Unit 4 Person to person_teaching plan

Unit 4 Person to person

Teaching plan

Active Reading 1 Can we live without our mobile phones?

Teaching Objectives:

1. Learning how a passage is organized through generalization and examples

2. Learning how to refer back by using linking ideas and ellipsis

Time allotment:8 periods

Teaching method: student-center

Teaching key point:Difficult sentences, language points: words, phrases and useful expressions.

Teaching difficulty:words: subscriber, impact, whereas, resist, extend, speculate, interfere, distract.

Teaching procedure:

Ⅰ. Warm-up activities:

1.How do you communicate?

(1) When you meet someone for the first time, what do you do?

(2) When you’re talking to someone you don’t know well, how close do you stand?

(3) Y ou’re late for clas s. How late do you have to apologize?

(4) When you’re talking to someone, where should you look?

(5) When you answer your phone, what do you say?

2. Watch a video clip, talk about the changes of mobile phone.

Ⅱ. Global reading:

Answer the questions:

1.What was the matter with Russell Crowe?

2.How has the mobile phone changed our lives?

3.Why doesn’t the businessman use his landline very often?

4.What does the schoolgirl usually use her mobile phone for?

5.How does the working mother feel at first about life without a mobile?

6.How does she feel later?

7.What are the disadvantages of life without a mobile phone for all three people?

8.What are the advantages?

Ⅲ. Detailed Reading

Language points:

Words:

1. subscriber: subscribe + er; a person who pays money, usually once a year, to receive regular copies of a magazine or newspaper.

subscribe: to pay money, normally once a year, to receive regular copies of a newspaper, magazine, etc.

(1) How much did you subscribe to the disaster fund?

subscribe (sth.) ( to sth.) 认捐，捐助一笔款项

(2) Which journal do you subscribe to?

subscribe (to sth.) 订阅，订购报刊等

(3) The professor subscribed a few remarks at the end of the essay.

subscribe sth. (to sth.) 在文件下面签名，签字

2. impact: the powerful effect that something has on something

(1) 新方法和新技术对现代工业起到了巨大的影响。

New methods and technologies have made tremendous impact on / upon modern industry.

3. whereas: used to compare or contrast two facts; used at the beginning of a sentence in an official documents to mean “because of the fact that…”

(1) Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.

智者热爱真理，愚者回避真理。

(2)Some praise him, whereas others condemn him.

(3) Whereas there are separate provisions by law, those provisions shall prevail. 鉴于

4. resist: to refuse to accept something and try to stop it from happening.

resist damp/temptation/ an attack /the call for reform

抗，耐湿/ 经得住诱惑/ 对抗袭击/ 抵制，抗拒改革

5. extend: to make something longer or larger

exten(d) + sion extension (n.)

exten(d) + sive extensive (adj.)

extend v.

1)make sth. longer or larger (in space or time)

2)lay or stretch out

3)offer or give sth.

4)of space, land or time) reach or stretch

expand v.

1)cause sth. to become greater in size, number or importance

2)spread out, unfold

3)(of a person) become more friendly or talkative

Exercises:

①Metals expand when they are heated.

②I would like to extend my warmest welcome to all of the guests present here.

③Can you extend your visit a few days longer?

④The petals of the flowers expanded in the sunshine.

⑤The gymnast extended her arms to keep balance.

⑥The road extends as far as the eye can see.

6. speculate: to form an opinion about something without knowing all the details or facts speculate on / about/ upon sth.: 思考，思索，推断，推测

speculate in sth. 投机，做投机买卖

(1) This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks (投机股票).

(2)He has grown up. He should start to speculate about his own future (预测他自己的未来).

7.interfere:

A. concern oneself with or take action affecting sb. else’ affairs without the right to do so 干涉，介入，干预? interfere in sth. / between sb. and sb

B. handle, adjust, etc sth. without permission, esp. so as to cause damage（未得允许）摆弄；尤指弄坏?interfere with sth.

C. prevent sth, from being done or carried out properly 阻碍，妨碍，妨害? interfere with sth.

D. distract or hinder sb. 干扰或妨碍某人?interfere with sb.

(1) I am afraid the unexpected incident will interfere ( C ) with my plan.

(2) It’s wise not to interfere ( A) between husband and wife.

(3) Don’t interfere ( A ) in the business that does not concern you.

(4)Don’t interfere ( D ) with your father when he is doing his experiment. Y ou may interfere ( B )

with his equipment.

9.distract: to take somebody’s attention away from what they are trying to do

distract sb. (from sth.) 使某人分心

distracted adj. (with / by sth.) 精神不能集中的

distracting adj. 分散注意力的

distraction n. 注意力不集中；使人分心的事物

The unexpected news distracted him from his work. He couldn’t go on with his work because of the distraction. He was distracted with great anxiety, so he turned on the TV, hoping the distracting program can calm himself down.

Phrases:

1. end up: to find yourself in a place or situation that you did not intend or expect to最终······

(1) If you continue to steal you will end up in prison (终归得进监狱).

(2)At first, he refused to accept any responsibility, but he will end up apologizing (到头来还是

道了歉).

(3)If he carries on driving like that, he will end up dead (终究要送命).

Sentences:

1. Mobile phones have been the biggest factor of change in everyday behavior in Britain over the past 15 years. Today it is thought that there are more than 55 million mobile phone subscribers, a rise from less than 10 million in 1997.

We can often use over to mean “during a period of time“. But it sounds strange for periods of time shorter than two days.

With some verbs, such as say, believe, think, feel, claim, report, estimate, announce, suggest, we can start the sentence with it + passive voice. We can use this sentence pattern when we’re quoting someone or something, but we’re not sure of the truth of the statement or we w ant to distance ourselves from it. We often see this sentence pattern in news or factual reports. 这里的it is thought可以译为据估计。

在过去的15 年里，手机已成为改变英国人日常行为方式的最主要的因素。据估计，目前英国手机用户已超过5,500 万，而在1997 年还不足1,000 万。

Useful expressions:

the biggest factor of change in everyday behavior改变人们日常行为方式的最主要因素, mobile phone subscriber 手机用户, famous tourist sights 著名的旅游景点, go (be) beyond the reach of …在可获得的范围之外, switch on/off the mobile phone 开机/关机, text (message) or send text messages 短信/ 发短信, reach me on my landline 打我的座机和我取得联系, call me urgently on my mobile 紧急地打我的手机, end up quite angry 最后感到非常愤怒, slow down .（使）慢下来；（使）缓行, don’t make plans until the last minute不到最后一分钟不做打算, on the plus side 从有利方面看, on (an) impulse凭一时冲动, computer isn’t working电脑坏了, make arrangements for my social life安排社交生活, essential必需品, luxury奢侈品, make a fuss大惊小怪, therapy for the soul心灵治疗, interfere with my daily routine干扰我的日常生活

ⅣClassroom Activity

Work in pairs and discuss the questions:

1.Do you agree that mobile phones have been the biggest factor of change in everyday

behavior?

2.Do you agree the size of the handset affects the number of calls you make?

3.Does your mobile phone allow you to act without thinking about the consequences?

4.How important is your mobile phone for your social life?

ⅤSummary

Mobile phones have been the biggest factor of change in everyday behavior. An increasing number of subscribers make more calls and take decisions that make an impact on their lifestyle more quickly. At the same time, the world has become smaller due to the wide use of mobile phones. In order to test whether people can live without mobile phones, the researchers ask three people to switch off their mobile phones for three days.

The businessman loses his social life, but he is less likely to act on an impulse. Moreover, not having a phone creates more time for him to think. The schoolgirl can’t speak to her friends or make arrangements for her social life without her mobile phone, but she feels more independent.

The working mother, switching off her phone, feels anxious at first, but later on she finds that life can be solitary without anyone distracting her or interfere with her daily routine, so she feels it’s like therapy for the soul.

ⅥAssignment

Fill in the blanks of exercise 6.

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