第4次课

Real Communication: Listening & Speaking

Unit 1 College culture 大学文化

Teaching Objectives:

Students will be able to:

1. master the key words and expressions used in the listening materials;

2. learn more about the college cultures of Oxford university and Harvard university.

Teaching focus & Difficult points: 

1. the key words, phrases and expressions in Inside View and Outside View;

2. the background information of college culture.

Teaching Procedures：

Inside View

Doing sponsored punting

视听说训练需要注意的词汇（语言与文化信息点）：

1. doing sponsored punting 参加赞助撑篙活动
2. help out 排忧解难，帮助克服困难，摆脱困境

3. Oxford: 牛津作为城市起源于中世纪，当时是一座小镇，建于泰晤士河和查韦尔河之间的砾石堆上，两河水很深，但小镇所在之处牛群可以涉水而过。

4. count up: 共计，加起来

5. get the hang of : 掌握，熟悉，理解

6. No way. 决不，一点也不

7. The Boston Red Sox: 波士顿红袜（棒球）队

Some people in their college are organizing charity events this term. Kate, Janet and Mark have decided to get involved. Look at the following words and guess what kind of activity it is they are planning to do.

 

Look at the photo and answer the following questions on page 2:

Example answers:

1) Janet, Mark and Kate are in a punt on a river.

2) They are punting, which is a leisure activity that involves pushing a small boat along a river with a long pole.

3) It looks like a fun, relaxing activity because they are smiling.

4) You could charge people to take them on the punt and donate the money to charity.

Language and culture:

·Punt: a punt is a long flat boat with square ends that you move by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river. Punts were originally used to carry cargo but today they are used only for pleasure trips on the rivers in the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge.

·Sponsored punting: in a sponsored punting event, people raise money for charity by asking other people to sponsor them to go punting, in other words, to give them money to go punting.

·Charity: a charity is an organization to which you give money so that it can help other people who are poor or ill, or who need advice and support. It's common for students in most English-speaking universities to raise money for charity by doing something for which other people will sponsor them, or to pay a small amount of money. This is then passed on to one or a number of charity organizations. It could be a sponsored walk, or a charity run or anything that involves fun and only a little effort by the fundraisers.

·Cherwell Boathouse: it is situated in the heart of Oxford on the picturesque banks of the river Cherwell. Punts and small rowing boats can be rented for use on the river. A restaurant and riverside café can be found on the same site.It is very popular with tourists and students in the summer.

Conversation 1

C 1 presents a discussion among Janet, Mark and Kate about their idea for running a charity event---sponsored punting.

1) Watch Conversation 1 and check (✓) what Kate, Janet and Mark have decided on.

2) Watch Conversation 1 again and answer the questions on page 2.

Conversation 2

C2 shows Janet, Mark and Kate going out punting, during which they talk about the organization of their sponsorships.

1) Work in pairs and check (✔) the events that you think will happen during the sponsored punting.

When you predict whether a certain event will happen or not, try to give reasons for your predictions. For example:  Kate offers to punt.

If your prediction is yes, you might give a reason like: 

She might offer to punt. Surely most people would want a turn.

If your prediction is no, you could give a reason like: 

Look at the photo. Kate seems to enjoy just sitting on the punt and watching the other two punting and relaxing herself.

2) Watch Conversation 2 and choose the best answer for each question (page 3).

3) Watch Conversation 2 again and complete the sentences (page 3).

4) Work in pairs and answer the questions about Everyday English (page 4).

5) Work in pairs and act out the conversation.

² Work in pairs.

² Take two minutes to look through the cues and functional expressions in the box on page 4.

² Plan your events. (What? Why? Who? When? How?)

² Listen to an example dialogue. (Two of you will perform the example dialogue to the    class.)

² In pairs, you work out and perform your own conversations.

² One or two pairs of you will perform your dialogues to the rest of the class.

Outside View

Studying at Harvard university

·Fact or Fiction?

Here are ten statements about Harvard University, five of which are true and five are not. Can you identify the false ones?

1) Harvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2) Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, which was founded in 1736.

3) Harvard has produced many famous alumni, including seven presidents of the United States.

4) At the very beginning, Harvard had only nine students with a single master.

5) Over 14,000 people work at Harvard, including more than 2,000 faculty.

6) More than forty current and former Harvard faculty members have been awarded Nobel Prizes.

7) Harvard university was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, a young minister who, upon his death, left his library of four thousand books and £7790 (which was half of his estate), to the school.

8) Many of its earliest graduates went on to become lawyers throughout New England.

9) Harvard College accepted only 7% of applicants for the class of 2013 (graduating in 2013), a record low for the school's entire history.

10) One enduring Harvard tradition in recent years has been the annual screening of Legally Blonde to incoming freshmen.

·Brainstorming: What kind of students can go to Harvard? (Volunteer your answer)

·Language and culture:

CNN is an acronym for Cable News Network, a popular American news channel. Founded in 1980, it was the first news network to introduce 24-hour news coverage.

Boston Red Sox is a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. Not surprisingly, the name comes from the color of their socks.

·Watching and understanding the clip:

This clip shows Harvard University campus and interviews with the staff and Ss about the university, their studies, leisure, social life and the use of the Internet on campus. All the speakers use American accents.

1) Watch the video clip and check (✔) the true statements according to the clip.

² Read the statements.

² Six students will get a number from one to six. You should take turns to say “true” or    “false” to each of the statements.

² Another student will help if they have difficulty.

2) Watch Part 1 of the video clip and complete the sentences. Reading aloud by roles:

² Work in groups of seven.

² Read the transcript meaningfully according to the seven roles: voice-over, Alex, Ashley, Adam, Brian, Jodie and the interviewer.

² Volunteer groups are welcome to read to the class.

3) Watch Part 2 of the video clip and answer the questions on page 8. 

·Developing critical thinking: Work in pairs and discuss the questions on page 8. 

Assignments

1. grasp the useful expressions in Inside view and Outside View.

2. Preview the rest parts of Unit 1 (Listening in, Presentation skills and Pronunciation).