Enable students to:
■ have a thorough understanding of the text contextually and textually;
■ build up a basic vocabulary about humanity’s dream of flight and aviation, and learn to use the key words and expressions;
■ tell the stories of Wan Hu, Howard Hughes, and Leonardo da Vinci,who are all pioneers of flight;
■ explain why these pioneers were ahead of their time and how their work relates to aviation today;
■ write a paragraph about Howard Hughes, or any other aviator, with a focus on his or her place in aviation history.
《大学英语》课前预习导引
Guiding questions for previewing the texts
1. What is the title of the text？
2. What is the theme of the unit？
3. How many paragraphs are there in the text？
4. How would you divide the text into parts ？And why do you divide it this way？
5. Draw a mind map to illustrate the structure of the text.
6. What kind of writing is this text, narrative, descriptive,expository or argumentative?
7. What is the main idea of the text? Try to summarize the main idea in one long sentence,
8. What cultural background knowledge must you have grasped to better your understanding of the text?
9. What new words and expressions are significant in your eye that you would like to keep them in mind?
10. What are the sentences patterns and structures that are singled out for practice in this text?
11. What rhetoric devices(修辞手法)are applied in this text?
12. What are the difficult sentences that you want your teacher to discuss in class?
13. What moral values have you learned from this text? Prepare a little speech
14. What message reminds you of Chinese ideology?
