【正文】 and ? text structure analysis Procedure: a. Reading Skills (10mins) Context clue 5: examples Examples can also give you some clues or hints to the meanings of unfamiliar words. Study the following sentences: a. Select any of these periodicals: Time, Newsweek, Reader‘s Digest or the New Yorker. (From the examples, you can easily figure out the meaning of the word‖ periodicals‖.) b. she is studying glaua and other diseases of the eye. (This sentence does not tell you exactly what ―glaua‖ means, but it does tell you that‖ glaua‘ is a kind of eye disease.) c. they had been putting in place the tools of my new business: curryb, brush, pitchfork—everything… (using the clue ―my new business‖ as well as the word part ―b‖ you might figure out that ―curryb‘ most probably means ―a tool used to b a horse‖.) Context clue 6: parison When we pare things, we see how they are like each other. So parisons in writing can give you clues to the meanings of unfamiliar words. Look at the following examples to see if you can get an idea of the meaning of each italicized word. a. The snow was falling. Big flakes drifted with the wind like feathers b. The hotair balloon took off. It was as buoyant in the air as a cork in water. Context clue 7: contrast The use of a contrast can give you a hint to the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Sometimes a sentence tells you the opposite of what a new word means. Look at the following examples to see if you can get an idea of the meanings of the italicized words. a. Jane was talking with others while Eliza remained reticent all the time. b. Most of us agreed。 長江大學(xué)文理學(xué)院英語閱讀課時教案 課程名稱 : 英語閱讀 授課專業(yè)：英語 班級：英專 5051/5052 英語 5053/5054 教師：斯軍民 職稱：講師 2020~2020 學(xué)年度 第二學(xué)期 Unit I Objectives: At the end of the session the students should be able to: ? Understand and Master the reading skills in this unit ? apply the reading skills to reading activities ? to encourage students to think about the topic of the ing text ? to develop students‘ skill in predicting the main idea of the text Approach: ? taskbased approach (mainly learning tasks) ? global or prehensive approach Teaching contents: ? the reading skills in this unit ? language points and grammatical structures in the text。 however, Bill dissented. Peter was not frugal since he spent money so freely. b. Fast Reading (20mins) This reading activity is designed to test students‘ reading prehension accurateness and speed. Students are required to finish short passages and record there reading time and score within 20 minutes. c. Careful Reading(80mins) 1. language points ? The evidence now indicates that within fifty years or so world population will peak at about eight billion before starting a fairly rapid decline. ? As long ago as September of 1974 scientific American published a special issue on population that described what demographers had begin calling the ―demographic transition‖ from traditional high rates of birth and death to the low ones of modern society.. ? If the patterns of the past century don‘t change radically, it will head into negative numbers.. ? Population change is too slow and remote for people to feel in their lives even if the total population were to double or halve in only a century. ? This is true in western and in eastern countries, in catholic and in secular societies. ? Nobody can say whether world population will ever dwindle to very low numbers. ? Values, not biological imperatives, are the unfathomable variable in population predictions. ? Presumably fertility could someday increase Just as quickly as it has declined in recent decades ? If the average fertility rate were to take a long time to move from well below to well above replacement rate and back again, trends in world population could go a long way before they reversed themselves. 2. prehension questions ? What is the main idea of the essay? ? What prediction about the world population is made in this article? ? What is the writer‘s opinion about some experts‘ conclusion that population will stay level? ? Has the fertility rate been going down in modernizing countries or areas in contrast to the rising life expectancy concerning the rapid increase in population in the past two centuries? ? What is the decision factor to determine the number of children born generally? ? What is the essential factor to affect human population? ? Would the world population begin to decrease by one percent a year, if world fertility dropped by births per woman? ? Will world population grow if fertility rises above replacement rate, according to the article? ? Why does it take a long tie for lower fertility in modern societies to reduce the world population? ? What does the underlined part in the sentence mean, ?the result would be big swings in world population‖? 3. discussing the following topics ? It‘s been often assumed that the world population is increasing beyond the earth‘s capacity, but the view in the article is just the opposite. Why does the writer make such a hypothesis? Are you persuaded to follow this view? why? ? What do you think of the relation between human values and population? d. Home Reading(10mins) This reading activity is assigned to the students as homework, the teacher spend 10 minutes to check the assignment in the beginning of each class, and give some ments on their work. Unit V Objectives: At the end of the session the students should be able to: ? Understand and Master the reading skills in this unit ? apply the reading skills to reading activities ? to encourage students to think about the topic of the ing text ? to develop students‘ skill in predicting the main idea of the text Approach: ? taskbased approach (mainly learning tas