College English: Viewing, Listening and Speaking
(Band IV)
Unit 8
Teaching objectives
l Vocabulary:
exclusive
discriminate
abolish
l Sentence structure:
Bother doing
Why do you bother looking for such a good job?
Be under the impression that
Iˇm under the impression that women in this country are overlooked.
l Function:
cause and effect, aim and purpose
l Listening skills and strategies
Micro listening: Note-taking; Fact-finding
Macro listening: Make inferences according to facts, numbers and tones of the speakers; grasp the main idea by the guidance of signal words
l Speaking skills and strategies:
Use the expressions and structures to voice opinions and express thoughts
Key points
How to express inequality in society
How to express cause and effect, aim and purpose
Teaching methods
Task-based approach, Communicative language teaching
Teaching aids
video clip, audio discs
Teaching procedures
1. Warming up
Listen to a monologue and then complete the following statements with the
information that is heard.
2. Listening
Short conversations
A long conversation
A passage
3. Speaking
Role play : use the expressions given to practice conversational skills
Situational conversation: construct a question that may cause various answers, then ask the students to voice their opinions and reasons.
4. Summary
By means of listening to conversations and passages and having discussions and role-plays we learned in this class or unit the inequality in society; besides, by learning by heart the useful expressions for cause and effect, aim and purpose, we acquired some conversational skills.
5. Assignments
Prepare a three-minute oral report on the topic Why equality matters.