大学英语口语教学大纲

英语中级口语教学大纲一、课程的性质和特点本课程为教师培训课，使学员掌握不同社会语境中常用的套语，通过形式多样的语言技能训练，能就日常生活中常用的话题用比较简单的英语准确地表达自己的思想，以达到在具体的社会语境中得体地使用语言的目的。二、课程的目的和要求经过一个学期共36课时的教学，使学生在掌握了初级英语口语的基础上进一步丰富所掌握的日常句型，能较熟练地进行一般英语会话，较顺利地用英语表达自己的思想，逐步培养学生叙述、对话、交谈和讨论等方面的口语实际能力。使学生通过功能句型、典型对话以及大量的口头练习，能够具有较强的英语口语表达能力。三、课时安排（共36学时）章 节内 容学时Unit 1Introduction 2Unit 2Initiating a conversation2Unit 3Traveling2Unit 4Honesty is the best policy2Unit 5Pets at home2Unit 6Different childhood2Unit 7Should barbarous sports be banned?2Unit 8Recreation and Entertainment2Unit 9A Visit to the Foreign Teacher2Unit 10English Learning Strategies2Unit 11Is money the most important thing for us?2Unit 12Women at work2四、教学内容Aim: Require students to grasp different methods of self-introduction and introducing other people.Warm up. Work with your partner. Discuss which of the greetings are used in the first meting. Patterns and expressions1) Introducing oneself2) Introducing someone else2. Useful words and expressions 1) Work together with your partner to complete the conversations. 2) Work in groups of three. Introduce the other two to each other using the patters of Introducing Someone Else.Pair work1. Develop each of the introductions into short conversations.2. Discuss the following questions.1) Which of the introductions are formal and which are informal?2) What are the possible situations to which they can be applied? Class work Introduce yourself to at least four people in the classroom.Assignment1. Work in groups of six. Make up a chain story according to the pictures, each student talking about one of the picture.2. Talk with three students at English Corner.Aim: Require students to learn how to initiate a conversation and shift topics naturally.Initiating a ConversationI. Warm up. Prepare a short speech to introduce yourself and your roommates based on the guidelines. Patterns and expressions1) Establishing points of common interest2) Asking polite questions2. Useful words and expressions Pair work Divide the class into two teams. The first person from Team 1 gives a statement, and his counterpart from Team 2 offers an appropriate response. Then the second, the third until all the members of both teams have finished. The teacher will be the judge. Group work Move about in the classroom, and talk with at least three of your classmate. Try to shift your topics naturally in each conversation.Assignment1. Strike up a conversation with people on campus to seek some relevant information about the topics of the weather or the biggest shopping center in the city.2. Ask each other at least five questions about your families and respond as quickly as possible. Make a chain story of the pictures in the textbook.V. Assignment1. Make suggestions to your friends.2. Work out the riddles in your group.Aim: Learn good English study methods.English Learning StrategiesI. Warm up. Discuss the difficulties you have in learning English. Patterns and expressionsTalking about English learning2. Useful words and expressions 1) Practice the patterns and expressions. 2) Make up a dialogue about your personal experience of English learning. II. Text1. Read the dialogue aloud.2. Make up a dialogue by using the phrases used in the text.III. Pair workPrepare a short speech about your success or failure in English learning.IV. Class work Make a chain story of the pictures in the textbook.V. Assignment1. Interview2. English Corner: “How do you improve your oral English?”Aim: Students are required to grasp how to express surprise and responses.Back from HolidayI. Warm up. 1) Talk about whatever interested and impressed you during the holiday.2) Present your work to the class. Patterns and expressions1) Seeing a friend after a long holiday2) Using strategic responses2. Useful words and expressions Complete the short dialogues with proper strategic responses given.II. Text1. Read the dialogue aloud.2. Make up a dialogue by using the phrases used in the text.III. Pair work1. Practice the text conversations.2. Ask each other questions about holiday experience.IV. Class work Work in groups of four and talk about the following topics: 1) a family dinner 2) helping with housework 3) taking a holiday jobV. Assignment1. A debate: “Traveling as the Ideal Way of Spending a Holiday”.2. A game.Aim: Students are required to grasp the vocabulary on latest development in technology.I Like This MachineWarm up. Fill in the blanks with the information. Patterns and expressionsTalking about computers2. Useful words and expressions Make up a conversation based on the patterns and expressions. Pair work1. Make up a list of trap words and phrases of your own.2. Give a min-lecture to the class.Class work Make up a role playV. Assignment1. Think it over.2. A debate: “success should be measured by money”.Aim: Students are required to introduce famous scenic spots in China.TravelingI. Warm up. Make a short speech to the class about your personal view of traveling. Patterns and expressionsTalking about traveling2. Useful words and expressions Ask your partner the following questions:1) When was the last time you traveled by bus?2) Where did you go?3) Did you enjoy the bus trip? Why or why not? Pair work1. Interview: 1) Do you like traveling with friends or alone? Why? 2) Which do you like best, traveling by road, by sea or by air? Why?2. Present your discussions to the class. Class work Turn the story into a play and present it to the class.V. Assignment1. Respond properly.2. Make up s story according to the picture in the textbook.Unit FifteenAim: Require students to grasp the etiquette of table manners.Table MannersI. Warm up. 1) Talk about the eating habits both in China and in western countries. Patterns and expressionsPolite requests and responses2. Useful words and expressions One uses body language to express the meaning of any word or expression. The other figures out the word or expression that matches the body language.II. Text1. Read the dialogue aloud.2. Make up a dialogue by using the phrases used in the text.III. Pair workDiscuss the taboos of eating manners you learned.IV. Class work Debate: “It is necessary to have taboos at the dinner table.”V. Assignment1. Group discussion: the differences between Chinese people and American people in treating their guests to dinner.2. Lecture: How to handle the table setting for western food?Unit sixteenAim: Require students to learn business forms in the western countries: corporation, partnership and sole proprietorship.Private Companies at the CrossroadsI. Warm up. Discuss what are the possible advantages and disadvantages of the family management system for a private company. Patterns and expressionsTalking about business2. Useful words and expressions Make up a conversation about private business in china.II. Text1. Read the dialogue aloud.2. Make up a dialogue by using the phrases used in the text.III. Pair work1. Try to express the ideas in different ways.2. Tell the story to each other in the first person.IV. Class work Find something unreasonable in the pictures and present it to the class.V. Assignment1. Interview one or two owners of private businesses.2. Role playUnit SeventeenAim: Students are required to grasp the meanings of non-verbal communication.Non-verbal CommunicationI. Warm up. If you dont know the language of a country, how wo