unit 12

Second Edition

教研室：旅游英语教研室 教师姓名：Jessica 课程名称 授课内容 Contemporary College English 授课专业和班级 外语系 51211/21 6 Unit 12 Christmas Day in the Morning 授课学时 教学目的 教学重点 教学方法 教学过程 Understand the main ideas of text A, grasp the words, expressions, structures used in the text, and discuss the text among students and retell the story, learn the writing device and grammar. Study the language points and the text. Student-oriented communicative teaching, free discussion and interaction. A. I. Warm-up activities and background information (15 minutes) II. Understanding the text (10 minutes) III. Detailed studies of the text & Paraphrase (55 minutes) B. I. Revision （what have been taught last time）(20 minutes) II. Speaking (25 minutes) III. Vocabulary (45 minutes) C. I. Grammar and exercises (30 minutes) II. Word building (25 minutes) III. Writing Device (25 minutes)) VI.Summary (10 minutes) Assign homework: 1. Words and expressions. 2. Text content and language points. 3. Review Unit 6 and preview Unit 9 Multimedia software 教学内容 作业 辅助手段 AI. Background information Pearl S. Buck (1892—1973) (中文译名：赛珍珠), U.S. novelist; Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1938. She had first been brought to fame by the novel The Good Earth (中文译名：《大地》), which is about a Chinese family. A daughter of missionaries, Pearl Buck grew up in China, married an American and lived in China for about 40 years.Birthday: June 26, 1892 Parents: Absalom & Caroline Sydenstricker (Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China ) Came to China: 3 months old Period of stay in China: 40years Residential area: Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province Her Prize: Pulitzer Prize and Howells Medal for The Good Earth Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 for The Good Earth Pearl’s Special Contributions: In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Pearl established Welcome House, the first international, inter-racial adoption agency; in the nearly five decades of its work, Welcome House has assisted in the placement of over five thousand children. In 1964, to provide support for Amerasian children who were not eligible for adoption, Pearl also established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which provided sponsorship funding for thousands of children in half-a-dozen Asian countries. AII. Understanding the text How did Rob spend one Christmas with his wife? How did he learn about his father’s love for him? How did he make his Christmas present for his father when he was 15 years old? What made that Christmas so memorable for both Rob and his father? How did Rob celebrate this Christmas after more than 50 years? AIII. Detailed studies of the text 1. General analysis Plot: Christmas gifts given by son to father, and by husband to wife. Setting: Christmas Day Protagonists: “Rob”, ”his wife” and “his father” 2. Plot Analysis Theme of the story Love alone can waken love. It means that love is always mutual and always begins with giving. In view of the growing lack of human warmth partly due to the fierce competition in modern society, this idea appears all more important. Of course it would be naïve to think that love is the answer to all our problems today, and in a world divided by class, racial and national conflicts, universal love is still unrealistic. 3. Paraphrase I) Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! (Para. 1) It was strange how up to that moment he had continued doing things the way he had always done them from boyhood. 2)He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays. (Para. 9) He had recently got into the habit of recalling things in the past/of reminiscing/of letting his thoughts go back to the old days. 3)He had never thought of it before, taking for granted the tie of their blood. (Para. 13) He had never thought of the fact that his father loved him because he took the relationship of father and son as a matter of course. He had never given this another thought. 4)… there would be no more loitering in the mornings and having to be called again. (Para. 13) to move or go about business slowly and with many stops … he would never loiter in the morning and need no longer to be called again and again. 5) … stumbling blind with sleep, and pulled on his clothes. (Para. 13) When he got up, it was still very dark and he was still very sleepy. He could hardly open his eyes and could not see or think clearly, so he walked or moved unsteadily and blindly. 6)Then Jesus had been born in a barn, … bringing their Christmas gifts. (Para. 18) Bible: … And when they had come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him; and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts: gold and frankincense, and myrrh… 7) … he got up and crept downstairs, careful of the creaky boards… (Para. 22) He had to be careful so that the boards would not make any noise and wake up his father, thus spoiling his plan. B I. Revision 1. words and expressions in this unit. 2. plots that have been taught last time B II. Speaking 1. work in pairs and ask each other the questions Page. 269 2. Work in pairs and discuss the questions. B III. Vocabulary 1)bar v. (often passive) a. to close with a bar b. to make… safe by putting metal bats across it c. to stop going in a certain direction n. place to drink in; piece of metal/wood; barrister, the profession of lawyer, etc. 2) brisk adj. a. marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic b. keen or sharp in speech or manner c. stimulating and invigorating d. pleasantly zestful 3) . fade v. a. to lose brightness, loudness, or brilliance gradually; dim b. to lose freshness; wither c. to lose strength or vitality; wane d. to disappear gradually; vanish 4)loiter v. to move on/about with frequent stops loiter the whole afternoon loiter along the street loiter over a job You should not loiter your time away. 5)seal 1. We hunted five seals this month. 2. a black book stamped with the Presidential seal 3. A last-minute goal set the seal on our team’s victory. 4. Don’t seal the envelope. 5. The window has been sealed up for years. 6. My lips are sealed. 7. He was about to say the words that would seal my fate for ever. 6)sob cry, weep, wail, whimper, sob, blubber These verbs mean to make inarticulate sounds of grief, unhappiness, or pain. Cry and weep both involve the shedding of tears; cry more strongly implies accompanying sound. And when he died the little children cried in the streets. I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone. Wail refers primarily to sustained, inarticulate mournful sound. The women… began to wail together; they mourned with shrill cries. Whimper refers to low, plaintive, broken or repressed cries, as those made by a child. The condemned prisoner cowered and began to whimper for clemency. Sob describes weeping or a mixture of broken speech and weeping marked by convulsive breathing or gasping. sobbing and crying, and wringing her hands as if her heart would break Blubber refers to noisy, unrestrained shedding of tears accompanied by broken or inarticulate speech. He blubbered like a child who had been spanked. Phrases and Expressions 1.along with 2. as long as 3. burst with 4.cling to 5.get across/by/off/on/over/through 6.make sure (of sth.) 7.slip back 8.take to C. I. Grammar and exercises The past perfect tense Definition: The past perfect tense expresses action in the past before another action in the past. That is the past in the past. Example: It was four o’clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and help with the milking. (Para. 1) The task went more easily than he had ever known it to before. (Para. 25) Exercises: Put in the appropriate form of the given verbs. They ____(be) hungry. They ___________ (eat) for five hours. I didn't know who he _____ (be). I _____________ (see) him before. \"Mary ______ (be not) at home when I _______ (arrive).\" \"Really? Where _____she ______ (go)?\" He _____ (tell) us that the train _______(leave). He explained that he _________ (close) the window because of the rain. II. Word building 1. Prefix – a- 1) in a particular condition or way (from Old English) alive=living, aloud, asleep=sleeping, awake, afloat 2) in, at, on or to ashore=on the shore, aboard=on the board 3) showing an opposite or the absence of something; not; without amoral=not moral 2. Prefix – over- overactive overbuild oversupply overcapacity  活动过度  建得过多的  供应过多  超出容量 III. Writing Device Flashback A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative. Alliteration The same consonant sound is repeated at intervals in the initial position. She sells sea-shells on the seashore. Wild Mushrooms: Mysterious-Menacing-Magnificent Predictably the winter will be snowy, sleety and slushy. weak and weary VI. Summary Words and expressions; language focus; The theme of the text; Grammar; Writing techniques. 教学小结