一、Teaching goals
1. Target language: new words and sentence structure
2. Ability goals: Enable students to gain some information about living and studying at a university in Canada
3. Learning ability goals: Students are expected to practice and reinforce their reading comprehension and improve their overall ability.
三、Teaching aids
A tape recorder and a computer .
Step I Lead-in
1. Show pictures to students, and lead in the topic about university life
Show students some pictures of colorful university life abroad and ask two questions.
1) Have you thought about studying abroad?
2) What do you think life would be like if you studied abroad?
Look at the title “My university life” and guess what this article will be about.
Step II Listening
Listen to the tape and finish the following two tasks.
1 Some questions
● How long has Qin Xiaoyong been at university?
● What sports did he play at school?
● What sports did his Canadian friend introduce?
2 Choose what topics are mentioned in the text?
make preparations before going to university
his dormitory and his roommate
subjects he has learnt at university
make big adjustments to his life
his teachers and his classmates
advice to readers
Step III Reading
Read the text quickly and finish the following tasks
Questions:
1 What was the hardest thing for Qin Xiaoyong when he went to university?
2 What does Qin Xiaoyong learn about in his degree course?
3 What advice does Qin Xiaoyong give about money?
4 how do university students spend their free time?
True or false
1 He keeps in touch with his family by telephone?
2 His favorite foreign food is steak with mustard sauce?
3 Qin Xiaoyong’s room is very big and rectangular with bathroom.
Careful reading
Read the text carefully and do some exercises.
Course
University
Contact with family
Food
laundry
Step IV Consolidation
Complete the dialogue: Xiaoyong(Y) and Xiaohua(H
H: Hi, Xiaoyong, You know I’m going to study abroad. Would you like give me a quick
p________ of what the university life looks like abroad.
Y: Of course. As far as I’m concerned, it’s very e________.
H: Well, could you give me some a______ about it?
Y: Surely, firstly you should look t______ numerous brochures to decide which
university to apply to.
H Right, but I have d______ on my university.
Y: Then you have to make some big a_______ to your life.
H: I agree with you. And anything else?
Y: Maybe you should learn how to cook and do l________. Besides, you’d better
s_________ some of your money away each week to make it last.
H: I will. Anyway, I feel worried about my future university life abroad.
Y: Don’t worry. When planning for university, you should look f________ instead of
backwards .
H: thanks a lot. I think I’ll the most of it.
Y: You are welcome. If you have any other questions, do not h_______ to ask me at
any time.
Step V Discussion
Discuss in groups and describe Qin Xiaoyong’s university life with some adjectives.
Step VI Language points
Words and expressions
1 give sb. a quick preview of (Lines7-8)
让某人提前了解一下。。。
preview
1) n. a short description of something that is going to happen.
e.g. At the start of the term the teacher gave a preview of what the students
would be studying.
在学期开始老师提前让学生了解他们将要学的
Vt. To give a short account of something that is going to happen
e.g. 在学期的第一堂课上，我们的老师对该
课程做了简要的介绍。
In our first class of the semester, our teacher previewed the course for us.
2 look through (Line17)
审阅，浏览
e.g. She looked through her notes before the midterm the English.
她在期中考试前浏览了一下笔记。
4 at some point(lines24-25)
在某个时刻
e.g. 很多人在人生的某个阶段都会遭遇失败。
Many people suffer from failure at some point ( ) in their life.
More phrases:
at all points 在各方面
at the point of 就要。。。时候
in point of 就。。。而言
off the point 离题的
to the point 中肯的
5 believe it or not (line43)
信不信有你
It means whether no matter you believe or not.
e.g. Believe it or not, we have decided on having a holiday at the seaside.
信不信由你，我们决定去海边去渡假。
Step VII Homework
1 Read the text again and find out some more
important and difficult language points
2 Finish partD and partE on Page52-53 .