College English: Viewing, Liestening and Speaking
(Band II)
Unit 7 Relax or Die
Teaching Objectives
Vocabulary: overwhelm, closure, precocious, blur, outsourcing, cellular, prematurely, chronically, accelerated, alleviate
Function: Learning about the importance of relaxation and how to live a stress-free life
Talking about assumptions and supposition
Talking about elimination and restrictions
Conducting listening and speaking tasks related to the theme of this unit
Language points: shed light on
make strides
weed out
Do you suppose/assume that…?
How do you limit…?
Teaching method: task-based language teaching method, communicative approach, audio-lingual method, etc.
Teaching aids: PPT, discs, video clips, audio tapes, U disk, etc.
Teaching procedures:
1. Warming up (10 minutes)
Ss will be asked to listen to a broadcaster introduce the program “Relax or Die” and fill in the blanks based upon the information they hear.
2. Listening (60 minutes)
Listening skills:
1). Ask Ss to read through the four options listed on their books
2). Ask Ss to find out the differences and similarities among the four options and guess the question according to the four options.
3). Ask Ss to listen to the dialogs and complete the tasks of each section
Task 1: Understanding Short Conversations (20 minutes)
Task 2: Understanding a Long Conversation (10 minutes)
Task 3: Understanding a Passage (15 minutes)
Task 4: Understanding a Movie Dialog (15 minutes)
3. Speaking
Task 1: Practicing Conversational Skills (15 minutes)
1. Introduce useful patterns for talking about assumptions and supposition, elimination and restrictions.
2. Listen to the model dialogs, imitate and practice the dialogs.
Task 2: Situational Conversation——What Do You Think? (15 minutes)
1. Work with a partner and make up short conversations based on some given situations, practicing the expressions of assumptions and supposition, elimination and restrictions.
2. Have some pairs to give the presentation in class
Task 3:Pair Work——Figuring Stress (20 minutes)
1. Ss are asked to work in pairs to ask each other questions regarding stress and finish a questionnaire respectively.
2. Have some Ss to report to the whole class.
4. Listening and speaking (25 minutes)
Listening and Discussion
Ss are to hear a passage, answer and discuss five questions given.
5. Summary (5 minutes)
Summarize the main idea of this unit: expressions for talking about assumptions and supposition, elimination and restrictions.
6. Assignments
Supplementary listening and oral report.