【正文】 them in small groups to work out a short version of the story told in this text. Finally, ask two or three students to retell the story. Review some of the key words by doing exercises. References: Oxford dictionary, EnglishChinese dictionary, teacher’s book, Theories and Practices of English Teaching, Questions and Issues on Language Teaching, resources on the inter. After Class Notes: The passage is a letter written by a son on the Mother’s Day. The students are familiar with this day and also feel so grateful to their own mothers, so they may learn the text fast and express their ideas correctly and clearly. 11 Unit 4 Run Like the Wind Teaching subject: Freshmen in The Department of Fine Art. Lesson Content: Vocabulary, text ARun Like the Wind, grammar viewVerb tenses(4) reading skillstopic sentence, Basic writing skills. Teaching Aims: 1) The students will know what to say when they want to express their personal interests. 2) The students will be able to grasp the basic skills necessary to state likes and dislikes. Methodology: Taskbased Language Teaching. Information gap activities, opinion sharing activities, reasoning activities, done in pairs or groups. Any language can be used to plete the tasks. Key Issue: 1) How to lead the students to change their way of thinking and get used to thinking in English. 2) How to lead them to make dialogues according to different situation in an appropriate way. Potential Problems and Difficulties: 1) How to help the students to master so many new words which are considered dull by the students. 2) How to anize a classroom discussion or activity to help them express their own ideas in English. Teaching Aids: Tape recorder, pictures, MP4, stories, puter, projector. Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Review Ask some students to read the plete sentences of as a revision of words study. Explain some difficult points if necessary. Step 2. Intensive Reading 12 3. Lead the students to listen to the passage so as to review the basic idea of it. 4. Explain some important language points. 4) up and down: backwards and forwards along (sth.)來來回回；往返地 eg. running up and down the road He’s walking up and down outside our house. 5) known as: called or labeled as 被稱為，被標明為 eg. a heavyweight boxer known as “The Greatest” This area is known as the “ Sun Island” . 6) think of? as: regard? as 把?看作 eg. I will always think of Shanghai as my second hometown. They all thought of him as an excellent teacher. 7) It may take some time to perfect, but as with any other athletic skill, the more often one practices, the better one bees! 8) the more? the more: 相當于漢語中的“越?越?”，表示兩個過程 按比例同時增或減。 remain upright 保持平衡；立穩(wěn) eg. It is difficult to keep one’s balance on an icy pavement. The child held the railing tightly to keep his balance. 11) quite a bit (of): a large amount (of) 大量 eg. She’s made quite a bit of money. It takes quite a bit of time to get from Beijing to Guangzhou. 12) rather than: in preference to (sb./sth.)。 white fingers as lady’s。 harvest。 and second, strength and courage aren’t always measured in medals and victories. 24) What has been the writer’s dream since then? She dreams that someday — perhaps as a senior — she will be able to win the race with a cheer as big as the one she got when she lost the race as a freshman. Step 3. Discussion 1. If you were the writer, what decision would you have made during the race? Tell us why you would make such a decision? 2. Whatever we do, among other things, we need courage of our own and encouragement from others. In your opinion, which is more important? Why? Step 4. Exercise Lead the students to discuss and try to fill in all the blanks without rereading the passage. Then check the answers by themselves. Step 4. Assignments 4) on the textbook 5) Ex. 4 on the workbook Summary. Firstly, ask the students to bine the topic sentences we have identified in each paragraph, and assign them in small groups to work out a short version of the story told in this text. Finally, ask two or three students to retell the story. Review some of the key words by doing exercises. References: Oxford dictionary, EnglishChinese dictionary, teacher’s book, Theories and Practices of English Teaching, Questions and Issues on Language Teaching, resources on the inter. 20 After Class Notes: The passage is a freshman’s own experience of how to rebuild her selfconfidence. After learning this text, the students will possibly admire and learn the spirits from the author. The language points in this text are not difficult. But the students may feel bored about so many phrases and structures. I’d better prepare these two periods in the way of a petition among different groups. 。 rough and toilworn fingers。 dig up。 two sons。 9) keep from : prevent (oneself) from doing sth.。 eg. He is afraid to go there. We are never afraid to lay down our lives for the right cause. She was afraid to leave the room, afraid of missing the call. 10) give/lend a (helping) hand: give help 給予幫助，助一臂之力 eg. If you are in trouble, I can give a hand. 11) on one’s own: alone。 eg. Two of the pupils were tardy this morning. Summer came late that year. 6) There was nothing quite so humbling as?? :最為丟臉的事莫過于?? 英語中，句型“否定詞 +so+形容詞 /副詞 +as”可以表示最高級， 意思是“沒有?比?更?”。 have (sth.) as a result。 Unit 1. Text A College— A Transition Point in My Life Teaching subject: Freshmen in The Department of Fine Art Lesson Content: Text ACollegeA Tr