1、Unit 2 Green Spaces in Cities 江西信息应用职业技术学院孙敏Teaching contextuTime Allotment: Unit 2 Section B (50 m) uChapter： Green Spaces in CitiesuTeaching aims： The teaching of this text aims to enable students: to master the new words and useful phrases. to get acquainted with skills of reading paragraphs with
2、 a general statement that is supported by specific details. to get acquainted with skills of reading for main ideas. to practice what has been learned. uTeaching important and difficult points: learning the ways of reading skills from the passages learning the new words and useful expressions in the
3、 text doing the relevant exercises after the classesTeaching contextTeaching contextuTeaching methods： utilizing the multi-media classroom to show courseware for students listening and reading the words, useful expressions and text from the teaching CD Learning these courses as following: http:/ Ski
4、llsuFinding Out Word MeaningsWhat shall we do when we come across unfamiliar words in our reading? Many times we can figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word from clues provided by context. The particular reading skill introduced for this unit is finding out word meanings through context clues.
5、In the text we list as many as 7 different ways of finding out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. The context clues that might be helpful for you to recognize the meaning of a new word include:uSome sentences give the definition for a difficult word with the help of punctuation such as commas, dashe
6、s or parentheses.uContext sometimes gives examples to illustrate a difficult word rather than define it. We can use the examples to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Reading SkillsuSynonyms (同义词 ) are words or phrases that are similar in meaning. A synonym is one type of context clue tha
7、t helps you to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.Reading SkillsuAntonym (反义词 ) clues. Antonyms are words or phrases that have opposite meanings to other words or phrases. Antonym clues can help you understand new words.uSentences before or after a sentence that has a difficult word sometime
8、s explain the meaning of the word.Reading SkillsuSometimes we can use our own experiences, or our knowledge about a certain topic, to find out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.uWord part clues. We can often figure out an unfamiliar word because we know the prefix or suffix attached to the root word
9、, or the two words that make up a compound word.Reading SkillsuHere we have picked out some examples from Reading Passage A to explain how this particular reading skill is used in practice. Example 1 uContext clue: We can often figure out an unfamiliar word because we know the prefix or suffix attac
10、hed to the root word. u Example: The great majority of nations concern themselves with economic development, regardless of its effect on the global ecology. uExplanation: We can find out the meaning of the new word global, because we know that this adjective is formed by adding the suffix -al to the noun globe. Reading Skills
