學(xué)術(shù)英語第一單元

1、Unit One Giving Thanks for the Invisible HandTeaching steps1. Lead-in: Ask students to work in pairs to do the task in Lead-in/Text A. Then invite several students to share their answers with the whole class. 2. Overview Ask students to preview Text A before class. Or, allocate some time for student

2、s to read the text quickly in class. Then invite several students to summarize the main idea of Text A. 3. In-depth analysis of Text A 1) Show students some key words and ask them to contribute as much as possible what they know about them. Provide additional information when necessary. 2) discuss w

3、ith students the function of Thanksgiving in the text on the basis of Task 1/Critical reading and thinking/Text A 3) Guide students to focus on some of the difficult sentences in Text A by doing Task 2/Critical reading and thinking/Text A. Ask them to report their answers to the class. 4) Organize a

4、 group discussion about the questions in Task 3/Critical reading and thinking/Text A. Encourage students to think independently, critically and creatively. Supplementary information 1. Thanksgiving It is an annual national holiday in the U.S. and Canada. Amercans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth

5、 Thursday of November, honoring the early Plymouth settlers and their harvest feast. They commonly trace the Thanksgiving holiday to a 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the Plymouth settlers held a harvest feast after a successful season. Although prayers and thanks were probably of

6、fered at the 1621 harvest gathering, the first recorded religious Thanksgiving in Plymouth happened two years later in 1623. On this occasion, the colonists gave thanks to God for rain after a nearly catastrophic drought. 2. The Invisible Hand It is a metaphor used by Adam Smith to describe the natu

7、ral force that guides free market capitalism through competition for scarce resources. The general idea is that individuals pursuing self-interest end up doing what is best for society as if guided by an invisible hand. For example, when the price of something increases due to higher demand or lower

8、 supply, more people will start produing it. This is done out of self interest, but it also benefits society. As a whole, it will make the goods available to more people as well as lowering the price again. Answer keys Task 1 Beginning（paras 1-2）: Bring in the theme of Thanksgiving and raise the que

9、stion of whether you have ever given thanks for what you are blessed with in the daily economic life. Body (Paras 3-8): Use the labor and skills behind the Thanksgiving weekend as examples to illustrate the concept of the invisible hand. End (Para. 9): Echo the beginning, emphasizing we should be gr

10、ateful to the miracle on this Thanksgiving Day and every day. Task 2: 1. It is not difficult at all to explain why grocery stores stock up on turkey before Thanksgiving. There seems to be no miracle in it. 2. The use of so many ands helps to emphasize that a series of actions and all kinds of work a

11、re involved in the sale of Thanksgiving turkey. 3. Here from above means from God. The phrase is used to show that there is something wondrous and almost inexplicable in the social order of freedom. Task 3 Market has its own way of punishing business malpractices. For example, if a fast food chain s

12、ells contaminated food, nationwide demand for their food will go down, along with their profit. When a company sells defective products, they have to deal with liability costs. Answer Keys Language building-up Task 1/Specialized vocabulary 1. 飼料經(jīng)銷商；飼料批發(fā)商 2. 為他自己的收益而工作 3. 技能與勞動力 4. 制造塑料 5. 私人交易 6. 包裝

13、并定價 7. 無形之手 1. priced 2. labor 3. transactions 4. gain 5. labor; manufactured 6. invisible hand 7. distributor Task 2/Signpost language 1. Today, in millions of homes across the nation, God will be thanked for many gifts, for the feast on the table and the company of loved ones, for health and good

14、fortune in the year gone by, for peace privilege of having been born, or having become American(Line 2, Para.1). 2. And yet, isnt there something wonderous, something almost inexplicable in the way your Thanksgiving weekend is made possible by the skill and labor of vast numbers of total strangers? (Line 1, P