c Book IIIUnit 1(6 hours)I. Teaching Aims: In this unit students are required to:1. Practice reading strategies such as predicting, skimming, guessing, etc.2. Grasp some new words and expressions to enrich student’s vocabulary;3. Do some oral work such as pre-reading questions, role play and interaction activities to help to develop the students’ oral communicative abilities;4. Appreciate the two narrations in this unit and learn some writing skills in narration and practice it along with letter writing;5. Do some other after-class exercise including listening and translation to improve students’ comprehensive skills.II. Teaching Emphasis: 1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I; 2. New words and expressions: Awkward; dreary; rotund; grunt; proceed; dismay; appall; diffidently; singularly; reckon; querulous; somber; scribble; attach importance to; have sth. in common; a crocodile of III. Teaching Procedures: (4 hours)1. Greeting;2. The whole plan for this semester;3. Begin the new lesson: 1). Answer the pre-reading questions orally; 2).Allow students 3 minutes to go over text I rapidly for the main idea; 3). Do the guesswork of vocabulary; 4). Study Text I intensively; 5). Answer the questions of Text I both in SB (student’s book) and B(workbook) orally; 6). Listen to the tape and study Text II extensively to enlarge their vocabulary and widen the scope of their knowledge; 7). Do oral work; 8).Study the main points of guided writing, including the information about précis writing, paragraph writing of narration and description, and the heading and salutation of a letter; 9). Homework, finish all the exercise both in SB and WB.IV. Language points for Text I1…. With no experience of teaching my chances of landing the job were slim: there is little possibility for me to get the jobchances of doing sth.land: succeed in getting sth. E.g. His chance/chances of landing the1st prize is/are slim/scant/slender/small.2. summon sb. to do sth.3. …smell unpleasantly of stale cabbagesmell of: give out the smell of scent of E.g. smell of brandy/paint/garlic His accounts seemed to me smell of truth.4. proceed to (do) sth.: go ahead, continue to do precede: come, go or happen just before sth. precede sth (with sth)E.g. proceed to announce his plan; proceed to the next item on the agenda;He preceded his speech with a warning against inattention.5. attach importance to sth.; consider… importantE.g. attach much importance/weight/significance to the theory6. have sth. in common7. not so much…but the fact that…E.g. It was not so much there being no councils of workers, peasants and soldiers worthy of the mane, but the fact that they were very few.8. the last straw: an addition to a set of troubles which makes one unbearableE.g. The hotel was expensive, the food poor, and bad weather was the last straw.V. Language points for Text II1. prompt sb. to do sth or prompt sth: urge or causeE.g. His action was prompted by fear. Hunger prompted him to steal.2. Feeling anything but well.: feeling far from being wellanything but (恰恰不,才不) nothing/nobody but (正是,只是)all but(几乎,差一点)E.g. She looks anything but well. ( She looks ill.) You have nobody but yourself to blame. The thief has all but succeeded in escaping.3. be set on/upon (doing) sth: be determined to do, make up one’s mind4. get round to doing sth.: find time to do sth. at lastE.g. After a long delay, he got around to writing the letter.5. instill sth. in/into sbinstill: to put (ideas feelings, etc.) gradually but firmly into someone’s mind by a continuous effortE.g. instill the idea of discipline and obedience into new soldiers6. It was more a cross-examination than an interview.7. In due course, you will hear from us. Due: right and properE.g. He has his due reward.