精品第一册第四课UnitFourAmericanDream教 案课程名称：College English授课教师Huangliping授课对象Freshman 授课时间Six Periods授课题目Unit Four American Dream Text A课 型Integrated course使用教具Tape Recorder教学目的1. To train the students step by step to get familiar with the new teaching mode on college campus.2. To help students to develop the five language basic skills, 3. To foster communicative efficiency in both spoken and written modes, 4. To cultivate the ability to study independently.教学重点和难点1. understand the main idea (Tony Trivisonno realized his American Dream through his own efforts) and structure of the text ( one part telling the story of Tonys life and the other giving the authors comments on it);2. learn to describe a person by his/her characteristic features , together with supporting details which demonstrate the features;3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;4. conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities centered upon the theme of the unit.参考教材College English Teachers Book； New College English； Survey of Britain and America教学内容时间分配及备注Pre-reading Tasks1. T asks Ss to work in pairs and describe the picture on the first page of this unit. The picture produces a lot of mental images of the world-famous city New York. They can make a list of famous buildings in the city ( Broadway, Times Square, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Beauty, Chinatown, the UNs building).2. Ss do Cloze B in after-class exercises to have a better understanding of the American Dream; when they finish, T and Ss discuss what they have filled in those blanks.3. Based on the above two activities, T sums up and leads into the text by saying: Weve often heard about the American Dream, and by now we know it means the belief that everyone can succeed as long as he/she works hard enough. Of course, we must realize that here success is narrowly defined as financial success. In this unit you will read how such a dream came true.While-reading tasks1. Ss scan the text to circle all the time words, phrases or sentences in this text. By this they will see that the text is written according to time sequence.First period Pre-reading tasks2. T explains to Ss that Tony fulfilled his American Dream step by step, and that the time phases serve as transitions between steps.3. T draws Ss attention to Text oOrganization Exercise 2. Here they will see that, between the first time phrase “one evening” and the time sentence “Summer passed in fall”, Tony took the first step by working s a help at Mr. Crawfords house.4. T lets Ss know that they are to complete Text Organization Exercise 2 as he/she goes through each step, which is similarly defined by the appearances of time phrases.5. T explains the language points in Part One1) hard to comprehend his broken English:If some one talks in broken English, they speak slowly and make a lot of mistakes because they only know a little of the language.2) turn away: refuse to help or to allow sb, to enter a placeExample: The lecture hall was already full and many of the students were turned away.3) work out: plan; solve; calculateExample: My mother allowed me to take the trip, but asked me to work out the total cost first.4) do with: (used in questions with what) deal withExample: What do you do with such rude boys?5) determination: the ability to continue trying to achieve what you have decided to do even when this is difficult (uncountable noun, often followed by infinitive to)Example: He showed great determination by continuing to play after hurting his foot.6) personnel: the department in a large company or organization that deals with employees; human resources (uncountable noun, used with a singular or plural verb)Example: Her first job after graduation was in Personnel at Microsoft. all the persons working in an organization, in the army, etc. (used with a plural verb) Example: All personnel in this company are entitled to medical insurance.7) capacity: the ability to understand or do sth. (often followed by for or infinitive to) Example: Not everyone has a capacity for languages.8) turn down: refuse Example: He was offered the job but he turned it down because it involved woo much traveling.Second periodWhile-reading tasks(part one)教 案课程名称：College English授课教师Huangliping授课对象Freshman 授课时间Six Periods授课题目Unit Four American Dream Text A课 型Integrated course使用教具Tape Recorder教学目的1. To train the students step by step to get familiar with the new teaching mode on college campus.2. To help students to develop the five language basic skills, 3. To foster communicative efficiency in both spoken and written modes, 4. To cultivate the ability to study independently.教学重点和难点1. understand the main idea (Tony Trivisonno realized