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Unit4 Learning about language Teaching aims: Target Language centigrade, competent, allocate, booklet, recipe, in detail, slow down, frequent, consult, caption, shabby, rainbow, brewery, acute, bent, cab, currency, cuisine Ability goals Enable Ss to use the new words in the text or passages Enable Ss to give correspondent definition of each new word Enable Ss to learn useful strategy to expand their vocabulary

Teaching important points:

Enable Ss to use the new words in context Enable Ss to give correspondent definition of each new word Enable Ss to learn useful strategy to expand their vocabulary

Teaching difficult points: Enable Ss to give correspondent definition of each new word

Enable Ss to learn useful strategy to expand their vocabulary Teaching methods: Cooperative learning, task-based learning Teaching aids:

A computer, a blackboard, a tape-recorded Teaching procedures:

StepⅠ Greetings StepⅡ Lead-in T: Yesterday we read the text on “How to become an efficient Reader”. Do you go through the text again after class? So I’d like ask one Ss to tell us what advice is given in the text.

StepⅢ Language points in Reading 1.

Ask Ss to figure out whether they have difficult points in the reading passage.

2.

Answer to them respectively. 3.

Here are 2 common difficulty points for reference.

Language Points 1.

There are certain techniques you can learn and then it is up to you to practice, practice and practice.

有某些技能技巧可供你学习,然后就全靠你自己练习、练习，再练习了。

it is up to somebody 意思是

it is somebody’s responsibility or duty, 可理解成“取决于某人；在于……；该由……负责”．如：

－Shall we go out?

我们可以出去吗？

－It’s up to you.

由你决定。

I can’t take the decision. It’s not up to me. 我不能做决定，这不取决我。

＜拓展＞

up to 还有表示“深度、高度、地位等”直到……；（数目上）直到，至多……；

“接近于；达到”“胜任、适宜”等意思。

Mary is small and just comes up to Bills’ chest.

Everyone has his part to play, from the office boy up to the president.

They worked here up to the last minute.

Up to ten people can sleep in this tent.

If your goods are up to the sample, they will certainly sell well in the market.

The interpreter’s English was not up to the task.

What have you been up to lately? 2. For example, suppose in biology you were studying how plants reproduce, then you could fin d an English text about this on the Internet.

例如：假设在生物学中，你正在研究植物如何繁衍，那你会在因特网上找到有关这方面的文章．

suppose 可以看成连接词，意思是

imagine what will/would happen if. 它所引导的从句表示“主观设想的情况”．因此，有些动词用虚拟语气

例如：

Suppose you fall and hurt yourself when you’re out alone in the

mountains?

另外，suppose, supposing 用做连接词时，还可以用来表示建议，表示“……怎么样？”

Suppose we put it off till next week?

Supposing you have another try? 3. You may find you have more than one strong learning style, which is a bonus because being able to learn in more than one style increases your chances of finding activities that suit you.

你或许会发现自己有不止一种倾向的学习风格，这是一种意外的收获，因为能够以多种风格学***找到合适的学习活动的机会．bonus在本句中意思是

anything pleasant in addition to what is expected, 可以理解为“意外令人高兴的事”

StepⅣ Discovering useful words and expressions 1. Exercise1. First go through the words and their meaning with Ss and ask them to finish the blank-filling within 6 min. Then check the answers. 2.

Exercise 2. Ask Ss to working out the meaning of words using the context.

3.

Ex2 on page 25. Ask the Ss to read the text and try to guess the meaning of each bolded words in the context and try to explain them in English. Then ask them to look up the words in English-English dictionary, and check whether their former definitions are right or wrong. 3.

Ex 3 Play a game in pairs, one student gives a definition and another student guesses the correspondent word.

Step V Consolidating Exercise Go over the Exercises in the workbook if time permits. Step VI. Homework

Complete all the Exercises on page 76 &77. Reflection

How to memorize new words more efficiently.