Lesson Eight We’re only Human

1．授课时间:

第17－18周

2．授课类型: 理论课三次；习题课一次

3．授课题目: We’re only human

4．教学目的、要求:

通过课文分析帮助学生更深刻地理解人性。要让学生意识到“我们只是人类”不应该成为逃避任何错误或罪行或责任的借口。要成为一个真正的人，应具备3C原则：品性(character)，勇气(courage)和道德(conscience)。

5．教学重点及难点:

1）背景知识：单身告别宴 2）文章体裁：说明文 3）修辞手段：对比和排比

4）3C原则：品性(character)，勇气(courage)和道德(conscience)

6. 教学基本内容纲要，教学方法、手段，实施步骤： 教学基本内容纲要： 1). 背景知识介绍 2). 课文结构分析

3). 疑难单词、短语、句型解析 4). 文章卫生体裁和修辞特点

5). 就1—8课课文及课后练习给学生答疑

教学方法和手段：

教学方法：以学生为主体，教师为主导的双主体教学原则为指导，注重教师与学生之间的双边互动。

教学手段：多媒体辅助教学

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实施步骤：

Part One Warm – up

Part Two Background Information Part Three Text appreciation 3.1 Text Analysis 3.2 Writing Devices 3.3 Sentence Paraphrase Part Four Language study

4.1 Words and expressions 4.2 Grammar Part V Extension 5.1 Oral work 5.2 Quiz 5.3 Writing

7．作业、讨论题、思考题:

完成课后练习;

多看英语报刊杂志及英语经典小说，扩大阅读量； 精听与泛听相结合，逐步提高自己的听力水平； 积极参加英语角等有助于提高英语口语的活动； 坚持用英语写日记； 做一些专四相关练习；

8．参考资料（含参考书、文献等）:

1) 杨立民主编,《现代大学英语精读》（3）教学用书。北京：外语教学与研究出版

社,2002。

2) 梅仁毅主编,《现代大学英语精读》（3）教师用书。北京：外语教学与研究出版

社,2002。

3) 《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》，北京：外语教学研究出版社，2000。 4) Judy Pearsall主编，《新牛津英语词典》。上海：上海外语教育出版社，1998。 5) 丁往道、吴冰等编著，《英语写作手册》。北京：外语教学与研究出版社。

6) 张道真，温志达, 《英语语法大全》上、下卷。北京：外语教学与研究出版社，

1998。

9．课后小结

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Lesson Eight We’re only Human

Part One Warm up

I. Courage & Integrity

Listen and fill in the blanks.

Courage and integrity are two very important traits that are a part of every person's lifestyle. Which trait would be more desirable? Courageous people do not let anything hold them back or restrain them from doing what they believe in. Integrity is the ability to set a frame of personal morals and live your life accordingly.

Also courage is executing what you believe in, even when you know your end result is most likely to be failure. The ability to accept failure is also courage. The most important form of courage is maintaining integrity.

Integrity is all about who you really are as a person. Integrity is the ability to maintain those morals in any given situation. If I had to choose between integrity and courage, I would choose integrity because it takes courage to have integrity. If you had integrity, courage would already be part of you.

It takes courage to maintain your integrity. Many incidents may come up in life that challenge your moral principles. People with a high amount of integrity can maintain their moral principles in any given situation. People with low integrity must have a low amount of courage because it takes true courage to maintain their integrity. Between courage and integrity, the value of integrity overweighs the value of courage. High integrity is more important than anything else in the world because there is nothing more important than who you are inside.

II. Read & Discuss

Study the following five quotations on morality and then brainstorm about the two topics listed below.

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2. Moral integrity is a long-range commitment to specific moral principles; a person of moral

integrity does not change moral principles for the sake of expediency or personal convenience. (Manuel M. Davenport)

3. Integrity is the commitment to acting in accordance with long-range values and moral principles. Integrity requires us to think past short-term gains to long-range consequences. (Diana Mertz Hsieh)

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4. No one can enhance himself at the expense of others; what one believes to be \

5. The truly good person harmonizes quietly, modestly, and without calling attention to himself or to the quality of his acts. He builds no monuments to himself.

Topics for discussion:

1. According to a survey conducted by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in 2002, the divorce rate in Shanghai has risen from 0.027 percent in the late 1970s to 0.486 percent of 2001. More than 40 percent of the divorced couples surveyed admitted their spouses had other sexual partners, which they said directly caused the divorce.

How do you interpret the extramarital affairs from the perspective of morality?

2. The world is flooded with pirated goods which range from electric appliance to personal items. The pirates go at the risks of severe penalty. What lies behind their drive for the illegal activities is a surprising number of avid buyers who are virtually honest and law-abiding people. What do you think of the pirates and the buyers?

Part Two Background Information

I. Author:

Laura Schlessinger (1947— )

—PhD. in physiology, Columbia University;

—Post-doctoral certification in marriage, family and child counseling, University of Southern California;

—A teacher, writer and radio talk show host.

Works: Parenthood by Proxy: Don’t Have Them if You Won’t Raise Them (2000) Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up Their Lives (1994)

How Could You Do That?! The Abdication of Character, Courage and Conscience (1996)

Laura Schlessinger’s quotes:

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am; they reveal who I am. Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

II. The Bible

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