Unit 12   Education（3）

period 6  integrating  skills
teaching aims and demands:

(1)    to improve the students’ abilities of reading and comprehension

(2)    to learn some language points

step1  lead-in

step2  reading comprehension：

1.answer the questions:

1)what are the three basic learning styles?

2)what is the passage mainly about?

2.true or false:

①students in a class are different from each other in many ways though they are of the same age and nationality.

②people’s ways of obtaining information and expressing themselves are always the same.

③if you prefer to read the information while learning,you are the type of the students who learn through doing.

④you are learning through listening if you prefer to acquire information by reading aloud,hearing a teaching explain something,using a tape recorder and so on.

⑤students who have the learning through doing style like to sit still for long periods of time and concentrate their minds while reading or listening.

⑥it is easy for teachers to suit their students’various leaning styles.

⑦it’s necessary for one to find the study methods which are suitable for him or her.

⑧appropriate learning styles can make one study more effectively.

step 3  language points

1. have …in common

2. suggest 不用虛擬的用法

3. demonstrate 證明，論證，表達，顯露，示范，演示，示威（常用搭配：demonstrate +that /wh--/to do）

let me demonstrate to you some of the difficulties we are facing.

讓我來向你說明一下我們面臨的一些困難。

his sudden departure had demonstrated how unreliable he was.

他突然離去，這說明他多么不可靠。

the theories were demonstrated to be false. 這些理論已被證明是錯誤的。

we want to demonstrate our commitment to human rights.我們向表明我們對人權的信念。

her job involves demonstrating new educational software. 她的工作包括演示新的教學軟件。

students demonstrating against the war. 舉行反戰示威游行的學生。

4. category 類別，種類

students over 25 fall into a different category. 25歲以上的學生屬于另一類。

the results can be divided into three main categories. 結果可以分成3大類。

引申：categorize/se 將。。。分類，把。。加以分類

participants were categorized according to age. 參加者按年齡和性別分組。

his latest work cannot be categorized as either a novel or an autobiography. 他的近作既不屬于小說也不屬于自傳。

5. be active in 積極參加

she takes an active part in school life.

the parents were active in campaigning against cuts to the education budget.

6. approach vt./n接近，靠近,建議，要求，（待人接物或思考問題的）方法，方式，態度