Unit 10

Objectives • In this unit students are required to:• 1.master the Main language structures• 2.practice listening comprehension • 3.learn dialogues • 4.do some preparation activities such as discussio

n, group work, pair work to practice their spoken skill and communicative skills

• 5grasp some new words and try to use these words which help them to enrich their vocabulary

• 6.read the in-class reading passages in a limited time and grasp some expressions and grammatical points in the in-class reading passages to improve their reading comprehension

• 7do some post-reading exercises in the Workbook to practice what they have got to know in class to improve their four basic skills

Teaching Tasks and Process• Language Structures• Dialogue I• 1. Warm-up Questions• 2. Main Idea• 3. Language Points• Reading I• 1. Warm-up Questions• 2. Main Idea• 3. Language Points• Reading II• 1. Warm-up questions• 2. Structure Analysis• Exercises / Discussion• Assignments

Language Structures

• be about+ infinitive: expressing an action in the immediate future

• be going to in the past: expressing “implied intention”

• The past perfect used in the hardly …when…pattern

• The past perfect of hope+ infinitive expressing “an unfulfilled wish”

• The simple past in the It’s time +subject + past-tense verb pattern

Dialogue I Lost and Found

Warm-up Questions

• Why did Tony and his wife grow more and more worried by people’s dishonesty when they were traveling?

• When and where did they change their view? What made them do so?

• Does Tony think that his wife was luck in getting the purse back? Why?

• Have you had any personal experience like the couple? If you have, tell what happened.

Main Idea

• Tony tells his friend Ben about his sabbatical trip around the world with his wife. On the third day, someone stole his wallet while they were shopping in a Mediterranean metropolis and the following days they experienced similar stealing tricks in other big cities. However, their experiences in China were quite different. First they got their lost suitcase back, and later his wife’s purse was also returned to her. They think China is a country where the government and the people care about overseas tourist.

Language Points• Well, when we first started on ou

r sabbatical trip …• sabbatical: n. it is, in a school, co

llege, or university in a western country, a year of release from normal teaching duties. 公休假

• e.g. • Professor Parker is not available t

oday: he is on sabbatical.

• I’d hoped to fully relax after five years of strenuous work at the university.

• strenuous: adj. requiring great effort, energy, or exertion

• e.g. • A heart attack sufferer should

avoid strenuous exercise.• She is a strenuous supporter of

women’s rights.

• The pickpockets got you, to say the least.

• The pickpockets succeeded in stealing your wallet from you, that’s the least I can say.

• to say the least: 至少可以这样说 • e.g. • If he refuses to marry you for

no reason, he is not a man who keeps his words, to say the least.

• But we were still a bit on the lookout.

• be on the lookout for: be watchful, look for

• e.g.• The guards are always on

the lookout for those who look suspicious.

Reading I The English Language, Part I

Warm-up Questions

• Why does the author compare a language with a living organism?

• Which language family does English belong to?

• What languages does the Indo-European family comprise?

• Is Dutch easy for an Englishman to learn?

• What is it that causes the languages within a single language family to become different from one another? Does this happen to one particular language in different periods of time, too?

Main Idea

• Reading I is the first part of an article about the English language. In the first and second paragraphs, a language is described as a living organism, and every language is said to be part of a specific linguistic family, which in turn is part of a larger linguistic family. The third paragraph states that it doesn’t help a person to learn any of the other languages in the same linguistic family as his native tongue because each language actually operates in a system of its own. The fourth paragraph explains the reason why the languages of the same linguistic family can be so different from each other and how the same language varies through history.

Language Points• … comprising the chief languages of

Europe together with…• comprise: v. to include; to contain• e.g. • Their new apartment comprises two

bedrooms, one study, one living room, and a kitchen.

• In recent years, women students comprise an increasingly high proportion of university students.

• When one is endeavouring to learn a language …

• endeavour: endeavor (AmE) v. (formal) to try very hard to do something

• e.g. • The government endeavoured to kee

p the exchange rate of the currency stable.

• He made every endeavour to make his wife happy, but unfortunately, he failed.

• … or seriously interfere with the clarity of communication.

• interfere with: to prevent something from succeeding or from happening; to damage something by touching or using something

• e.g. • The children should be told not to

interfere with these instruments.• The long winter nights are really

hard for him as his previous experiences in war always interfere with his sleep.

• such changes also account for the development within a particular language.

• account for: to give a satisfactory explanation for

• e.g. • The boy was asked to account

for his absence from classes.• There is no accounting for

tastes.• The hunter waited in the snow

for three days but accounted for nothing.

Reading II The English Language, Part II

Warm-up Questions

• When was old English used?• Why is Shakespeare’s language

difficult to understand?• Can an Australian communicate

with a Canadian easily?• what makes English unique?

Structure Analysis• Reading II is the second part of the article

about the English language. This part mainly states that there are four points about the English language which we need pay attention to. First, with the accumulation of variations in the language, Old English is as different from the Modern English as another language. Secondly, Modern English varies from place to place, but it doesn’t prevent the educated speakers from communicating with each other effectively. Thirdly, English is spoken by an increasing number of people. Lastly, English is the language of one of the greatest bodies of literature in the world.

Exercises / Discussion

• Do some post-reading exercises in groups.

Assignments

• Do the guided writing and translation in Workbook.