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《新视野大学英语 综合教程》Book 2

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

外研社 全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

• Unit overview– Learning objectives– Class arrangement

• Demo Class(review and extention)

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

Language level Content levelCritical thinking level

Learning Objectives

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

• Students are to learn:1. The structure of the text, and the appreciation of how the

repeated use of clues helps weave a piece of narration together (language)

2. The theme that Education should answer students’ cries for career education and ensure that students are prepared for the day when they realize their short-sightedness (content)

3. The ability to talk and write around the topic of education, work and life (critical thinking)

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job Class Arrangement

• The first session:• I. Preview (about 10m)• II. Leading-in (about23m)• III. Text understanding

(about 20m)• IV. Language Points

(about 35m)• V. Homework (about 2m)

The second session:•I. Review (about 15m)•II. Extension in Viewing, Listening and Speaking (about 50m)•III. Writing (about 20m)•IV. Homework (about 5m)

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

• Q & A • Oscar Wilde• Consumerism• Humanities• Ethnic studies• Feminism• Tertiary Education• Associate degree

I. Preview (about 10m)

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

II. Leading-in (about25m)

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

• Comb the structure

• Analyze the Stylistic reading-argumentation– The Argument: There is a lot more to life than a

job. – 1) Facts– 2) Statistics – 3) Examples– 4) Reasons

III. Text understanding (about 20m)

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job Class Arrangement

• The first session:• I. Preview (about 10m)• II. Leading-in (about23m)• III. Text understanding

(about 20m)• IV. Language Points

(about 35m)• V. Homework (about 2m)

The second session:•I. Review (about 15m)•II. Extension in Viewing, Listening and Speaking (about 50m)•III. Writing (about 20m)•IV. Homework (about 5m)

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job Demo class

1. Answer the following questions based on

your comprehension of Text A.

(purpose: review the text and comb the writing strategy;

prepare for the following discussion and homework.)

1) What is the conclusion drawn from the survey based

on the responses from over 188,000 students?

2) What do students think about the importance of

developing a meaningful philosophy of life? 3) What do most people between 30 and 50 finally

become aware of?

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

4) According to the text, what is the duty of educational

institutions?

5) What does education teach us to see?

6) How can we improve our moral sense?

7) What is the implication of the cartoon mentioned in the

text?

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

2. Group discussion. (purpose: output exercise ---- bridge the text reading with

students’ real life, encourage critical thinking) (25 min)• List the elective courses that you’ve taken at college,

and find out the courses that may be beneficial to your future life.

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

• Tips:

• Appreciation of Films on Environmental Protection

• 环保影片赏析 • Modern Manners and Communication Skills

• 现代礼仪与沟通技巧 • Stress Management and Healthy Life

• 压力管理与健康人生 • A General Introduction about Chinese Culture

• 中国文化概论

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

• Foreign Literature

• 外国文学

• Art of Flower Arrangement

• 插花艺术

• Car Purchasing and Care

• 汽车选购与保养 • Modern Business Management

• 现代企业管理

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

• Read a piece of news (about the varieties of creative elective courses in other universities) and tell us

1) Why do these universities open these unique courses to students?

2) If you were the principal of our university, what improvement could you make in elective courses?

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job According to a report of China Daily, August, 18,

2012, Xia’men University offered optional physical education courses including tree-climbing, sailing, golf and the dragon-lion dance. Besides other colleges also have unique courses. Ocean University of China in Qingdao teaches sailing. Sun Yat-sen University offers “Harry Potter and Genetics”, Nanjing Normal University opened a course for women students to learn family management such as how to deal with a mother-in-law, how to keep fit and how to dress. Guangdong University of Finance has a Psychology of Love course, and China university of Political Science and Law uses the popular US TV series Lie to Me as a “textbook” for its course “Mentally Reflective Response”.

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

3. What’s your understanding of Oscar Wilde’s saying:” we ought to give our ability to our work but our genius to our lives.” Do you agree?

(purpose: go back to the text while encourage the students’ critical thinking)

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

4. Homework: Debate writing. (purpose: extended output exercise ---- combine writing strategies with previous talking contents)

Live to work or work to live? (with Ma Yun’s example)

Ma Yun once said he could never balance his life and work, and when retiring from Alibaba Ma Yun claimed that “from tomorrow on, my work is to live”

Unit 8 There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job

Thank You!