College English: Viewing, Listening and Speaking
(Band IV)
Unit 1
Teaching objectives
l Vocabulary:
celebrity
popularity
cool down
l Sentence structure:
Would rather than
Some people would rather be famous than be respected.
How often?
How often does her usually exercise?
l Function
Express frequency and sequence
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 negative consequences of being famous;
How to express frequency and sequence
Teaching methods
Task-based approach; Communicative language teaching
Teaching aids
audio discs; video clip
Teaching procedures
1. Warming up
Listen to a conversation 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 being famous is exciting and at the same time suffering so we must take a wholesome attitude to fame; besides, by learning by heart the useful expressions for talking about frequency and sequence, we acquired some conversational skills.
5. Assignments
Prepare a three-minute speech on the reasons why people are crazy about becoming famous.