文档介绍：College English 2
The Course Curricular
Participants: First-year Students Majoring
Time: 2/2001-6/2001 Second semester of the Academic Year 2000-2001
Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition,published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press)
Major Task of This Semester
◆Text Learning(nine units altogether)
◆Learning to write position
◆Integral Training: trying to improve the students’ proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking.
General Goals or Objectives of This Semester
▼ try to improve the students’ reading speed and the ability to get information from reading materials correctly.
▼ Students acquisition of the skills involved through supplementary materials and texts.
▼ More attention will be given to the understanding of discourse: focus on global understanding.
▼ Enlarge students’ vocabulary (Key words and structure)
▼ Learn the features of position and learn to write.
Teaching Plan
This term’s teaching content covers 10 units. Basically, every two units will be finished within 3 weeks. Except the one-week holidays in Labor’s Day, there are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9 unit should be finished at the end of this term. Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6 periods.
Weeks
Teaching Task
Key Points
Week 1 to Week 3
Unit 1: Is There Life On Earth?
Unit 2: The Dinner Party
cohesion and coherence
comparison vs. contrast
Week 4 to Week 6
Unit 3: Lessons From Jefferson
Unit 4: My First Job
Acronyms / word-attack
Week 7 to Week 9
Unit 5: The Professor and the Yo-yo
Unit 6: The Making of a Surgeon
Week 10 to Week 12
Unit 7: There Is Only Luck
Unit 8: Honesty: Is It Going out of Style
Week 13 to Week 15
Unit 9: What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
Unit 10: Profits of Praise
Week 16
General Review
Unit One: Is There Life On Earth?
I Intensive reading
Objectives:
Grasp the main idea (that author indicates his ideas from the point of Venusians that Earth was exploited too excessively and quickly that