Unit 1 Education
Objectives
1. Read what Bill Gates says about education;
2. Build up your vocabulary relating to campus life; 3. Learn something from an ancient Greek educator; 4. Study different types of nouns; 5. Write an introduction of yourself. Focuses
1. Build up your vocabulary relating to campus life; 2. Write an introduction of yourself. Outline
1. Warm-up Discussion; study of words and expressions in Text A; Vocabulary Check (B and C) 2. Discussion of Text A and the follow-up exercises (A and B) 3. Active Words and Vocabulary Check; Grammar Tips 4. Discussion of Text B and the follow-up exercises
5. Comprehensive Exercises (Ask the students to do the translation exercises outside of the
class beforehand) 6. Practical Writing
Procedures:
Classroom Activities I. Warm-up discussion
Question: Do you know anything about Bill Gates such as his life and his educational background? Hint
1) birthday and birthplace: October 28, 1995; Seattle, Washington
2) educational background: Harvard University (education not completed)
3) career: chairmen and chief software architect of Microsoft, the word’s largest and most profitable software company. 4) main events in his life:
a. beginning programming computers at age 13;
b. developing a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer in Harvard;
c. founding Microsoft Corporation in 1975 at the age of 19
II. Vocabulary in Text A 1. education n. 教育
e.g. Children in poor areas receive free education. educate v. 教育；教导 educated adj. 受教育的