London. That was the first time my friend and I had travelled in London, but we just stayed there for one night, because the next day we were leaving for Europe. When we arrived in London, we thought we may visit the British Museum since it will be closed at 10 pm. Since we didn’t know the way, we went to an English gentleman. ―Hello, sir, could you tell me how we can go to the British Museum?‖ That man didn’t replied my question directly. He asked me: ―Are you two Chinese?‖ ―Yes.‖ ―Oh, I can speak a little bit Chinese.‖ He said excitedly. ―Really?‖ ―Yes. 你好吗？（粤语） My friend and I couldn’t help laughing: ―No, that’s Cantonese. Not the mandarin Chinese we speak.‖
Now look at the map of Newton on Page 17.（读对话） Do you think it is really simple to ask someway
the way? For example, if I stand in front of our teaching building, and ask you how to go to Chong Bai, will you just say ―Go straight, turn left, turn right?‖ I don’t think it is so easy to describe the way in China. But why here in the dialogue so simple? I must tell you, the city in the West is like a piece of Tofu. It is divided into small parts very regularly, and there are seldom winding roads. Many of the parts of the city is linked by different straight roads. Since the streets are most of time straight, you can easily find the direction. If you have a chance to read Walter Benjamin’s work The Arcades Project in the future, you will know Paris is an example for a perfect city, and many countries build their cities following the mode of Paris. After the French Revolution, Paris was totally destroyed. A Duke called 奥斯曼 was asked to rebuild Paris. His goal was you can see everything of the city when you stand at one end of a street. So his belief required the city street be built straight so that you could go everywhere in the city and would not get lost. So many western cities follow the example. That’s why it is simple to find the way in western countries. And the most important, the map service is very considerate. Maps of the city can be seen every way. And the narrowest alley has got its name which is shown on a map. You may think it impossible to ask the way so easily. When I studied this before, I didn’t believe it either. But when I was in UK, I have known it is true by my own experience. I don’t mean that everything in the West is the best, but I always think that we should learn the city plan from the West.
Now look at the three proverbs on Page 18. Please guess what its Chinese stands for.（见书）
Reading 1
1. Warming-up: Questions (10 minutes)
Now look at the title of Reading 1: Leaving Home. I think it is the first time for many of you to leave home to go to college, right? Well, how did your parents feel about your leaving home to go to college? （问学生）I want to talk about my own experience. I didn’t feel anything special when I went to university, because my parents worked in the same university where I studied. That is to say, my home is just 5-minute walk from my dormitory. So my university experience was very much unlike the others’. I felt I still live at home, and my life has not changed at all. But when I left home to go to UK, I felt how sad to leave home and my parents for the first time in my life. On the day I left home for UK, my parents saw me off at the Jiangbei Airport. At the gate for security check, I went in but my parents couldn’t. So I carried my luggage, went through the gate, turned back and waved to my parents. I saw them waving at me, and my tears appeared in a second. I turned back, without looking at them, and walked quickly towards the waiting lounge. In the past 22 years, I always
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stayed with my parents, but this time, I must go abroad by myself and live in a totally strange country by myself for more than one year. I had a friend working in the airport. She went through the security check to see me off, so she is the last person I saw in Chongqing before I went to UK. She said to me: ―I saw your parents. They both cried. Looking at them, I can’t help but cry.‖ Hearing this, my tears poured down on my face. In the past, I couldn’t understand why so many freshmen cried before they departed with their parents when they went to college, but at that time, I knew that departure is always a cruel thing, especially with your beloved parents.
Another question: Will you live with your parents again after you finish college? If not, how do you think your parents will feel when you leave them to live by yourself?
Again, I’ll give you 5 minutes to read the text. And this time, I want each of you to ask questions from the
text and ask someone else to answer your question. For example, after I read the text, I may ask: ―What is the name of the story-teller?‖ This is my question. And I will say: ―I want Sarah to answer my question.‖ So Sarah must answer it, understand? OK, begin. 2. Language Points (25 minutes)
1) Wales: It is one of the four countries consisting of Great Britain, located in Southwest of Britain. When
referring to the people and language there, we use its adj. form—Welsh. You all know that Prince Charles is the eldest son of the Queen Elizabeth II, and maybe the future King of Great Britain. But do you know his title now? His title is Prince of Wales, not Prince of England. You may feel strange: why? Well, it is a tradition of the British royal family, that is, to name the heir to the crown as Prince of Wales, not Prince of England. It began in 1301, when King Edward I of England, having completed the conquest of Wales, gave the title to his heir, Prince Edward (later King Edward II of England). According to a famous legend, the king had promised the rebellious Welsh natives that he would name \and then produced his infant son to their surprise. Edward II certainly was born at Caernarfon while his father was campaigning in Wales, and like all infants, could not at the time speak English. Although it was a trick, it as a tradition has been kept. Since Charles is Prince of Wales, his ex-wife Diana was called ―Princess of Wales‖, but his second wife Camilla does not use the title. There is another interesting thing about Wales. The longest name of a train station is in Wales, consisting of 58 letters. Let’s have a look. 3. After-reading (5 minutes)
From the text, we know that Clive’s parents don’t know Clive to leave home, right? But, Clive’s mother
said in the last sentence: ―But we won’t stand in your way if it’s what you really want.‖ Can you guess how the story will go on? Can you complete the story and tell us your ending for this story?
Reading 2
Reading 2 is consisted of 4 letters, so our task is learn to how to write an English letter and second, how
to recognize the English hand-writing. Let’s first look at the form of an English letter.（见大屏幕）
But nowadays, we seldom write letters on paper, right? We send e-mails. Then what about the form of an
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English e-mail? It is almost the same with the paper letter, just one point. There is no need to write heading any
more. And for the Salutation, if you send some stranger email, it is weird to say ―Dear…‖ because you may be not so familiar with him/her. In UK, when people send emails to strangers, they will use ―Hi, there‖ instead of ―Dear…‖. Generally speaking, emails are more casual than paper letters.
Second, the English hand-writing. You know it is very difficult to recognize what did the foreigners write
with pen, because they has no concept of good hand-writing. When I studied in England, my teachers wrote down the comments on my essays on the paper sheet. But at first, I could not recognize what they wrote on that paper. So every time, I went to my tutor and asked her to read the comments to me. Here in Reading 2, I will test you whether you can read a foreigner’s handwriting. I’ll give you 3 minutes to look at these four letters, and then I will ask some of you to read one letter to us.（见书）
Unit 3 Language Structures
1. Language Point (5 minutes)
Look at the three sentences on top of Page 25. What do they have in common? The passive voice is used
in all these three sentences. Now please change sentences into the passive voice.（见大屏幕） 2. Practice (35 minutes)
Now let’s look at the Practice. The first cues are used to identify and ask somebody to identify an object.
Before we start, there are some new words you should know first.（见书和大屏幕）
Pay attention to these two words: hardware and tableware. They have the same suffix ―–ware‖. ―Ware‖ is
often used with a noun to form a new compound word, which means manufactured goods of a specified type, for example, ironware, silverware, glassware, ovenware.
Dialogue 1
1. Warming-up: Led-in Questions (10 minutes)
Look at the title first: A New Life on the University Campus. Campus means ―the grounds and the
buildings of a college, university or school.‖ Do you remember what your first impression on our campus was? Do you think you are now used to the university life? Pay attention to the preposition. We say ―on campus‖ to mean inside the boundary of a university, and accordingly, if you are not at school, you should say ―off campus‖.
It has been more than 1 month since you entered our university. Do you remember what was your first impression on our campus?（问学生）Do you think you are now used to the university life? What is the biggest difference between university life and high school life? OK, that is your impression on campus life. Now let’s look at how the girl in the dialogue thinks about her campus life. Now work in pairs to read this dialogue: one reads A and the other reads B. If you finish early, you can change the role and read it again. 2. Language Points (25 minutes)
1) orientation: It means ―an introduction to guide one in adjusting to new surroundings‖. In university,
especially in West, orientation programme is often an organized tour to visit the campus. The tour leader will tell you the basic information about the university, for example, in which building your department is located,
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what is the most convenient way to go there, where you can find cheap and good foods and so on. Almost all the freshmen will attend the orientation programme because it helps you to know the new environment quickly and saves much time. The later part of this paragraph explains more about orientation, and we’ll have a look later. There is a suffix similar to the form of ―orientation‖. It’s ―-orientated‖.（见大屏幕）
We have discussed about your first impression on our campus, so we’ll skip Role-Play and go to Dialogue
2 directly.
Dialogue 2
The function of Dialogue 2 is to make comparisons between past, present and future. Let’s first look at
the phrases, sentences and expressions on the top of Page 29.（见书） 1.Debate
From the last sentence, we can infer that B likes London in the past, not at present, because too many
modern things have replaced the old things. Then we have a question: Should a city try to preserve its old, historic buildings or destroy them and replace them with modern buildings? I’ll divide the whole class into two groups: one side agree while the other side disagree. Debate on this issue.
Reading 1
Let’s look at the text.（见书）
It says ―Britain is such a relatively small country‖. Then how small it is? Do you know? I’ll show you a map and let you know how small Britain is. Well, my university is located in Newcastle, the fifth biggest city in England. Here.（见地图）It’s in the northeast of England, just about 170 kilometres from London. 170 kilometres? What does it? Do you know how far it is from Chongqing to Chengdu? It’s 400 kilometres! So it means the distance between Newcastle and London is much smaller than that of from Chongqing to Chengdu. You can see how small Britain is, right?
In the text, the author provides an explanation. That is geography. Then what are the other reasons why the British are so fond of newspapers, if they are not so civilised? From my own experience in England, the life there is very boring and dull. First, British people are very traditional and conservative, so they don’t like to make friends with strangers, especially foreigners. Second, they seldom go on-line. And the most important, they cannot download programmes with BT. BT in Britain is against knowledge protection, because everyone can see the programmes free. So if you are found to use BT to download programmes, you may be fined 5000 pounds. Third, they have no KTV. So the most popular hobbies of the British are: first, reading newspapers and magazines; and second, going to pub and bar at night. The newspapers in Britain are so thick that you cannot imagine when you can finish reading them. So on the subway, on bus, everywhere, you can see the British reading newspapers or magazines.
Quality papers are serious in content and large in size. They mainly cover news stories in the UK and internationally. They are written in formal English with longer articles and a wider range of vocabulary. Their readers mainly belong to the educated middle class. Popular papers are also called tabloids, smaller in size and mainly cover UK gossip, entertainment and sports news. They are written in easier English and use quite a
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number of slang terms. Articles are often short and illustrated with eye-catching headlines and many photos. They mainly serve the less educated people. To attract more readers, the tabloids often contain shocking stories of scandals and crimes. From the introduction above, can you infer that which kind of newspapers is easier to read for foreigners or English learners? Why?（问学生）Let’s make an experiment. There are two articles: one from The Guardian, and the other from The Sun. Read them and tell me which one is easier to understand. Why? From this experiment, we can know that for foreigners and English learners, popular papers are difficult to understand. Because first, the articles use many idioms and slangs. Second, there contains many cultural contexts in the articles. If you don’t know which show is popular in UK or which pop star is found out a scandal now, you cannot understand what it is talking about. I suggest you to read the newspapers on-line more often. Quality papers is of course the first choice, because it can enlarge your vocabulary, but popular papers is also helpful since it can teach you many authentic cultural background.
Look at the last sentence: ―most British women are interested mainly in knitting and cooking and most British men are interested mainly in cars and football. Can this be true?‖ In fact, in the bookshops in Britain, the magazines for women and men are placed in different areas. That is to say, the magazines for women are mainly fashion magazines introducing dressing and make-up while the magazines for men talk about sports, cars, digital products. The magazines for women and men won’t get mixed together, so this may be true, I think.
In the previous units, the text are all stories, but this text in this unit is not a story. It introduces some information about the press in Britain. We call this style of writing ―expository writing‖. It usually explains an idea or discusses a problem. In expository, things can be explained by definition, clarification, classification, comparison and contrast, illustration or analysis of their cause and effect.
Reading 2
1. Pre-reading (10 minutes)
Look at the title of the text: What to read in a newspaper? Well, What kind of information can we get from the newspaper? What do you usually read in a newspaper? （问学生）I read newspaper every day. It has become my habit many years ago. I always read the international news first and entertainment news second and then the rest of the newspaper. But I never read all the news in a newspaper. I just first look at the title very quickly. If the title interests me, I’ll read the story. If not, forget it. In this text, we’ll see two different kinds of people who reads different news in a newspaper. I’ll give you 3 minutes to read the text with your partner. 2. Language Points (30 minutes)
1) put out: There are four sentences all with ―put out‖ in each. Please guess what ―put out‖ means in each
of them.
2) edit: There are some words formed on the basis of the form ―edit‖, but they have different meanings.
Let’s have a look.
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