教学重点和难点:
1．人们对自身价值认识与自我塑造的过程； 2．个人情感和行为与亲情关系的处理方式, 3．西方社会的亲情观； 4．西方社会的习俗。
难点：
1．分析本文作者怎样进行人物的对比刻画的； 2．对比描写所达到的刻画效果
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点
more than most people know, homely, quick and witty tongue, in flight, envelope, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, stand off, raise money, in a river of make-believe, shove us away, fight off the temptation, tumble along good-naturedly, hang about, court, turn on him, recompose, hang down to, go through motions with, give up on, crop up, talk a blue streak, extended, homely, make it, stick to, stand off, stare down, soothing, furtive, hang about, throw back, perspiration, stump,
She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that \It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. Like good likes and money, quickness passed her by. She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes.
Why do you think colored people asked fewer questions in 1927? What is the implied by the subtitle 'for your grandmamma'?
第5课 Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R. 教学目的和要求：
通过课堂交流及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。
教学重点和难点:
重点：
1．Churchill的此演讲的历史背景与重要的历史意义；
2．Churchill的此演讲所达到的效果及对于二战所产生的影响； 3．Churchill的此演讲所站的角度及对俄国的态度 4．Churchill在演讲中所采用的修辞手段 难点：
1．修辞手段在演讲中的特殊作用； 2．演讲时的世界政治背景等。
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点 语言要点：
change conviction into certainty, surprise, ground, round up in hordes, there is not time, the War Cabinet, count on, enlist, be true of, arch anti-Communist, bow down, make a favourable reference to, to the effect, is devoid of, from time immemorial, pray for, onslaught, is wrung so hardly, smart from, appeal to, blood-lust, lure?on?,
to the effect, except for, conviction, be devoid of, primordial, vestige, be resolved to, parley, divergence, moralize, hearth and home, I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.
He thought that Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U.S.A.
第6课 Blackmail
教学目的和要求：
通过课堂交流及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。
教学重点和难点:
重点：
1．分析本篇文章对来自下层的诡计贪婪的酒店探长和贵族出身傲慢专横的公爵夫人以及懦弱胆小的公爵入木的刻画；
2．分析本篇中人物性格特征及酒店探长和公爵夫人每一次进行的斗智的较量；
3．分析作者在文章中所采用的比喻修辞手段； 难点：
1．社会身份对人的思维方式和行为方式的作用和影响 2．比喻的修辞手段在刻画人物中的重要性
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点 Cryptic, on an invented errand, survey, gross jowled face, well-appointed, encompass, flip, incongruous falsetto voice, shoot, throw the book, get fancy titles, do what by rights, in fairness, wither, high-tail, in distaste, tuck away, look-see, take on, I come for, get around, come down to, settle on, adept at, unequivocal, is riveted on, whiplash, vacillation, beady,
Cryptic, pay to, high-tailed, spell out, lick up, on a hunch, concede, turn around, twig, oafish, peremptorily, rivet, imperious, The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle. Now we're getting somewhere. (p94) I suppose it doesn't matter. (p95)
He made an attempt to square his shoulders which did not succeed. p97)
第7课 The Age of Miracle Chips
教学目的和要求：
通过课堂交流及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。
教学重点和难点:
重点：
1．分析本篇文章对一个普通的美国人家庭成员一个早上的生活的描写，给读者展现出来将来因为有了芯片生活是如何的便利；
2．分析作者的写作思路以及角度，如何通过各个不同的侧面来说明神奇的芯片给人们的生活带来怎样的变化；
3．分析作者在文章中所采用的各种修辞手段和说明文的写作技巧； 难点：
1．东西方不同文化背景下人们不同的生活方式 2．各种说明文写作技巧在说明文写作上的重要性
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点
miracle chips, microtechnology, inert, fleck, hulking, versatile, drudgery, rundown, dreary, capricious, astray, ubiquitous, dehumanize, accrue, boost, percolator, saunter, headset, groovy, be invested with, avert, hassle, soporific, benign
It is already leading the consumer society away from the mass-produced homogeneity of the assembly line.
第9课 Mark Twain---Mirror of America
教学目的和要求：
通过课堂教学及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。
教学重点和难点:
1．Mark Twain对美国文学与美国社会影响与贡献； 2．Mark Twain所处的时代背景； 3．分析作者写作中所含的幽默风格
难点：
1．Mark Twain是以什么样的笔触与角度揭示美国社会的； 2．本篇文章的修辞手段夸张；
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点
idyllic cruise, deal, become obsessed with, range across, attest, main artery, drain, medicine shows, cosmos, resurface, motley, flirt with, come for, take shots at, flee, feed on lament, every bit,cynical, frailty, piracy, dry up, motley, succumb, flirt with, dig one's way, scathing, give to ? a name, rush sb. through, all over take a look, of sorts, in earnest, debunk, panorama, deplore, ingredient lay oneself on the shelf, renew, feed on, crumble, release from, lament
第10课 The Trial That Rocked the World
教学目的和要求：
通过课堂交流及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。