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Book4
Unit 1 Big Bucks The Easy Way
Teaching Time: 4 hours
Students’ level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 2nd semester. Teaching Objectives:
1. Help Ss get to know the lesson “No pains, no gains” and there is no “big bucks the easy way”.
2. About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies and required grammar points of the section.
Words: cash, echo, competitive, leisurely, pain, sour, finance,
marvelous, party, stack, cram, harm, minimum, range, thoughtful, deadline, inform, normally, sale, trash, delivery, inquire, odd, shrink
Phrases & Expressions: pull up, a piece of cake, even as, know better
than, be at, make a dent, cut into, have no business, settle for, settle one’s account, quite awhile, draw attention to, for sale, for rent, be done with, may as well Grammar: p14
3. About the reading, Ss should learn avoiding vocalization and inner
speech.
4. About the writing, Ss should learn word choice..
5. About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 1 directed by teacher.
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Teaching Procedures:
I. Pre-reading Activities 1. Background information
1) Montgomery Ward 2) Sears, 3) Roebuck 2. Warm-up questions
1) Do you depend on your parents financially? 2) Is it easy to earn money by working part-time? 3) Are there any easy ways to make much money? 3. Key words and expressions:
New words and old word
Teacher students (old words or expressions) (new ones) U.S. dollar buck Door handle doorknob Unhurried leisurely Relaxed leisurely Profitable lucrative Sent out deliver Endure live with Beg panhandle
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Tell inform Fill cram Tie band Increase reproduce Extra money bonus Part A path An easy job Pay Have no reason Come to terms with Strange Money Finish Teacher(Chinese) 考虑 总是 可以容忍 令我痛心 易如反掌 壮汉 section walk
a piece of cake settle
have no business settle for odd finance be done with Students( English) look into all the time live with it pains me a piece of cake a big guy
English and Chinese phrases
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干快些 get busy 好几卡车的 truck loads of 百货商店 department store 廉价商店 a dime store 小杂货店 drug store 汽车行 auto store 外卖餐馆 takeout restaurant 提高嗓门 voice rises
超过极限 out of the range of 恍然大悟 work a profound change in
教会某人做人 work a profound change
in one’s personality
经过调解 in mediation 结账 settle the account 劳务支出 labor cost 相同数额 a like amount 托某人做 enlist sb. To do
II. While-reading Activities
1. Ss have the silent reading on the text (10 mins) 2. Text and questions for discussion
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Lines 1-9
1. what did the father tell his college sons to think about?
(to deliver bags of magazines to make some of their own money.) 2. what was the father worried about?
( the sons would become used to or feel content with living by asking for money all the time.) Lines 10-22
1. why did the mother phone the father?
( she wanted him to know what was going on at home.) 2. How do you understand the word “super” she snapped?
( “super” means very good. But,she “snapped” it, which means she was very angry. She was being sarcastic,i.e. she meant the opposite of what she said.)
3. can you paraphrase the sentence “Another truck just pulled up out front”?
(Another truck has stopped outside in front of our hous to deliver more materials.) Lines 23-29
1. which company did the two sons do the delivery job for? ( the Sunday Newspaper Company.)
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