Unit 1 The Pursuit of Dreams （7学时）
1．教学目的：
(1)从语言、语境、文化层面透彻地理解文章；了解如何表达“追求梦想者”的优秀品质。
(2)了解谈论“追求梦想”的积极词汇并懂得在特定的语境中恰当地使用与主题相关的基本词汇与句型结构。
(3)掌握基本的词汇及句型结构，熟悉和“梦想”有关的话题词汇，提升话题词汇定位主要信息的阅读能力；
(4)了解叙事的文章结构、要素与写作重点：如“时间顺序”、“背景”、“冲突”、“发展”、“结尾”。
(5)并进行有主题句的，结构合理的，逻辑清晰的，以“理想的工作”为主题的段落写作，并用上本单元掌握的词汇与表达课文P23（课文P9 Task Three或P32 Writing部分）；
(6) 完成与话题相关的翻译练习；
2. 教学重点：
(1) 重点单词：dream, pursue & pursuit, predict, challenge, tutor, sympathy, eventually, visually, creativity, corporate, elementary, motivation, chase及联系其他表达“追求”的词汇与搭配
(2) 重点词组：be dream of doing, by now, sth hook sb &sb be hooked on sth, how about, take over, show up, all the way, come to life, believe in, be big on, why not, be born to
(3) 构词法：词缀法（前缀法与后缀法）; 合成法; 缩略法; 词性转换法.
(4) 重点句子：
1) “建议”类句型：Why no do? How about doing?
e.g. Why not make a plan?
How about looking for other opportunities?
2)I emailed DJ Shiftee, a well-known New York City DJ, when I was 25: “I know you like a challenge. How about teaching a deaf person to deejay?
3) He tutored me twice a week for two years, helping me develop correct technique.
4) It was reassurance that they were giving me jobs because I was good, not out of sympathy.
3. 教学难点：将与“梦想”相关的背景知识、词汇、文化知识较自如地运用到有关“追求梦想”的话题讨论或写作中；
Unit 2 Freshman Year （7学时）
1.教学目的：
(1) 能够正确掌握课文的关键单词和表达，学会用一些高频词汇来描述入学第一年的状况。
(2) 学会谈论入学第一年的经历，让学生谈一谈他们的入学经历，如他们离家上学父母的感受以及到学校以后的各种感悟。
(3) 拓展&思辨：中国大学生的父母与美国大学生的父母的不同表现和感受
(4) 熟悉电子邮件的写法
2. 教学重点：
(1) 重点单词: faculty, nonetheless, combine, inevitable, embarrassed, accompany, misguide, crush, seminar, complain, assignment, issue, aware, loan, incident, plead, negotiate
(2) 重点词组：in tow, one’s heart/thoughts go(es) out to sb, take charge (of sb. or sth.), (stand) in line, reflect on, if not, no doubt, let go, in disbelief, muddle through, find one’s way, set foot in, stay put, be concerned with, undertake
(3) 重点句子：
1) My heart went out to him. (Para. 1)
2) How humiliating to be in a university registrar’s office with your father taking charge. (Para. 1)
3) I am as old as, if not older than, most faculty members. (Para. 3)
4) I thought about those small bits of self-confidence that were so painstakingly built in boyhood, and how they were being crushed at the counter. (Para. 6)
5) So whatever are you doing in line with them at the registrar’s office? (Para. 10)
6) I learned to find my way through the perils and pleasures of university life. (Para. 12)
7) …everything I did was a direct reflection on them. (Para. 13)
(4) 文化知识：baby-boomers的含义，可联系中国的二胎政策，及其产生的社会影响。
3. 教学难点：
(1) 根据课文所描述的现象，美国的 baby-boomer parents 和 中国的 only-child parents 对子女的教育理念和行为有哪些相似之处？背后的原因有哪些？
(2) 给父母写一封信，就自己的切身体验表达感谢和希望。（尽可能使用课文中学到的表达法。）
Unit 3 True Stories of Nazi Germany（学生自学）
1.教学目的：
(1) 了解二战期间纳粹德国对犹太人大屠杀的暴行，了解犹太人在纳粹种族主义统治下的疾苦;
(2) 能针对二战法西斯暴行和“战争对人们的影响”进行积极的讨论，并培养正确的反法西斯爱国主义素养、和平世界观和人生价值观；
(3) 在掌握课文大意基础上了解与“纳粹德国”相关文化背景，并进行跨文化角度学习比对种族主义；
(4) 掌握基本的词汇及句型结构，针对战争对人们的影响进行写作（课后写作练习P72 “On What Human Losses World War II Caused”）；
(5) 完成与话题相关的翻译练习；
2.教学重点：
(1) 重点单词：splash claim, remarkable, present, local, surge, origin, cancel, contract, frame, private, deliver, definitely, image, contact, submit, contest, outstanding, exclaim, competition collection, numerous, amaze, throughout, flee;
(2) 重点词组：make it big, take control of, find out, give birth to, come out with, be prone to, find/take refuge in;
(3) 重点句子：
1) Less well-known, however, was the fact that the “Aryan” girl it claimed to show was actually Jewish.
2) It was the time of surging anti-Semitism in Berlin.
3) I wanted to allow myself the pleasure of this joke.
4) Family stories are always prone to exaggeration.
5)The parents were equally shocked and “amazed at the irony of it all”.
(4) 重点语法：adj.+ prep.; Do..., and sb/sth. Will = (if you do..., sb/sth. will...); (As)+adj./adv. + as...= (although)
3. 教学难点：
（1）从中西方的角度比较“犹太人大屠杀”和“南京大屠杀”法西斯暴行的异同。
Unit 4 Meeting Statesmen (学生自学)
1. 教学目的：
(1) 全面理解课文内容以及语言知识;
(2) 建立关于政治家的主要性格特点的词汇量并掌握如何在文本中恰当使用这些关键词和表达;
(3) 讨论要开启成功的政治生涯需要哪些必要的训练和经历;
(4) 熟悉关于个人经历的写作，能写一篇关于自己最喜欢的人物的文章。
2. 教学重点：
(1) 重点单词： concern, significant, critical, appropriate, urgent, dismiss, demonstrate, yield, schedule, benefit, launch, proportion, decline, enroll, previous, attain, range, signal, global;
(2) 重点词组：off limits, at one point, declare war on, attend to, as to, thanks to, at first, subject to, at any rate, fall into the grip, stamp out
(3) 重点句子:
1) Li, as Premier and Party Secretary of the State Council, has many pressing issues of national and international concern to attend to. (Para.1)
2) No X-ray machines or body scanners such as you find at the entrance to the U.S. Capitol and the White House. (Para. 2)
3) As an example of how China is moving forward aggressively on this front, Li told me that 60 million rural water users were supplied with clean drinking water in 2013. (Para. 3)
4) He was admitted to the elite Peking University, which helped launch his own illustrious career. (Para.4)
(4) 重点语法：
1) 倍数的表达方法；
2) “as to”的用法
3) what/whatever引导的主语从句的用法
3. 教学难点：预先了解相关政治人物的生平以及重要事迹；如何通过细节抓住人物的特点；如何在看似碎片化的访谈中抓住话题的核心并学习如何有效地引领一场访谈。
4. 文化知识点：中国目前的环境政策；《奥普拉脱口秀》；《愤怒的葡萄》。
Unit 5 The Water Problem（7学时）
1.教学目的：
(1) 深入理解课文内容及相关语言知识点；
(2) 掌握关于人类水资源问题的主题词汇和短语及其使用；
(3) 能够熟悉和谈论世界和中国的水资源情况；
(4) 解释为什么水资源问题将是人类在12世纪面临的最大挑战；
(5) 提出有助于节约水资源的方法；
(6) 写出一篇关于节约水资源的说明文。
2. 教学重点：
(1) 重点单词：conserve, resource, replace, strategic, conflict, highlight, environment, subsequent, abundant, source, reliable, distribute, efficiency, civilization, complicated, alternative, rate, dwarf, innovation, budget, outcome;
(2) 重点词组：to one’s liking; ring one’s years, on track, and so forth, around the corner, go down, on the point of, be confronted with, in the interest of;
(3) 重点句子：
1) We need to conserve our resources to buy ourselves time so scientists can find new solutions to our problems.
2) His list, in descending order of importance was: energy, water, food, environment, poverty, terrorism and war, disease, education, democracy, and population.
3) The reason energy and water sit at the top, ahead of food and poverty, is that addressing them makes subsequent problems easier to deal with.
4) Climate change is expected to intensify droughts and floods while shifting where water will be and when.
5) ......even though fixing water would help our energy, defense, and health problems.
(4) 重点语法：句型：the reason (that)…; the fact that…; whether …or…
3. 教学难点：理解水资源问题为何将成为人类21世纪面临的最大挑战；将保护水资源相关的背景知识、词汇、文化知识较自如地运用到有关“保护水资源的必要性和方法”的话题讨论或写作中。
4. 文化知识点：全球水资源分布、中国水资源的分布及情况。
Unit 6 Going Offline （7学时）
1.教学目的：
(1)引导学生对以智能手机为代表的现代科技进行辩证思考，对其利弊有客观和比较全面的了解。
(2)归纳学习与网络社交、技术、智能化、现代化有关的主题词汇；
(3)能针对文章中提出的观点，引导学生思考如何避免在现今网络和科技发展中陷于迷失与沉溺，如何正确使用科技而不为科技所役；
(4)参考课文P136的课后练习，训练学生就一个议题表达观点并陈述理由的“说”、“写”能力；
2.教学重点：
(1)重点单词：
interact, unique, criticize, scan, emergency, urge, media, nourish, detail, surf，stuff, thoughtful, unlike, amazing, promising, plug;
(2)重点词组：
at times, fix up, end up, stay in touch with, fall into the habit of, in the absence of, pay off, if any, have much to
do with, make waves;
(3)重点句子：
1) As it turns out, despite a promising first few months of the experiment (during which he lost weight, took time to smell the flowers and wrote a lot of stuff), what Miller discovered in the end was that the very technology he’d begun to vilify actually had very little, if anything, to do with his life’s problems.
2)Throughout the last decade, I’ve been plugged in 24-7,living in a world where the line between digital and real gets a bit blurred at times.
3)In fact, I found myself reflecting on how living and breathing teach has let me experience some of the most rewarding and eventful moments of my life: I’ve seen world events unfold before my eyes over social networks; I’ve seen people using new technologies like to stay in touch with their loved ones.
4)With the digital explosion has come an excess of cheap, easy, and addictive pieces of online content for us to readily snack on.
(4)文化知识：职场上的tele-pressure，碎片化时间/阅读/学习；
3.教学难点：理解人类、技术、工作和生活的相互关系和平衡艺术。 |