Unit 3 Whats Their Number Again?Reading and Writing (Passage A：Bathtub Effect 中职英语第四册Teaching objectives【 Focuses】get the main idea of the passage. use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning and so on.Know how to improve their memory. 【 Difficulties】What we will learn to:know the phenomenon of “Bathtub Effect.1 Revision单词思忆短语回顾1. magic adj. 有魔力的2. stage n. 舞台3. cheat n. 骗子4. swallow v. 吞没 5. stand out 出色，出色6. encourage sb. to do sth. 鼓励某人做某事7. stay up 熬夜8. throw a party 举办宴会RevisionReading Laguage Points Practice Role-playWork with a partner. Role-play the following situation. Use the conversation strategy on Page 41.RevisionReading Laguage Points Practice Your friend is asking you when the class meeting will be held. Youre not sure whether it will be 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. this evening. Pre-reading Bathtub EffectBathtub Effect2 Reading RevisionReading Laguage Points Practice 2 Reading (Bathtub Effect) The bathtub effect is perhaps the most commonly reported finding in the literature on memory for words. People remember the beginnings and ends of words better than the middles, as if the words were a person lying in a bathtub, with their head out of the water at one end and their feet out at the other. And, just as in a bathtub the head is further out of the water and more prominent than the feet, so the beginnings of words are, on average, better remembered than the ends. “浴缸效应大概是与背单词有关的文献记录中最常见的一个现象了。
人们记单词的时候， 对词的头和尾往往比中间部分记得更牢这就好似单词是躺在浴缸里的一个人，头和脚都露出水面而同时，头露出水面的部分往往比脚要多，而且比脚更加显眼 因此，单词的开头部分一般都比结尾部分更容易被记住RevisionReading Laguage Points Practice 231Listen to the recording of Passage A.Skimming: Read the passage quickly. Intensive-readingRevisionReading Laguage Points Practice While-readingWhile-readingActivity 1: Read passage A and tick () true or false.FalseTrue True FalseRevisionReading Laguage Points Practice Bathtub EffectRevisionReading Laguage Points Practice Post-reading Activity 2: The following is the dictation of a passage. Caught by the bathtub effect, the writer missed some words. Choose the correct words to complete it.amazingspecific hopefullyLanguage Points(1) Bathtub effect 浴缸现象，浴缸效应(2) Many people regard English learning as a very challenging task, because it is very difficult for them to remember English words. 许多人认为英语学习是一项很具挑战性的工作，因为对他们来说记住英语单词是很困难的。
regardas 把当作，认为是 a very challenging task 一项很具挑战性的工作RevisionReading Laguage Points Practice 在It is+adj. /n. (for sb. )to do 构造中，it 为形式主语，真正的主语是 to remember English words该句型中的形容词说明后面不定式行为的特点，常用的形容词有easy, difficult, necessary, important, hard等如： 1) It is important to keep the balance of nature. 2) 每天早上读英语对我们来说是必要的Language PointsRevisionReading Laguage Points Practice 保持自然界中的生态平衡是非常重要的 It is necessary for us to read English every morning. (3) Research says that people remember the beginnings and ends of words better than the middles. 研究说明，人们对单词的开头和结尾记得比中间好。
begin常用短语搭配有： at the beginning of 一开始begin with 以开始end的常用短语搭配有：in the end 最后at the end of 在末、底by the end of 到末为止 end up with 以告终Language PointsRevisionReading Laguage Points Practice (4) The result is the so-called “bathtub effect , according to which speakers will recall with more ease the beginning and the end of words. 这就产生了所谓的“浴缸效应, “浴缸效应指说话人会更容易记起词语的开头部分和末尾部分 recall with more ease the beginning and the end of words. = recall the beginning and the end of words more easily. with more ease “更容易、更沉着Language PointsRevisionReading Laguage Points Practice according to which 为介词+关系代词 which 引导的非限制性定语从句构造。
拓展训练】( ) Can you lend me the book you talked yesterday? A. with which B. about which C. with that D. about that( ) I have two grammar books, are of great use. A. all of which B. either of which C. both of that D. both of which BDRevisionReading Laguage Points Practice Language Points(5) As if the word were a person lying in a bathtub, with the head out of the water at one end and the feet at the other. 这个单词就好似一个人躺在浴缸内，头部在浴缸的一端露出水面， 脚在另一端 as if the word were a person lying in a bathtub 为as if 引导的虚拟语气，lying in a bathtub 为如今分词作定语，修饰a person。
out of “从中RevisionReading Laguage Points Practice RevisionReading Laguage Points Practice Practice 1. Learn the useful new words and expressions in this part by heart.2. Writing: Whats bathtub effect? 3. Underline all the useful expressions in the passage and read them aloud and copy them down in their exercise books after class .RevisionReading Laguage Points Practice Homework。