Transcript Unit 2 Cultural Differences and Similarities

Requirements
 “As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until
it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a
human being until he is educated.” ——by American
educator Horace Mann
 Systems of Education (in UK, China, USA)
 Discussion (What are the educational problems?)
 Suggest solutions ( I suggest that…)
 Compare traditional system with modern system
 Write a formal letter of comment to a newspaper
第三单元 教育
语用功能：
作正式谈话、访谈的开场白；赞同、反对、保留；描述
问题；表示关注；询问、表达意见；描述成长过程中的一段
经
历
语言要点：
一般现在时被动语态；主题句；一般过去时；原因－结
果句
教学内容：
叙述教育体制；描述成长过程中的一段经历；讨论教育
问题；提出解决办法；给报纸写一封表达自己看法的正式信
函；比较传统的与现代的教育体制
Unit 3 Education
Activity 1 Systems of Education
Activity 2 The Problems of Education
Activity 3 Respect for Teachers
Activity 4 What Can Pupils Expect from
Their Schools
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Education:
Education is the process through which people
endeavor to pass along to their children their hard-won
wisdom and their aspirations for a better world. This
process begins shortly after birth, as parents seek to
train the infant to behave as their culture demands.
They soon, for instance, teach the child how to turn
babbling sounds into language and, through example
and precept, they try to instill in the child the attitudes,
values, skills, and knowledge that will govern their
offspring's behavior throughout later life.
Schooling, or formal education, consists of experiences
that are deliberately planned and utilized to help young
people learn what adults consider important for them to
know and to help teach them how they should respond
to choices.
Activity 1 Systems of Education(P.137)
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Task 1 Building Vocabulary
Task 2 Asking about an Education
System(Listening)
Task 3 Making a list of Different
Educational Institutions(P.143 chart)
Task 4 Describing an Education System:
The Learners and the Institutions
Task 5 An Assignment: The Education
System of China
Age group
institutions
Small children [below 5] Nursery/ kindergarten
Children [5-11]
[5-7]
(1) Primary School [7-11]
Teenagers
[11-18]
Secondary School
Adults [18+]
The infants
The junior
[11-16] (2) Comprehensive School
(3) Selective School
[16-18] (4) The same secondary
school
(5) Technical College
(6) Sixth form college
(7) University
(8) Technical college
(9) The Open University
Activity 2 The Problem of Education(P.149)
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Task 1 Read for the Main Idea
Task 2 Describing the Problem
Task 3. Restating Solutions
Task 4. An Assignment: Write Formal
Letters of Comment
Task 1 Reading for the Main Idea(P.149)
title
extracts
1. Unauthorized fees
prohibited
Extract 2 (P.150)
2. A testing time:
Extract 3 (P.151)
3. Insult ban
Extract 1 (P.150)
Task 2 Describing the Problem
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A. Teachers’ insulting remarks to Students
B. Levy unauthorized fees on students
(donations, money to buy reference books,
model test paper or even notebooks, and
money for attending extra classes after
class)
D. Chinese students are faced with
examinations (from primary school on…)
Activity 3 Respect for Teachers(P. 158)
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Task
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Task
1. Write Your Personal Ideas
2. Explaining Charts
3. Making Comparisons
4 Find out about China: A Mini-survey
Who is a teacher?
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A teacher is someone who communicates
information or skill so that someone else may
learn. Parents are the first teachers. Just by
living with their child and sharing their
everyday activities with him, they teach him
their language, their values and mores, and
their manners.
Information and skills difficult to teach through
family living are taught in a school by a person
whose special occupation is teaching.
Basic Questions about teaching
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Why teach?
What should be taught?
What teaching methods should be used?
Who should teach?
What is the best setting for learning?
How long should schooling continue?
Activity 4 (P.163)
What can Pupils Expect from Their Schools
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Text 1. A Most Unusual School(P.164)
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Task 1 Reading for Comprehension
Task 2 Finding the Meaning
Task 3 Reading for the Main Idea
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Text 2. Shattered Illusions(P.167)
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Task 4 Having a Smashing Time
Task 5 Preparing for a Debate at the Tutorial
Task 6. Reviewing This Unit
Professor sued over litigation lesson(1)
By Ben Fenton in Washington
A LAW professor who pulled a chair out from under
one of his students to illustrate America's culture of
litigation is being sued.
Denise DiFede is seeking $5 million (￡3.5 million)
for "severe pain and mental anguish" she claims she
suffered from the demonstration. Her back was
injured and she was embarrassed, it is alleged.
She was summoned to the front of her class at Pace
University in White Plains, near New York, by Prof
Gary Munneke. He wanted to demonstrate to his
students how a case called Garrett v Daley had
come about.
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Professor sued over litigation lesson(2)
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In the case, often used as a textbook illustration of
what is meant by "the intentional infliction of a
harmful or offensive contact", a schoolboy was sued
by a classmate after he whipped a chair out from
underneath his friend, who was about to sit down.
Prof Munneke had indicated to Miss DiFede that she
should sit on a chair at the front of the class and, as
she lowered herself into it, he pulled it away. The
student fell on the floor, causing her skirt to rise
above her hips and exposing her legs.
Miss DiFede's lawyer, Susan Dennehy, said: "It was
humiliating. There she was in front of all her peers
with her dress up around her waist and injured."
Professor sued over litigation lesson(3)
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She claimed that her client had sent Prof Munneke
an email earlier in the day in which she apologised
for the fact that she had not had time to read about
Garrett v Daley for her homework.
He therefore knew that she would be the only
member of the class not in on the joke of what was
about to happen to her when she went up for the
demonstration.
Prof Munneke did not know that his student had
recently had an operation on her back, her lawyer
said. The professor was not available for comment
yesterday.