高级英语教案 Book1 Unit10.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 8 Unit Ten The Trial That Rocked the World Teaching Periods: 8 Teaching Object: English majors of junior year Teaching Aims ·To enable students to get better understanding of the text ·To help students learn to use new words and useful expressions in the text ·To enable students to learn to paraphrase some complicated sentences ·To enrich students’ knowledge about American trial culture and religious culture ·To help students appreciate the style and rhetoric of the text Teaching Focus: ·Cultural Information ·Language points and expressions ·The theme of the story ·Figures of speech Teaching Difficulties: ·Paraphrasing some sentences ·Identifying figures of speech ·Appreciation of narrative style of writing Teaching Procedures ·Background information ·Questions to ponder ·Detailed study of the text ·Structural analysis ·Rhetorical devices and effective writing skills ·Exercise Time Allocation: 8 periods, 360minutes ·Background information (20 minutes) ·Intensive study of the text (250 minutes) ·Exercise (90 minutes) I. Background Information 1. Charles Darwin his The Origin of Species i Charles Darwin(1809-1882): British, world famous naturalist and biologist;originator of the theory of man’s evolution by natural selection; his best known works: Origin of Species(1859),Descent of Man(1871).better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.” ii. The Process of Natural Selection:“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive, and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life. 2. about the Trial John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee fresh out of college. In the spring of 1925, he had just completed his first year as scie