新视野英语教程第三册电子教案（高职高专）.doc

Unit 1 Text A I Am Home Ⅰ Objective Go over the whole text in limited time and try to get the main idea of the passage Focus on some sentence structure. Ⅱ Time Arrangement Text: 2 periods Discussion: 1 period Ⅲ Leading In Introduction to the topic Have you ever seen the movie The Wizard of Oz ?In it ,the main character, Dorothy, gets lost in a storm and spends all her time trying to get back home to her family . She makes new friends and has adventures, but she is still desperate to be back where she belongs Do you ever feel this way ? There is no place like home,Where do you feel most at home?. Exploring What comes to mind when you hear the word “home”? what does staying with your own parents mean to you? Ⅳ Detailed study of the text 1. The work for us was a labor of love. Meaning: For us, this kind of physical labor is enjoyable.labor: n.1) effort or work, especially tiring physical work努力，劳动 Building roads still involves manual labor. 修筑铁路还需要人工劳动。The garage charged us for parts and labor. 汽车修理厂向我们收取零件和人工费用。2) workers, especially those who use their hands, considered as a group or class 工人，工人阶级labor relations 劳资关系There is a shortage of skilled labor. 缺少熟练工人。Note that labor is AmE spelling. The BrE spelling is labour. 2. Falling asleep was never a problem for me.Meaning: I had no difficulty or trouble falling asleep, or I fell asleep easily.asleep: adj. sleeping 睡着的He was fast asleep when I entered the room. 我走进房间时他正在熟睡。Note that asleep is a predicative adjective (表语性的形容词); that is, it cannot precede the noun it modifies. For instance, we say sleeping beauty (睡美人), not * asleep beauty. 3. When I was 12, though, something terrible happened that would change my life forever.Meaning: Yet, when I was 12, a terrible thing happened, which changed my life forever.Note that the word though in the sentence is an adverb, equivalent to however, both in meaning and in grammatical function. It appears in the mid or final, rather than init