Unit Two Psychology in Our Daily Life Teaching Objectives: In this unit students are required to:1. Practice listening skills;2. Get to know some useful information concerning the topic of this unit; 3. Do some preparation activities such as discussion, group work to enhance their spoken English and communicative skills;4. Learn new words and phrases to further broaden students scope of vocabulary;5. Read the in-class reading passage within limited time for a general idea of the passage and then do detailed reading for a command of useful expressions; 6. Do post-reading exercises and some after-class reading to test how far they have gone in grasping reading skills and language points;7. Translate some key sentences in the unit to upgrade students translation abilities;Teaching MethodologyCommunicative approach;Multi-media teaching;Teaching process: Pre-task-Task cycle-Post-taskTime DistributionListening & Speaking: 2 periods; In-class Reading :2 periods; Exercise & After-class Reading :2 periods; Further Development &Writing :2 periods.Period 1 &2 Listening and SpeakingI、Teaching Focus 1. Background information introduction 2. Preparation 3. Listening to tapes II、Teaching steps 1. Background Information:Psychology is a young and growing science that touches on a broad range of human activities.In general ,however,one can say that psychology tries to explain why people act,think and feel the waythey do.Psychology are interested not only in how individual minds work but also in the various interactions of minds in society.It should be noted that psychology provides methods of analyzing and understanging human behavior and emotions that are not based on moral codes. It is important not to confuse psychology with psychology ,whichis a branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of serious mentla disordera. Psyclology,who work in hospital ,use a variety of mental incloding drugs ,light therapy and eleetic shock treatments to cure or to control mentally disturbed people.However ,the work of both psychologys and psychologists often involves an analytical process which interprets the unconscious or subconscious forces that prevenrt a proson from functioning satisfactorily in daily life.By analyzing these forces and making the person deal with his or her mehtal and emotional problems.The whole field of psychologysis originated with the research of the Austrian doctor ,sigmund Freud(18561939). According ot his theories,people are driven by irrational forces or primitive instincts. Frend believed that the inner struggle between instincts and consciense often led to disaster which was manifested in the form of personal tragedies such as murder and suicide or collective tragedies such as war. He advocated the use of psychologysis to the help people control irrational forces.Much of Freuds work was based on his interpaetation of dreams and sexual instincts.The Swiss doctor, Carl Gustav Jung(18751961),is considered to be the other founder of the moder sciense of psychology .He proposed a theory of the collective unconscious (the part of the mind which holds the deepest and most hidden thoughts and feelings)of humanity that was not based on sexuality ,but rather on universal symbols and images which he called “archetypes”.Accroding to Jung ,the emotional experiences of all human beings are inflenced by universal archetypes.These archetypes include various representations of the dark,inferior and uncivilized side of human beings. Jung used his theory not only to analyze dreams but also myths and folktales from many different cultures.The whole field of psychology has evolved and expanded considersbly since the early part of the twentieth century.There are now many branches of psychology and it is no longer limited to clinical work and the analysis of dream.Over the years ,qualitative and quantitative experiments on animals and humans have provided a vast amount of information on social behavior,mental development,emotional dvedlopment,learning processes,motivation,personality differences ,and sensory perceptions.Men and women with training in psychology now workin many different careers ranging from therapists to advertising agents.The findings of paychlolgy research are used to help the victims of family violence , to design aptitude test ,to carry out efficiency studies in the workplace ,to develop educational strategies ,to conduct political campaigns,and to predict consumer spending .In fact ,there is hardly any aspect of modern society that not been influenced in some way by reseach in the filed of psychology.2. Preparation1. Describing the picture2. Getting to know your classmates3. Listening to tapesPeriod 3&4 ReadingI. Teaching focus Practice students reading skills and help them learn new words and phrasesII、Teaching steps 1. Pre-reading2. Wo