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新编英语教程 4. For your promising future. Unit Twelve. Objectives. 1. learn how to combine narration with exposition. 2. learn to use words such as concern, snap and straight. Teaching Tasks and Process. I. pre reading questions
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新编英语教程4 For your promising future
Objectives • 1. learn how to combine narration with exposition. • 2. learn to use words such as concern, snap and straight
Teaching Tasks and Process • I. pre reading questions • Now you have already been in university for a couple of year. Can you use a few words to modify your university life?
II Background Information • The main purpose which the writer has in mind is to share with the reader some experiences that he had as a student in University through narration intertwined with description. He wishes to make the reader see, feel and hear as vividly as possible what he saw, felt and heard in his university days and to share with the reader the events that had happened to him.
III Language points • 1. … but he would always end up in a fury, …—but he would always become very angry in the end • end up— be or become in the end • More examples: • Having over-indulged in drinking and dissipation, Lenny Burton ended up a loser in life. • A small weak animal ending up prey to a predator is a common occurrence in the jungle.
3. I went to that class straight from the botany class. • straight—without delay, immediately • More examples: • As we are pressed for time, I’ll come straight to the point. • The Boeing 767 will take you straight to New York without touching down in Japan.
4. None gave him more hints, in answering questions, or asked him simpler ones than the economics professor, a thin, timid man named Bassum. —This is an examples of using a comparative adjective to express a superlative degree. • More examples: • None left behind more questions for experts to answer than Master William Shakespeare. • No one was more capable as a basketball coach than Butler at that time.
Discussion/Exercises • Free discussion • What are the reasons for attending university, to get a decent job or to enhance the integrated quality ?
Assignments • 《中华人民共和国学位条例》“Regulations Concerning Academic Degrees in the People\'s Republic of China”结业证书 Certificate of Completion 毕业证书 Certificate of Graduation 肄业证书 Certificate of Completion/Incompletion/ Attendance/Study 教育学院 College/Institute of Education 中学 Middle[Secondary] School 师范学校 Normal School[upper secondary level] 师范专科学校 Normal Specialised Postsecondary College
师范大学 Normal [Teachers] University 专科学校 Postsecondary Specialized College 专科学校 Academy广播电视大学 Radio and Television University 中等专科学校 Secondary Specialized School 自学考试Self-Study Examination 技工学校 Skilled Workers [Training] School 业余大学 Spare-Time University 职工大学 Staff and Workers University 大学 University (regular, degree-granting) 职业大学 Vocational University