新视野大学英语第四册教案（全）_2

1、peak: a. used to describe the highest level of sth., or a time when the greatest number of people are doing or using sth. The Information Age is a time of peak demand for computers.信息时代是大量需求电脑的时期。 March is one of the peak periods for our business. 三月份是我们业务的高峰期。 n. C the point when sb. or sth. is bes

2、t, most successful, strongest, etc. Demand for coal is at its peak in January and February. 一、二月份是对煤的需求量最大的月份。 Membership of the club has fallen from a peak of 600 people in 1990.俱乐部会员的人数已从1990年600人的高峰跌落下来。 v.  reach the highest point or value Oil production peaked in the early 1980s. 石油生产于20世纪

3、80年代初达到颠峰。 Unemployment peaked at 17% during the recession. 萧条时期失业率高达17%。 at your disposal. (Para.8) disposal n.1) U the power or authority to use freelyWe will use all the means at our disposal to solve this dispute. 我们将运用我们能支配的一切手段来解决这一争端。 During their visit I put my car at their disposal. 在他们来访期间

4、，我把汽车交给他们随意使用。 2) U the act of getting rid of sth. Please see to the disposal of that rubbish. 请把那堆垃圾清理掉。 Locals are objecting to the land being used as a disposal site for household waste. 当地人反对把这块土地用作家庭垃圾的处理场。 annual revenue (Para.8)revenue: n. C the money that a government receives from taxes or

5、that an organization, etc. receives from its business Advertising revenue finances the commercial television channels. 广告收入资助商业电视频道。 The company's annual revenues rose by 30%. 公司的年收入增长了30%。 Taxes provide most of the government's revenue. 政府的大部分收入是税款。 Government revenues have fallen dramatica

6、lly with four million people out of work.随着400万人失业，政府岁入已急剧下降。 That's partly because Latin American customers talk two to four times as long on the phone as people in North America. (Para. 8)Note the structure "two to four times as long as" in the sentence. We can use this structure to

7、indicate the size or extent of something by comparing it to something else. Expressions such as "twice", "three times" or "one fifth" can be used in front of "asas": Water is eight hundred times as dense as air. This animal is three times as popular with girls

8、 as with boys. Their house is about three times as big as ours. they'll persist (Para.11) persist: v.1) (in sth., in doing sth. or with sth.) continue to do sth. in spite of difficulties or opposition, in a way that can seem unreasonable Why do you persist in blaming yourself for what happened?

9、你为什么要不停地为所发生的事责备自己呢？ She persisted in her search for the truth. 她持之以恒地寻求真理。 He persisted with his questioning. 他坚持追问。 2) continue to exist The belief that the earth was flat persisted for many centuries. 认为地球是平面的观念延续了数个世纪。 If the symptoms persist, consult your doctor.如果症状持续下去就要去看医生。C. Post-reading A

10、ctivity 1.Ask students to sum up the main idea of the text and to analyze the writing techniques of the text.Structural analysis of the textThe reading passage deals with one of the popular and current topics of today telecommunications revolution. The passage explores the topic from different aspec

11、ts: the advantages of telecommunications technologies, questions that should be considered in developing the new technologies for developing countries, different countries trying to solve different problems with different resolutions, and lastly the conclusions. Look at the following chart and

12、you will find:  1. The first part is made up of 2 paragraphs, Paragraphs 1 and 2. The 2 paragraphs focus on the overwhelming advantages of telecommunications revolution, esp. for developing countries: boosting living standards and promoting internal and foreign investment; stepping directly int

13、o the information age and leaping over whole stages of economic development; changing from labor-intensive model to high-tech intensive model to give developing countries a huge advantage over countries stuck with old technology. 2. The second part is 1 paragraph only: Paragraph 3. T agraph leading

14、to specific countries in their efforts to develop telecommunications technologies.  3. The third part is the biggest part of the passage, consisting of 7 paragraphs, from Paragraph 4 to Paragraph 10. This part deals with 6 different countries or regions, such as Russia, China, Hungary, Latin Am

15、erican countries, Thailand and Vietnam in the transformation of telecommunications technologies. Different countries have different backgrounds and they seek different ways out of their respective problems to realize telecommunications transformation. Russia needs to invest in information technology

16、 a huge amount of money to update its ancient telephone system but it is unlikely due to a poor economy. China, taking advantage of its backwardness, invests a huge amount of money to become a major part of the information superhighway. And Shanghai plans telecommunications networks as powerful as t

17、hose in Manhattan. Hungary sold a 30% stake in its national phone company and leased rights to Western companies to overcome the problem of funding and to speed up the import of Western technology. Hungary also finds that it is worth doing so. While Hungary is trying to find the money through variou

18、s ways for telecommunications equipment, Latin American countries are making money out of the new technologies. People in Thailand are happy to accept the new technologies as they can make better use of all the time they spend stuck in traffic with mobile phones. And Vietnam, despite its backwardnes

19、s, plans to invest more money in op ber,tical fi digital switches, and decades.transmission systems annually to keep pace with anyone in Asia in new technology for 4. The fourth part is 1 paragraph, Paragraph 11 and it is a conclusion full of confidence. The passage concludes to say that developing

20、countries can catch up with Americans and Western Europeans in telecommunications technologies if they persist in their efforts even though they will make mistakes in the process of transformation2.Homework: Learn the words and phrases by heart and next week there will be a dictation; Do all the exe

21、rcises on the book with translation done on the exercise book.(2)Period：2 periodsTeaching Material：New Horizon College EnglishTeaching Procedure:1. Dictation of the words and phrases2. comment on and appraise the exercises.Reading skills: recognizing paragraph patterns: Cause and Effect, Comparison

22、and Contrast, Time Sequence, a Set of Sequential Actions, a General Point Supported by Details/ Examples/ a List of Things, a Problem-Solution Pattern, etc. (Section B)Unit 5, book 4Choose to be Alone on PurposePeriod：2 periodsTeaching Material：New Horizon College EnglishTeaching Objective: The stud

23、ents will be able to:A: learn to use some important words such as: dictate, humble, choke, justice, supreme, slippery etc.B: learn to use “ the more, the more” “may/might as well”.C: Master the prefix “over-, under-” Teaching Procedure:A. Pre-reading Activity (20minutes)1. Introduce the three litera

24、ry giants in American literature, William Wordsworth, John Milton, and Henry David Thoreau, including their life story, contributions, and their masterpieces in order to arouse students interest. Refer to the teachers book. 2. Ss are required to listen to the short passage carefully (using the CD) a

25、nd answer some questions. Why are American heroes, poets and philosophers admired for their solitude? Why do people need to talk? How do lonely people deal with having no one to talk to?3. Ask students to look at the title Choose to Be Alone on Purpose. Predict the contents of the passage.B. While-r

26、eading Activity 1. Ask students some sign post questions to each paragraph to see how well the students understand each paragraph and train Ss skimming ability. (Some of the questions are on P.124 Comprehension of the text)2. Language Points: (refer to teachers book)1). Here we are, all by ourselves

27、, all 22 million of us by recent count, alone in our rooms, some of us liking it that way and some of us not. (Para. 1)Meaning: We are here, living all alone according to recent statistics up to 22 million of us are living alone in our rooms; some like the solitary way of life and some don't lik

28、e it.2). Translate the sentence: They all speak highly of themselves for seeking it out, at least for an hour or even two before they hurry home for tea.3). Inspiration in solitude is a major commodity for poets and philosophers. They're all for it. (Para. 3)Meaning: Inspiration in solitude is t

29、he most useful thing for poets and philosophers. They are all in favor of it.4). No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary. (Para. 5)Meaning: Undoubtedly, one can even find pleasure in living alone if he or she chooses to stay alone of his or her own free will.5). before they silent

30、ly creep away, so he can create poetry. (Para. 6)poetry: n. poems in general as a form of literatureThe actor will be reading from contemporary poetry and prose.这演员将朗诵当代诗歌和散文的选段。She started writing poetry at a young age.她年纪很小的时候就开始写诗了。Compare:poem: n. a piece of writing in which the words are chosen

31、 for their sound and the images and ideas they suggest, not just their obvious meaning, and the words are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhymeThe poet will recite some of her recent poems. 这位诗人要背诵她最近写的几首诗。6). Perhaps there's a message here. The larger the ego, the less the need for

32、other egos around. The more modest and humble we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company. (Para. 10)Meaning: Perhaps here the most important idea is: if a person's sense of his own value and importance is stronger, he is less likely to stay with others. On th

33、e contrary, if we think less of our own values and abilities and think us less important than others, we are more likely to find unbearable the state of being alone and be discontented with staying all by ourselves. We want to stay with others.Translate Paragraph 10: Thoreau had his own self-importa

34、nce for company. Perhaps there's a message here. The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest and humble we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves7). Translate: (1) If you live with other people, their temporary absence can be refreshing.(2) The

35、 condition of loneliness rises and falls, but the need to talk goes on forever. It's more basic than needing to listen. Oh, we all have friends we can tell important things to, people we can call to say we lost our job or fell on a slippery floor and broke our arm. It's the daily succession

36、of small complaints and observations and opinions that backs up and chokes us.(3) Scientific surveys show that we who live alone talk at length to ourselves and our pets and the television.(4) It's important to stop waiting and settle down and make ourselves comfortable, at least temporarily.8).

37、 But when you live alone, the temporary absence of your friends and acquaintances leaves a vacuum; they may never come back. (Para. 11)Meaning: But if you live in solitude and your friends and acquaintances leave for the time being, you will have the feeling of emptiness, and they may never come bac

38、k9). It's the daily succession of small complaints and observations and opinions that backs up and chokes us. (Para. 12)Meaning: It's the daily series of our complaints and observations and views on various issues that stuffs us and makes us feel uneasy, filling us with the desire to talk to

39、 others.C. Post-reading Activity 1. Ask students to sum up the main idea of the text and to analyze the writing techniques of the text. The reading passage focuses on a social phenomenon choosing to be alone on purpose. The passage can be broadly divided into four main parts: what living alone is, w

40、hat people think of living alone, who prefer living alone, the authors comments on living alone and what he advises for living in solitude. Look at the following chart and you find: 2.Homework: Learn the words and phrases by heart and next week there will be a dictation; Do all the exercises on the

41、book with translation done on the exercise book.(2)Period：2 periodsTeaching Material：New Horizon College EnglishTeaching Procedure:1. Dictation of the words and phrases2. comment on and appraise the exercises.Exercise III. Let students pay attention to grammatical functions as well as sentence meani

42、ng when filling words in blanks.Exercise IV. Remind students of remembering words and phrases that share the similar meaning. Exercise V. Draw students attention to the collocation of a specific verb to the nouns. Exercise VI and VII. Explain the importance of suffix and prefix. Give more examples s

43、o as to help students to enlarge their vocabulary. Exercise VIII and IX. Students should use the structure flexibly. Exercise X. Explain the trick to translate a sentence into English with the use of these sentences.Skill development. Focus on Section B. first; explain the skill recognizing paragrap

44、h patterns. Then, students are required to read the passage independently, after that, they can work in pairs to find out the pattern. Homework. Ask students to finish Section B and Section C after class, and prepare for oral English.Unit 6 book 4 Bribery and Business Ethics (1)Period：2 periodsTeach

45、ing Material：New Horizon College EnglishTeaching Objectives：The students will be able to:A: learn to use some important words such as: negotiation, substantial, commission, donation impose, secure, withdraw etc.B: learn to use “It is +adjective + to do / that-clause” and “suppose”Teaching Procedure:

46、A. Pre-reading Activity (10minutes)A question will be asked: Suppose you were a businessman, what would you do if you were doing business with a country where bribery has been a way of life? (Group work)B. While-reading Activity 1. Ask students some sign post questions to each paragraph to see how w

47、ell the students understand each paragraph and train Ss skimming ability. (Some of the questions are on P.31 Comprehension of the text)2. Language Points: (refer to teachers book)1. Bribery and Business Ethics (Title) bribery: n. the act of offering money or sth. valuable to sb. in order to persuade

48、 them to do sth. for you The organization was rife with bribery and corruption. 该组织内部充斥着行贿受贿和腐败。 He was jailed on charges of bribery. 他因行贿受贿罪而入狱。 Compare:bribe: v. try to make (sb.) do sth. for you by giving them money, presents or sth. else that they want He escaped and fled to England after his fa

49、mily bribed officials. 在他家族贿赂官员之后，他逃往了英国。 They bribed the waiter to find them a table. 他们贿赂服务员，让他找一张桌子。 n. money, etc. that is given to sb. such as an official to persuade him/ herto do sth. esp. sth. dishonestHe was accused of accepting /taking bribes from wealthy businessmen. 他被控收受富商的贿赂。He admitte

50、d taking bribes. 他承认受贿。2. Bribery and Business Ethics (Title) ethics: n.1) (pl.) moral rules or principles of behavior governing a person or groupMedical ethics do not permit doctors to advertise. 医德不允许医生登广告。 2) (sing.) science that deals with morals Ethics is a branch of philosophy. 伦理学是哲学的分科。 Comp

51、are:ethic: n. system of moral principlesThe puritan ethic was being replaced by the Hedonist ethic, right there in the heartland. 就在中心区域，清教徒伦理观被享乐主义伦理观所取代。3. They often do not realize that bribery in various forms is on the increase in many countries and, in some, has been a way of life for centurie

52、s. (Para. 1) Meaning: They often dont realize that various forms of bribery are becoming more frequent and that in some countries it is traditional to bribe people in some ways.4. that bribery in various forms is on the increase(Para. 1) on the increase: becoming more frequent or greater in number o

53、r intensity In Britain some 14 per cent of families with dependent children are headed by a lone parent, and figures for one-parent families are on the increase in Britain and the U.S.A. 在英国，大约14%需要抚养的儿童长在单亲家庭，单亲家庭的数目在英国和美国仍在增长。 Large-scaled drug smuggling was on the increase, and a more professiona

54、l approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams. 大规模毒品走私在增长，执法队正在使用更专业的手段对其进行打击。5. in some, has been a way of life for centuries. (Para. 1) a way of life: how people do things or live Sleeping in doorways, begging for food and money it's not a very enviable way of life. 睡在门

55、口，乞讨食物和金钱这并不是一种令人羡慕的生活方式。 Watching football on Saturdays and cleaning the car on Sundays are all part of the British way of life. 周六观看足球，周日清洗汽车都是英国人生活方式的一部分。6. the Minister of Trade makes it clear to you that if you offer him a substantial bribe, you will find it much easier to get an import license

56、 for your goods, and you are alsolikely to avoid “procedural delays”, as he puts it. (Para. 2) Meaning: the Minister of Trade says clearly to you that if you bribe him with a large sum of money, you will get an import license for your goods more easily and quickly, because some of the procedures wil

57、l go quickly and smoothly without delay.7. offer him a substantial bribe, (Para. 2) substantial: a.1) large in amount or valueThere are substantial differences between the two groups. 这两组之间存在重大差异。 It's reported that he has secured the release of a substantial number of political prisoners. 据报道他已

58、保证释放大批政治犯。 2) important, large enough to be noticeable or to have an important effectDuPont's second-quarter earnings rebounded from a loss the year before, and the chemical giant said it expected “substantial” improvement in the second half of the year. 杜邦公司今年第二季度的收入已摆脱去年的亏损，这个化工巨人表示他们预计今年下半年将有重大改进。 The trade negotiating authority has substantial support in the Senate, where its passage appears likely. 贸易谈判当局受到参议院的实质性支持，因此通过（该决议）显然是可能的。8. as he puts it. (Para. 2) put: v. express or state sth. in a particular way To put it simply, we accept their offer or go bankrupt.