全新大学英语第二版 BOOK1-UNIT 4 教案.doc

Teaching Plan of Unit 4, Book 1 American Dream Text A Tony Trivisonno’s American Dream Teaching Objectives: Students will be able to 1. understand the main idea and the structure of the text; 2. learn to describe a person by his/her characteristic features, together with supporting details which demonstrate the features; 3. master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text; 4. conduct a series of reading, speaking and writing activities centered upon the theme of the unit if time and conditions permit. Time Required Five Class Period Warm-up Activities I. Cultural focus American Dream: the belief of Americans that their country offers opportunities for a good and successful life. For minorities and immigrants, the dream also includes freedom and equal rights. Immigrants: Apart from “native Americans”------Indians------who were living in North America when people first arrived there from Europe, all Americans have ancestors who were immigrants. In the U.S. the word immigrants is often used with a positive meaning. People are proud to say that their ancestors were immigrants who came with very little and built a better life for themselves. Most Americans have a clear idea of what life was like for the immigrants: they left home because they were poor and thought talent and hard work could take them from log cabin to White House. Once in the US, life was not easy. Many immigrants had to work for little money in factories where conditions were hard and dangerous and lived in crowded buildings. But slowly they improved their lives and many wrote home to encourage others to come. Depression days: the period of severe economic failure in most countries of the world that lasted from 1929 until World War II. It began in the US when the New York Stock Exchange fell on 29 October 1929, known as Black Tuesday. Many businessmen and banks failed and millions of people lost their jobs. President Franklin D. Rooselvelt improved the situation with hi