College English: Viewing, Listening and Speaking
(Band IV)
Unit 4
Teaching objectives
l Vocabulary:
modernize
advance
install
l Sentence structure:
do nothing but
Our library books will do nothing but collect dust if the use of the internet is popularized.
I suppose
I suppose you might worry if youˇre doing something bad.
l Function:
Definiteness, percentage, increase and decrease
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 the influences of technological advancement on human life;
How to express definiteness, percentage, increase and decrease
Teaching methods
Task-based approach; Communicative language teaching
Teaching aids
video clip; audio discs
Teaching procedures
1. Warming up
Group discussion
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 we are lucky if we have health, money, family, and friends. But there are also some less lucky people who are disabled, and opinions vary on whether such people should rely on the welfare system for everything; besides, by learning by heart the useful expressions for talking about length, width, height and depth, and movement, we acquired some conversational skills.
5. Assignments
Prepare a three-minute oral report on whether disabled should rely on the welfare system for everything.