Unit 7 when honesty disappears.docx

Unit 7 when honesty disappearsObjectives: 1.To discuss some social phenomenon about dishonesty 2.To further understand the text 3.To apply the phrases and patterns 4.To master the essay writing skill 5.To listen and understand Teaching Focus and Difficulties 1. understand the structure of the text 2. apply the writing skills to organizing a paragraph Teaching aids Multimedia, chalk and blackboard Warming up activities TeachingProcedures:Pre-readingActivitiesStep1.GreetingsGreetthewholeclasswarmly.Step2.Lead-inandpreparationforreadingShowthemsomepicturesonthescreen,andaskthem:1.Whatdoeseachpicturedepict?2.Whatarethecommonproblemsthesepicturesexpose?Step3.FastreadingAsktheStudentstoreadthepassageasquicklyastheycanandthenanswerthequestionsonthescreen.Letthemgetthemainideaofeachparagraphandmakeclearaboutthetextstructure.Textstructure:(structuredwriting)Thepassagecanbedividedinto3parts. Part1 (para.1) Problem Part 2 (para.2-4)Causes and Solutions Part 3 (Para.5-6) Evaluation Purpose: Improve the students reading and writing ability and understand the general idea of each paragraph. Method: Read the text individually and talk in groups; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach, communicative approach and total physical response method.Step4.PreparationfordetailsofthetextonthescreenStudentsarerequiredtolookattheWordsandPhrasesonthescreenandgiveabriefpresentationinclass.WordsandPhrases:Purpose:TraintheStudentsabilityofunderstandingandusingforeignlanguage.Method:Talkingroups,Usetask-basedlanguageteachingmethod,communicativeapproachandtotalphysicalresponsemethod.Words and Phrases: Purpose: Train the Students ability of understanding and using foreign language. Method: Talk in groups, Use task-based language teaching method, communicative approach and total physical response method. 1. (Para.1)not to mention sth. 更不用說(shuō)某事了 All they have to do is pressing a button, and they can seeshows of every kind, not to mention the latest exciting football match. 他們只需按一下開(kāi)關(guān)就可以看到各種各樣的文藝節(jié)目。至于最近的激動(dòng)人心的足球賽更是不在話下。2. (Para.1)rip off盜竊 He was arrested by the police for ripping off a watch after he walked into the store. 他被警察抓了，因?yàn)樗哌M(jìn)商店后偷了一塊手表。 3. (Para.2) exaggerate: v. make sth. seem better, larger, worse, etc. than it really is 夸大；夸張；言過(guò)其實(shí)Shelly admitted that she did sometimes exaggerate the difficulty of her job. 謝莉承認(rèn)，她有時(shí)候確實(shí)夸大了自己的工作難度。 4. (Para.4)cope with（成功地）處理 To my delight, he was able to cope with the stress of his study. 令我高興的是，他能夠處理學(xué)習(xí)的壓力。 5. (Para.4)Launch / wage a campaign發(fā)起一場(chǎng)運(yùn)動(dòng) To improve the staffs comprehensive quality, the company launched a massive educational campaign. 為了提高員工的綜合素質(zhì)，該公司發(fā)起了一場(chǎng)大規(guī)模的教育運(yùn)動(dòng)。 6. (Para.4)plagiarism: n. U when sb. uses another persons words, ideas, or work and pretends they are their own 剽竊；抄襲 More than half of the teachers in the survey said they thought plagiarism from the Internet was a serious offense.7. (Para.4) all but: everything or everyone except sth. or sb. 除外全部 All but one of the passengers were killed in the accident. 除了一個(gè)乘客外，其他人都在這起事故中喪生。 8. (Para.4) reveal：vt. Make known sth. that was previously secret or unknown 揭示；揭露；透露 Many women do not want to reveal their true age in front of others. 很多女性不愿意在別人面前透露自己的真實(shí)年齡。 9. (Para.6)be confined to sth.局限于 For the young, the hunger for knowledge is strong, and it is not confined to any time or place. 年輕人對(duì)知識(shí)的渴望是非常強(qiáng)烈的，并不受任何時(shí)間或地域的限制。10. (Para.6)descend into 陷入狀況 They have taken effective measures so as to prevent the city from descending into chaos and bloodshed. 他們采取了有效措施，阻止了整個(gè)城市陷入混亂和流血。 Step 5: While-reading Activities Language Points: 1. As numerous accounts of cheating, lying, and fraud crowd our newspaper pages and TV news, it seems that honesty is a rapidly vanishing value. (Para. 1) Meaning: From our newspapers and TV news, we read countless reports about people cheating,lying, and deceiving. Honesty as a valuable merit seems to be disappearing quickly. 2. But are these reports truly accurate or do they exaggerate the situation? (Para. 2) Meaning: But are these reports correct and exact or do they make the situation look worse than it really is? 3. If this is indeed the case, its deeply troubling as todays students are tomorrows leaders! (Para. 2) Meaning: If such a situation does exist, it is very worrying because todays students will become leaders in the future! 4. Modern students who want to fake a term paper dont have to browse long. (Para.3) Meaning: Nowadays, students dont need to spend a long time “stealing” online papers and ideas to be used in their own term paper. 5. Long ago, all American schoolchildren knew the historical story of how Abraham Lincoln walked five miles to return a penny he had overcharged a customer. (Para. 5) Meaning: According to historical records, Abraham Lincoln walked five miles to return a penny he had overcharged a customer. The story with its moral virtue has been passed on from generation to generation. The author uses this story to show what he is to convey in this article.Step 6: Typical patterns: Purpose: Further understand the text （Train further reading ability） to find out some difficult sentences and details of the text. Method: Read the text together; Use task-based language teaching method, reading approach, communicative approach, grammar-translation approach and total physical response method. Typical patterns： 1. Travelers ripped off so many towels last year that it cost a major hotel chain $3 million to replace them. Especially troubling are the reports that dishonesty is increasing amongst student populations around the world. 去年一年，一家大型連鎖酒店的大量毛巾被游客偷走，酒店因此花費(fèi)了300萬(wàn)美元來(lái)添置新毛巾。尤其令人擔(dān)憂的是，世界范圍內(nèi)有關(guān)學(xué)生不誠(chéng)實(shí)行為的報(bào)道越來(lái)越多。Sb. did sth. / sth. happened. Especially troubling / surprising/annoying are the reports / facts that用于表達(dá)“表述一種更令人擔(dān)憂/吃驚/煩惱的現(xiàn)象或者事實(shí)感受”。 應(yīng)用： 投幣坐車(chē)本來(lái)是給市民提供方便，然而僅一個(gè)月公交公司收就收到很多的殘幣，更令人氣憤的是僅假鈔的數(shù)額就多達(dá)三萬(wàn)元。The use of slot machine was aimed at facilitating the citizens, but within one month alone the public bus company received lots of incomplete coins. Especially irritating is the fact that fake money alone amounted to 30,000 Yuan. 2. Some people worry that the Internet, once hailed as the ultimate learning tool, could become the best aid yet for cheating. 有些人擔(dān)心，曾經(jīng)被奉為最棒的學(xué)習(xí)工具的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)會(huì)成為作弊者最得力的幫手。 Sth., once hailed as sth., could become sth. 用于表達(dá)“表述一種事物或者一個(gè)人今昔境況的對(duì)比”。應(yīng)用：曾經(jīng)是一位美國(guó)警察，被稱贊為英雄，現(xiàn)被控告有強(qiáng)奸等幾項(xiàng)罪名，已被抓捕。 A former US police officer, once hailed as a hero, has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes. 3. Whether discovered or not, dishonesty has an undesirable effect on anyone who practices it. 不管是否會(huì)被發(fā)現(xiàn)，不誠(chéng)實(shí)都會(huì)給任何一個(gè)作弊者帶來(lái)不利影響。Whether discovered or not (whether conscious or unconscious), sth. will have an effect on sb.用于表達(dá)“表述不管在什么情況下某事都可能產(chǎn)生影響”。 應(yīng)用1：不管是否被查出，剽竊他人的思想會(huì)對(duì)一個(gè)人的名聲造成壞的影響，甚至?xí)Я饲俺獭?Whether checked out or not, presenting another persons ideas as ones own may have bad effect on his name or even damage his future. 應(yīng)用2：不管承認(rèn)與否，今天，我們學(xué)會(huì)了追趕時(shí)間，卻沒(méi)有學(xué)會(huì)耐心等待；我們擁有的財(cái)富越來(lái)越多，道德品質(zhì)卻日益淪喪。 Whether admit it or not, today weve learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but lower morals.Step7. Consolidation Retell the passage according to the topic sentences. Purpose: To know if the students understand the whole text. At the same time, To show the text structure on the screen, so that they can retell it easily. Method: Read the text st