College English Comprehensive Course (Teacher's Book) 1 - All New Edition

Author: Ji Peiying
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Publish Date: 2001-07-05
Features: This book is the teacher's manual for the "Comprehensive Course" of "College English" (New Edition), designed for teacher reference. The book consists of the following parts: lesson plans from Unit 1 to Unit 8; answer keys for exercises; reference translations of Text A and Text B. The lesson plans in this book are strictly compiled according to the requirements of the "College English Teaching Syllabus" (Revised Edition) regarding reading, listening, speaking, writing, and translation, and strive to reflect the achievements of recent reforms in college English teaching. The arrangement of teaching content focuses on cultivating students' comprehensive use of English skills. Each unit lesson plan is structured into the following four parts:
1. Reference Lesson Plan: This includes the scheduling of class hours and content for each unit. Each unit generally requires five class hours. The theme related to the text runs through the entire lesson plan. The teaching content is divided into three parts: pre-reading activities, during-reading activities, and post-reading activities. Pre-reading activities aim to activate students' existing knowledge schemas; during-reading activities continuously provide learning tasks to ensure students actively participate in classroom learning; post-reading activities offer students opportunities to practice, helping them expand their acquired knowledge and language skills, and comprehensively cultivating their practical abilities in reading, listening, speaking, writing, and translation.
2. Text Analysis: This includes an analysis of the text's genre, structure, rhetorical devices, and writing style.
3. Cultural Annotations: This includes information about the author's life, character introductions, and background knowledge related to the texts, such as British and American cultural education, social life, and customs.
4. Language Learning: This includes annotations on difficult points in the text, as well as examples of sentence patterns and idiomatic usage. Key words selected from Text A and requiring repeated practice are annotated as language points with accompanying examples. Given the polysemy of English words and their usage, whether or not to explain them to students and when to do so can be flexibly determined by the teacher. When arranging specific teaching activities, teachers may select and use the above content based on their actual teaching situation.