Unit 1 Fresh start
Section A Toward a brighter future for all
I.Self introduction
II. Introduction of the principles and rules of College English
III. Introduction of teaching plan.
IV. Topic discussion (How to study English in college )
V. Intensive Reading
Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say
1.Spot Dictation
Listen to a passage and fill in the missing words.
2. Questions & Answers
1) In the United States, what choices do the students have after high school?
2) What are the major criteria for university admission?
3) What kind of extracurricular activities can students participate in?
Text Analysis: Toward a brighter future for all
I. Overview of the text
The first unit of the first book of our series meets students who have just entered college or university and are beginning a new phase in their lives. We hope that students wil1 be able to talk about their expectations of their college experience, and they will be aware of the expectations their parents and their educators have of them.
Text A is a university president's welcome speech, in which the president gives valuable guidance to and expresses expectations of freshman students.
Text A shows characteristics of a speech. Pronouns I, and you are more frequent1y used than in other kinds of writing because the speaker is addressing the audience directly, hoping to motivate the audience and to gain their support and understanding. In a speech, the speaker can employ a Variety of figures of speech to make his speech vivid and powerful, such as simile, metaphor, contrast, Parallelism(排比), and repetition. A very common figure of speech is parallelism. In para11elism, coordinate ideas are arranged in words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs to emphasize and point out relations. In Text A, for example, the president uses many sentences of parallel structure. This makes his speech powerful, persuasive, and thought-provoking. It can even produce humorous effect as in the example: “You may have cried tears of joy to be fina1ly finished with high school, and your parents may have cried tears of joy to be finally finished with doing your laundry!”
II. Practical phrases
III. Summary
IV. Homework
1. Review what they have learned in this class;
2. Do Exercises III – VII in Section A
3. Prepare the questions about the passage | 备注 |