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Unit 1

I. Section A: The Tail of Fame

1. Teaching Objectives:

? To know the meaning and usage of some important words, phrases and patterns ? To be familiar with the writing skills of the text and make use of it in writing ? To improve Ss‘ reading skills by studying section B To respond and cooperate with classmates willingly ? To participate actively

To read sentences and texts with proper intonation ? To write smoothly and legibly

2.Time Allotment: Section A (3 periods):

1st---2nd period: Pre-reading activities ( theme-related questions for warming up;)

While-reading activities (cultural notes; useful words and expressions;

difficult sentences)

rd

3period: While-reading activities (text structure; main ideas)

Post-reading activities (comprehension questions; exercises) 4th periods: Practice of the reading skill (reading for the key idea in a sentence);

T checks on Ss‘ home reading by asking questions based on the passage. T explains some difficult sentences

Section B(1period):

3.Teaching Procedures:

3.1 Pre-reading Activities

Step 1 Greetings

Greet the whole class Step 2. Warming up

Teacher initiates students to talk about their special experiences during the newly-past vacation

Purposes: Help students quickly adapt to the langguage-learning mode and facilitate students with English language atmosphere after a long vacation.

Method: Talk in groups; communicative approach. Step 3. Lead-in and preparation for reading

Show the Ss some pictures of famous people (the pictures might be the portaits of the famous people appearing in this Unit) and let Ss discuss with each other about the questions on the screen.

1. For your understanding, how to define the word ―fame‖ ?

Fame refers to the state of being popular with a lot of people as a result of one‘s achievement. 2. What do people seek fame for?

High social satus; abundance of material and spiritual fulfillment … 3. What negative effects might fame bring about? Loss of privacy; deprivation of freedom …

4. Do you want to live a life of celebrity? Enumerate some reasons to support your idea. Purpose: Arouse the students‘ interest of study and lead Ss to Text A: The Tail of Fame.

Method: Use the CAI, PPT software and talk in groups; Use task-based language teaching method, communicative approach, audio-visual method and audiolingual method.

Step 4. Fast reading

Ask the Ss to read the passage as quickly as they can and require them to answer the questions on Page 9. Make sure Ss grasp the main idea of the text and have a relatively clear understanding of the text structure.

Text structure: ( the chart below )

Purpose: Improve the students‘ reading and writing ability and let students understand the general idea of the passage. Method: Read the text individually and talk in groups; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach,

communicative approach and total physical response method.

Arguementation: Chasing fame may incur self-destruction (para.1) Some negative effects in chasing fame (paras.2-5) Take Oscar Wild‘s the famous people themselves (para. 6) The greatest winners Enumerate examples of the conquest many failures may come before final success. (para. 8) example to illustrate might initially fail in famous people to expound are hard to be true to of fame. (para. 7) Conclusion : the author‘s advice on chasing fame. (para. 9)

Step 5. Preparation for details of the text on the screen

Ss are required to look at the words and phrases on the screen and give a brief presentation in class. Words and Phrases:

Purpose: Train the Ss‘ ability of understanding and using foreign language.

Method: Talk in groups, Use task-based language teaching method, communicative approach and total physical response method.

1) bankrupt: adj. without enough money to pay what one owes

Many state-owned enterprises have gone bankrupt. 许多国有企业都破产了。

Due to the fierce competition, many small business holders went bankrupt miserably。 竞争异常残酷，许多小企业者都惨痛的经历了破产。

2）be hard-pressed to do sth. : have difficulty in doing sth.

You are hard-pressed to deal with this tough job individually.

你很难独自一人处理好这项棘手的工作。

Under present circumstances, graduates feel hard-pressed to find a relatively suitable job. 在当前情况下，毕业生感觉很难找到比较合适的工作。 3) contaminate: v. make sth. dirty or poisonous

The water supply was contaminated by the chemicals. 水源受到了化学物质的污染。

The violent movies will contaminate the minds of youg people. 暴力电影会沾染青少年的思想。 4) object to: oppose or disapprove of sth.

Do you object to our design? 你反对我们的决定吗？

More and more people object to smoking. 越来越多的人反对吸烟。

5) be intimate with: maintain a close relationship with; involve or have sexual relationship with sb.

She was accused of being intimate with several men. 有人说她同几个男子关系暧昧。 She is intimate with all her classmates.

她和班上所有同学的关系都非常亲密融洽。

6) accuse sb. of sth.: point out sb. has done something illegal or wrong

The public accuse the government of slow reaction to the crisis. 公众责难政府面对灾难未能做出快速及时的反应。

The director was accused of bribery. 主任被指控受贿。

3.2 While-reading Activities

Step 6. Intensive reading

Ss are required to read the passage carefully again and answer some detailed questions on the screen. Then teacher picks out some difficult sentences to explain.

1. They develop a style that agents market agressively to hasten popularity, and their ride on the express elevator to the top is a blur. Most would be hard-pressed to tell you how they even got there. (Para. 3)

Meaning: The arists form a style that agents push hard to make them become popular in a fairly quick way. Most of artists would have rather a vague idea about how on earth they become famous. Here, in this sentence, ―ride on the express elevator to the top‖ is metaphorically used, indicating the artists seek their fame in a rapid way.

2. After their enthusiasm dissolved, the public simply move on to the next flavor of the the month. (Para. 3)

Meaning: After their enthusiasm has disappeared, the public simply turn to another star who is very popular at that time, but similarly only for a short period of time. Here the author use ―the month‖ to indicate a short period of time.

3. Fame?s spotlight can be hotter than a tropical jungle — a fraud is quickly exposed, and the pressure of so much attention is too much for most to endure. (Para. 5)

Meaning: Fame leads to a lot of publicity. If a famous person commits a fraud, it will be discovered by the public quickly. And famous people are always the focus of the public, so they attract too much attention which makes them live under great pressure. Here ―a tropical jungle‖ is metaphorically used.

4. One drop of fame will likely contaminate the entire well of a man?s soul, and so an artist who remains true to himself or herself is particularly amazing. (Para. 6)

Meaning: Even a little bit of fame can poison a man‘s soul to great extent, and so an artist who still acts according to his or her own will or judgment is especially amazing. Here both ―drop‖ and ―well‖ are metaphorically used. ―drop‖ here means a little bit, or a small tinge..

If you say someone is/remains true to sb./sth., you mean someone is loyal to sb./sth. in a consistent way. I promise I will always remain to myself forever. 我发誓我将永远忠于自我。

Purpose: Enhance students‘ understanding of the text and train students‘ analysis ability.

Method: Read the text together; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach, communicative

approach, grammar-translation approach and total physical response method.

3.3 Post-reading Activities

Step7. Consolidation

Require students to retell the text according to the text-structure chart given above.

Purpose: To make sure students get a clear understanding of the text. At the same time, teacher displays the text structure on the screen again, so that students can retell it easily.

Method: Read the text structure; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach, communicative

approach and total physical response method.

Step 8. Discussion

Show a movie clip about fame seeking, then ask the Ss to answer some relative questions. Purpose: To present a real situation To grasp the main idea

To consolidate language points

To fossilize the way of structured writing

Method: Use the CAI and talk in groups; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach, communicative approach, audiolingual method, Audio-visual Method and total physical response method.

Step 9. Assignment

Review the key points of Section A Finish the exercises after class Finish online homework Preview Section B Step 10. Assessment

Write a composition of a general statement supported by details to improve students‘ writing ability. At the same

time, train students ability of do-it-yourself and looking up the information by themselves. http://www.wwenglish.com/en/up/4/pearson/3533.htm;

Teacher checks if students have done the after-text exercises in their spare time and discuss some common errors that crop up.

Writing: Topic: Seeking Fame

Outline: 1. 对―fame‖涵义的理解

2. 成名的好处

3. 成名带来的不便之处

Preview Section B

II. Section B The Power of a Good Name

Teaching Procedures:

1. Reading Skills

Making Inferences

In order to make good inferences, we should bear the follwing 3 points in mind: a) make use of contexual clues, common sense and your knowledge. b) connect ideas and draw conclusions from the reading passage. c) Test what you have understood between the lines.

Purpose: Introduce the reading skill to the Ss and improve their reading abilities.

Method: Use multimedia instruction and talk in groups; Use task-based language teaching method, reading

approach, communicative approach and total physical response method.

T explains the reading skill (making inferences).

Ss practise the skill by doing the exercise on page 19 in pairs.

2. Passage Reading (The Power of a Good Name)

2.1 Lead-in and preparation for reading

Initiate students to air their opinions on topics relating to ―reputation‖, such as how to maintain a good reputation and what the function of good reputation is, etc.

Purpose: Arouse the students‘ interest of study. Bring in Text B: The Power of a Good Name.

Method: Use the CAI and talk in groups; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach,

communicative approach, audiolingual method, and total physical response method.

2.2 Comprehension Questions

Require students to read the passage as quickly as possible and ask the students to make inferences between lines and

answer the questions showed on the screen:

Para.1

1. What did the father ask ―me‖ to do? Para.2

2. What is the time setting of the story?

3. How was ―I‖ relate to the ugly shadow of racism? Para. 4

4. What does ―they broke the mold when they made that man‖ mean? Para.9

5. Why does America need to restore a sense of shame in its neighborhoods? Para.12

6. Why does a good name pave the way for ―me‖ ?

2.3 Difficult Sentences

1. Water from the mill?s wheel sprayed in the sunshine making a rainbow over the canal and I often stopped there on my way to bathe and cool off for a spell — natural air conditioning. (Para. 1)

Meaning: Water coming from the mill‘s wheel scattered in the sunshine and formed a rainbow over the canal. I often stopped there on my way to swim in the canal and escape from the heat for a short while. This is natural air conditioning.

2. It was 1976, and the ugly shadow of racism was still a fact of life. (Para. 2) Meaning: That was the year of 1976, and terrible racism still existed.

3. Buck was a tall, weathered man … (Para.3)

Meaning: Buck was fairly tall and he has been exposed much to the wind and rain. Here ―weathered‖ means ―weather-beaten‖, “饱经风霜”in Chinese.

4. I gave a sigh of relief. “Your daddy is always good for it.” He turned to the farmer. “This here is one of James Williams? sons. They broke the mold when they made that man.” (Para. 4)

Meaning: I suddenly felt relieved. He said that my father could always be trusted to pay the money back. He turned to the farmer and said to him that I was one of James Williams‘ son and he was the rare type of person who could be trusted to pay off the money he owed.

5. I had discovered that a good name could furnish a capital of good will of great value. Everyone knew what to expect from a williams: a decent person who kept his words and respected himself too much to do wrong. (Para. 6) Meaning: I had found out that a good name could provide us with something of great value. Everyone knew how a member of the Williams would behave and what a Williams would do: A Williams is a respectable person who always does what he says, therefore is trustworthy.

2.4 Key Words and Expressions lest enquire amuse relief furnish melt meanwhile intent initiative restore induce obligation behave glue deposit cool off pen up be good for on credit wipe away keep one‘s word melt away shrug off hold up pave the way for open the door to enquire into 3. Assignment

T Requires Ss to do the exercises on pages 24—26. T asks Ss to prepare the next unit.

Purpose: Motivate Ss to review what they‘ve learned Method: Use task-based method.

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