2）Pair work: Discuss the favorite food
3）Group work: What do you know about the customs and rules, e.g., table manners and tipping, that Westerners follow when they dine out?
Unit Ten financial Concerns
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Personal finance”相关的词汇和表达式及相关的理财方法 重点及难点：
Agreeing and disagreeing 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and make a dialogue with your partner about your expenditures for the month by examining the account book
2）Interview: interview someone by asking their attitude towards money, and you can give some advices for people with worries about money
3）Pair work and group work: Discuss the following proverbs with your partners. Make use of the expressions on agreeing and disagreeing
第二学年
Unit One Heroes
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Heroes”相关的词汇、名言和表达式 重点及难点：
Defining a concept’ Giving reasons and offering explanations 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities：Listen to two text and answer questions about the passage
2）Role play: You need to interview four of you classmates to find out their “hero” and “heroism”, and ask them to support their views with examples.
3）Group work and Discussion: Work in group or pairs to research one category of hero
Unit Two Love and Romance
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Love and Romance”相关的词汇、谚语和表达式 重点及难点：
Extending invitations; Accepting and declining invitations 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and answer the questions about the love story 2）Discussion：What is your ideal type of boyfriend/girlfriend? What specific qualities are you looking for? 3）Group work and Discussion: What is love in your eyes? If you are asked to make a simile of love, what will you compare love to?
Unit Three Are We the Same, Men and Women?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Differences between men and women”相关的词汇、谚语和表达式 重点及难点：
Talking about differences; Comparing and contrasting 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities：Listen to Text one and Text two and answer the questions about the story 2）Role play: A company is in need of a sales manager. Many people applied for the position. Now there are four candidates left, two women and two women. Two people from the human resource department of the company are going to interview the four candidates. Human resource personnel will ask many questions and candidates should answer questions and try to show your strength.
3）Survey and Discussion: What are the traditional professions for men and women?
Unit Four Movies and Novels
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Movies and novels”相关的词汇和美国著名的电影和小说知识 重点及难点：
Narration; Giving comments 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and answer the questions about the movies and novels 2）Discussions: How much do you know about the four classic Chinese novels? Which one is your favorite? 3）Watch movies and give comments on it, the movie is Forrest Gump
Unit five Stereotypes
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Talking about stereotypes”相关的词汇和表达式及中西方文化差异 重点及难点：
Defending oneself; Correcting oneself and repairing an offensive remark one just made 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and answer the questions about the stereotypes 2）Interview some classmates to get their ideas on the Americans. Then ask them to speculate about American stereotype of China and Chinese
3）Pair work: Make up a dialog. You and your partner are from different places. You hold stereotypical ideas about people from your partner’s hometown. Now you are talking about those stereotypes. Your partner thinks those stereotypes are wrong and is trying to defend himself
Unit six Fake and Shoddy Goods
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Fake and shoddy products”相关的词汇及对假货危害性的认识 重点及难点：
Complaining; showing sympathy 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities：Listen to Text one and Text two and answer the questions about the fake and shoddy goods
2）Pair work, group work and Discussion
·What do you think are some possible ways to solve the serious quality problems in our country? ·What suggestions would you give to the government? ·What suggestions would you give to consumers?
Unit seven Mom and Technology
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Technology and our society”相关的词汇和表达式及未来科技展望 重点及难点：
Expressing speculations, assumptions and predictions 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and answer the questions about the story 2）Pair work: speculate what had happened if the following things had not been invented (telephone, atomic energy, television, internet, car, and so on)
3）Group work: Look at a prophet’s predictions for the future. Discuss how probable you think each of the predictions is
Unit Eight Harmony Between the Young and the Old
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Generation Gap”相关的词汇和表达式 重点及难点：
Expressing opinions 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the discussion
2）Role play: Contradictions between parents and children are common. Now work in groups of three. Assume the roles of a parent, son or daughter a consultant. The parent and the child will discuss the problems in their relationship while the consultant will give advice. 3）Tell a story about something that happened between you and your parents.
Unit nine Honesty
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Honesty”相关的词汇和表达式 重点及难点：
A review of expressing opinions 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks
2）Interview: Interview your classmates or group members on their opinions about cheating or plagiarism.
3）Pair work, role play and Discussion
·why is it so difficult for people to be honest to one another?
·Can you name some typical circumstances under which it is justifiable not to tell the truth? ·Why is it that even the smartest people are often fooled by those around hm?
Unit Ten Do Appearances Really Matter?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Attitudes to appearances”相关的词汇和对美的含义理解 重点及难点：
Giving opinions about clothes and appearance 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks
2）Group work: Tell your group members who you think is the most attractive man or woman in the world .Describe what he or she is like 3）Discussion
·Ideas of beauty change with time and culture.
·Chinese have different ideas of beauty from Westerners. ·Who and what decide the standards of beauty? ·what makes a person beautiful?
Unit Eleven What Is Success?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握与主题“Success”相关的词汇和对成功含义的理解 重点及难点：
Giving opinions about clothes and appearance 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to Text one and Text two and finish the tasks
2）Group work: First summarize what you have learnt from the Text Four, and then give a speech with the title “How can we be successful” 3）Discussion
·What is your own definition of success?