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授课题目
:Unit 4 The Surprising
purpose of travel
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:
第
_____
周
授课类型
:
理论课
授课时数
:____
课时
教学目的
:
After
finishing this unit, students will be able to:
practice speaking skills at a travel
agency
foster students genre awareness
and apply it to reading and writing
master the reading skill of looking for thesis
statement
enable students to write an
essay of causes on fixed topics by using
a genre-based process-writing approach
教学重点和难点
:
talk
about the surprising purpose of travel
understand the text fully
apply the
phrases and patterns
master the cause-
effect essay writing skill
教学方法和手段
:
Various
kinds of teaching methods are used:
ng
in class. Explain the profound theoretical
knowledge in class;
study. Provide
case study during teaching, and make the students
to discuss about the case;
ual and full English teaching;
r-centered approach; situational
communicative method;
t-based approach
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教学内容和过程
:
Section
A The surprising purpose of travel
Step
One Warming-up Activities 30 minutes
I.
Write as many words related to travel as you can
?
Varieties of travel
?
Means of transportation
?
Tourist attractions
?
Entertainment activities
?
Things to take
?
Where to stay
?
Other words about travel
II. Lead-in questions:
you
like travelling? What are the reasons for you to
travel?
?
To have a change
?
To experience something new
and unfamiliar
?
To see the
world and understand different culture
?
To marvel at the wonder of
great nature
?
To escape from
a boring lifestyle
?
To have
a thorough relaxation
?
To
broaden one
’
s horizons
’
s
your
suggestion
to
a
student
who
wants
to
have
a
trip
but
doesn
’
t
have enough money for it?
?
Plan ahead
?
Find useful information
?
Travel in group
?
Go to a less-known place
?
Pack necessary things
III Background knowledge
is
Left Bank caf
é
? What
features does it have?
?
The
Left Bank caf
é
is
located in the village of Saranac Lake on the Left
Bank
of
the
River
Seine
in
Paris.
It
is
a
favorite
meeting
place
of
great
artists, writers, and
famous intellectuals since the early 20th century.
LBC
serves authentic French
caf
é
-style food, including
cr
ê
pes and tar tines, as
well as
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coffee, tea,
wines and beers.
is
Let
’
s Go? Give more
information about it.
?
A
world-renowned
travel
guide
series,
researched,
written,
edited,
and run entirely by students at Harvard
University.
?
It
is claimed to be
“
the
student travel guide
”
aimed at readers
“
both
young and
young at heart
”
.
?
Let
’
s
Go
was
founded
in
1960
and
is
headquartered
in
Cambridge,
Massachusetts, the US. Office.
3. What do you know about Machu Picchu?
?
An ancient ruined South
American city high up in the Andes Mountains
in Peru.
?
It was
built by the Incas, a Native American people of
South America, in
about 1500 AD,
?
It has a temple of the sun
and many other buildings.
?
It is a popular place for
tourists to visit.
Step Two Text Study
80 minutes
ctive reading of the text
1. Reading comprehension
1)Why does the author choose the word <
/p>
“
burdensome
”
to describe his
imaginary travel? (Para. 1)
2)What does the author mean by
“
the rest of the journey can
feel like a
tedious
lesson
in the ills of modernity? It
sucks.
”
? (Para. 2)
3)Suppose
travel
is
troublesome
and
sometimes
even
unpleasant,
why
do we
travel
according to the author? (Para. 2-4)
4)What kind of travel is truly
compulsory? (Para. 4)
5)What is the
irony when people travel to Paris trying to leave
all those
troubles behind? (Para. 5)
6)What is the finding of the research?
What does the author wants to
prove by
referring to the
example? (Para. 6)
7)What do we need to
do to trigger our creativity? (Para. 8)
8)What
are
the
secret
cornerstones
of
creativity
of
travel?What
will
happen to us
after travel?
(Para. 9)
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2. Structure of the text
Part I Introduction (Paras. 1-4)
The author gives us a vivid description
of the imaginary travel experience,
including how he struggles to get up in
the early morning, how he gets to
the
flight
gate
after
all
trouble
and
how
he
finally
gets
stuck
in
the
airport. The author puts
forward a question: Why do we travel?
Part II Body (Paras. 5-8)
The author takes us to rethink the
question: what is the real purpose of
travel? Besides, she shares her own
understanding of the real purpose of
travel.
Part III Concluding
part (Para 9)
We travel because we need
to, because distance and difference are the
secret cornerstones of creativity.
3. Summary of the Text
Travel is ___________ and sometimes
even unpleasant; then what is the
driving
force
behind
our
travel?
We
travel
because
we
need
to.
Sometimes our travel is
a ____ because we should attend the business
luncheon, because we should celebrate
Thanksgiving with our mom. We
travel
because we want to.
Owing
to
the
fact
that
most
travel
is
_______,
we
just
travel
following
our heart. Most people travel for the
sake of __________, but their mind
tends to solve the stubborn ___________
issues while on vacation. What
is the
real purpose of travel? Travelling to a new place
can make us less
controlled by familiar
cognitive ________ that imprison us. As a result,
we can better combine the new with the
old, the mundane is ________
from a
slightly more abstract perspective.
To
__________
travelers,
multicultural
contrast
means
that
they
are
open to ambiguity and
willing to see the world in different ways, thus
to
expand the ______________ of their
“
cognitive
inputs
”
as they
refuse
to
__________t
heir
first
answers
and
initial
guesses.
Of
course,
that
mental flexibility is a side effect of
difference and we know what we did
not
know in the past, by which we become more open-
minded and less
_______.
Apart from its advantages, travel also
has it _________, which make us
not
take great pleasantness. More often than not, we
need a _________
after our vacation. We
travel because we need to, because distance and
difference
are
the
_____________of
creativity.
Travel
will
change
our
mind to some extent, which in
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turn can have ________on everything in
our life.
II. Language Focus: Words and
expressions
1. Key words:
1)groan: (Para.1)
vi. make a
long low sound, e.g. because you are in pain or
unhappy (
因痛
苦或烦恼等
)
呻吟，发出哼哼声
The old
man was groaning with pain.
v. speak
about sth. in a way that shows you are unhappy
抱怨
She sat down
beside me and groaned about her working day.
她坐在我
身旁，抱怨自己整日辛劳。
n. a long low sound that a person
makes, esp. when they are in pain or
unhappy (
尤指疼痛或烦恼时的
)
呻吟，哼哼声
The
groan of the injured man came from next door.
隔壁房间传来那个
受伤男子的呻吟声。
2)console (Para.1): vt. try to make sb.
feel better when they are unhappy
ordisappointed
安慰
Do you want to console your friend who
is broken-hearted?
你想安慰你
那位心碎的朋友吗
?
consolation:
n.
[C,U]
sth.
That
makes
you
feel
less
unhappy
or
disappointed
安慰，慰藉
We tried to offer her consolation, but
she kept crying anyway.
我们试图
安慰她，但她只是一味地哭泣。
3)dense
(Para.2):a.
heavy in relation to its
size (
物质
)
密度大的
The earth is denser than the
other planets, and denser than the
moon.
地球的密度比其他行星都大，比月球的也大。
a lot of trees, plants, or leaves
growing close together
茂密的
This part of the country is covered
with dense forests.
该国的这部分地
区
被茂密的丛林所覆盖。
smoke or gas is
so thick that it is difficult to see through it (<
/p>
烟雾
或气体
)
浓
密的
The ship was barely
visible through the dense fog.
在浓雾里几乎看不
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见那艘船。