新视野大学英语第三版B4U6教案.docx

1、新视野大学英语第三版B4U6教案新视野大学英语读写教程第四册教案B4U6Gender Equality*Teaching Objectives： Students will learn to use English to1. To talk about gender equality2. To further understand the text3. To apply the phrases and patterns4. To master the essay writing skill*Time Allotment: each unit 8 classes1st-2nd classes:

2、Part I Warming up1. Lead-in : Guessing activity 2. Pre-reading activities: Answer the questions 3. Cultural background: Watch the video and fill in the blanks3rd-4th classes: Part II Text Study4. Reading in Depth: Structure Analysis, Summary, Difficult sentences analysis5. Language Focus: More pract

3、ice in Language Points (language points explanation, Sentence Patterns, Useful Expressions)5th6th classes: Part III Reflection6. Critical thinking: More speaking practice in discussion related to gender equality7. Writing Practice: Essay writing Write an essay with your personal experiences.7th8th c

4、lasses: Part IV Assignment7. Post-reading activities: summary of useful expressions, watching and discussing, speaking task, etc.8. Section B: Focus on fast reading and practice in reading skillUNIT 6Section A The weight men carryPart I Warming up 1. Lead-in: To separate the words:Which words are al

5、ways used to describe the men/women?Men: clean-cut, stylish, sharp, robust, virileWomen: cute, sexy, pretty, delicate, elegant2. Pre-reading activities: 1) Can you list some jobs for women and some jobs for men? Women :nurse, teacher, office lady, assistant Men：soldier, architect, firefighter, minew

6、orker 2) Why is there a difference between men and women in choosing a job? Tips :Difference:Men are physically stronger. So they can do some jobs that require physical strength and power. Women are more subtle. So they can do some jobs that require carefulness and patience3. Cultural Background: Wa

7、tch the video and fill in the blanks as the following sentences. 1. In 2009, 60 % of graduates from Universities are females in OECD areas. By 2025 , 70 % of graduates are females in those areas. 2. 70 % of education graduates are women, 75% of health and social science graduates are women. While, 7

8、0% of engineering manufacturing , construction graduates are men. 3. On the pay-slip (工资单)，womens pay are always smaller than mens. They average are 16 % smaller than mens. 4. In Norway, 40 % of board members are women. In Sweden, France and Finland, 15-20 % of board members are women. In Germany, J

9、apan, Netherland , less than 5 % of board members are women.Part II Text Study1. Main idea & structure:Tips for Reading: A Good Reader should 1) Try to become an active reader.2) Learn to ask more questions. ( what, why, how)3) Do the efficient reading. (key points, topic sentence, key words, locati

10、ng words, necessary and sufficient )4) Develop a habit of marking during reading.Answer Questions1)What types of work did the author see men do in his hometown? (Para. 1)From morning to sundown:they built cabinets, dug ditches, mined coal, or drove trucks; they trained horses, stocked furnaces, made

11、 tires, stood on assembly lines, welding parts onto refrigerators or lubricating car engines.In the evenings and on weekends:they labored equally hard, working on their own small tract of land, fixing broken-down cars, repairing broken shutters and drafty windows. 2) The bodies of the men I knew wer

12、e twisted and wounded in ways _visible_ and _invisible_. (Para. 2)Visible ways:Heavy lifting had given many of them spinal problems and appalling injuries. Racing against conveyor belts had given some ulcersome had broken ribs and lost fingers.Their ankles and knees ached from years of standing on c

13、oncrete. Some had partial vision loss as the glow of the welding flame damaged their optic receptors. Invisible ways:All around us, the fathers always seemed older than the mothers. Men wore out sooner, being martyrs of constant work.3)What did they do when men worked as soldiers? (Para. 3)Tips:When

14、 the shooting started, many of them would die for their patriotism in fields and forts of foreign outposts. This was what soldiers were for they were tools like a wrench, a hammer or a screw. 4)What caused the author to be puzzled after he entered college? (Para. 5)Tips:The author was puzzled at wom

15、ens claim that men enjoy greater joys and more privileges. This was because he knew from his own experiences that men did much harder work and suffered much more than women.5)What kind of examples the author used to defend for men? (Para. 5)Tips:The right to work five days a week, 12 months a year,

16、for 30 or 40 years, wedged in tight spaces in the textile mills, or in the coal mines, struggling to extract every last bit of coal from the rock-hard earth? The right to die in war? The right to fix every leak in the roof, every gap in the fence? The right to pile banknotes high for a rich corporat

17、ion in a city far away? The right to feel, when the lay-off came or the mines shut down, not only afraid but also ashamed? 6)Why did the author envy women? (Para. 6)They were interested in art or music or literature, and enjoy a sense of ease. They did not have to go to war. The space of their compa

18、ratively lightweight work seemed expansive. They clipped coupons, went to see neighbors, or ran errands at school or at church. 7)Why did the women in the authors college see him as an enemy? (Para. 8)They were the daughters of privileged, Republican men and they wanted to inherit their fathers powe

19、r and lordship over the world. They longed for a say over their future. And because of the authors sex, as destined from birth to become like their fathers, so they see him as an enemy.8)What kind of role the author wanted to play? (Para. 8)Tips: The author thinks that the miserable life of the lowe

20、r class people is similar to the gender inequality that women suffer from. He supports the fight against social inequality, no matter whether it is related to class or gender.Structure Analysis:Introduction: Men labored all day and had little free time. (Para. 1)The bodies of men were twisted and wo

21、unded because of hard work. (Para. 2)Men were soldiers who had to die in war. (Para. 3)The lives of rich men who had power and privileges seemed remote and unreal. (Para. 4)Major arguments and supporting detailsWomens criticism of men was puzzling because men in reality had to work hard to support t

22、heir household.(Para. 5)Womens grievances were hard to understand because women had an easier life than men. (Para. 6)The fates of lower-class men and women are equally bleak and grim. (Para. 7)Conclusion:Women have grievances about gender inequality because they dont know the hard life of working-c

23、lass men. (Para.8)2. Language Focus:Useful expressions: 1）Off (the ) grid Not connected to public utilities and having your own power and water supply. 远离公共设施的，自给自足的我们住在那里远离水电，生活全靠自己。We lived there off the grid and on our own.2）There are time when sometimes 有时候有时候我觉得很懒，只想整天呆在床上。There are times when

24、I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day.3）No more than 意为“不能 , 就像不能一样”。 这个句型表示两件事情都无法做或都不具有某一特征。通常后面的事更明显或更易懂，所以将两件事进行类比，以解释为何第一件事是不可能的或不具有所说的特征。他无法忘却那段历史，就像他不会忘记自己的名字一样。He could no more forget about the experience than he could forget his own name.4）No doubt, had sb. taken a more (adj.) lo

25、ok/view at sth., sb. would have done sth. else.某人对某事的反思毋庸置疑，如果人类用更具前瞻性的方式审视对大自然的开采，他们就不会遭受资源短缺了。No doubt, had human beings taken a more prospective view at the exploitation of the nature, they would have never suffered from resources shortage.5）Have a say on /over sth: have the right or opportunity

26、to give your opinion她们唯一想要的就是对自己的财产有发言权。The only thing they want is to have a say over their own property.Essay writing: Learn how to support an argument with personal experiences and observations： In writing an argumentative essay, the author needs to provide specific details to support his opinion

27、. Personal experiences and observations are a common type of evidence to support an argument. They often involve the authors own impressions about or memories of a person, thing, place, or situation. Topic:A better method to overcome pronunciation problems Introduction: Introduce the background: A c

28、ommon method to overcome a pronunciation problem is to practice reading out the same sound or word over and over. State the thesis: A better method to learn English pronunciation is to train the ear rather than the mouth. Body: Explain the main idea with a personal learning experience with the vowel

29、s in “shoot” and “short”. Conclusion:Restate that the new method is successful. Sample essay:As English learners, many of us have encountered difficulties in learning to pronounce certain English sounds correctly. The method we commonly use to overcome the problem is to practice reading out the same

30、 sound or word over and over. However, mere repetition is not an effective method since the core of the problem may lie in our poor ability to hear the differences between certain sounds. Hence, to some of us, a better method to learn English pronunciation is to train the ear rather than the mouth.

31、You will better understand what I mean once you know what I once went through years ago. When I first started to learn English back in middle school, I had a hard time distinguishing between the vowel in “shoot” and that in “short”. I had thought my mouth and tongue were set in the wrong way, which

32、made me unable to accurately articulate the two sounds. So I spent lots of time reading out the two sounds and words containing them. To my frustration, I made little progress. It was not until I was in college that I realized the real cause of my incorrect pronunciation was not how I set my mouth and tongue, but rather my poor ability to hear the