Unit 1 College LifeObjectives:After finishing this unit, students will be able to: get familiar with college life: what they can learn; what activities they can participate in, etc. learn to use the key words and expressions in this unit learn how to form compound and complex sentences learn to adopt the reading skill Skimming or Scanning while reading learn to fill in registration forms and design name cardsSection I Listen and Talk (2 periods)Step 1 Lead in (25 mins)1. Warm up questions: What are your main activities in college life?Can you describe them?2. Listening: (Listen to the passage and fill the missing words in the blanks. Listen three times)Keywords: spend, golden, explore, experience, lifelong, various, develop, scholars, lay, open3. Words and Phrasesgolden: adj. 黄金的，宝贵的lifelong: adj. 终生的，一生的keep a good balance: 保持良好的平衡lay a solid foundation: 打下坚实的基础4. Talking about the pictures or say something about your college life (Pair-work) Keywords: discuss, meet, chat, communicateStep 2 Dialogues (40 mins)1. Listen to the two sample dialogues and try to answer some questionsDialogue 1 Meeting on CampusWho is Mike?What help did Mike need?Who is Mr. Wang?Dialogue 2 At the Registration DeskWhere are the two speakers?What are they doing?Which elective course does Mike choose at last?2. Practice Read two dialogues in pairs (pair work)3. Learn some useful phrases and expressions:have been looking forward to doing sth.: 一直希望着Im here to see whether you need any help. 我能帮你什么忙吗？show sb. the way: 带某人去both and : 既有也有drop out: give uprefund: pay backfill in the forms: 填表格Step 3 Communicative Tasks (25 mins)Work in pairs and act the dialogues to the whole class.Task 1: Meeting with a foreign student and talking about studiesTips: Glad to meet you.Where are you from? Which are you in? Im majoring in Task 2: Helping a foreign friend select his course at the registration officeTips:So far, whats your favorite subject What course do you like most?insightful, informative, boring, practical, fantastic, be interested inStep 4 Assignments1. Read the dialogues and practice communicative tasks 2. Preview new words in Passage A.Section II Read and Explore (4 periods)Passage A: So Much to LearnStep 1 Pre- reading Tasks (15 mins)1. Greetings and a brief revision (pair work or group work)Ask one or two pairs (groups) to act out their own dialogues2. Lead-in questions:What do you expect to learn at college?3. Culture notes:Types of Examination Questions in the US and the UKThe two main types of examination questions are multiple choice and essay, but other types are blank-filling and matching, and different teachers use different types, e.g., a typical exam might consist of 50 multiple choice questions for one point each and two essay questions for 25 points each.Step 2 While- reading Tasks (75 mins)1. Read the text as quickly as possible and try to find the answer to the following questions:1) What exam were the students going to take?2) How did the students feel about this exam before they took it?They were confident and felt ready for the exam.3) Did the questions turn out to be easy or difficult? How do you know?4) What did the professor say about the result of the exam? Were the students able to pass the course?5) Why did the professor set such a test paper?2. Skim the text and try to find the main idea:Main idea: Students learn a lot at college, but when they move forward to their careers, they will quickly discover how much they still have to learn. College can only set the stage for their future learning.3. Scan It Find the structure of the textSection1 (Para.1): Introductory paragraph (who, when, where, what)Section2 (Para.2-14): The body of the story (how) before the exam during the exam after the examSection3 (Para.15): Concluding paragraph (impression)4. Language points1) huddle: to cause to crowd together, in a group or in a pile 使挤作一团，聚成一堆e.g. We all huddled around the radio to hear the news.我们聚在收音机旁听新闻2) due: expected; supposed to3) talk of: talk aboute.g. We were just talking of the matter before you came in.4) pass out: to give out; to distributee.g. He is standing in front of the supermarket, passing out flyers to customers. Please pass out these sheets to the students in the lecture hall.5) no longer: not any more; not at the present time e.g. He has no longer driven to work ever since his doctor told him to exercise more.6) survey: to look at, examine or consider as a whole审视e.g. You can survey the countryside from the top of the hill. She surveyed herself in the mirror before going out.7) impress upon/on: to make the importance of sth. clear to sb.e.g. His songs are strongly impressed on my memor