College English: Viewing, Listening and Speaking
(Band IV)
Unit 6
Teaching objectives
l Vocabulary:
discrepancy
fishy
innocent
l Sentence structure:
Be fed up doing
Iˇm so fed up with seeing rich people do what ever they want.
Get away with
The accountant got away with the stolen money
l Function:
Describing, clarifying, and arguing
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 criminal acts
Describing, clarifying, and arguing
Teaching methods
Task-based approach, Communicative language teaching
Teaching aids
video clip, audio discs
Teaching procedures
1. Warming up
Listen to an interview and then use your own opinion to answer the questions.
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 that corruption, immorality, injustice, and sin are terrible; besides, by learning by heart the useful expressions for describing, clarifying and arguing, we acquired some conversational skills.
5. Assignments
Prepare a three-minute oral report on the topic there is no such thing as a small crime