College English: Viewing, Listening and Speaking
(Band IV)
Unit 2
Teaching objectives
l Vocabulary:
patent
innovative
audition
l Sentence structure:
Run the risk of doing
Being similar to others may run the risk of being insignificant and forgotten.
Be remembered as
Our ancestors are remembered as great inventors and scientists.
l Function:
Position, direction, and movement
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 difficulties of doing something original;
Express position, direction, and movement
Teaching methods
Task-based approach; Communicative language teaching
Teaching aids
video clip; audio discs
Teaching procedures
1. Warming up
Listen to an interview and make judgments according to what 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 that in a world with so many people and ideas, its difficult to do something that stands out as original, but doing so is one of the keys to living a good life; besides, by learning by heart the useful expressions for talking about position, direction, and movement, we acquired some conversational skills.
5. Assignments
Prepare a three-minute oral report on the reasons why people need to be original.