大学英语精读第四册(教案).doc

大学英语教案 第4册 西北师范大学外国语学院 大学英语教学部
Book4
Unit 1 Big Bucks The Easy Way
Teaching Time: 4 hours
Students’ level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 2nd semester.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Help Ss get to know the lesson “No pains, no gains” and there is no “big bucks the easy way”.
2. About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section.
Words: cash, echo, competitive, leisurely, pain, sour, finance, marvelous, party, stack, cram, harm, minimum, range, thoughtful, deadline, inform, normally, sale, trash, delivery, inquire, odd, shrink
Phrases & Expressions: pull up, a piece of cake, even as, know better than, be at, make a dent, cut into, have no business, settle for, settle one’s account, quite awhile, draw attention to, for sale, for rent, be done with, may as well
Grammar: p14
3. About the reading, Ss should learn avoiding vocalization and inner speech.
4. About the writing, Ss should learn word choice..
5. About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 1 directed by teacher.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Pre-reading Activities
1. Background information
1) Montgomery Ward
2) Sears,
3) Roebuck
2. Warm-up questions
1) Do you depend on your parents financially?
2) Is it easy to earn money by working part-time?
3) Are there any easy ways to make much money?
3. Key words and expressions:
New words and old word
Teacher students
(old words or expressions) (new ones)
U.S. dollar buck
Door handle doorknob
Unhurried leisurely
Relaxed leisurely
Profitable lucrative
Sent out deliver
Endure live with
Beg panhandle
Tell inform
Fill cram
Tie band
Increase reproduce
Extra money bonus
Part section
A path walk
An easy job a piece of cake
Pay settle
Have no reason have no business
Come to terms with settle for
Strange odd
Money finance
Finish be done with
English and Chinese phrases
Teacher(Chinese) Students( English)
考虑 look into
总是 all the time
可以容忍 live with
令我痛心 it pains me
易如反掌 a piece of cake
壮汉 a big guy
干快些 get busy
好几卡车的 truck loads of
百货商店 department store
廉价商店 a dime store
小杂货店 drug store
汽车行 auto store
外卖餐馆 takeout restaurant
提高嗓门 voice rises
超过极限 out of the range of
恍然大悟 work a profound change in
教会某人做人 work a profound change in one’s personality
经过调解 in mediation
结账 settle the account
劳务支出 labor cost
相同数额 a like amount
托某人做 enlist sb. To do
II. While-reading Activities
1. Ss have the silent reading on the text (10 mins)
2. Text and questions for discussion

Lines 1-9
1. what did the father tell his college sons to think about?
(to deliver bags of magazines to make some of their own money.)
2. what was the father worried about?
( the sons would become used to or feel content with living by asking for money all the time.)
Lines 10-22
1. why did the mother phone the father?
( she wanted him to know what was going on at home.)
2. How do you understand the word “super” she snapped?
( “super” means very good. But,she “snapped” it, which means she was very angry. She was being sarcastic,i.e. she meant the opposite of what she said.)
3. can you paraphrase the sentence “Another truck just pulled up out front”?
(Another truck has stopped outside in front of our hous to deliver more materials.)
Lines 23-29
1. which company did the two sons do the delivery job for?
( the Sunday Newspaper Company.)
2. why did each truck deliver 4000 of the inserts?
( Each one was from a different company and had the ads the sons were required to deliver to 4000 houses.)
3. why did he think so?
( He had no idea of how much work it would mean.)
Lines 30-35
What did the father mean when he said “they are college men.”?
He meant that they were grown-ups, and should be capable of dealing with the situation.
Lines 36-50
1. In what cases does people’s voice become unnaturally high and quavering?
When they are excited, angry, upset and the like.
2. what does “magazine sections” mean?
Parts of magazines, 8 or 12 pages long.
3. how many steps are there in the process before delivering?
Five: take out, roll, slip, band and slide.
Lines 51-66
1. what do you think of the father’s answer?
Clever and sensible. It is a lie, a harmless lie, one told in order to avoid upsetting somebody.
2. why did the father say “That’s encouraging”?
the sons were learning how to solve the problem of manpower shortage;they hired other people to help, and learnt to improve efficiency by establishing assembly lines.
3. why did the mother say “it is very discouraging”?
the measures weren’ working at all.
Lines 67-77
1. what do you think of the father’s bonus program？
It is reasonable and logical. Bonus is a popular incentive that management adopts. Sometimes we have to lose something in order to gain something. If you are reluctant to use a small bait, you can hardly get a big fish.
2. did the son understand that at first thought?
No. he thought the more the workers got, the less he obtained.
3. why did the son answer “Yes, Sir”?
he had come to realize it was a business and he took the father’s instructions as and order.
Lines 78-86
1. what does “see the color of cash” mean?
See Note 7 in your text book.
2. what’s the difference between the original payment and the demanded one?
The original payment was five dollars per person, shile now they demanded five dollars per hour.
3. who probably played the mediating role?
The mother.
Lines 87-94
Why did the son think it “enough”?
No matter how much, it was the money they made by themselves with great efforts and they learnt a lot from the experience.
Lines 95-109
1. what did the youngest sons learn from their college brothers?
They learnt to make their own money in order to avoid having to ask for money all the time.
2. what were they going to do to try to earn money?
They were going to sell or rent the family’s books.
3. do you agree “you’re never done with books”?
Yes. Because………
No. because ………..
3. T asks Ss to come out the main idea, structure of the text (10mins)
4. T summarizes the main idea and structure of the text (5 mins)

III. Post-reading Activities
1. Let the students do the exercises in the textbook which are related to the new words.
2. Ss hand in the summary of the text.
Summary questions and concluding remarks
1) Do you think it necessary for the sons to make some money for themselves? Give reasons for your answer.
I think it necessary…….because………..
2) what do you think is needed in accomplishing something difficult?
I think it is self-confidence, perseverance, co-operation or team work, reasonable management, strategies of solving problems, etc.
3) what is the father’s tone in telling the story?
The tone is light and ironic because the story is meant to be funny. The problem in the story was one that people think is very serious when it happens, but later they can laugh about.
3. Ss discuss the questions on the topic related to the text.
4. Let Ss do the exercises in the text book which are mainly related to the new words and topic.
5. Exercise:
Sentence making in dialogues
Teacher: now I’d like you to complete the following dialogues by making
Sentences with the giver phrases.
Pull up
1. what do you ask your driver to do when you reach your destination?
I ask the driver to pull up near the place I want to go.
2. what does a bus driver do when a passenger wants to get off?
He pulls up at a bus stop.
3. what does the red light mean to a moving vehicle?
It means that the vehicle must pull up at the zebra.
A piece of cake
1. can you recite the 26 English letters?
Sure. It’s a piece of cake.
2. do you think it difficult to use a tape recorder?
No. it’s a piece of cake.
Make a dent in
1. have you finished your outline?
No, I’ve hardly made a dent in it.
2. How are you getting along with your project?
We have made only a small dent in it.
Cut into
1. do you watch TV in your study period?
No. that would cut into my study time.
2. what cuts into the factory’s profit?
The rise of the labor costs, material prices, the increased consumption of power, etc.
Settle for
1. if you can’t sell your bicycle at a high price, what will you do?
I have to settle for a lower price.
2. If you can’t get a well-paid job, will you settle for a lower-paid job?
Might/may/could as well
1. what do you suggest we do during the winter vacation?
If you have nothing to do, you might as well take up a part-time job.
2. what should I do if I can’t afford a house?
You may as well rent an apartment and set aside your money for a new house.

Unit 2 Deer and The Energy Cycle
Teaching Time: 4 hours
Students’ level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 2nd semester.
Teaching Objectives:
1.Get Ss to know the energy cycle and instruct them to observe the animal’s living instinct in order to value the natural resource; learn about food-enery-life-death.
2.About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section.
Words: tendency, rate, area, plentiful, possessions, currency, scarce, ample, drowsy, fundamental, accumulate, internal, hence
Phrases & Expressions: to meet the needs, turn of mind, convert into
Grammar:
3. About the reading, Ss should know the usage of dictionary.
4. About the writing, Ss should get to know the writing skill—coherence .
5. About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 2 directed by teacher.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Pre-reading Activities
1. Warm-up questions
1) Allow Ss to go over the text for 10 mins.
2) Ask them to list the facts about the life of deer in the four seasons respectively.
3) Sum up Ss’s results
2. Introductory remarks:
1) What do you think life depends on?
Money, love, or something else?
2) where does energy come from?
Food, spirit, God, or what?
3)what happens to life there is no food , or source of energy?
if life useless after it comes to an end?
4) Life is energy, isn’t it? What do you think?
The planet we live on is made up of 2 major components: living organisms and inorganic substances. As far as living things are concerned, life spans vary. Some may live for thousands of years, while others live only a few seconds. Regardless of the this difference, every life develops from a lower stage to a higher stage until its death, and every species develops in this way, too. But what makes life perform in this way? What happens after life? Our earth has been functioning for billions of years. What has made it work for so long? Let’s have a careful study of the text
3. New words and phrases study
Study of the words and phrases
New words and old words
Teacher students
(old words or expressions) (new ones)
tendency turn of mind
money currency
change into convert into
autumn fall
something stored reserves
rare scarce
to satisfy the demands to meet the needs
area region
plentiful ample
possessions resource
store deposit
spend expend
sleepy drowsy
become liquid melt
at the same time meanwhile
basic fundamental
therefore hence
collect accumulate
inside internal
small wooden house cabin

English and Chinese Phrases
Teacher(Chinese) students(English)
注重/有……的 倾向 a … turn of mind
生态系统 an ecological system
倚赖 to depend on
年复一年 from year to year
尽可能多 as much as one can
旺季 times of plenty
储存的脂肪 reserves of fat/stored fat
不甚出名,鲜为人知 less well known
能说明问题的例子 a good case in point
营养食品 nutritious food
生理成熟 physically mature
生育 to give birth to
食物资源 food resources
熬过冬天 to survive the winter
/to pull through the winter
大雪 deep snow
小雪 light snow
基本规律 a fundamental rule

II. While-reading Activities
1.Text and questions for discussion .
Lines 1-6
1. what does “love makes the world go round” mean?
People with a romantic turn of mind think that love, romantic love, is what makes l