Teaching Aims:

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Unit 5
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Teaching Aims

• 1. Practice reading strategies such as
  predicting, skimming, guessing, etc.
• 2. Grasp some new words and expressions to enrich
  students vocabulary
• 3. Do some oral work such as pre-reading
  questions, role play and interaction activities
  to help to develop the students oral
  communicative abilities
• 4. Get to know the organization of a feature
  report and learn some writing skills in narration
  and practice it along with letter writing
• 5. Do some other after-class exercise including
  listening and translation to improve students
  comprehensive skills.

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Teaching Emphasis

• 1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I
• 2. New words and expressions
• lobby, complexion, foreboding, shudder, scheme,
  psyche, moat, breach, in progress, screech,
  quirk, chic, grunge, reverie, scramble, lopsided,
  executive, distressing, badger, have the nerve to
  do sth

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Procedure (6 hours)

• 1. Review the main points in last class
• 2. Study the new unit
• 1) Read the information of the text on p.54, 55
  to get a better understanding of Chunnel
• 2) Answer the pre-reading questions orally
• 3) Allow students 5 minutes to read the text
  rapidly for the main idea
• 4) Do the guesswork of vocabulary

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• 5) Study Text I intensively
• 6) Answer the questions of Text I both in
  SB(students book) and WB(workbook) orally
• 7) Listen to the tape and study Text II
  extensively to enlarge their vocabulary and widen
  the scope of their knowledge
• 8) Do oral work
• 9) Study the main points of guided writing,
  mainly paragraph writing of narration in informal
  tone, and letter writing to ask for information
• 10) Homework, finish all the exercise both in SB
  and WB.

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Language points for Text I

• stiff upper lips trembled
• A tiny explosion of air from pursed lips
• by the grace of God due to, thanks to
• Compound adjectives made up in various ways

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Language points for Text II

• alternative adj. Other
• alternate adj. A. (of two things) happening or
  following one after the other
• Its a matter of choice, not nerves