普专《英语口语（4）》课程学习辅导

 

一、课程概述

    　《英语口语（4）》是江苏广播电视大学专科英语专业的必修课程。本课程的教学目的是通过大量的口语练习和实践，逐步培养和提高学生用英语进行口头交际的能力。通过本课程的学习，学生应能经一定准备后, 就一般日常生活和社会生活话题作3-5分钟的连贯性发言和交谈，做到语音、语调、语法基本正确。

 

二、教材说明

   　本课程的教学媒体包括文字教材和录音教材。

  文字主教材：《英语口语（4）》课程使用的是高等教育出版社出版的《英语口语教程2》（姚保慧主编），该教程包括学生用书和教师用书，并配有录音带两盒。英语口语（4）学习《英语口语教程2》第10 – 18单元。本课程共学习18周，每两周学习一个单元。

文字辅教材：《英语口语教程2》（教师用书）

   　录音带：2盘

 

三、教材内容　　　　  

本课程的总体设计原则是“以功能和话题为纲”。教材中每个单元的前三部分就每项功能和话题提供了听说训练素材及控制性到自由型的多种口语练习形式，这三部分内容是必须学习的内容。《英语口语（4）》所涉及的语言功能和话题为：

周数

单元

教学重点/功能项目

话题

趣味学习

1

10

好奇　无知

  迷信

  猜测

2

10

好奇　无知

 

 

3

11

罗列　总结

  交通

  唱歌

4

11

罗列　总结

 

 

5

12

容忍　批评

  代沟

  故事

6

12

容忍　批评

 

 

7

13

因果　关系

  报刊杂志

  猜图

8

13

因果　关系

 

 

9

14

预测　判断

  婚姻

  表演

10

14

预测　判断

 

 

11

15

更正　解释

  时尚

  故事

12

15

更正　解释

 

 

13

16

澄清　重复

  广播电视

  饶口令

14

16

澄清　重复

 

 

15

17

犹豫　信心

  求职

  故事

16

17

犹豫　信心

 

 

17

18

希冀 愿望

  职业

  故事情节

18

18

希冀 愿望

 

 

 

每个单元的教学内容由四个部分组成。

组成部分

教学内容

1．表达模式

通过对话展示一至二种功能项目

2．口语技能训练

口语技能训练和语言实践活动

3．话题讨论

了解英美等国文化背景知识

4．趣味英语

激发兴趣，巩固综合语言技能

 

四、单元学习重点

单元

功能项目

讨论话题

Unit 10

1.Curiosity and Ignorance

2. Superstition

1.      Expressing curiosity

2.      Confessing ignorance

 

 

1.      Can you think of some superstitions not mentioned in the text? List as many as you can think of.

2. Are you superstitious? What do you believe in?

3. Are there any typical superstitious beliefs in your country that are not known elsewhere.

Unit 11

1.Listing and Summarizing

2.Transportation

1.      Listing things

2.      Summarizing

1. One of your friends will be traveling. Try to persuade him/her to take a flight by listing some advantages and then summing up.

2. Someone wants to buy a car. List the advantages and disadvantages and sum up.

3. List the advantages and disadvantages of going to school by bike.

Unit 12

1.      Tolerating

2.      Criticizing

3. Generation gap

1.Expressing tolerance and intolerance

2. Expressing criticism

 

1. Suppose your student is late for class, show tolerance when he/she gives the excuse.

2. Express your criticism when a young man is mistreating his parents. 

3. What is wrong with the teenagers today? Any generation gap between you and your parents?

 

Unit 13

1.Cause and effect

2. The press

1. Expressing causes

2. Expressing effect

 

1. Talk about the cause and effect of diet and health, flood and forest protection, importance of reading newspapers.

2. Do you often read newspapers? What are they?

3.        What do you expect to learn from the newspapers and magazines?

Unit 14

1.Prediction and judgment

2. Wedding and marriage

1. Making general prediction

2.Making conditional prediction

 

1. Predict what your life will be like ten years from now.

2. Make judgment on the city or the school you are in.

3. Describe the traditional Chinese wedding and the modern wedding of the young.

Unit 15

1.Correcting and explaining

2. New fashions

1.      Suggesting a correction

2.      Making an explanation

1. One of your classmates skips class without asking for leave. 2.Explain to your friend how to use the school library.

3. What is your attitude to fashion? Explain.

Unit 16

1.Clarifying and repeating

2. TV & Radio

1.      Extending clarification

2.      Repeating

1. Ask your teacher to clarify something you don’t understand.

2. Help your friend with some difficult problem. Repeat the explanation.

3. What are your favorite TV & radio programs? Describe.

Unit 17

1.      Hesitation and confidence

2.      A job application

1. Expressing hesitation

2. Expressing confidence

1. Expressing your hesitation in deciding the new job.

2. Expressing your confidence in applying for the job you want.

3. Role play a job interview.

Unit 18

1.Hopes and desires

2. Career

1.      Expressing hope and desire

 

1. Talk to your friend about the hope and desire for your future job.

2. Describe the deal career that you like to have. 

 

五、       学习方法

提高口语技能必须经过一个循序渐进、逐步提高的过程才能实现。在课堂上要发挥主动性和参与意识，坚持多用英语表达自己的思想。课内外充分利用口语实践机会，积极参加多样的口语练习活动。

提高口语技能还依靠其他多种语言技能的综合提高，英语的听、说、读、写、译技能与提高口语有不可分割的联系。

大量听的信息的输入是说的基本条件。边听边模仿，改进自己的语音和语调。

另外要通过阅读增大词汇量，扩展知识面，提高英语口语的质量和深度。

英语写作和翻译练习能帮助巩固所学知识，培养逻辑思维能力，从而提高用英语表达思想的能力。

 

六、       期末复习

期末考试内容包括大纲规定掌握的英语交际功能和话题，重点考核对所学基本语言要素的掌握程度和语言技能的初步运用能力。考试内容紧密结合所学教材。

重点复习话题：

1.      Can you think of some superstitions? List as many as you can think of.

2.      Are you superstitious? What do you believe in?

3.      Are there any typical superstitious beliefs in your country that are not known elsewhere?

4.      If you have a large sum of money, do you want to buy a car?

5.      Developing car industry in China.

6.      Advocating going to school by bike or on foot.

7.      Is there any generation gap between you and your parents?

8.      Why do people say there is a generation gap between the old and the young?

9.      Are there any problems with today’s teenagers?

10.  What do you expect to learn from newspapers?

11.  Do you often read English newspapers? What are they? In what way do you find them difficult to read?

12.  Will newspapers be replaced by radio and TV in the future? Why or why not?

13.  Can you describe a western wedding ceremony?

14.  Please describe a traditional Chinese marriage ceremony.

15.  Describe your ideal wedding ceremony and your ideal place for honeymoon.

16.  What style of clothes do you like?

17.  Describe how the fashions in clothing in the past few years in your city.

18.  What is your attitude towards fashion?

19.  What are your favorite radio and TV programs? Give reasons why.

20.  Why do radio and TV play an important role in our daily life?

21.  Describe some advantages and disadvantages of radio and TV.

22.  What information should be included in a letter of application?

23.  What is the function of an application?

24.  Who will give reference to your ability when you apply for a job?

25.  What is your ideal job?

26.  Why do you want to do it?

27.  How can you keep the ideal job you have?

 

重点复习情景：

1.                Speak to your partner and express your curiosity over your teacher’s family/some differences between foreign and the Chinese customs.

2.                Speak to your partner and express your ignorance on obtaining a visa for overseas travel/the major tourist sights in Hong Kong.

3.                One of your friends will be traveling. Try to persuade him/her to take a flight by listing some advantages and then summing up.

4.                Someone wants to buy a motorcycle. You suggest that he/she buy a mountain bike instead. List the disadvantages of motorcycles and then sum up.

5.                A student is late for class, he/she apologies and the teacher criticizes and then shows tolerance.

6.                A salesgirl is selling cigarettes to a customer. The customer finds out that the cigarettes are fake. The salesgirl and the store manager apologize to the customer, but the customer shows no tolerance.

7.                Speak to your partner using expressions to show cause and effect on diet and health/flood and forest protection/football in China/importance of reading newspapers.

8.                Work with your partner and debate about cheating in the exams. Must cheating in the exam be done with?

9.                Make predictions about your future job/places of residence/husband or wife/children, etc.

10.            Suppose a historic building in your city is going to be torn down. Express your opinion on tearing down the building using the patterns of judgment. 

11.            How would you correct your friend if he/she enters the lab without changing shoes/stays away from school without asking for leave.

12.            Try to explain to your friend the meaning of Chinese Lunar New Year/how to get the information about the school library.

13.            Mary and Vicki are both students from Britain. They are studying in the Chinese Department of a university. Vicki says it is very difficult to learn Mandarin. Mary asks for clarification. Vicki gives clarification.

14.            Zhang Jie, a student, and Miss Wang, his teacher, talk about English. Zhang Jie asks Miss Wang how to improve his English level. Miss Wang says that he should lay a solid foundation not only in English but also Chinese. Zhang Jie doesn’t understand. Miss Wang repeats and clarifies. Then Miss Wang gives Zhang Jie some suggestions for the study.

15.            Miss Black is choosing some trousers for her husband. The shop assistant shows her many well-known brands, but she hesitates to decide which pair to buy.

16.            You are applying for a job as a sales manager. Show your confidence in a job interview.

17.            Talk to your partner about what you want to do in the future and state the reasons.

18.            Conduct a job interview with your partner.

 

 

七、        课程考核

《英语口语（4）》课程的考核采取两种方式：形成性考核和课程终结考试。课程总成绩为百分制，形成性考核占30%，课程终结考试占70%。

形成性考核是对学生学习过程和阶段性学习效果的综合评价，包括学生参与各项教学活动和自主学习活动的情况以及阶段性的学习进展情况。本课程的形成性考核由任课教师根据学生学习记录（5%），作业完成情况（20%），参加小组活动和其他教学活动的情况（5%）综合评定。

课程终结考试由江苏电大统一命题，在同一时间统考。考试按教学大纲的要求进行。考试的内容紧密结合所学教材。期末考试成绩占课程总成绩的70%。考试内容包括大纲规定掌握的英语交际功能和话题。考题涉及教材内容不少于50%。

终结考试的形式同《英语口语（3）》， 将会分为三个部分，第一部分采取主考问、考生答的形式，主考教师就一些与考生有关的生活、学习等方面的话题进行提问。第二部分为考生之间就日常生活中的一般情景进行交谈。第三部分就一般日常生活和社会生活话题作三分钟的连贯性发言或交谈。

 

试卷结构与时间分配

试题部分

形式

题量

时间

考察要点

第一部分

口试教师与考生对话

2

3分钟

就个人情况进行连贯介绍的能力

第二部分

两名考生对话

1

4分钟

就日常生活中的一般情景进行交谈的能力（互相交流及使用交际任务所需的功能性语言和技巧）

第三部分

连贯发言

1

5分钟

就一般日常生活和社会生活话题进行清楚而连贯的表达的能力