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研究生英语听说课程教案
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授课题目（教学章、节或主题）： Unit 4 Do as Romans Do |
教学目的、要求（分掌握、熟悉、了解三个层次）： 1、Help the students master the new words and expressions used in this unit. 2、Help them get to comprehend the listening materials. 3、Encourage them to express their ideas on the assigned topics. |
教学重点及难点： Understand the English news about shopping addiction and answer the questions. Group or pair work. |
教学基本内容 |
方法及手段 |
• Warm-up • Listening for Content • Speaking for Communication • Follow-up |
理 论 课 |
作业、讨论题、思考题： Group discussion: What are the common beliefs or taboos in English-speaking countries? |
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Unit 4 Do as Romans Do
Warm-up
Look at the diagram made by Daisy Kabagarama about the components of culrure in her book, Breaking the Ice. Listen to the speaker's descriptions. write down the key words in the blanks. The first letter if each word is already given.
Vocabulary
component: n. one of several parts that together make up a whole machine, system etc组成部分a.
moulder: n. the shape of a pattern of a mould (性格等的)形成者
norm：n. Norms are ways of behaving that are considered normal in a particular society. 准则，规范
aspiration: n. a strong desire to have or achieve something志向，抱负
dynamic: a. continuously moving or changing不断变化的
Skills to practice: listen for specific information
Listen to the short passage for the first time to get to know the general idea of it.
Components of Culture
The term culture has been defined in many ways. Howard defines it as the customary manner in which human groups learn to organize their behavior and thoughts. I define cultures as the way of life of a group of people. In that way, culture is in essence the moulder if human behavior of a certain group.
Culture has several major components. The first important one is material possessions, which refer to objects like books or clothes. The non- material component can be illustrated by the following parts: values, norms, beliefs, emotions, attitudes, aspirations, laws, and symbols. The arrows in the figure point in both directions, suggesting that culture shapes these components. In turn, these aspects impact culture, which means culture is dynamic, always undergoing great changes. For example, people who share the same level of material possessions may have different values or beliefs. People who have similar beliefs may change the ways to express emotions. From birth to death, people are faced with cultural messages and change in these components.
Key
1) way of life of a group of people
2) material possessions
3) values
4) symbols
Detailed listening, and explain the passage to the students.
Listen to the passage for a third time and then check the answers.
Discuss the following questions.
1. What is the basis of your culture? Find some key words to describe the characteristics of your culture.
2. Can you give some examples to support the idea that culture is always changing?
II. Listening for content
1. Listening to a conversation.
A. Listening to a conversation between two Chinese office workers, Huang and Zhao, talking about Chinese calligraphy. After the conversation, some questions will be asked about what was said. Write down a short answer to each question.
Vocabulary
Chinese character:汉字
Stoke sequence: 笔画顺序
Calligraphy：书法
Listen to the conversation for the first time to get to know the general idea of it.
A recent survey shows that 95% of adult Chinese write less than four handwritten letters per year. Two Chinese office workers, Huang and Zhao are talking about whether handwriting matters or not.
Huang: Well, I'm a little bit worried about my Chinese handwriting skills. I use my computer to write e-mails and my cellphone to send messages. It's so easy to forget how to write Chinese characters.
Zhao: Well, Huang, you are not alone in your worries. Last week, I was reading a postcard my father sent me. I was struck by how neat and clear it was. You know, he does not live with me, but his unique handwriting reminds me of my days with him. Sometimes, I wonder, will my son be impressed by my handwriting? My ugly handwriting!
Huang: How can your handwriting be beautiful, Zhao, when we rely on computers, cellphones and other electronic tools to communicate? I am afraid that one day writing by hand will become very difficult, because children may be unable to recall the stroke sequences to write some characters.
Zhao: Quite possible. You see, traditional calligraphy draws less attention now. My teacher should have taught us more about traditional Chinese calligraphy.
Huang: It's not the teacher's fault. People now place less values on the importance of practicing calligraphy. They think computers can help people recognize and write characters.
Zhao: Word processing has made it much easier to communicate, but Chinese handwriting is a tradition of nearly 4,000 years. How can we abandon it? It's time to do something to help rescue the tradition of handwriting letters.
Huang: Recently, an organization has advocated a movement entitled "Please Write Letters", encouraging people to send more handwritten letters, to put pen to paper. In some companies, receiving a handwritten note is now seen as something of a compliment, for it's more personal and sincere.
Zhao: I hope that will work.
Possible answers for reference
1. What is mainly talked about in this conversation?
The Chinese handwriting tradition faces a precarious future, and modern people are paying less attention to it.
2. What are Huang and Zhao worried about in terms of children?
In the future, children may forget how to write Chinese characters.
3. What type of advice do they offer in the end?
To do something to rescue and reviving Chinese handwriting.
Listen to the conversation for a third time, and pay attention to the details related to the general idea of the conversation.
Listen to the conversation for the last time, and answer the questions.
B. Listen to the conversation again and choose the best answer from the four choices given to each question you hear.
Key: DCAB
Listening to a passage
Vocabulary
iconic: An iconic image or thing is important or impressive because it seems to be a symbol of something. 画像的; 图符的
slump：If something such as the value of something slumps, it falls suddenly and by a large amount. (价值等) 暴跌
Listen to the short passage for the first time to get to know the general idea of it.
Farewell to Barbie
Nearly every girl likes Barbie. The surprising thing about Barbie is the toy is welcomed worldwide in every country. It is compatible with every culture. Barbie, Mattel's sweetheart, is almost 50 years old and has been in big trouble lately; in fact, some are even saying that she's dead. Sales of the iconic toy over the last five years have been so bad that some are suggesting it may be time foe Mattel to end production of the once-popular doll.
Barbie's always been about play and fashion. One toy-market analyst says that in the last couple of years there has been a little bit too much emphasis on just having it to look trendy and fashionable. Mattel's biggest problem was that they forgot to put some of the fun into some of the Barbie toys. And they forgot some of the basic elements. Toys need to be magical. A child needs to open a toy and immediately want to play. Mattel was not doing that.
What's more, Barbie is no ordinary toy, she copies the female form. She stands for woman within the games of make-believe in which children involve her. Some feminists criticize Barbie, because Barbie represents an old-fashioned image if females and modern features of women cannot be found in the toy.
So today, a radical idea kills her, dead. But that doesn't mean the end of the brand. Nowadays, kids aren't just playing with toys; they are watching movies, they are going to shows, and they are wearing clothes. So the Barbie brand is not just about dolls anymore. It's 3 billion dollars worth of merchandise and entertainment around the world every year. But as Mattel's biggest seller, slumping sales could mean it's time for a "farewell, Barbie".
Listen to the passage carefully and do the exercises in part A.
Explain the passage to the students and then check the answers while listening to the passage for a third time.
1. What might lead to the end of Barbie's production?
2. What are the basic elements for toys, according to the toy analyst?
3. Why do some feminists criticize Barbie?
4. What might be the future of Barbie dolls?
5. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
Key: DABAC
B: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.
5 minutes or so are given to the students to organize their ideas and prepare to present their opinions with what they have learned from the listening material.
Listening to English News
Listen to the following news report about an English Beijing Opera fan and fill in the blanks with what you hear.
Vocabulary
Beijing opera:京剧
acrobatics: 杂技（表演）
mischievous: someone who is mischievous likes to have fun, especially by playing
tricks on people or doing things to annoy or embarrass them调皮的；恶作剧的
hybrid: something that consists of or comes from a mixture of two or more other
things〔两种或两种以上不同物质组成的〕混合体
Teaching Tips:
This is intended for students to improve listening skills with authentic materials. The skill practiced is for selective information.
Listen to the English news for the first time to get the general idea of it.
Have students form pairs to compare their answers and discuss differences if any.
Audio script &key
Beijing Opera is largely seen as a dying art in China. Louisa Lim wants to introduce us to an unlikely new champion for Chinese opera. He's a British man who has 1) devoted more than a decade to bringing Chinese opera to new audiences.
Ghaffar: And I saw a Beingjing opera in London in 1993. And that just shocked me.
It really moved me.
Louisa: Ghaffar Pourazar is British, born to Iranian Azeri parents. At the age of 32, he
gave up his life as a 2) computer animator and enrolled in a Beijing opera
school, drawn by the difficulty of mastering this art form.
Ghaffar: And there is no other culture which has put that much 3) discipline into
training the perfect performer. That is what the Beijing opera is about, the
perfect performer.
Louisa: On stage, the actors not only act, they sing and dance at the same time as
performing 4）heart-stopping feats of acrobatics and sword fighting. Once the
show begins, it's clear that Pourazar has taken a Chinese classic and made it
his own. The cast is partly non-Chinese. And there's a lot of 5）explanation in
English. The story is the 6）much-loved legend of the Monkey King, a
mischievous monkey born from a stone, who learns 7）supernatural skills and
uses them to 8）challenge the emperor of heaven. Pourazar is the multilingual
monkey.
Ghaffar: It's within the rules of the art form that you perform for that audience. What
I have done is, by taking it to London, to change the spoken parts into
English. And that's, 9）that's within the rules of the opera.
Louisa: That even means adding a bit of comedy rap opera to the mix.
Louisa: And this hybrid bilingual opera 10）wins good reviews from both Western
and Chinese audience members.
A Man: And that's really Chinese stuff, 11）expressing the more acceptable way. So
it'll be more popular.
Louisa: 12）But the popularity of Beijing opera is fading fast, with young Chinese audiences turning to karaoke, DVDs and the internet. Much to Pourazar's sorrow.
Detailed listening, and explain some words and sentence structures to the students.
Listen to the news for a third timeand then check the answers.
Listen to the news report again and answer the following questions according to what you hear. After you finish the task, check your answers with your partner.
III. Speaking for Communication
Talking it up
Learn how to express the certainty and uncertainty.
Reading the following incomplete conversation. Fill in the blanks according to the information given in the context. The listen to the recording of the conversation. Check your answers with what you hear. After that, work with your partner and do the role-play by using the sentence patterns you have learned from the sample conversation.
Audio Script and key:
A: I hear Jill will make her presentation in class today.
B: That can't be true. She's been sick since she went home from the party last night.
A: You are kidding, what’s wrong？
B: I don't know for certain. Maybe she had lots of iced drinks at the party.
A: That's impossible. Jill never drinks anything too cold. I am sure about that.
B: Then what might be the reason?
A: Do you think it's likely that she didn't get a good sleep after the party?
B: Quite possible. She even called me and told me how excited she was when ia got
home from the party.
A: And it rained on the way home. I wonder if she had an umbrella with her.
B: No, she didn't. I know that for sure.
A: No wonder she is sick.
Group or pair work
The class should be divided into 5 or 6 groups to do pair work. The students are to practice what they have learned in Parts A and B, and they are expected to talk freely with their own established knowledge about the topic. In the end, one student is to present the results of their discussion in a set time.
Talking it through
Free discussion about the topic by making use of the information learned in Listening for Content. Students are encouraged to describe their general inclinations in choosing clothes and their special choices for particular occasions. The teacher can specify some settings by asking:
--What would you wear for a job interview?
--What clothes would you rarely wear when taking part in outdoor sports?
Read the given information and then discuss hobbies and personalities with your group members
IV. Follow-up
1. Listening to short conversations
Listen and get the answer from the given 4 choices. (Key: BCDBD)
Audio script &key
1. W: What channel do you watch on TV?
M: I watch mainly news programs and classic movies. I hate commercials. There is
a lot more advertising than there used to be.
W: Nowadays, whatever you're doing in your daily life, it's quite difficult to get
away from ads in one form or another. They're all around you. Advertising has
always been part of our life.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
2. W: Excuse me. Can you tell me what your lecture is about?
M: Oh, I'm going to lecture on photograph of cities.
W: Is that about architectural styles of various buildings?
M: Well, not exactly. The theme in my photography is "the history contained in
cities". I spend quite a large amount of time trying to depict life in the city,
trying to build a history of cities visually
Q: What is the man interested in?
3. W: Hey, listen to the interesting quiz:"When the host introduces you to a group of people at a party, what’s your typical meet-and-greet smile? Are your lips closed over your teeth?, or with lips open and teeth revealed"?
M: What? What kind of quiz is that?
W: It’s about your character by testing your body language. My Chinese friend
did the quiz, and her answer shows she is a shy and withdrawn person.
M: I wonder whether that works for us Englishmen.
Q: What is the quiz about?
4. M: I really don't understand why Jerry is so cold yesterday when I came to his
office. I know I was late. But it was only 20 minutes.
W: Well, that's your problem. Jerry is a typical American. He must feel slighted
and think you are a rude person.
M: In my country, it's normal to be late by 30 minutes.
W: But you're not in Brazil now.
Q: What do you know about the man?
5. W: Hi, Frank, have you been to your kung fu class? With your Chinese friends?
M: Yes, it's amazing. Speed, power, balance and timing, that's kung fu. We strike with the fist, hand, the elbow, he knee, the foot, the heel, and the bottom.
W: So, does that mean you are so tough that nobody can beat you in a fight?
M: I don’t do it for fighting, but for exercise. I so this martial are in a gym, not on a battlefield.
Q: Why does the man take a kung fu class?
2. Listening to a longer conversation
Listen to the conversation for the first time to get the general idea.
Script: omitted
Listening to a passage
Detailed listening, and explain some words and sentence structures to the students.
Listen to the passage for a third time and let the students write down a short answer to each of the following questions.
Listen again and check the answers.
Possible answers for reference
1. Why did the Egyptian Pharaohs have pyramids built?
Pharaohs had pyramids built because they believed pyramids to be gates
through which they could enter heaven, where they could enjoy the same
luxurious lives as they did when they were alive.
2. What lured the tomb robbers to rob pyramids?
All the treasures buried with the dead Pharaohs are of great value and attracted
many robbers to enter the Pyramids.
3. What were the risks of robbing the pharaohs tombs?
If robbers were caught, they would be tied to a pole and severely tortured to
death.
4. Why were tomb robbers severely punished?
In most Egyptians' eyes, these robbers not only showed disrespect to their
kings, but also insulted the gods.