Unit 4 American Dream
Text A Tony Trivisonno’s American Dream
Teaching Plan
I Class Description &Teaching material
The class consists of the first year students majoring in Computer in xx university.
Textbook:New College English Integrated Course 1 (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) serves as the teaching material.
II Teaching Approach
Comprehensively applying various teaching methods:instruction
question and answer,discussion,interaction, imitation,exercise.
III Teaching Model
Treat listening & speaking as the main target,reading & writing as foundation and multi-media as assistance.
IV Teaching Objectives
Students will be able to
1) understand the main idea(Tony Trivisonno realized his American Dream through his own efforts) and structure of the text (one part telling the story of Tony’s life and the other giving
the author’s comments on it);
2) learn to describe a person by his/her characteristic features with supporting details;
3) grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;
4) conduct a series of reading,listening,speaking,and writing
activities related to the theme of the unit.
V. Important and Difficult points
1) the implied meaning of some sentences;
2) the writing skills of describing a person;
3) the practical significance of this article.
VI. Teaching procedure
The 1st period Warming Up
Step 1 introduction about American Dream and relative
background information.
Step 2 instructive discussion: What is the key to success? Ask the students give their opinions on the essence of the American
Dream.
Step 3 story telling:Tell a story of a successful person
Step 4 lead in to Text A
The 2nd period Global Analysis of Text
Step 5 Go through the new words and expressions
Step 6 have students scan the text A to work out the structure(The
text can be divided into two parts---Tony’s story and the author’s
reflections) & main idea (Tony fulfilled his American Dream step
by step)of the text.
Step 7 Ask students to scan the text and circle all the time words
and phrases or sentences.
a. find six different time periods/intervals served as transitions
between Tony’s steps toward his American Dream;
b. the text is about Tony’s steps toward success in America;
c. finish the content questions.
The 3rd period Language Study and Practice
Step 8 Explain the language points and have students practice
them
a. language points in each part;
b. grammar and difficult sentences;
c. ask students to do the structure exercises and words usage;
d. call students’ attention to the skills of describing a person by his/her own features with supporting details;
e. discuss with students the cultural background to the story;
Step 9
a. the second part focusing on the author’s comments
b.text analysis---writing skills---time sequence in narration
The 4th period After-text exercises
a. review useful expressions, spot dictation, word completion;
b. ask students to scan the text again and sum up the main idea
c.students are supposed to work alone or in pairs to find out the
important elements of Tony’s achieving his American Dream
(vision, determination, self-control, optimism, self-respect,
integrity,etc.);
d.discuss the writing strategy;
The 5th period Assignment
a.exercises on the textbook;
b.Write down a paper about a person by his/her features
VII Teaching Journals
Write down and analyze the whole class emotion, atmosphere and teaching effects to change for the better as kind of a teaching habit or my quality of instruction.
第二篇:大学英语学习心得
ENGLISH SUMMATY
How time flies! A term will come to an end again. This is the last semester for me to learn English in class in the university. To be honest, I am a little reluctant to end up my English study. After all, English plays a vital role in our life. When we are not stick to learning English, it always goes from bad to worse.
However, to my relief, my attitude towards English is positive. At least, I was never late for the class, let alone be absent of the class. I remember that one day I had to conduct a physical experiment, but I didn’t ask for a leave. Although I was burdened with worries at that time. I still waited for the end of the class and then ran to the laboratory.
Generally speaking, I always had previewed the text before the teacher taught it. Not only would I write down the explanations of the new words, but I would also finish the exercise all by myself. Sometimes it was difficult for me to translate Chinese into English correctly. But when I didn’t know how to translate the sentence in the exercise, I would turn to the dictionary for help rather than seek the answers from the internet. Besides, thanks to the morning reading, I could often learn the lesson thoroughly before the class.
Frankly, I listened to the teacher carefully. Because the teacher did not just teach us the knowledge in the textbook, she also made some suggestions for our life. She recommended that we should learn some liberal arts to enrich our life due to the science we are major in. Moreover she reminded us to prepare for the employment in advance. I enjoy learning English in this way. However, sometimes I was yet absent-minded in the class. Sometimes I couldn’t help talking with others.(this phenomenon is rare) To make matters worse, I seldom answered the questions the teacher asked. As a matter of fact, sometimes even if I knew the answer or I had made the preparations, I would not put up my hand to answer the question. In a word, I lack the confidence and courage and this let me down. I have tried to stand up several times but I didn’t make it at length. That is to say, my performance in the class wasn’t so well. Worse still, in this term, I didn’t get involved in so many English competitions. To me, I lost a great many opportunities to improve myself. In a way it is my loss.
In recent days, I have been occupied in preparing for the CET-6. For the sake of other activities, I spent little time in preparing for the exam before. Compared with CET-4, CET-6 needs the sturdy basic of English and more practice. As consequences, chances of getting high mark are slim. But I will still make desperate efforts to achieve my goal.
Through such a term of learning English, in some aspects maybe I have improved my English. But what I find is that I’m getting more pessimistic. From the bottom of my heart, I prettily understand that I should attribute everything to my English pronunciation. I always think that my pronunciation is poor. As a result, I dare not to stand up to answer any questions. It is obvious that the inferior emotion leads to everything. Towards this problem, I must find a solution to tackle it. Unfortunately we will not have English class next term, But I will still insist on studying English on my own, especially improving my pronunciation. Whatever the trouble I will confront with, under no circumstance will I give up.