A Teaching Plan For Unit 6(In New Horizon College English Book 1)I.Time:10 class hoursIL Contents:Listening and Speaking Section A The Widow Section B The TrashmanIII.Suggested Timetable:1.The first two-class-hour session for listening and speaking(Unit 6 in College EnglishListening and Speaking Course Book 1)2.Next four-class-hour session for Section A3.The fourth two-class-hour session for exercises of Section A4.The fifth two-class-hour session for Section B and Section CIV.Aims and Requirements:Listening and Speaking1.Train the students ability to understand the main idea and grasp important details of thelistening texts.2.Give the students a chance to exchange views they have heard to enable them to have a deeperunderstanding of the texts.Section A The Widow1.Let the students acquainted with some new words:considerate,underline,quotation,restrain,bring up,regarding,fill ones need2.Know and understand the feeling behind the words;3.Use time sequence to write a story;4.Understand your favorite sentences and recite them.Section B The Trashman1.Understanding Idiomatic Expressions(1).Searching for context clues;(2).Looking at examples if there are any;(3).Finding explanations if there are any;(4).Locating opposite if similar phrases.2.Respecting some people no matter what their careers are.3.Remembering new words,especially some new phrases.V.Focus Points and Difficult Points:Listening and Speaking:1.Enable students to be familiar with the passage listening skill.2.Grasp some words and expression which often appear in CET-4.Section A The Widow1.time sequence.2.feeling behind the words Section B The TrashmanIdiomatic ExpressionsVI.Suggested Teaching procedure and MethodologyListening and Speaking:(an interactive approach is introduced)1.Pre-listening Task:arrange the students in pairs and ask them to discuss the followingquestions:Do you enjoy shopping?Why or why not?What do you usually buy when you go shopping?Some key words and expressions in Language Focus:fit:v.to be the right size or shape(for)fashionable:stylishbe crazy about:be very keen on or interested in2.Background Information:Americans do not usually“bargain”over prices.Instead,they shop around to find the storewhich offers the item and quality they want at the lowest price.Prices may differ from store tostore and from time to time.A name-brand blouse or shirt may cost more than a hundred dollars ata fashionable store but sometimes only half the price in a discount store or big chain stores.3.Listening to text 1 and 24.Speaking Tasks:ask the students to get into pairs and explain to them how to carry outSpeaking Task A-Reflections on the texts,then select a pair to present their views in class.Section A The Widow1.Background Information:Elizabeth Jolly is a famous Australian fiction writer.Cabin Fever:The book is not a complete story but only certain memories that help the womanmake sense of all the pain,trouble,loss and sad times in her life.The book describes the culture ofthe late 1940s.2.Pre-reading ActivitiesListen to the short passage twice and answer the following questions.What s the main idea?Where does the strange person come from?What did the husband leave his wife?听力原文A woman alone writes some painful lines in a notebook.To understand why the lines arepainful,we go back in time to a strange event that happened on her wedding day.A strangewoman gave the couple a message about their marriage.Every year,the husband and wifediscussed their unique wedding guest.The wife thought she had come from heaven;the husbandthought she had the wrong shape for some from heaven.One night,he wrote his wife a note.Hewrote that it did not matter where their guest had come from.What mattered was that the word giftshe had given them was true.Now that her husband has died,the woman finds the painful lines inthe book remind her of him.Answers:Its a woman s memory.She recalled her wedding and a strange person.May be from the heaven.A note.3.Work on Section AA)Structure of the Text(A method of analyzing the text structure is employed)Part I(Para 1):The widow is alone now and she misses her husband deeply.Part II(Paras.2-15):The widow recalls past happenings.Part III(Paras.16-19):The widow recalls what happened in one evening to show her husband,strue love to her.B)Raise some questions to make students grasp some detailed information in the text(question and answer method is used)Part I(Para.1):Question:In the first paragraph which word tells you that the husband has died?Answer:Widow.Part II(Paras.2-15)Questions:1.Why is the quotation from Elizabeth Jolley so painful for the widow?2.Scan this 10 paragraphs,and find 3 kinds of attitudesAnswers:1.Because it is the exact description of her real feeling at the moment.2./colleagues and old school mates:-relatives and mothers:Aunt Esther GubbinsPart III(Paras.16-17):Question:What words in Paragraph 17 tell us that the husband wrote the message many yearsago?Answer:Worn,fading,kept for so long.Part VI(Paras.18-19):Que