新世纪高职英语Unit2StudentOrganizations

Unit 2StudentOrganizations (8 periods)

I .Lead-in (45 minutes) 1. Warming-up discussion 1) Are you busy in college?

2) What kind of activities do you do in the college? 3) How do you feel about college life and high school life? Divide students into six or seven group and give them ten minutes to discuss these questions. Then invite one member of each group to step on the lectern and give their presentatioon about these questions.

Comment on their presentations.

2.Introduction of background information

1) According to ideas of students, conclude differences between college life and high school education.

College life is more free and self-guided. Students should learn to arrange their time among study, entertainment and activities reasonably. More often than not, they should learn sth. by themselves. Study is no longer the only important thing in college life, all kinds of activities are another key aspects in college life. Get acquitance with new people, join all kinds of club can help students know more about the society, and develop their potential talents like leadership, interactional ability, planning or organizing abilities eyc. to know themselves better.

Learn how to deal with relationship between people is another lesson in college life. Moreover, college students should learn to set goal, make arrangement and carry out it by their self-control or self-discipline.

2) students’union: A students’union, student government, student senate, students’association, guild of students or government of student body is a student organization present in many colleges, universities and has started to appear in some high schools. In higher education, the student union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body.

Many students’unions are run by students, independent of the educational facility. The purpose of these organizations is to represent students both within the institution and externally, including on local and national issues. They are also responsible for providing a variety of services to students. Students can get involved in its management through numerous and varied committees, councils and general meetings, or become one of its elected officers.

3. Read the new words and phrases on page 3 and invite some of them read them.

2.Study these new words and analyze some of them. Advisor(advise sb. to do sth. ; advice; advisable, advisory; consultant, recommend, faculty advisor, tutor)

Budget(manage a budget, make the budget meets)

Celebration(celebrate, wedding celebration, anniversary celebration, celebrated)

Environment(environmental,

economic environment, learning environment)

Flexible(flexibility, inflexible)

Initiative(initiate，initiation, on your initiative) Intellectual(intellectually, intelligence)

Organization(organize, institution, student organization)

environmentally,

environmentally-friendly, environmentalist, the environment,

Priceless(price, invaluable, worthless, valuble) Priority(prior to, give priority to)

Recommendation(recommend sth. to sb., recommendation letter, strong recommendation)

Scary(scare, scary ghost story) Transitional(transit, transition)

Unlimited(limit, limited, limitation, unlimited)

Get involved in(be involved in, take part in participate, join in)

Up to(depend on)

II .Global understanding of the text

1. Give students five minutes to go through the text andfigure out the structure of the text.

2. Analyze the first two paragraphs by finding out the topic sentence and give the main ideas of them. Students should pay attention to the first and last several sentences of each paragraph where the topic sentence often lies.

Paragraph 1: A college or university is a place full of new people, organizations, and opportunities. Paragraph 2：By getting involved in the community life free, students may benefit a lot.

3. Invite the students give the main idea of paragraph three, paragraph four and paragraph five by finding the topic sentence of them and write down the main ideas.

Paragraph 3: Student organizations provide students with opportunities to gain life experience. Paragraph 4: A certain area of interest may lead students to a career path.

Paragraph 5: It’s important for new students to be open to community life on campus.

4. Do ex.1 to have general information of the text.

III .In-depth reading of the text

1. Analyze the text and ask the students to find out the detail information about the following questions.

Para 1: 1) Whatis your interest in high school? (favorite activities)

2)What kinds of clubs do you want to join at our college? 3)Do you very familiar with them?

4)What is your view about this idea that joining the club will disturb your study?

Para 2: What the college students can get from the community activities?

Para 3-4: What kinds of activity the students organization can provide?

Para 5: As a freshman, what you should do?

2. Study the the text sentence by sentence and explain the meaning of difficult sentences

Line 2-4: Regardless of the institution you choose, there will be many opportunities to get involved in the world beyond the classroom.

Line 6-7: Getting involved should be high on your priority list. Line 8: The community life of a college is based upon students who give their time and energy to something bigger than themselves.

Line 9-11: Most will not get paid for their efforts, but their hard work to enrich campus life will provide them with a priceless gift of working for something bigger than themselves.

Line 20: As you grow intellectually, being involved a student organization is often teaching you about the life lessons that are needed for the everyday life which happens outside the classroom.

3.Study the the text sentence by sentence and pick out the structure and do the exercises VI on page 24 to page 25.

1)Regardless of the institution you choose, there will be many opportunities to get involved in the world beyond the classroom.

Regardless of: careless of; without worrying about, on matter what/which, in spite of, despite, without regard for 不管；不顾；

Usage: follow noun or noun phrases directly

E.g. He run into the meeting room regardless of concequence.

Regardless of cost, regardless of good salary.

2)The community life of a college is based upon students who give their time and energy to something bigger than themselves.

3)being involved a student organization is often teaching you about the life lessons tha t are needed for the everyday life which happens outside the classroom。

Explanation: there are two attributive clauses in sentence 3. And the subject of the main sentence is a v-ing phrases. Because the first attributive clause was led by relative--that, the second one could not use the same relative again.

Give some attributive clauses and omit the relatives and invite some students fill in the blank according to the above two conditions and ask them give the reason why they choose the relative. Then comment on it.

4)Along with the experience and training you’ll gain, your involvement in college will play a large role in where you end up after college.

Along with: prep. phrase, always follows by noun or noun phrases

<1>和…一起

Along with many other people, i am very worried about the situation.

<2>除…之外except, in addition to, except for, besides 5)Not to mention the relationships you have formed along the way may lead to either job leads or strong recommendations from your faculty advisor.

either…..or : 表两者选其一

Either … or …连接的是两并列结构，即两者后都接名词短语、都接介词短语、都接形容词短语、都接动词短语或同时接句子等。

4. Pick out the key words and phrases 1) campus : n. <1> a university 大学

E.g. Campus life is fascinating to many young people. <2> the grounds of a university, college, or school 校园 E.g. Campus of Shanghai International Studies University is very beautiful.

Relevant expressions: live on campus Live off campus

E.g. The school requires freshman to live on campus. 2) involve: v. <1>cause someone to become connected or concerned 卷入

E.g. Many dairy companies were involved in the case of melamine-contaminated milk.

<2>要求/允许某人参与

Relevant expression: involve sb. in sth. E.g. I want to involve you in the class. <3>涉及、影响

These changes will involve everyone of the staff. Extended words: involvement, involved Relevant words: participate

Relevant expressions: get involved in Be involved in Join in Take part in

3)Transition: n. the act of changing or passing from one form to another 转变；过渡

E.g. Many places in China are in the transition from countryside to city in the urbanization movement.

Extended words: transit, transitional 4)enrich v. <1>improve 使丰富；使富裕 E.g. They fully understand that art enriches life. <2>添加relevant phrases: enrichsth. withsth. E.g. I enrich my coffee with cream and sugar. <3>使美丽

E.g. Tears enriches her eyes. Extended words: enrichment 5)Provide sb. with sth.

E.g. The government has provided the people in the stricken area with a lot of relief supplies.

6)Place value on: attach importance to, value, treasure, pay attention to 重视

Opposite words：ignore 7）gain: v. obtain 获得 E.g. No pain no gain.

The university undergraduates went to work in this company just to gain some working experience.

Relevant words: obtain, acquire, achieve, get, receive 8) budget: n. a plan of how to spend money 预算

E.g. As a chief accountant, he found it difficult to make a budget at such a critical time.

Relevant expressions: manage a budget, make the budget meets

9) update: v. make more modern 使现代化；更新 E.g. It is high time for us to update the information. 10)run: <1>经营

E.g. His father runs a small restaurant/ a company. Useful expressions: well/badly run State-run <2>跑

E.g. I saw him running across the road. <3>参加赛跑run a marathon

E.g. Are you running in the 100 meters. <4>(机器、系统)运转

E.g. The machine is not running correctly/smoothly.

11)flexible: a.<1> that can change or be changed to be suitable for new needs, changed conditions, etc灵活的

E.g. Since he is quite flexible in doing business, he has made a big fortune.

<2>有弹性的，易弯曲的 E.g. Flexible rope

Useful expressions: flexible schedual

Extended words：flexibility，inflexible, flexitime 12)mention: 提到

Useful phrases: mention sth. to sb. It's worth mentioning that… Don't mention it. 不用谢 Not to mention 更不用说

E.g. Was my name mentioned at all? I mentioned the idea to Joe. 13)form: n <1>形式、方式、外形

E.g. He expressed his thoughts in the form of question. The assignment can take any form you like.

<2>表格

E.g. If you fill in the this form, you can take books out of the library.

V. <1>形成

E.g. A plan began to form in his mind. Form an idea <2>养成

E.g. Children should form a good habit of reading in their childhood.

14)end up: <1>以…结束（esp. unexpected）

Useful expression: end up doing sth. ; end up with sth. E.g. We didn't like it at first, but we ended up cheering. The competition ended up with success of our class. <2>最终成为(esp. unexpected) He ended up as head of the firm. 15)up to: depend on E.g. It's up to you.

IV. Summary and exercises of the text (30minutes) 1. Summary

1) Understanding Review: review the text by reading and ask some questions according to the text so that the teacher can know whether the students understand the text completely.

Questions: Why campus life on a college or university is an exciting world.

Why getting involved in a student organization should be on top of your list?

What may the relationships you formed along the way you get involved lead to?

Why is it important to find the small ways for you to get involved?

2)Conclude the text and restate the important and difficult points.

2.Exercises II, III, IV, V on page 23 to page 24

Invite students give their answers one by one, and comment on their answers.

V. Speaking, listening and phonetics 1. Listening

1) Ss listen to the recording first 2 )Tell them some listening skills.

3 ) Listen to the recording again with the listening skils 4）Check the answer. 2. Speaking

1)Ask students the ways of requirements and suggestions in everyday life

2) Ask students the requirements and suggestions expressions they've learnt before in English.

3) Explain the expressions on page 26.

4) Ask the students to find their partners and ask each group to read the dialogue on page 26.

5) Give students 10 minutes to discuss with their partner and invite several groups to act out the situation on page 27.

3. Phonetics

1) Invite some students to read the phonemes.

2) Tell the students the different positions of the speech organs for these phonemes.

3) Play the recordings and let students listen and repeat after the recording.

4) Ask the students to read and translate task III and present them the references.

VI. Grammar tips: plural form of noun

1. Ask students their idea about plural form of noun and to list common usage of it.

2. Conclude the special usage of the plural form of noun. 1) the plural form of the noun shares the same form with singular form.

Give some examples: people of a country: .Chinese, Japanese, Swiss

Some animals: sheep, deer

Other words: means, series, aircraft etc,

2) if the end of a noun is \"-is\should change \"-is\" into \"-es\"

Give examples: thesis--theses, basis--bases, analysis--analyses, axis--axes etc.

3) in some fixed words collocations, the plural form is a must. Examples: take pains make friends with shake hands with 4)the plural form of compound nouns:

<1>if there is a center word in a compound noun, the plural form is to change the center word into its plural form only.

E.g. Passer(s)-by, looker(s)-on, sister(s)-in- law etc.

<2> if there is no center word in a compound noun, the plural form is to change the last word into its plural form only.

E.g. Go-between(s), hand-out(s)

<3>if \"man\" or \"woman\" is at the front of a compound noun, the plural form is to change both of the two words into their plural form.

E.g. Man doctor----men doctors

3. Guides students to finish the exercise on page 11 to consolidate, then checks the answers and gives feedback.

VII. Reading skills, practical reading and practical writing (60minutes)

1. Reading skills

1) Explain skills of comparison & contrast with examples. 2) ask students guess the meaning of the italicized word on page29 by the two skills.

2. Practical reading

1) Guide students to read the chart on page 30 and tell them how to find specific information from it.

2) Guide students finish the exercise below it and check the answers.

3. Practical writing

1) Guide students read the two sample on page 31 and give them the definition and types of notices

2) Explain the format and content of a notice. 3) Notes when writing a notice.

4) Provide students with some basic patterns

5) Ask students finish the practice on page 31 and invite some of them write their notices on blackboard and comment on it.

Assignments :1. Finish all the other exercises in the workbook. 2. Preview the new text.