听力2 Unit 4

Unit Four Education Matters

I Teaching Aims

1. Listening practices on note-taking and blank-filling skills

2. General knowledge improvement

II Teaching Focus

1. The teaching focus of this unit is the understanding of utterances describing people’s appearance, behavior, and their thoughts and feelings.

2. Listening with appropriate expectation is useful to help students achieve better comprehension.

III Teaching Difficulty

1． How to make students form the habit of listening with appropriate expectation.

2. How to grasp the maximally useful information to fill the blanks.

IV Teaching facilities

Multi-media language lab, computer, video tape, DVD.

IV Time Allocated 3 periods

V Teaching procedures and contents

Step 1: Lead-in

Teachers put up some pre-listening questions for a brief class discussion on the relationship and possible problems between and among students, teachers and parents.

Step 2: Vocabulary

First check students preview of new words on Page 29-30, then emphasize and expound the following most difficult words and phrases in this unit.

well-rounded

compulsory

abstruse

be cut out for

burn one’s bridge

segregation

dispel

cohort

high-flyer

flunk

Step 3: Selective attention practice

Listen to Part I and Part II and do the exercise

Step 4: Note-taking practice

Listen to part III and do the exercise

——UK or US education?

Step 5: Key word practice

Listen to part IV and do the exercise

——Co-education or Segregated Schools?

Step 6: Self-learning practice

Listen to Part V and do the exercise after class

Keys and scripts for exercises:

Part Section B.

Keys： 1.(√) 2.(O) 3.( O) 4.( √) 5.( O)

Section C

Keys：1.b 2.c 3.a,c,f 4.b,c,e,f,g,h,i,l 5.d 6.a 7.c 8.b

Some new words:

Rear-service后勤管理

Rear-Service Office后勤处

教务处：Academic Affairs Office

main entrance大门/正门

侧门：Side Entrance

Cater for/to :承办\迎合

Our hotel also caters for weddings and parties.

Exercise classes cater to all levels of fitness.

Catering industry(trade); 餐饮业

rugby 橄榄球，hockey 曲棍球, Going down-caves 洞穴探险

Part Home schooling

Section A

Keys: 1. About 300,000

2. In reading and math.

3. interests, questions

4. outsiders, mixing with; well qualified; narrow views

5. time, desire

Section B

Keys:

Part UK or US education?

Section A

Keys:

Section B

Keys:(Omit)

Part More about the topic: Co-education or Segregated Schools?

Keys:

to equip, require

shock, apart

true, get to know, live together, compare, male, female

healthy attitude, mysterious creatures, romantic heroes, physical, emotional

Part Memory test: PISA

Keys:(Omit)

Background Information：Institute of International Education

An independent nonprofit founded in 1919, IIE is among the world's largest and most experienced international education and training organizations. We are committed to delivering program excellence to a diverse range of participants, sponsors, and donors. Our Mission includes:

Promoting closer educational relations between the people of the United States and those of other countries.

Strengthening and linking institutions of higher learning globally.

Rescuing threatened scholars and advancing academic freedom.

Building leadership skills and enhancing the capacity of individuals and organizations to address local and global challenges

Homework

1. Listen to Part V and do the exercises.

2. Go online to find out information from the Institute of International Education and try to write a report of around giving advice to Chinese students who want to study in the United States.

3. Dictate at least three news items.

References

张民伦：《英语听力教程2》，北京：高等教育出版社，2014.

何其莘等：《英语初级听力》，外语教学与研究出版社，１９９２年第１版

www.tingli.com/index.htm （２１世纪英语听力）

www.englishabc.net/index.htm （精彩英语世界）

www.english5.top263.net/index.htm （空中外语学校）

http://www.iie.org//

VOA、BBC、CCTV9和 ChinaInternational

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