文档介绍：Unit 2 Green Spaces in Cities
江西信息应用职业技术学院
孙敏
Teaching context
Time Allotment: Unit 2 Section B (50 m)
Chapter:Green Spaces in Cities
Teaching aims:The teaching of this text aims to enable students:
to master the new words and useful phrases.
to get acquainted with skills of reading paragraphs with a general statement that is supported by specific details.
to get acquainted with skills of reading for main ideas.
to practice what has been learned.
Teaching important and difficult points:
learning the ways of reading skills from the passages
learning the new words and useful expressions in the text
doing the relevant exercises after the classes
Teaching context
Teaching context
Teaching methods:
utilizing the multi-media classroom to show courseware for students
listening and reading the words, useful expressions and text from the teaching CD
Learning these courses as following: -corner/
Reading Skills
Finding Out Word Meanings
What shall we do when e across unfamiliar words in our reading? Many times we can figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word from clues provided by context. The particular reading skill introduced for this unit is finding out word meanings through context clues. In the text we list as many as 7 different ways of finding out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. The context clues that might be helpful for you to recognize the meaning of a new word include:
Some sentences give the definition for a difficult word with the help of punctuation such mas, dashes or parentheses.
Context sometimes gives examples to illustrate a difficult word rather than define it. We can use the examples to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
Reading Skills
Synonyms (同义词) are words or phrases that are similar in meaning. A synonym is one type of context clue that helps you to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.
Reading Skills
Antonym (反义词) clues. Antonyms are words or phrases that have opposite meanings to other words or phrases. Anton