1、外国语学院中级阅读 1教学大纲一、课程的性质与目标中级阅读 1是英语专业本科二年级学生第一学期开设的一门专业必修课。是为培养学生的英语阅读能力，为本专业其他课程和高年级专业课的学习奠定语言基础的一门课程。二、课程教学目标和任务：阅读（泛读）是英语专业学生的基础学科，它使学生在阅读中，既能比较系统的掌握基本的快速阅读技能，又能通过阅读题材及风格各异的篇章，开阔视野、扩大知识面，丰富语言知识、增强语感，积累一定的词汇量，增加一定的英美文化背景知识，加深对英语语言特点的理解，提高其阅读的速度、理解能力及综合运用语言的能力，以培养具有综合素质的英语专业人才。三、课程教学的基本要求英语阅读课列入学校的教
2、学计划，成绩记入学生的档案，按照高等学校英语专业基础阶段英语教学大纲及本学院对大学生的教学，考核的有关规定，严格考核制度。英语阅读课教学时数为36学时。在完成规定学时的基础上，对学生的学习方法进行指导，有组织的开展第二课堂活动（如英语辩论赛）。造成生动活泼的语言环境，丰富学生的业余文化生活，提高他们的学习兴趣和运用语言的能力。在英语阅读课的教学中，要根据学生的具体情况采取相应的教学方法。教英语阅读课课的教师应有高度的事业心和责任感，充分发挥自己的主动性和创造性，针对不同教学对象，充分调动学生的学习积极性和主动性，培养学生的独立工作能力。四、课程教学内容Reading Course (Book
3、3)Unit 1 Reading Strategies (2 hours)知 识 点 1Why read faster2. Suggestions for Improving Speed 重 点 The relationship between reading and understanding难 点 1. Rate adjustment: overall rate adjustment and internal rate adjustment 2As their basic rate improves, their rates for other material will also imp
4、rove. 基本要求 Get the students to read unit one and learn reading strategies.实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 2 Education (2 hours)知 识 点 ： 1. Its never too late for success.2. The education of Benjamin Franklin.重 点 1. People can success at any age only if they try the
5、ir best. 2. Some famous persons education难 点 1.So whos to say what about youth 2.daydreaming indecision 3.become fired with 4.If you dont think time counts, look at Grandma Moses. 5.He who has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he for whom you yourself have done a fav
6、or. 基本要求Get the students to read unit two and learn something about all kinds of education. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 3 Body Language (2 hours) 知 识 点 ：1. Signals without words2. The Secret language of barrier signals.重 点 1. The information that different sig
7、nals of language convey. 2. The differences between the barrier signals of children, teenagers and adults. 难 点 1. snap judgement2. barrier signals for adults3. Each social occasion involves us, once again, in encounters similar to the ones which made us hide as scared infants and, as then each encou
8、nter is slightly threatening. 基本要求Get the students to read unit three and learn something about all kinds of education. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 4 Aniamals (2 hours)知 识 点 ： 1. Little brother of the wolf2. Bird Brains重 点 1. Who is the little brother of the w
9、olf and why they would have to be clever.2. Birds are more intelligent than people think. 难 点 Some new words that have something to do with animals: coyote, predator, ingenuity, urine, curator, trout, corvine, woodpecker, consummate, cactus, mimic, tutelage, roost, solicit. 基本要求Get the students to r
10、ead unit four and learn something about animals. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 5 History（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1. Models for Understanding History2. History as Conspiracy重 点 1. In truth, history is complicated. It is more complicated than the simple lines in Model A
11、and Model B. It more closely resembles Model C. Periods of accomplishment are followed by periods of decay. In fact, “progress” is mostly a myth. 2. History is by no means a remote abstraction. From it we derive a sense of collectivity, shared experiences, and points of referencethose important even
12、ts that punctuate the intersection of our lives with the wider world. 难 点 The implication of history基本要求Get the students to read unit five and learn some knowledge and vocabulary about history. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 6 Language（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1. Vocabul
13、ary change2. Some notes on Gender-Neutral Language重 点 1. The borrowing , narrowing and widening of words2. The changes of genders and numbers of “man” and “he” 难 点 1. Vocabulary change: borrowing , narrowing and widening2. Gender-Neutral Language: The change of word genders, the problem resulted fro
14、m it and how to solve the problem. 基本要求Get the students to read six two and learn something about language. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 7 Space（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1. Has the bright future of the space program faded 2. Probing the universe.重 点 难 点 基本要求Get the stu
15、dents to read unit seven and learn something about space. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 8 Women（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1.Women in education, sports and media 2. Women in science重 点 1. Different explanations about why women are excluded from science.2. The inequality o
16、f women in education, sports and media. 3. Reading skill: scanning 难 点 The authors idea about womens social status in science: Scientific knowledge was a key factor in economic power. Women are discriminated as a class. So women are excluded from science. 基本要求Get the students to read unit eight and
17、learn something about womens social status. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 9 Cities（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ：1.The unforgettable Hong Kong2. London重 点 1. About Hong Kong-Heart and soul of a people, earthly treasures, the endless night, a taste of the extraordinary.2. Abou
18、t London-British museum, Buckingham Palace, Greenwhich, Houses of Parliament, Madame Tussauds, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower of London, Westminister Abbey, Poets Coner. 难 点 The tomb to which poets Corner owes its origin is that of Geoffrey Chaucer. 基本要求Get the students to read unit nine and learn someth
19、ing about the places of interest in Hong Kong and London. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 10 Cross-Culture Communication（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1. A Cross-Culture Context: Americans, Germans, and English 2. Customs重 点 The relationship between customs and cultures; The d
20、ifferent intrusions betweenGermans and Americans; The different ways to classify people and activities betweenEnglish people and Americans. 难 点 there is no such thing as being inside the room without being inside the zones of intrusion particularly if one looks at the other party, no matter how far
21、away. 基本要求Get the students to read unit ten and learn something about the difference in culture and learn to communicate under a cross-culture context. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 11 Information Retrieval（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1. Library 2. Evaluation information F
22、ound on the Internet重 点 1. The roles of computer and library in informatin retrieval.2. The criteria of information evaluation found on the internet.3. Something about library.4. The ways of looking for different books in the library. 难 点 1. Referral to and /or knowledge of the literature.2. The cla
23、ssification systems and the catalog. 3. Reading skill practiced in this unit: skimming and scanning 基本要求Get the students to read unit eleven and learn something about the two means of information retrieval-library and computer. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 12 E
24、nvironment（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1.Pollutin Scenario2. Climate Change Scenario重 点 1. The causes that result in global warming, disease and wars-polution2. Pollution influences climate, global warming is the result of pollution. 难 点 Name the scenario of pollution and climate change 基本要求Get the students to
25、 read unit twelve and learn something about Pollutin Scenario and Climate Change Scenario and different kinds of pollutants and environment protection. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 13 Medicine（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1.The interaction of body and mind 2. Will your dru
26、g work when you really need them重 点 1. The concept of psychosomatic illness2. The reality of psychosomatic illness.3. The rise of the resistant bug 难 点 1. psychosomatic illness2. The result of antibiotics基本要求Get the students to read unit thirteen and learn something about illness and medicine. 实践与练习
27、快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 14 Evolution（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1. Charles Darwin and the evulutionary theory 2. Darwin and the Beagle重 点 1. Darwins theory of natural selection2. The relationship between Darwin and Beagle 难 点 Christians understanding of evolutionary theo
28、ry: It was “the crime” of Darwin to demythologize man to let him down like every other thing, a creature of nature in natures order rather than in Gods image. 基本要求Get the students to read unit fourteen and learn something about Darwin and Dadrwins evolutinary theory. 实践与练习快速阅读课采用预备性和预习性的作业，以扩大学生知识面，
29、为课上阅读打好基础，评判标准为十分制。课后练习一般在课上解决。Unit 15 Transportation（ 2 hours）知 识 点 ： 1. Frank Turner2. The future for American transportation重 点 1. It is Frank Turner who shaped the creation of the largest public-works project in the history of the world, the network of interstate highways that changed America subtly as much as the transcontinental railroad did overtly. 2. The problems brought about by transportation vehicles and some solutions难 点 1. the network of interstate highways that changed America subtly as much as the transcontinental railroad did overtly.
