Unit 1 Happy New Millennium!
Teaching aims: Pay special attention to words of the millennium. Learn how people from all over the world celebrate the new millennium.
Teaching important point: The focus of this unit is how people from all over the world celebrate the new millennium and what the word of the new millennium is.
Teaching difficult point: Get to know some names of places and grab the main points from the listening text.
Teaching procedures:
Part 1. Warming up
1. Dealing with the vocabulary and key words.
chime: the sound produced by a bell or bells
millennium: a span of one thousand years
prospective: likely to become or be
gala: a festive occasion, especially a lavish social event or entertainment.
countdown: counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle)
fanfare: a spectacular public display
2. Discuss about the location of different country.
3. Listen to some brief reports of Happy new Millennium celebrations. Listen and supply the missing words.
Part 2 The Time Ball
1. Time ball: a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a pole,
to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich Observatory, England.
The red time ball on the roof of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich drops at 1:00pm to set world time.
It has done this every day since 1833.
2. Listen and fill in the following blanks.
1. The time ball was originally used as a marine ________.
2. The Greenwich time ball is said to be the world’s first public ___________.
3. The ball is automatically raised halfway up the mast at ________ to the top at 12:58 p.m., and drops at _______.
4. Around ___ public time balls are known or reported to have been installed around the world after that at Greenwich in 1833.
5. The U.S naval Observatory dropped the first time ball in the United States in ____.
6. Time ball were used in many cities around the U.S. during ______________.
7. At the turn of the 20th century dozens of time balls were being dropped _____________.
8. A few time balls are still ceremonially dropped around the world, ranging from ___________ to the Old Royal Observatory in _________.
Part 3 Word of the millennium
A. Listen to a report about the word of the millennium. List some of the reasons why the word was chosen. Fill in the blanks.
Word of the millennium: ________
a. becoming part of people’s _____ so quickly and having had such an ________.
b. giving _____ to so many new words and ________.
c. representing an ___ in social _______.
d. becoming the most __________ word of the century in less than a ________.
B. Now listen again. Focus on the comparison between the words “telephone” and “Internet”. Supply the missing information
Part 4 Post listening discussion
What is the main idea?
The central idea or the most important idea which gives the paragraph purpose and direction.
Where is the main idea of a paragraph usually stated?
In a topic sentence.
Part 5 Homework
Listen to the short talk entitled “Focus on the main idea” on Page 12. Some
important words are taken away from the written passage. Supply the missing words.
Unit 2 Net Changes Life (I)
Teaching aims：Pay special attention to somes special words which have something to do with internet. Learn how to grab useful informations to give a brief answer.
Teaching important points：The focus of this unit is how net changes our life.
Teaching difficult points：Grasp information about dates and the meaning of abbreviations used on the internet. Learn to listen for information.
Teaching procedures:
Part I Warming up
Section A: Email History
1. Pre-listening questions:
Do you know when people began to use email?
2. Listen to some important dates in email history. Supply the missing dates and words.
Section B Abbreviations Used in Email
1. Pre-listening:
What abbreviations do you use when you write email messages or when you are chatting online?
2. Listen to a short talk about the abbreviations used on the Internet. What do these abbreviations mean? Write down the full meaning.
Section C: WWW
1. World Wide Web: A major service on the Internet.
The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
2. Listen to the following statements and answer the questions:
1. Who? ___________________________________________________
2. When?__________________________________________________
3. When?__________________________________________________
4. Where?_________________________________________________
5. How many?______________________________________________
6. What? __________________________________________________
7. To whom?_______________________________________________
Part 3 Online Shopping
Training focus: selecting information & figures
Section A: Statements about Online shopping
1. Industry experts say American businesses should have about
_________________ in sales during _________________. That would be ___ higher than the same period last year.
2. The experts say that sales over the computer Internet system could reach ___________________.
3. ____ of people who use the Internet say they expect to buy at least _______ there.
4. Experts say that about ____ of the _________ Internet users are women.
Part 4 Homework
Listen to Part 4 “Short talks on listening skills” on Page 26, try to look for more imfromations about abbreviations and symbols for note-taking.
Unit 3 Net Changes Life (II)
Teaching aims：Special attention should be paid to the history of communication in human life. Learn how net changes life in a wider way.
Teaching important points：The focus of this unit is how net changes life in a wider way, for example, how net bring changes in areas like academics, entertainment, communications as well as global commerce.
Teaching difficult points：Grasp a large number of new words. Learn how to take a dictation and how to catch the main idea and supporting details.
Teaching procedures:
Part I Warming up
Section A: History of Communications
1. Pre-listening questions:
1). What ways do you use to communicate with your families or friends?
2). What ways have humans used to send messages?
3). Do you know when they were invented or first used?
2. Listen to some statements about a brief history of communications. Match the columns of time and events.
3. Listen to a short passage about two famous companies. Write down every word you hear.
Part 2 Net changes dorm life
Section A: listen to a report about the Internet. Focus on the areas and examples that the Internet will bring changes in. Suppy the missing information.
Section B: Now disscuss the following questions after you have heard the report.
1.What kind of age does the proposed merger of America Online and Time Warner anticipate?
2.For today`s students, is it a top
priority to have high-speed Internet access when they are choosing a college?
3.Is it true that knocking on someone`s door is an antiquated tradition in the time of Internet. Why?
Part 3 Global multi-media giant
1. Listen to a news report. Fill in the blanks.
2. Listen to a more detailed report. Supply the missing information.
3. listen again. Decide whether the statements are true or false. Put “T” or “F” in the brackets.
Part 4 Discussion:
When you choose a university, will you consider high-speed Internet access a top priority? Why or why not?
Unit 4 Colorful Lands, Colorful People (I)
Teaching aims：Pay special attention to numbers used to describe the size of places. Learn the basic words, phrases and sentence patterns often used in describing different places and different people.
Teaching important points：The focus of this unit is an introduction of colorful lands as well as colorful people.
Teaching difficult points：Learn the names of places and try to figure out the numbers which can be very large. Grasp useful informatin from dialogues. Understand different cultures in different places.
Teaching procedures:
Part 1 Warming up
A.Vocabulary
peninsula 半岛
altitude 海拔
trench 沟
Greenland: An island of Denmark in the northern Atlantic Ocean off northeast Canada. It is the largest island in the world and lies mostly within the Arctic Circle.
The Sahara Desert: a vast desert of northern Africa extending east from the Atlantic coast to the Nile Valley and south from the Atlas Mountains to the region of the Sudan.
Mt. Qomolangma 珠穆朗玛峰
Baykal: A lake of south-central Russia. It is the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia and the world's deepest lake.
The Mariana Trench is located in the Pacific Ocean, just east of the 14 Mariana Islands near Japan. It is the deepest part of the earth's oceans, and the deepest
location of the earth itself.
the Nile:The longest river in the world. The river has been used for irrigation in Egypt since at least 4000 B.C.
2. Listen to some statements of some superlative world geographical statistics and complete the following chart. Pay special attention to the numbers.
3. Listen to a passage about the blue planet---Earth. While listening, fill in the blanks with the missing words and get familiar with the different features of the land.
Part 2 In Brazil and France
Section A: Listen to two short stories. In each of the stories, there is one person who makes a fool of himself. Listen carefully and try to fill in the words in the charts below.
Section B: listen to two people talking about Brazil and France and pay special attention to the interesting things they can see or do on the streets in both countries. Then complete the chat by filling in the missing information.
Part 3 Life Here and There
Section A: Pre-listening questions:
1. Do you know something about the geographical and climatic conditions in Japan and Britain?
2. Guess the way the two speakers may compare the life as they see in Japan and Britain.
Section B: Listen to the passage and make notes about the features they mention and make notes about the features they mention and the comparisons they make between the two countries. Then fill in the gaps in the chart below with key words.
Part 4 Homework:
Listen to the short talk entitled “Be careful with numbers” on Page 54. Some important words are taken away from the written passage. Supply the missing words.
Unit 5 Colorful Lands, Colorful People (II)
Teaching aims：Pay special attention to numbers used to describe the population of different countries.
Teaching important points：The focus of this unit is an introduction of populations of many different countries. It also introduces different languages and the numbers of native speakers of these languages.
Teaching difficult points：Grab the large numbers which can be confused with each other. Get to know more about the biggest cities in the world.
Taching procedures:
Part I Warming up
Training focus: Figures and numbers
Census: Official counting of a country’s population for statistical purpose.
Estimate: calculate roughly the cost, size, value, etc. of sth.
Rank: position in a scale of responsibility, quality, social status, etc.
Federation: union of states in which individual states retain control of many internal matters but in which foreign affairs, defense, etc. are the responsibility of the Central government.
Section A: Listen to some sentences telling you the 12 most populous countries in the world and supply the missing information. Pay special attention to the numbers.
Section B: Listen to the names of some languages and the numbers of native speakers of these languages and fill in the missing languages and numbers.
Part II The World’s Six Billionth Inhabitant
1. The World’s Population
New research shows that Earth will have more than 9000 million people by 2050. The world population is currently estimated at 6.4 thousand million.
2. Pre-listening questions:
What do you think contributes to the rapid increase of the world population?
If we do not control the world population, what will happen? How will it affect our life in the future?
3. Listen to a news report on the world’s six billionth inhabitant. Familiarize the vocabulary first:
Bosnia-Herzegovina
A country of the northwest Balkan Peninsula.
It was a constituent republic of Yugoslavia from 1946 to 1991, when it declared its independence.
In 1992 the country erupted in war among Serb, Croat, and Muslim factions.
A peace agreement was reached in November 1995 by Balkan leaders in Dayton, Ohio, which called for the creation of two substates, a Muslim-Croat federation to govern one half of the country and a Bosnian Serb republic to constitute the other half, united under a newly created national presidency, assembly, court, and central bank.
4. Listen to the report and answer the questions by filling in the missing words.
5. Listen to the passage again and match Column A, the numbers, with Column B, the relevant information.
6. Listen to a faster presentation of the material and check the answers.
Part III The Biggest Cities in the World.
1. Pre-listening
Can you name some of the biggest cities in the world?
2. Listen to a conversation between an interviewer and an expert about the biggest cities in the world. While listening, focus on the numbers and complete the two charts.
3. Listen to the conversation again and try to find out the other seven cities whose population is likely to be in the top ten in 2000.
Unit 6 From Place to Place
Teaching aims：Pay special attention to the names of countries, numbers and times.
Teaching important points: This unit is about how people travel from place to place. It focuses on numbers and times.
Teaching difficult points：Learn some useful expression concerning travels. Grasp useful information from dialogues. Learn how to make comparison between different transportations.
Teaching procedures:
Part I Announcements at the airport
1. Words frequently used in announcements at the airport:
1) 航空公司: an airline company; airways; airlines
British Airways英国航空公司 Northwest Airlines西北航空公司
2) 客机;班机: airliner; a passenger plane; a passenger-carrying aircraft; an airliner; an air bus
3) (飞机的)班次;(某班次的)飞机;搭机旅行;飞机的航程: flight
Could you tell me what time Flight 212 arrives in New York City?
4) shuttle: a regular service to and fro by air, bus, etc.
短程穿梭运行的车辆(或火车、飞机等
space shuttle 航天飞机
5) schema of check in at the airport
a. get the boarding pass (登机证)
b. make sure of the boarding gate (登机口)
c. wait for the announcement for boarding time
2. Listen carefully to each announcement at some airports and pay special attention to flight numbers, departure times and boarding gate numbers. Write them in the correct spaces.
3. Here is an announcement made by the Chief Steward about the buffet car on a train. Listen carefully and write a check (the buffet car.
) next to the things you can buy in
drinks: tea & soft drinks
food: Egg and tomato Ham and tomato
Roast chicken Cheeseburgers
Part 2 Villa Rentals
1. In this part you are going to hear two telephone conversations between a travel agent and 2 different customers who want to rent holiday homes. Listen and complete the chart with key words according to the information you hear on the tape.
2. Listen again and decide which two of the pictures of holiday homes the travel agent is taling about. Give reasons for the choice.
Part 3 It’s the only way to travel
1. Douglas and Annabel have arrived at their friend Charles’s house by plane and by train respectively. Which means of transportation is better?
2. Listen to their conversation and complete the following chart with key words
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