New Horizon College English

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New Horizon College English

• Book Four

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Major Task

• Text Learning(10 units altogether)
• Learning to write English composition
• Integral Training trying to improve students
  proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking.

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Teaching Plan

• This terms teaching content covers 10 units.
  Basically, every two units will be finished
  within 3 weeks. Except the one-week holidays of
  the National Day and the oral English test, there
  are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9
  unit should be finished at the end of this term.
  Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6
  periods.

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Unit 1
The Temptation of a Respectable Woman
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General Goals or Objectives

• Try to improve studentsreading speed and the
  ability to get information from reading materials
  correctly.
• Students acquisition of the skills involved
  through supplementary materials and texts.
• More attention will be given to the understanding
  of discourse focus on global understanding.
• Enlarge students vocabulary (Key words and
  structure)
• Learn the features of English composition and
  learn to write.

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Stage 1 Warming-up Activities
Stage 2 Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3 After-Reading Activities
Stage 4 Listening-and-Speaking Practice
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Warming-up Activities

• Group work

Questions for thought and discussion
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
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Group work

• Go over the preview, the pre-reading questions
  and the title of the text before listening to the
  summary of the story and anticipate what we are
  going to read.

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Questions for thought and discussion

• Listen to a short passage carefully and then
  answer the following questions.

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Enriching your vocabulary

• Read the sentences carefully and guess the
  meaning of the italicized term in each sentence
  according to the context and your own
  experiences.

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• I know I shouldn't eat chocolate cake when I'm
  dieting, but I find it hard to resist the
  temptation.
• a rubber plantation
• plantations of fir and pine
• I dont know why I asked just idle curiosity.
• There are few idle people in their department.
• The new financial supervisor intends to make full
  use of the companys idle capital.

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• The rain penetrated through to his skin.
• They claimed that the noise from the concert was
  causing a public nuisance.
• Youd better roll your sleeves up or youll get
  them dirty.
• The trousers are a bit tight around my waist.

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• They think the governments new ideas are
  nonsense.
• The document must be signed in the presence of a
  witness.
• sheer nylon tights
• It would be sheer folly to buy such a large car -
  we wouldn't be able to afford to run it.

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• Oscar Wilde was a famous wit.
• a conversation full of wit
• He made some interesting observations on the
  current economic situation.

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• Some species of bats are on the edge of dying
  out.
• Just because I had a bat and had played at
  school, they assumed I was some kind of expert.
• The crowd of demonstrators melted away when the
  police arrived.
• The spring sun usually melts the snow by mid
  March.

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• She behaved as any upright citizen would have
  done under the circumstances.
• Stand upright when youre being spoken to!
• We tipped the porter for each box.
• The hotel porter will call a taxi for you.

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• He packed his trunk and sent it to China by sea.
• I sawed through the tree trunk.
• She was overcome with emotion.
• He deserves our special thanks for all his
  efforts.

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• She gave him a tender look.
• My steak was juicy and beautifully tender.
• If your stomach feels tender and you have a
  slight temperature the best remedy is to go to
  bed and have a good rest.

gentle
easy to bite through
painful
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• Their remarks are for the most part correct.
• Dont impose your company on them. They are busy
  with their work.
• I don't know what he wants to do, but for my
  part, I would be glad to go.

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personally
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• I'm counting on my teacher to help me.
• Please dont make a fuss about such a small
  thing.
• He is run down because hes been working too
  hard.
• We've all objected to this proposal.

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oppose express opposition to
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• They stopped for a moment to drink in the beauty
  of the scenery.
• They drank in the delicious music.
• He said he would give up smoking, but he ended up
  yielding to the temptation and took a cigarette.

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Vocabulary Comparing

• mill manufactory factory
• merry happy joyous cheerful pleasant
  delightful agreeable
• fabric cloth textile stuff tissue material
• lap thigh limb leg knee hip
• wind breeze gust blast squall gale
  typhoon hurricane tornado cyclone
• gaze stare gaze peer contemplate view
  observe survey peek peep glance
  skim scan glimpse glare

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• keen extreme strong active sharp acute
• keen eager ardent earnest intense
• farewells goodbye
• honorable respectable respective
• wholly completely entirely fully totally
  utterly
• now and then from time to time occasionally
• a succession of a series of

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Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text
  by heart.
• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of
  the text.
• Analyze the structure of the text.

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Reading-Centred Activities

• 1. Global Reading Task s
• Reading Skills
• Reading between lines
• Text structure analysis

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• To make inferences about the author's ideas you
  have to do the following
• Make use of context clues, your common sense and
  your knowledge of the world.
• Connect ideas and draw conclusions from the
  reading passage.
• Form and test what you have understood between
  the lines.

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• Example 3
• There was some talk of having him back during the
  summer that followed. That is, Gaston greatly
  desired it but this desire yielded to his
  honorable wife's vigorous opposition. (Para. 21,
  Passage A, Unit 1)
• Question Why did the wife strongly oppose to
  Gouvernail's coming to visit them again?
• Possible answer She was afraid that she would
  yield to her passion.

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• Example 4
• Oh, she told him, laughingly, after pressing a
  long, tender kiss upon his lips, I have overcome
  everything! You will see. This time I shall be
  very nice to him. (Para. 24, Passage A, Unit 1)
• Question What do you think the wife had
  overcome?
• Possible answer She had overcome her
  affectionate passion for Gouvernail and she was
  ready to accept him as a friend and as a guest.

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• Text Structure Analysis
• What kind of writing does this passage belong to?
• Description, narration, exposition or
  argumentation?
• What kind of order is this story related in?
• In chronological (or time) order
• How is the story structured according to time
  sequence as a whole?

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• How many parts can the whole passage be divided
  into?

6 parts
Part 1
general situation of the story
Part 2
Mrs. Baroda's impressions of her guest
Part 3
what happened that night
Part 4
what happened the day after that night
Part 5
what happened later
Part 6
what happened still later
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• The first part of the passage is ______________,
  which is the general situation of the story and
  also the starting point of the story.
• What is the general situation ?

Paragraph 1
Mrs. Baroda was a little annoyed that her
husbands friend, Gouvernail, was to spend a week
or two on their plantation.
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• The second part consists of _______ paragraphs,
  from Paragraph 2 to Paragraph 10, telling us what
  happened and informing us about Mrs. Baroda's
  impressions of her guest Gouvernail.

• The descriptions are presented in
  _____________order.

chronological

• Can you find any time markers to certify it?

after a few days
then
one day
in the morning
until
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• Para. 2 deals with Mrs. Barodas impression of
  her guest

She was feeling puzzled, not being able to
penetrate her silent guest

• Paras. 3 to 10 are about a conversation between
  Mr. and Mrs. Baroda concerning their guest
  Gouvernail

Mrs. Baroda was troubled to find Gouvernail
___________________ not a man of wit, but
____________ difficult to understand.
a terrible nuisance
a dull man
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• The third part is made up of __ paragraphs, from
  Paragraphs 11 to 19, concentrating on what
  happened that night.

• The author uses a succession of verbs and adverbs
  to describe ________________that night in
  chronological order.

what happened
that night, the next morning, then, when

• The time markers

• In this part, the author also describes some sort
  of _________________in Mrs. Baroda but all this
  came along with a succession of _________.

emotional change
actions
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20 only

• The fourth part is Paragraph_______.

what happened

• Paragraph 20 is about _____________ the day after
  that night.

• The next morning, Mrs. Baroda _________________
  without even saying farewell. She did not return
  _______________________.

took an early train
until Gouvernail was gone
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• The fifth part is Paragraph______.

what happened

• Paragraph 21 describes _____________ during the
  time after that night.

• During the summer that followed, Mr. Baroda
  greatly desired that _____________________________
  ___ but this was vigorously _________ by Mrs.
  Baroda.

his friend come to visit them again
opposed
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• The sixth part consists of Paragraphs _________,
  which is the continuing part of the story, still,
  according to ______sequence.

22 to 24
time
Before the year ended

• _______________________, Mrs. Baroda proposed to
  have Gouvernail _______________ as she had
  ___________________.

visit them again
overcome everything
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Reading-Centred Activities

• 2. Detailed Reading Tasks
• Language points
• Simulated writing
• Summary of the text

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After-Reading Activities

• Vocabulary Exercises
• Translating and Writing

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Listening and speaking activities

• Talking about the topic or retelling the text
• Listening and speaking practice in XP center