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Unit 6 Study
Part I Talking face to face
Teaching Objective
1.The students should grasp the words、 expressions related to study.
2.The students should know some information about diploma and talk about it.
3.The students should be able to talk about their study experience.
4.The students should be able to ask others’ study experience.

Teaching Time
2 periods
Key Points
1. Words and Phrases:
2. Expressions for talking about study
Teaching Methods
Communicative Approach
Task-based learning
Teaching Procedures
1. Study of the topic-related words and phrases.
2. Study of topic-related expressions.
3. Learn the diploma and practice the students’ oral English
4. Presenting the student’s own study experience.
5. Talking about study –related and graduation-related topic on p87 (dialogue 1and dialogue 2).
6. Put in use
7. After-class related exercises.
Teaching Materials
Task 1 Lead-in or Warming-up
The teacher may ask the following questions:
Why do you come to school as a student?
Which school do you study now?
What’s your major?
How many courses do you take in this term?
Which subject are you most interested in?
What do you plan to do when you graduate?
Task2 Words and phrases related to study
diploma 文凭
Certificate 证书、文凭
major 专业
graduate 毕业
award 给予
definitely 一定
education 教育
enroll for 参加
graduate school 研究生院
Professional college 职业院校
computer programming 电脑程序设计
further one’s study abroad 到国外深造
work part-time to earn money 从事兼职工作来赚钱
graduation certificate 毕业证书
bachelor’s degree学士学位
master’s degree 硕士学位
doctor’s degree 博士学位
do an M.A. in… 攻读硕士
intensive course / study强化课程；集中学习
take a French course 修一门法语课程
enroll for the intensive course 报名参加强化班
complete all the prescribed courses 修满规定的课程
Hereby 特此
Certify 证明
Female/male 女性/男性
Prescribed 规定
satisfactory 满意的
Applied Chemistry 应用化学
be entitled to 被授予
Signature 签名
Issued 颁发
Duly 正式的,按时的, 准时
Confer 授予(学位等) (+on/upon)

Task 3 Expressions for talking about study
1.What’s your major? =What do you major in?
你的专业是什么?
2.What university did you graduate from?
你毕业于哪所大学?
3. When and where did you get your diploma?
你什么时候及在哪儿获得了你的文凭?
4.Which subject are you good at?
你擅长的科目是什么?
5.Getting all the degrees takes time and money, isn’t it?
得到学位需要时间和金钱,是吗?
6.How long did you study there?
你在这儿学了几年?
7. When did you graduate?
你什么时候毕业?
8.I did ……program/major of …… at New York University.
我在纽约大学主修…专业.
9. Work part time to earn money.
从事兼职工作赚钱.
10.I think you can do even better than me .
我认为你能做的比我更好.
Task 4 Oral Practice
Diploma
We the undersigned hereby certify that
Li Hong, female, born on July 4,1982, Chemistry major
Having completed all the prescribed three-year courses
and
Passed all the examinations with Satisfactory results
At the Department of Applied Chemistry
Zhonghua Engineering College
From September 1999 to July 2002
Is entitled to be awarded this diploma
Signature_______
President
Zhonghua Engineering College
No. 8111100008
Issued on: July 15,2002
Answer the following questions according to the diploma:
1.Whose diploma is it?
→ It’s Li Hong’s.
2.What’s LiHong’s major?
→ Her major is Chemistry.
3.How about her study?
→ Her study is very good.
4.When and where did she graduate from ?
→ She graduated from Zhonghua Engineering college in July 2002.
5.When did she get the diploma?
→ She got her diploma on July 15,2002.
Use your own words to make a presentation of the diploma :
This is Li Hong’s diploma. From her diploma, we can
know that she was born on July 4,1984. Her major is
chemistry. she studied at the Department of Applied
Chemistry of Zhong hua Engineering College from
September 1999 to July 2002. Because she had
completed all the prescribed three-year courses and
passed all the examination with satisfactory results, she
got the diploma. The diploma was issued on July 15, 2002.
Talking about your study experience:
Your experience should include these items: your school, your major, the subject that you are interested in or good at, the time of graduation and plans after graduation .etc.

Task 5 Study the dialogues in details.
一．1)Questions about the dialogues after first listening. (P87 ）
Dialogue 1:
Q1: What’s Meng’s major? →English
Q2: What qualifications should he get if it is to find a job?
→With a computer certificate and a college diploma
Q3: What does Meng plan to do after he graduate?
→ He’d like to further his study abroad.
Dialogue 2:
Q1: Where did prof. get his doctor’s degree?
→ Texas Tech. University.
Q2: When he did his master’s program, What did he have to do?
→ Work part time to earn money
2)Fill in the blanks after second listening
1. What’s your major (专业)
2.Then you will get your bachelor’s degree(文学学士学位) when you graduate业).
3.why are you coming here to enroll for (参加)this computer class as an English major?
4. You know, without a skill like Computer programming(电脑程序设计), it’s
impossible to get anywhere.
5. With a computer certificate(证书)and a college diploma(文凭),it is (找到一份工作很容易), isn’t it?
6.I haven’t got an idea yet. But eventually I’d like to further my study(去国外深造).
7. As a PhD in Education, where did you get your doctor’s degree (博士学位)
8. I got both my master’s and doctor’s degree at the graduate school (研究生院)of Texas Tech. University.
9. I hope I can be as smart as you( 和你一样的能干)
10. Well, I think you can do even better than me (你做的甚至比我更好)
Task 6 Put in use
1. One of your friends Maria has just got a letter from her brother. Carry on the conversation with her with the help of the Chinese version provided.
Maria:   I just got a letter from my little brother.
  You:   (他现在情况怎么样？) How is he doing now?.
Maria:   Not bad. He seems to be very cheerful.
  You:   (他是学什么专业的？) What’s his major?
  Maria:  Computer science.
  You:   (这门学科挺难的，不过好像找工作很容易。)
   . It’s difficult, but it seems that it is easy to find a job
Maria:   Yes, he has been working very hard.
  You:   (他的学习一定很好，是吧？)
He must be a good learner, isn’t he?
Mary:   Yes, he's got an A in all the subjects.
  You:   (我猜想他快要毕业了吧。)
He is going to graduate, I guess.
Mary:   Yes, this is his last term at college. He has already begun to apply for a job.
  You:   (有了专科文凭，又学了热门专业，找工作一定不成问题。)
            With a college diploma, and a popular major, there shouldn’t be any problem for him to find a job

2. Imagine you are a reporter who writes for an newspaper. You are now interviewing a student, Lin Da, who is taking a popular English intensive course. Fill in the blanks according to the clues given in the brackets.
You: Miss Lin Da, may I ask you a few questions?
Lin Da: Sure.
You: Thank you. 1 (询问报名参加这个强化班的原因)Why are you enrolling for this intensive course
Lin Da: I would like to 2 (说明目的是提高英语水平 improve my English
You: 3 (了解她是否有大学Have you got a degree
Lin Da: No, but I’ve got a college diploma, 4 (告诉你中国职业学院不给学位，只发毕业文凭。) as professional colleges in China do not award any degree but a diploma
You: 5 I am wondering whether (参加这个班是否有助于工作) coming to this course helps your work
Lin Da: Definitely, 6 (原因是自己的单位是一家进出口公司) because I am working in an import and export company

You: 7 (感谢林达小姐回答上述问题) Thank you for answering the question, Miss Lin Da.
3. Suppose your relative who just graduated from Hunan Normal university, ask him sth. about his graduation.
You: Li ping, you have already graduated from Hunan Normal University last June, Right?
Li ping: Oh, yes. How do you know this?
You: Congratulations. I have got it from my mother. She always tells me that I should learn from you. So today , may I ask you some questions about your
Education.

Li ping: (你对那方面感兴趣呢？)
What are you interested in knowing?
You: I’d like to know your major, your strength, your work experience, etc during the school.
Li Ping: My major is computer, I studied very hard so (我通过了许多计算机及英语相关的证书)I passed a lot of useful certificate related to Computer and English such as NCEC(grade 3), CET-4CET- 6, also I take part in some social activities to develop my ability.
You: How colorful it is. (你什么时候得到你的文凭的？)When did you get your diploma? What kind of degree did you get?
Li ping: I got the diploma and Bachelor of science last June.
You : (学生需具备何种资格才能获得毕业证书和学位证书呢？)
What qualifications should a student have in order to get the diploma and degree?
Li Ping: He or she should complete all the prescribed courses and pass all the examinations with satisfactory results.
You: I see. (你毕业之后做了什么)What did you do after you graduate?
Li Ping: Nowadays, I have been working in a joint venture. Maybe, I’d like to further my study abroad in the future.
You: By the way, do you have your diploma here? I’d like to have a look.
Li ping: Sorry, I haven’t. But I can make a sample for you.

Task7. After- class exercises
1. Ask what your friend is majoring in.
2. Ask your partner what he feels about the college.
3. Discuss with your friend the relationship between taking a job and studying at college.
4. Ask your partner whether he has finished his study and his plan afterwards.

Unit 6 study
Part Two——Writing
Teaching Objectives
1. Study expressions related to certificate.
2. Learn the form of certificate and learn to write a letter of certification
3. Obtain some information and then present them in English
4. The students can write/simulate them after studying the form.
Teaching Time
1 period
Key Points
Learn how to understand and write a diploma and a certificate.

a. The format of certificate
b. The words and the general expressions.
Teaching Methods
Communicative Learning
Task-based learning

Teaching Procedures
1. Do some oral practice to review the study-related sentences.
2. Study the expressions related to the certificate
3. Show certificate of English Version.
4. Give some questions to check the students’ understanding and certificate.
5. Give the format of certificate and simulate it.
6. Use your own words to state and degree.
7. Learn to write letter of certification.
8. Simulate the forms and write an English diploma and a certificate of your own.
9. Do some exercise.

Teaching Materials
Task 1 Revision through doing some oral practice.
1。你学什么专业的？
2．你毕业于那所大学？
3．你最喜欢的科目是什么？
4．你毕业之后准备干什么？想出国深造吗？
5．我在纽约大学读的是英语文学学士学位。
6.你毕业时，你拿到了毕业证和学位证吗？

Task2. Explain difficult sentence patterns and extend some related sentences.
Sentence patterns
This is to certify…
兹证明 …
Sb has completed a course of study in …
某人已修完了在…方面的课程.
Sb. has accomplished a period of training in …
某人已完成了在…领域的培训
Sb. has passed all the examinations /tests with
satisfactory results.
所有课程考试合格
Sb. is entitled to be awarded …
某人具备资格获得…
This certificate is valid for …
本证书有效期为…
Task 3 Show certificate of English Version.
Sample
Degree of Bachelor

Xinghua University
This is to certify that
Lin Xiaoping
Was duly conferred the degree of
Bachelor of Science
By Xinghua University
On 17 July, 1999
Signature_____
President

Task 4 Give some questions to check the students’ understanding about certificate.
Qs about sample two
1. What degree did Lin Xiaoping get?
→ He got the degree of Bachelor of Science
2. Which university did he get his degree from?
→ He got his degree from Xinghua University.
3. When did he get the degree ?
→ He got his degree on 17 July, 1999.
Task 5 Give the format of certificate.
Format
Degree of Bachelor
(学院)
This is to certify that
(学生姓名)
Was duly conferred the degree of
(学位名称)
By (学院)
（颁发日期）
Signature___________
President

Task6 Use your own words to state the degree and simulate the forms of certificate of your own .
Task 7 Learn to write letter of certification
证明信是证明一个人的身份、经历或某种事情真相的信件或文件。提交的对象为单位（或公司），称号、格式固定化。开头一般为“兹证明……” （This is to certify that.) 如：
兹证明李明同学于2002年9月-2003年就读于广州大学外语系。
广州大学外语系
2003年10月10日
Oct. 10, 2003
To whom it may be concern,
This is to certify that Mr. Li Ming has studied in
Foreign Languages Department of Guangzhou University
from September, 2002 to July, 2003.
Guangzhou University

Task 8
Exercise 1 Write an English college diploma according to the information given in Chinese
以下面内容写一封证明信：

兹证明李明是我院经济系国际贸易与法律专业
一年级的学生. 该生将于暑假期间到香港探望父母。特此证明。
湖南化工职业技术学院
2006年4月30日
Reference

April 30,2006
To whom it may be concern,
This is to certify that Mr. Li Ming is a first year student in International Trade and Law in the Economics Department of our college. Mr. Li Ming will go to Hong Kong to see his parents during the summer holiday.
Hunan Chemical Industry Vocation
Technology College

Exercise 2 Translate the following certificate into English

全国计算机等级考试
二级合格证书
盛名
参加1998年9月全国计算机等级考试(二级),绩合格,特发此证.
证书编号:200821007108
身份证号:2111111111111
颁发单位:教育部考试中心

NATIONAL COMPUTER RANK
EXAMINATION CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that SHENG Ming has passed
the national Computer Rank Examination
in September 1998 and has achieved grade 2
ID Number:2111111111111
Certificate Number:200821007108
NATIONAL EDUCATION EXAMINATIONSAUTHORITY
THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF CHINA

Reference

Exercise 3 Write Through Describing a Picture （Omit here）

Unit 6 Study
Part III Grammar – Passive Voice of Verbs
Teaching Objectives
1. The students should know the differences and similarities between the tenses and passive voices
1. The students should grasp the structures and uses the passive voice
3. The students should be able to use the passive voice correctly when come across.
Teaching Time
1-2 periods
Key Point
The Structures of passive voice
Difficult point
The uses of passive voices
Teaching Methods
Task-based learning

Teaching procedures
1.Review the tenses by doing the following exercises
2. Review the structure of tenses through giving some typical verbs (make. wait)
3. Lead-in the tense structure of Verb-be.
4.Conclude the basic