第11次课

Real Communication: Listening & Speaking

Unit 2 Mixed feelings 错综复杂的感情

Teaching Objectives:

Students will be able to:

1. remember useful words and expressions;

2. listen for the specific information.

Teaching focus & Difficult points: 

1. ask Ss to remember useful words and expressions;

2. passages in listening in.

Teaching Procedures：

Listening in

视听说训练需要注意的词汇（语言与文化信息点）：

1. react to 作出反应

2. think badly of sb. 对某人失望

3. rank higher 级别更高

4. The fear of public speaking ranks higher than the fear of death. 对公众演讲的恐惧要高于对死亡的恐惧。

5. However, they do appear to rank higher in sentimentality.  不过，她们似乎擅长的的确是多愁善感。

6. Mexico and Colombia rank higher than the United States in self-reported contentment. 在自我满足感的排名中，墨西哥和哥伦比亚超过了美国。

7. reject sb. 拒绝接受某人

8. grab sb's attention 吸引某人的注意

9. stylish 时髦的，现代风格的

10. blue-green 青绿色

11. direction signs方向标识

12. warning signs警示牌；警告标志；警告标记

13. behave properly 举止得体

14. do not behave properly 举止不得体，行为不检点

15. People who don't behave properly in public make him angry. 在公共场合举止不得体的人使他生气。

16. optimistic 乐观的

17. depressed 沮丧的

18. look down on sb. 看不起（轻视）某人

19. sketch 素描，速写；简述，概述；（喜剧）小品

20. scene 小品

 

1. Listen to a news report and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.

2. Work in pairs. Look at the colors and talk about what feelings they represent for you.

Example answer: I always like blue; it makes me feel calm and peaceful. Blue also matches my complexion well. I feel calm with green color, because it makes me feel cool, as if I were under the shade of green trees.

3. Listen to Passage 1 and finish exercises on page 23 and 24.

4. Developing critical thinking: Work in pairs and discuss the questions on page 24.

5. Listen to Passage 2 and finish exercises on page 25.

News report

Passage 1

Passage 2

Presentation skills: Telling a story

Telling a story:

1. Work in pairs and talk about how you felt on these occasions:

   your first day at college

   the first night you spent away from home

   the first time you met your best friend

   the last time something bugged you

   the last time you lost your temper

2. Choose one or two of the occasions in Activity 1 on which you had similar feelings and answer    some of the questions about how you felt.

3. Plan a story which describes what happened.

4. Tell your story and act out your conversation to the rest of the class and decide which pair told the best story. Discuss what features a good story has.

Pronunciation

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