College english 2 The Course curricular Participants: First-year Students Majoring Time: 2/2001-6/2001 Second semester of the Academic Year 2000-2001 Teaching Material; College English(Revised edition, published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester o Text Learning (nine units altogether) o Learning to write English composition C Integral Training: trying to improve the students' proficiency in reading listening, and speaking General Goals or Objectives of This Semester v try to improve the students reading speed and the ability to get information from reading materials correctly. v Students acquisition of the skills involved through supplementary materials and More attention will be given to the understanding of discourse: focus on global understand Enlarge students'vocabulary(Key words and structure) v Learn the features of English composition and learn to write. Teaching plan This term 's teaching content covers 10 units. Basically every two units will be finished within 3 weeks. Except the one-week holidays in Labor 's Day, there are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9 unit should be finished at the end of this term. Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6 Weeks Teaching task Key Points Week 1 to Unit 1: Is There Life On Earth? on and c coherence Unit 2: The Dinner Party comparison vs contrast Week 4 to Unit 3: Lessons From Jefferson Acronyms/word-attack Week 6 Unit 4: My First Job Week 7 to Unit 5: The Professor and the Yo-yo Week 9 Unit 6: The Making of a Surgeon Unit 7: There Is Only luck1 College English 2 The Course Curricular Participants: First-year Students Majoring Time: 2/2001-6/2001 Second semester of the Academic Year 2000－2001 Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition，published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester ◆Text Learning（nine units altogether） ◆Learning to write English composition ◆Integral Training: trying to improve the students’ proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking. General Goals or Objectives of This Semester ▼ try to improve the students’ reading speed and the ability to get information from reading materials correctly. ▼ Students acquisition of the skills involved through supplementary materials and texts. ▼ More attention will be given to the understanding of discourse: focus on global understanding. ▼ Enlarge students’ vocabulary (Key words and structure) ▼ Learn the features of English composition and learn to write. Teaching Plan This term’s teaching content covers 10 units. Basically, every two units will be finished within 3 weeks. Except the one-week holidays in Labor’s Day, there are 15 weeks left for teaching, so at least 9 unit should be finished at the end of this term. Roughly the teaching of one unit covers 6 periods. Weeks Teaching Task Key Points Week 1 to Week 3 Unit 1: Is There Life On Earth? Unit 2: The Dinner Party cohesion and coherence comparison vs. contrast Week 4 to Week 6 Unit 3: Lessons From Jefferson Unit 4: My First Job Acronyms / word-attack Week 7 to Week 9 Unit 5: The Professor and the Yo-yo Unit 6: The Making of a Surgeon Week 10 to Unit 7: There Is Only Luck