高职高专实用英语教程教案Unit 6(3)

高职高专实用英语教程教案Unit 6

women, and ask students to discuss the differences after watching it.

2. Intensive Reading (Text A) Pre-reading:

After the lead-in story and questions, the teacher asks the students to look at the theme of Text A and try to answer the questions as follow:

1. Do men and women have the same experience when they shop?

2. What do you usually buy while shopping?

3. What is your mother’s shopping behavior?

rdth1. Warming-up Activities:

Ask some students to share their oral passage with the whole class.

1. shopping for clothes is the same experience for a man as it is for a woman, isn’t it?

2. Why does a man go shopping?

3. Why can a man simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want?

4. “If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it.” In this sentence, what does “produce” mean?

5. What does the name “salesman” imply?

6. What is a woman’s shopping based on?

7. Does a woman buy clothes in haste?

8. Why do the husbands just wait but not involve in their wives’ shopping?

2. While-reading (Text A)

1) Text Organization

After scanning the whole text, students are required to find the top sentences of each paragraph. And try to divide the text into 3 parts and summarize the main idea of each part.

Part 1 (Para 1-2): Men’s shopping behavior. A man goes shopping because he needs something. Part 2 (Para 3): Women’s shopping behavior. A woman goes shopping often for leisure instead of

buying what they need.

3). Language points

Explain the difficult words and sentences, including language and grammatical points.

Focus:

in advance: before a particular time, or before doing a particular thing

e.g. If you’re going to come, please let me know in advance.

e.g. They finished the task in advance.

e.g. Is it cheaper if we buy our tickets in advance?

consideration [U]. when you think about something carefully

e.g. The whole matter needs careful consideration.

take sth. into consideration

e.g. Time factor is what we must first take into consideration.

in stock 有现货，有存货

e.g. We don't have the book in stock but we can order it.

in store 贮藏着；准备着, 将要发生

promptly: quickly, without delay

e.g. We’ll have to leave fairly promptly if we want to catch that train.