武汉生物工程学院普通专升本《新世纪高职英语》课程教学大纲:
课程类别: 必修课
适用对象: 各专业(英语专业除外)
总 学 时: 240
一、课程的性质、任务与基本要求
(一)性质与任务
本课程是高职高专的必修基础课。本课程更好地贯彻了《高职高专教育英语课程教学基本要求》中提出的对高职高专学生掌握英语技能的要求,其目的是 培养学生具有较强的听、说、读、写、译的能力,使学生在打好语言基本功、能用英语交流信息的同时,也能掌握实际应用英语的能力,并为学生参加《高等院校英语应用能力考试》作好准备。 通过本课程的学习,能够帮助学生养成良好的语言学习习惯,掌握基本的语言学习方法,打下牢固的语言基础, 培养学生掌握必须的、实用的英语语言知识和语言技能 。同时,也要注意在教学中提高学生的综合素质,帮助他们塑造健全的人格。
(二)基本要求
根据《高职高专教育英语课程教学基本要求》,本课程必须在整个教学过程中突出加强实际应用能力和语言实践能力的培养。重视语言学习的规律,正确处理听、说、读、写和译之间的关系,对学生进行必要的训练,通过本课程的学习,应使学生达到以下几方面的要求:
1 、词汇
学生应掌握 3400-3800 单词以及一定量的词汇(含中学所掌握的单词和词组),并具有按照基本构词法识别生词的能力。
2 、语法
巩固和加深基本语法知识,提高在语篇水平上运用语法知识的能力。
3 、阅读能力
掌握基本阅读技能,能看懂语言难度中等的一般题材文章、科普读物和与专业有关的资料等,掌握中心大意、以及说明中心大意的事实和细节,并能运行一定的分析、推理和判断,理会作者的观点和态度,阅读速度达到每分钟 120 词。在阅读篇幅较长、难度略低、生词不超过总词数 3% 的材料时,能掌握中心大意,抓住主要事实和有关细节,阅读速度达到每分钟 150 词。
4 、听的能力
能听懂教材的内容和题材熟悉、句子结构不太复杂、基本上没有生词、语速为每分钟 100-120 词较长的会话、谈话、报道、故事或讲座等,能掌握其中心大意,领会讲话者的观点。
5 、说的能力
能就教材内容和适当的听力材料进行回答和复述,能用英语进行一般的日常会话,能就一般的社会生活话题进行简单的交谈,语音、语调基本正确。
6 、写的能力
能就一定的话题或提纲在 30 分钟内写出 100-140 词的短文,能写简单的应用文,表达意思清楚,无重大语言错误。
7 、译的能力
掌握英译汉和汉译英的基本方法和技巧,能借助词典将难度略低于课文的英语短文译成汉语,理解正确,译文达意,译速为每小时 300 英语单词。能借助词典将短文或资料译成中文或英文,译文达意,译速为每小时 250 词。
二、教学学时分配表
章节 |
教学内容 |
教学时数 |
Unit 1(Book 1) |
College Education |
8 |
Unit 2 |
Student Organizations |
8 |
Unit 3 |
Friends Give You Success |
8 |
Unit 4 |
Who is Afraid of Maths Anyway? |
8 |
Unit 5 |
Sports and Drugs |
8 |
Unit 6 |
Why Are We Addicted to Soaps? |
8 |
Unit 7 |
Success |
8 |
Unit 8 |
This Generation Means Business |
8 |
Unit 9 |
Internet |
8 |
Unit 10 |
Critical Thinking |
8 |
Unit 1(Book 2) |
Paradise Lost? |
8 |
Unit 2 |
Capital Cities |
8 |
Unit 3 |
With What Do You Buy Your Money? |
8 |
Unit 4 |
Some Photographs Make History |
8 |
Unit 5 |
Dilemma for Science |
8 |
Unit 6 |
Journeys That Change History |
8 |
Unit 7 |
America’s Vision for a Digital Future |
8 |
Unit 8 |
The Chinese Bowl |
8 |
Unit 9 |
The Amoco Cadiz |
8 |
Unit 10 |
Redefine the Image and Value of Beauty |
8 |
Unit 1(Book 3) |
Your Dream Job: A Click Away |
8 |
Unit 2 |
Work in America |
8 |
Unit 3 |
Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash |
8 |
Unit 4 |
Inflation in South America |
8 |
Unit 5 |
Finding an Internship |
8 |
Unit 6 |
Ambulance Chaser |
8 |
Unit 7 |
Biting the Bullet |
8 |
Unit 8 |
The Businessman of the Century |
8 |
Unit 9 |
NAFTA and the Beer Market |
8 |
Unit 10 |
Why Studying Abroad? |
8 |
三、主要教学内容及教学要求
Unit 1 College Education(Book 1)
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Appreciate Americans’ views of college education
3. Master how to greet and introduce friends in daily life
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: dominate, major, out-earn, reserve , in addition (to)
2. Structures: the more…, the more…; either…or…
3. Skills: Understanding paraphrase: How to identify the topic.
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 2 Student Organizations
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures and try to learn something about student organizations.
2. Students should know the world beyond the classroom and experience in student organizations will improve the abilities in the real world.
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: enrich,form, gain, fun , run, end up
2. Structures: regardless of; along with;
3. Skills: Using comparison and contrast to find out the meanings of words
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 3 Friends Give You Success
Teaching Objectives:
1. Grasp the main idea and the structure of the text
2. Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text
3. Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: impact, tie, circle, fortune
2. Structures: so do you / It seems that.../ have trouble in doing
3. Skills: Understanding paraphrase: How to identify the topic.
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 4 Who is Afraid of Maths Anyway?
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Appreciating the author’s views about the differences between man and woman with respect to the social position and the career ladder
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: apparent, avoid, claim, etc.
2. Structures: as...as, etc.
3. Skills: Using examples to find out the meanings of words
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Stud
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 5 Sports and Drugs
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the drug abuse among athletes and know the harm of drug abuse.
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: confidence, dose, illegal, etc.
2. Structures: when it comes to…
3. Skills: Using the logic of a passage to find out the meanings of words
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 6 Why Are We Addicted to Soaps?
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Appreciate the author’ views about the most popular form of TV entertainment—soap opera
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: argument, critic, whatever, etc.
2. Structures: no more than
3. Skills: Expanding your vocabulary
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 7 Success
Teaching Objectives:
1. Appreciate Americans’ views on success
2. Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;
3. Master how to praise and compliment people;
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: afford, estimate , program , virtual , intention, lie in
2. Structures: The usage of double negative/of which /the reason why
3. Skills: emphatic structure.
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 8 This Generation Means Business
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the youth of the country
3. Learn how to address envelops
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: handle, decade, instinct, etc.
2. Structures: would rather… than…,etc.
3. Skills: Pre-reading skills
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 9 Internet
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about internet
3. Understand the knowledge of computers
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: impose, neglect, move, etc.
2. Structures: have… in common,etc.
3. Skills: emphatic structure.
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 10 Critical Thinking
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about critical thinking
3. Learn how to form the habit of critical
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: abundant, assume, isolate, etc.
2. Structures: be crucial in sth, etc.
3. Skills: focusing your reading.
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 1 Paradise Lost?(Book 2)
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the rainforest.
3. Understand the importance of environmental protection.
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: absorb, atmosphere, contain, economic, impression, process
annual, etc.
2. Structures: It is /was ... that /who ...
3. Skills: Understanding paraphrase: How to identify the topic.
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 2 Capital Cities
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Know the characteristics of modern capital cities in the world.
3. Find out common advantages and disadvantages of the capital cities.
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: associate, characteristic, connection, decay, empire, imagine, etc.
2. Structures: As..., So…
3. Skills: Understanding paraphrase: How to find the main idea of a paragraph
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 3 With What Do You Buy Your Money?
Teaching Objectives:
1. Learn something about the role of money in life.
2. Master the new words phrases and sentence structures : create …out of…
3. Understand the importance of money in our life.
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary : abstract,admit,audience,infinite,be disturbed by,be obsessed by/with
2.Structures: create …out of…,trade… for….
3. Skills: recognizing details in a paragraph
Teaching Procedure:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 4 Some Photographs Make History
Teaching Objectives:
1. Understand how some pictures can make history.
2. Know that photographs are a powerful means to which people can resort for the ending of war.
3. Master the new words, phrases and sentence structures
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary : convey,corrupt,divert,evoke,be reluctant to,etc.
2.Structures: Once…,The same is true of…,etc.
3. Skills: How to find the unstated main ideas
Teaching Procedure:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 5 Dilemma for Science
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Try to understand the pros and cons of rapid advances in medical science
3. Understand the knowledge of facial transplantation
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: agent benefit debate device master prospect be aware be unlikely to bring… to reality be unwilling to etc.
2. Structures: it is not (that)…but (that),etc.
3. Skills: How to identify an author’s purpose in writing
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 6 Journeys That Change History
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the visits to China made by the former US President Richard Nixon and his daughter
3. Understand the significance of Nixon’s 1972 visit
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: acknowledge, actually anticipate average capture etc.
2. Structures: be determined that…,etc.
3. Skills: Learn to appreciate the tone of an article
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 7 America’s Vision for a Digital Future
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Understand America’s global strategy of keeping a competitive edge in information technology
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: adequate, decline, decade, edge, etc.
2. Structures: with+ noun+ prep,etc.
3. Skills: Skimming Techniques
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 8 The Chinese Bowl
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Try to understand the story about the antique Chinese bowl
3. Learn something about antiques and auctions
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: antique confirm fetch fragment identical
2. Structures: it is not (that)…but (that),etc.
3. Skills: it is …that, so…that
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 9 The Amoco Cadiz
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn what kind of disaster the text talks about.
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: cancel, contract, creature, inform, etc.
2. Structures: in order that as well as
3. Skills: how to read faster
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 10 Redefine the Image and Value of Beauty
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the image and value of beauty in the western and eastern people
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: backwater, candidate, career, celebrity, frame, etc.
2. Structures: dismiss sb as, make the headlines.
3. Skills: developing your reading flexibility
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 1 Your Dream Job: A Click Away (Book 3)
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about how to make use of computer to look for a job
3. Understand the knowledge of computers
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: annual, beyond, recruit, etc.
2. Structures: … by doing…,etc.
3. Skills: Revising sentence fragments
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 2 Work in America
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the jobs today
3. Learn to describe different jobs
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: discard, grip, junk, etc.
2. Structures: suppose that…,etc.
3. Skills: Avoiding run-on sentences
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 3 Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about cultural differences between the East and the West
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: annoying, arrogant, indelicate, etc.
2. Structures: It not uncommon to…,etc.
3. Skills: Agreements between subjects and verbs
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 4 Inflation in South America
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Be able to explain what inflation is and its possible causes and effects
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: anticipate, bear, compensate, etc.
2. Structures: not… but…,etc.
3. Skills: Using compound sentences
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 5 Finding an Internship
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the internship
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: alongside, compile, contact, etc.
2. Structures: Would you mind doing…?
3. Skills: Using complex sentences
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 6 Ambulance Chaser
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn what an ambulance chaser refers to and where the idiom comes from
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: award, chase, compliment, etc.
2. Structures: have nothing to do with
3. Skills: Translation of attributive clauses
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 7 Biting the Bullet
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about Maglev – the fastest train in the world
3. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of Maglev
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: afloat, assessment, constituent, etc.
2. Structures: Despite…
3. Skills: Transformation of voices
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 8 The Businessman of the Century
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the famous people mentioned in the text
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: arouse, challenge, conceive, etc.
2. Structures: It is impossible to do… without…
3. Skills: How to translate adverbial clauses
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 9 NAFTA and the Beer Market
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about the beer industry in America
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: approve, distribute, eliminate, etc.
2. Structures: The objective of… is to do…
3. Skills: How to translate long sentences (1)
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
Unit 10 Why Studying Abroad?
Teaching Objectives:
1. Master the key words and structures
2. Learn something about studying abroad
Key Points:
1. Vocabulary: adventure, diversify, enhance, etc.
2. Structures: The more…, the more…
3. Skills: How to translate long sentences (2)
Teaching Procedures:
1. Lead In
2. Text Study
3. Listening & Speaking
4. Grammar Tips
5. Practical Reading
6. Practical Writing
四、教材及教学参考书
1、戴炜栋总主编《新世纪高职英语》(第三版)学生用书1-3册 上海外语教育出版社,2010年
2、戴炜栋总主编《新世纪高职英语》(第三版)教师用书1-3册 上海外语教育出版社,2010年
3、戴炜栋总主编《新世纪高职英语》(第三版)练习与测试1-3册 上海外语教育出版社,2010年