第四册-Unit5教案.doc

Teaching Plan
Unit 5 (College English Intensive Reading Book 4)
Teaching Objective
1. Master the important vocabulary and structure
2. Understand the audio materials of this unit
3. Be able to talk about the doctor’s dilemma of the white lie
Teaching Content
Section A: To Lie or Not to Lie—The Doctor’s Dilemma
1. Important Points:
u Understand the white lie
u Key words & phrases: dilemma, conceal, expose, corruption, promote, gravity, confront, at times, in one’s eyes, distort, contrary to, tolerate, advocate, render, arising, alternative, go to great lengths, disapprove, refrain from, take a stand, debate, consequences.
u Structure: contrary to
u Word building: suffix: -ary, -ory
u Writing technique: the concluding sentence
2. Difficult Points:
a) Some students have difficulty in writing coherent paragraphs.
b) Some long and difficult sentences
Unit 1 (6 hours)
Section A: The Dinner Party

I. Warm-up Questions / Activities
1. Have you ever been to hospital? What did you think of the doctor’s attitude?
2. Have you ever thought of being a doctor? Why or why not?
3. Suppose you are seriously ill, do you want the doctor to tell you the truth or not? Why?
4. What is a white lie?
II. Comprehension of the Text
1. The author wants to tell us in this part _____.
A) why doctors don't always tell the truth
B) the benefits of not knowing the seriousness of an illness
C) why sometimes doctors lie especially to seriously ill patients
D) to have a routine physical checkup
2. Some doctors practice deception because they believe that __________.
A) telling the patients the truth may destroy their hope of recovery
B) their lies are absolutely different from self-serving ones
C) the seriously ill don’t want to know the truth about their condition
D) all of the above
3. Studies show that doctors’ deception about the seriousness of an illness______.
A) may destroy the patient’s hope of recovery
B) make a patient recover faster
C) make a patient commit suicide
D) make a patient feel better
4. Patients most easily misled are those who are______.
A) going to be operated on
B) dying
C) just entering hospital
D) recovering slowly

III. Background Information
1. About Doctors
Doctors refer to physicians and other medical healers. In the United States they are called health care professionals, which include physicians, surgeons, dentists. Most of them work in health care services, which involve diagnosing and treating patients. Others work mainly in researching, teaching, or administration of medical facilities.
General practitioners:(全科医生)
They may not have special training in any particular medical field, but develops a wide knowledge of all kinds of illness.
Specialists:(专家，专科医生)
Some doctors prefer to treat only certain kinds of illness, thus becoming specialists in their chosen field.
Researchers: (医学研究人员)
Those doctors often help teach future physicians in medical schools. At the same time, they use the laboratories and hospital facilities of the medical schools to conduct research programs.
VI. Intensive Reading
1. “In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed by greater needs: the need to shelter from brutal news or to uphold a promise of secrecy; to expose corruption or to promote the public interest. ” (Para 1)
1) What is the grammatical function of the sentence after the colon?
◆… greater needs: the need … 这里冒号后面的句子是前面great needs 的同位语。
2) Translate the sentence into Chinese.
◆医疗行业与法律、政府及其他行业一样，往往对诚实与否的问题看得不那么重要。相比之下要紧的倒是另外一些事情。譬如，应设法避免可怕的消息造成的打击，或是考虑恪守保守秘密的诺言, 或是需要揭露腐败或促进公众利益。
2. As one physician wrote: “Ours is a profession which traditionally has been guided by a precept that transcends the virtue of uttering the truth for truth’s sake, and that is ‘as far as possible do no harm.’ ” (Para. 4)
1) Paraphrase this long sentence.
◆“We doctors have long been guided by a principle that is above the morality of telling the truth as an end in itself and that principle is that we must try our best not to do our patients any harm.”
3. “They may prescribe innumerable placebos, sound more encouraging than the facts warrant, and distort grave news, especially to the incurably ill and the dying.” (Para. 5)
1) Paraphrase the sentence.
◆They may say some words that are more encouraging than the patients’ real state deserves and give a false or misleading account of the seriousness of their condition. This happens especially to the incurably ill and the dying patients.
4. “But the illusory nature of the benefits such deception is meant to produce is now coming to be documented.” (Para.6)
1) Paraphrase the sentence.
◆But the evidence is being provided which shows that the benefits such deception is expected to produce are false by nature.
2) Translate the sentence into Chinese.
然而，现在有人提出证据，证明这种欺骗并不能给病人带来真正的好处。
5. “We are becoming increasingly aware of all that can befall patients in the course of their illness when information is denied or distorted.” (Para. 7)
1) Analyze the structure of this sentence.
◆“We are becoming more aware of / that …” is a very common and often-used structure in the argumentative essay writing. Eg.
◆We are becoming more aware of the dangers of excessive smoking.
6. “Nurses may bitterly resent having to take part, day after day, in deceiving patients, but feel powerless to take a stand.” (Para.10)
1) Why is it difficult for nurses to take a stand?
Because nurses are not powerful enough to fight against doctors, so they feel unable to make objections.
7. “Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.” (Para.11)
1) Why does the author use the inverted order here?
◆ This inverted order is used here to achieve a formal and dignified tone.
V. Language Points
1. dilemma: n. a difficult choice to be made between two opportunities
----Do you often find yourself in a dilemma? That is to say, you have trouble deciding what to do.
----Your proposal really put me in a dilemma.
2. conceal: v. hide; keep from being seen or known
----Truth cannot be concealed forever.
----He tried his best to conceal his disappointment from his friends.
3. expose: vt. disclose; leave uncovered or unprotected
---- It is extremely dangerous to expose children to the violence on TV.
----Corruption in government was exposed through the agency of the press.
4. corruption: n. dishonesty; immoral behavior
----How to fight corruption is one of the much-discussed topics these days.
----The sex and violence on TV will lead to corruption among young people.
5. promote: vt.
1) help to develop and be successful
----The organization works to promote friendship between nations.
----The company is now promoting their new products on TV.
2) raise in rank, or importance
----For his excellent performance, he was promoted to captain.
----The football team was promoted to the first division.
6. gravity: n. seriousness
----The doctor told the wife about the gravity of her husband’s health.
----I don't think you have realized the gravity of the situation.
7. confront: vt. meet face to face; oppose
----We must confront the failure with optimism.
----Confronted by an angry crowd, the police retreated.
Pattern: confront sb. (sth.) with sth.;
be confronted with sb. (sth.)
8. at times: sometimes; once in a while
----At times, I do want to change my job.
----We have noodles rather than rice for lunch at times.
9. in one’s eyes: from one’s point of view; as one sees it
----In the father’s eyes, his son was a genius for he could recite more than 100 poems at the age of 4.
----In parents’ eyes, no matter how old their children are, they are still children to them.
10. distort: v. give a false or misleading account of
----News is frequently distorted when widely spread.
----His voice was distorted from the severe pain.
11. contrary to: completely opposite to; different from
----What you have done is contrary to the regulations.
----Contrary to our thought, he got the first place in the speech contest.
12. tolerate: vt. allow or endure without protest
----You sometimes have to tolerate something you dislike in real life.
----The ability to tolerate some intolerable things should be regarded as one of the virtues.
13. advocate: 1. n. a person who speaks up for an idea, a way of life, etc.
----He is a passionate advocate of the open-to-the-outside policy.
2. v. support a plan, an idea, etc.
----I strongly advocate doing morning exercises.
14. render: v. make; cause to be
----His sharp words rendered me speechless.
----He was rendered unconscious by a hard blow.
15. keep in the dark: keep uninformed
----The management should not keep workers in the dark about the unfavorable situation.
----They kept everything in the dark until the result came out.
16. bring to a close: end
----The teacher brought class to a close and wished us good luck in the examinations.
----A farewell speech given by the chairman brought the party to a close.
17. in the long run: in the end; in the final analysis or outcome
----It pays in the long run to invest enormously in education.
----Doctors’ lying to patients in the long run injures the entire medical profession.
18. suspicion: n. doubt
----The suspicion of deceit from patients undercuts the work of many doctors who are honest with their patients.
----His strange behavior aroused our suspicion.

VI. Summary
Ask several students to summarize the content of the text.

VII. In-Class Exercises
Vocabulary: Exercise III, IV, VII
Word Building: Exercise V, VIII
Structure: Exercise VI, IX
VIII. Homework
1. Finish the rest exercises of Section A
2. Writing Practice: you are required to write a composition on the topic Examination Cheating. You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
1)目前，考试作弊在校园里很盛行。
2)考试作弊的原因有许多。
3)依我看，要防止考试作弊……
3. Preview Section B.

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