Foreign Language Department of NUAA

The Lesson Plan

Unit 13, Book I

A New English Course

Language Structures

Go for an outing Be in good health Be weak / poor in oral English / maths Take no notice of reading-room regulations Live transmission of Do swordplay, do shadow-boxing Contemporary theme Historical film, feature film, documentary film Gym = gymnasium, lab = laboratory, dorm = dormitory, fridge = refrigerator

Dialogue 1 A Trip to China

Questions

What cities did Ted visit in China? How did he describe them?– Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Guilin, Chengdu

What impressed Ted most among the places he visited?

What did those terracotta warriors and horses look like?– Life-size, realistic, true to life, no two warriors look alike,

each seems to wear his won facial expression and have his own personality, horses look alive

Dialogue 1 A Trip to China

Words and Expressions

Fancy meeting you here. How have you been? / How are you doing? Historic city On and off Places of historical interest Rich cultural legacy Capture one’s imagination Inexhaustible tourist resources Life-size terracotta warriors and horses True to life Wear his own facial expression Unparalleled Authentic spicy-hot Sichuan dishes

Word Expansion

Imagination Hold/ attract one’s ~ Allow the ~ its full play Excite/ fire/inflame/kindle/wake up /awaken/ stimulate/ stir up th

e child’s ~ Enrich one’s ~

Wear ~ a cheerful smile ~ a sour look ~ white ~ one’s hair long, ~ long hair ~ one’s head high ~ makeups / lipsticks / eye-shadow / rouge

Company [U]

Keep sb. ~ In the ~ of sb. A man is know by the ~ he keeps. See a great deal of ~ （交际广）

Dialogue 1 A Trip to China

Translation

中国辽阔的疆域和五千年文明历史所留下的丰富的文化遗产令我神往。– China’s huge territory and rich cultural legacy of 5000 years of civil

ization have always captured my imagination.

中国的旅游资源无穷无尽，而我所看到的只是冰山一角。– China’s tourist resources are inexhaustible and all that I have seen i

s only the tip of the iceberg.

那一排排如真人般大小的兵马俑栩栩如生，形态各异，富有个性。– Rows upon rows of life-size warriors and horsed look extremely true

to life and each seems to wear his own facial expression and have his own personality.

Dialogue 2 Criticizing

Be behind one’s studies Bang the door Be fed up with

Reading 2 Dreaming

Questions

Do dreams repeat our our waking life? What does a dream reflect? What do investigators find about the content of the dreams? How do dreams vary? What do children usually dream about? How do men’s dream differ from women’s dream? What did experts believe about the length of a dream? What may modify a dream?

Note writing

In writing a note to arrange sth., one has to be

very precise as to the time, place and what has

been arranged. Everything must be stated ver

y clearly. Usually, a reply is expected.

Translation Exercises

The dog at their gate was so fierce that no one dared to go near their house.

Young as he is, he knows as many as seven languages.

Some students are busy preparing for the exam in the classroom, while others are still playing in the playground.

At the recent fashion show, newly-designed winter clothes in a wide range of colors and styles attracted everyone present.

These measures go a long way towards solving the traffic problem.

I think it highly likely that this proposal will be vetoed at the meeting tomorrow.

Translation Exercises

When Mr. Gu asked Li Fang how she was getting on at her

factory, Li replied that she was getting on all right, except that

she could not make full use of the knowledge she had learned.

Then Mr. Gu asked her if she would like to work in a collective

enterprise. Li asked what sort of work she would do there. Mr.

Gu explained that Li could start as a technician helping in the

machine parts designing office, and later on she could probably

design machine parts independently. Li said she would work

anywhere her knowledge could be useful and suggested that Mr. Gu

should telephone her if the enterprise would accept her.