Enjoying Cambridge Book I
Unit_ One
A Teaching Objectives
a. Contents of the text:
Focus 1: Help the young students appreciate youngsters’ naivety and genuineness as depicted in the text.
Focus 2: Help students understand the instructions on the use of online dating services and be able to write an e-mail to a friend known through the Internet.
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b. Key language points in the text:
Focus 1: 1. Words such as go and move may function both as a noun and as a verb. This is a case of conversion, which can also be regarded as a means of word formation.
2. Perfective infinitives used with the modal verbs of can (could) and must: could (must) + have + ed-participle.
c. Vocabulary:
Focus 1: 37 B-level words, 9 A-level words, and 10 phrases and expressions listed under Vocabulary.
Focus 2: 31 B-level words, 9 A-level words, and 14 phrases and expressions listed under Vocabulary.
d. Comprehensive skills:
Understand a passage at the pre-intermediate level of difficulty and on this basis, be able to write a summary of the text.
e. Functions:
Focus 1: Introduction and Greeting.
Focus 2: Writing an E-mail.
B Procedures and Methods
Eight teaching periods are needed to cover the present unit.
1. Period One and Period Two:
l Step One:
a. Background information:
Most westerners begin dating in their early teenage years. Young people often go out in groups and meet at school dances or house parties. After dating a number of different partners, many teenagers begin “going out with” or “seeing” one special person at about 16 or 17. The three most popular first dates for those over 20 are lunch, dinner or a movie. People are staying single longer than before. First-time brides are usually around 26 and grooms are about 28.