【正文】 ansition Point in My Life, Vocabulary, grammar viewVerb tenses, reading skillstopic sentence, Basic writing skills. Teaching Aims: 1) The students will be able to master the pronunciation and meaning of the new words and expressions. 2) The students will understand the main ideas of Text A and can talk about their own experiences of being a freshman in the college Methodology: Communicative language teaching. Students use texts containing authentic language. Teacher is a facilitator. Students do role plays, dialogs, conversations, etc. Key Issue: 1) Lead the students to read and learn the new words especially lead them how to use these words. 2) Help the students to understand the content of the text and motivate them to discuss their own feelings. 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： Warmup Activity Prelistening Activities: Textbook P8 Questions for Introduction: ask students if they know about any uccessful Chinese Americans in the United States, and why they are so successful. Step 2 ： Lead the students to read the new words after the tape twice and correct their pronunciations while reading. And then, guide the students through the exercises, 1 focusing on certain items or leaving some exercises as the students’ homework according to the students’ levels. 1. Ask some students to read the new words to check whether they have mastered the pronunciations of the words. 2. Explanation for some important and useful words. 1) freshman: [pl.] freshmen sophomore 大二學(xué)生 junior （四年制大學(xué)或中學(xué)的）三年級學(xué)生 senior （中學(xué)或大學(xué)的）畢業(yè)班的學(xué)生 2) pete: v. ~ ( against/ with sb.) ( in sth.) (for sth.) 競爭；對抗；比賽 petitive: adj. 比賽的；競爭的 petition: n. 比賽；競賽 3) regulate: vt. 調(diào)整；調(diào)節(jié)（時間、速度等） eg. ~ one’s life 調(diào)整生活 ~ the temperature of a room 調(diào)節(jié)室溫 4) fortable: adj. fort: n. 舒適；安慰 v. 安慰（某人） eg. I was so ~ and warm in bed that I didn’t want to get up. She does not feel very ~ with strangers. 5) share: vt. n. 股份 eg. I ~ an office with some other teachers. They ~d the cake between them. I want to ~ my news with you. Step 3. 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 1) on the textbook 2) 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. 2 After Class Notes: All the students are badly intrigued by the techniques that could possibly make them excel, but they are confused how to make it in themselves by their own efforts. More important, most of the uninvolved students have bee active in class after they have read this passage. During my teaching, I asked 3 students to tell the public in the classroom how they did work harder and make greater progress in their study. And many good study skills have been revealed and shared by peers. It proves this is a very good way to instruct students from theory to practice. 3 Unit 2 He Helped The Blind Teaching subject: Lesson Content: Vocabulary, Text AHe Helped The Blind, grammar viewVerb tenses(2), reading skillstopic sentence, Basic writing skills. Teaching Aims: 1) The students will be able to master the pronunciation and meaning of the new words and expressions. 2) The students will understand the main ideas of Text A and can talk about the necessity of invention and how invention changed our lives. 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) Lead the students to read and learn the new words especially lead them how to use these words. 2) Help the students to understand the content of the text and motivate them to discuss their own opinions 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 Warmup and Leadin/ Revision Warningup activities including asking question related to the topic or questions which help student remembering what they have learnt in unit one. 4 Step 2 language points 1. Lead the students to read the new words after the tape twice and correct their pronunciations while reading. 2. Ask some students to read the new words to check whether they have mastered the pronunciations of the words. 3. Explanation for some important and useful words. to do sth. 1) desire: + intention+of willingness+to for sth. eg. You can tell him of your desire to go on the trip with him. A strong desire