose… )
2. Repetition
1)make it easy for readers to follow what he is saying
2)impress readers more deeply (Para.2 “prim”)
3)emphasize
3. Employing synonymous words & phrases to avoid repetition.
e.g. turn out; write; compose; put down
4. The story develops basically in chronological sequence. Find out all the time word, phrases & clauses.
e.g. since my childhood in Belville (Para.1)
until my third year in high school (Para.1)
late in that year (Para. 3)
until the night before the essay was due (Para.3)
when I finished (Para. 6)
next morning (Para.6)
two days passed (Para.6)
when I saw him lift my paper from his desk(Para.6)
when Mr. Fleagle finished (Para.9)
Ⅶ. Homework
1.Page 12: Vocabulary (Fill in the gaps)
Page 16 & 17: Cloze (Text-related & Theme-related)
2.Find out some stories about friendship.
Ⅷ. References
1.Unit 1’s PPT
2.CET-4真题(2012-2013)
3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_prize
4.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon
5.http://baike.baidu.com/view/939666.htm?fr=aladdin
Ⅸ. Design of Blackboard Writing (因人而异)