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1、新视野大学英语第四册教案Unit 1 Section A The Temptation of a Respectable Woman Teaching Objectives:1. Words, Phrases and Expressions of the Text ( stress on the word-formation, and the usage of the phrases and the expressions).2. Sentence Structure ( the usage of “might have done or could have done”; and “So +S
2、ubject +V or So + V +Subject”).3. Text Structure (story-writing in chronological order).Teaching Procedure:A. Pre-reading Activity (10minutes)What does it mean by the word “temptation” and “respectable”? What does it mean by the title “The Temptation of a Respectable Woman”? (Group work)B. While-rea
3、ding Activity 1. Ask students some sign post questions to each paragraph to see how well the students understand each paragraph. (Some of the questions are on P.8 Comprehension of the text)2. Language Points: (refer to teachers book)1). Mrs. Baroda was a little annoyed to learnPlease note that “ ann
4、oyed: is modified by “ a little”. “ annoyed” can also be modified by other adverbs, like “ somewhat/ very/ a bit/ pretty/ much/rather/ quite”, etc.e.g. I was a bit annoyed, for I forgot to put your name on .2). she could understand him no better than at first.Here “ no” mans “not at all”, and can be
5、 used as an adverb before comparatives.e.g. The exam is no more difficult than the tests youve been doing in class.3). she imposed her company upon him,impose ones company/oneself/upon/on sb.; force ones company or oneself on sb.e.g. Dont impose your company/yourself on people who dont like you.4) “
6、 You are full of surprises,” he said to her.Be full of surprises: do unexpected thingse.g. Shes always full of surprises.6). the last thing he would desire or expect.The last thing: ( 1). sth. that is desired in the leaste.g. The last thing he needed right then was more bad news about his son.(2) st
7、h. that is taken as the last onee.g. My feeling was that if this was the last thing I was going to do, I wanted to be of some value. 7). But the poor fellow is run down by too much work now.Run down: (cause to) decline in physical condition; weaken or exhaust in mind or vigore.g. His health ran down
8、 to a dangerous level.made some routine observations upon the unhealthy effect8). . A meaningless succession of verbs nouns, adverbs and adjectives a succession of: a number of people or things following each other closely e.g. The reason is that a succession of statistics suggest a rapidly weakenin
9、g economy.9). She wanted reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him _ which she might have done if she had not been a respectable woman.Note the structure “might have done: is used to say that if a particular thing had happened, then there was a possibility of something else happening. The str
10、ucture “could have done” can also be used in this way.e.g. She said it might have been all right, if the weather had been good.He could have got tickets if he had arrived there earlier.10). But she did not yield to the temptation.Yield to: give in to; decide to do sth. because one cannot resist the
11、temptation.e.g. Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation.11). she was also a very sensible one.sensible: reasonable, practical and able to judge things welle.g. I think its a very sensible suggestion.Compare: sensitive: (of people) easily upset, esp. by things
12、 that are said or done; (of things) causing people to be upset or producing a difficult or embarrassing situatione.g. Her reply showed that she was very sensitive to criticism.12). truly he did not deserve it.Deserve:(not used in the progressive tenses) if sb,/sth. deserves sth., it is right that th
13、ey should have it, because of the way they have behaved or because of what they aree.g. The report deserves careful consideration.One player in particular deserves a mention.He deserves to be locked up forever for what he did.C. Post-reading Activity 1. Ask students to sum up the main idea of the te
14、xt and to analyze the writing techniques of the text.Text Structure AnalysisWriting in chronological order is common in narrative, where events are presented according to time sequence. This kind of writing is much used in telling stories, in brief biographical and autobiographical sketches. This re
15、ading passage is made up of several episodes arranged according to time sequence even though the author employs many different writing techniques, especially cause-and-effect in developing the episodes. Look at the following chart and you will find that the story is structured according to time sequ
16、ence as a whole. 1. The first part o f the passage is Paragraph 1, which is the general situation of the story and also the starting point of the story. Mrs. Baroda was a little annoyed that her husbands friend, Gouvernail, was to spend a week or two on their plantation. 2. The second part consists of 9 paragraphs, from Paragraph
