1、Unit 1 Education,main,Warm-up,Brainstorming: List the words related to education,Warm-up,Tips:,freshman sophomore junior student senior student undergraduate student graduate student / postgraduate student masters degree bachelors degree doctor student / doctor candidate post doctor student alumni /
2、 alumnus professor teaching fellow tutor / mentor / director / super visor dean department president faculty,Warm-up,Brainstorming: List the words related to education,Warm-up,Tips:,take the course drop the course register sign up for the course pick up = learn cancel full selective course / electiv
3、e course / optional course requirement / required course / compulsory lecture seminar credit introductory course advanced course homework / assignment / project book report presentation reading list deadline due extension paper / essay term paper thesis proposal,Warm-up,Brainstorming: List the words
4、 related to education,Warm-up,Tips:,reference room periodical room copier study lounge librarian catalogue index volume library card writing permission book reservation journal periodical quarterly current issue back issue latest number,PartA_ Lead-in1,Pre-listening,Listening,Word Building,Lead-in,B
5、ackground Information,You will hear a 23-year-old American woman talking about her dissatisfaction with the US educational system and explaining why its not good for many children. Before listening, read the following key words and phrases selected from the talk and guess what problems the woman was
6、 referring to. Tell a partner your guesses and find out what he/she thinks.,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Lead-in2,Pre-listening,Listening,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Word Building,Word Building,Lead-in,Backgr
7、ound Information,Pre-listening,Listening,Match each words and expressions in the left column with its meaning in the right.,A. (esp. of a persons experience) full of different types of activity; complete and varied B. to make things of the same type all have the same basic features C. the act or pro
8、cess of arranging in separate levels D. in the opposite way to what has just been said E. best; most likely to bring success or advantage,1. optimal2. well-rounded3. standardize4. stratification5. vice versa,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Word Building,Word Building,Lead-in,Back
9、ground Information,Pre-listening,Listening,optimal,Fill in the following blanks with the following words.,1. This may be an individually regulation, but not for the organization completely. 2. He has a background in management. 3. In order to inheritance by will, every country has formulated an inhe
10、ritance act.,_,well-rounded,_,standardize,_,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,standardize well-rounded vice versa stratification optimal,PartA_ Word Building,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,Listening,4. We have a range between rich countries and poor countries,
11、but means much more than relative per capita income. 5. It is wrong to deal with a minor offence as if it were a major one and .,stratification,_,vice versa,_,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,standardize well-rounded vice versa stratification optimal,PartA_ Background Information,Word Bu
12、ilding,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,1. SATSAT, formerly called the Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test (学业能力倾向测验), is a type of standardized test that measures verbal and mathematical reasoning abilities that develop over time. It is frequently used by colleges an
13、d universities in the United States to assess and select students who come from schools using,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Background Information,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,different grading systems or class ranking. Although admission
14、 criteria to these universities also include GPA (平均积分点), teacher recommendations and participation in extracurricular activities, some colleges have a threshold score that automatically qualifies or disqualifies a candidate for admission.,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA
15、_ Background Information,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,Listening,2. ACTThe ACT (originally abbreviation of American College Testing) is a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions in the United States produced by ACT, Inc. It was first administ
16、ered in fall 1959 by Everett Franklin Lindquist as a competitor to the College Boards Scholastic Aptitude Test, now the SAT Reasoning Test. Some students who perform poorly on the SAT find that they perform better on the ACT and vice versa. The ACT test has historically consisted of four tests: Engl
17、ish, math, reading, and science reasoning. In February 2005, an optional writing,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Background Information,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,test was added to the ACT, mirroring changes to the SAT that took place later in Marc
18、h of the same year. All four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. accept the ACT.,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Background Information,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Backgr
19、ound Information,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,3. vocational schoolA vocational school, sometimes referred to as a trade school or career college, is one operated for the purpose of giving its students the skills needed to perform a certain job. The areas of concentratio
20、n most frequently offered by vocational education programs are business, trade and industry, health, agriculture, family and consumer sciences, marketing, and technology. In the USA, vocational schools are usually a post-secondary school, but in some instances may take the place of the final years o
21、f high school.,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Background Information,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Listening1,Pre-listening,Listening,Listen to the talk. Choose from the followin
22、g options the two major problems the speaker was concerned about.,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Listening2,Pre-listening,Listening,a. Theres no pressure on students to be as well-rounded as possible. b. Theres very little emphasis on developing students special interests. c. Te
23、achers are not given a chance to do anything creative with their classes. d. Teachers are not aware of their students needs and interests. e. Some of the so-called “bad kids” are isolated from the other students. f. Some students are not aware of their weak parts in study.,Problem 1:,_,b,e,_,Problem
24、 2:,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,To speaking One,English,PartA_ Listening3,Listen to the talk again and complete the following sentences.,1) The womans major in college was . 2) She did a lot of thinking about the way thatis run. 3) A lot of classes that youre forced to take in high
25、school are not . 4) In her opinion, when theres a lot of pressure on students to be as well-rounded as possible, it might become impossible for them to to any great degree.,_,system in the United States,the education,geared towards what you are going to be doing,_,develop any one part of themselves,
26、_,Pre-listening,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Listening4,5) The kids are very aware of the way theyre by the , by their teachers and by their . They feel that theyre bad kids. 6) The teachers never try to do anything with those classes.,perceived,_,educators,_,peers,_
27、,creative,_,Pre-listening,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,To speaking One,PartA_ Listening-sprit,Pre-listening,Listening,When I was in college I had an English major and for a while I considered going into teaching. While I was exploring the possibility of becoming a teacher,
28、I did a lot of thinking about the way that the education system in the United States is run. And I disagree with a lot of the ways that things seem to happen and have happened for a long time in our educational system. Uh people dont seem to recognize various kinds of intelligence; they seem to just
29、 want to give standardized tests and peg you for what you are capable of very early on your education. Ive always felt that a lot of classes that youre forced to take in high school are not really geared towards what you are going to be doing. Theres very little emphasis on your own special interest
30、s. Uh everybodys sort of treated like theyre the same person. Everything is very generalized. Theres a lot of uh theres a lot of pressure on students to be as well-rounded as possible. I think being well-rounded isnt really possible because it becomes,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,Par
31、tA_ Listening-sprit,Pre-listening,Listening,impossible to develop any one part of yourself um to any great degree. And as a result people cant get into good colleges if they, yaknow, havent, yaknow, scored the . the right thing on the math section of SAT, even if they are brilliant writers, and vice
32、 versa. You know, um people just really are not given a chance, I think, in a lot of cases. Another thing that really disturbs me is the way that students are separated from each other. I got involved with vocational education, uh which means that the kids go out to a technical or trade school for p
33、art of the week, and then they come back to the home school for the other part of the week and they take their academic classes. However, those kids are kept separate from the rest of the school almost as if theyre below them. Theres a lot of stratification. Um at any rate I feel that the kids are v
34、ery aware of the way that theyre perceived by the educators, by their teachers and, yaknow, by their peers. And I think that,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,PartA_ Listening-sprit,Pre-listening,Listening,it . it causes them to act in a way that . is . not really optimal. And thats prett
35、y sad to me. I actually had kids tell me when I was teaching them, “yaknow, were the just bad class, we . yaknow, its not that we have a problem with you personally, yaknow, we are just bad, we are bad kids” because pretty much that was what they felt they were. And yaknow, their classes were very l
36、imiting, uh the teachers never try to do anything creative with those classes. I think that many of the kids in that class were intelligent, but never actually realized their potential because of the way they were tracked very early on their education.,PartA,PartB,PartC,Problems with US Education,To
37、 speaking One,PartB_lead in1,You will hear an excerpt of an interview with Professor Howard Gardner, American educator and psychologist. Before listening, read what Professor Gardner said in the interview and guess the questions raised by the interviewer. Compare your guesses with a partners.,Word B
38、uilding,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Arts Education,PartB_lead in2,Pre-listening,Background Information,Question 1:,Professor Gardner, what did you find in your studies to be the biggest difference between arts education in the United States and arts educa
39、tion in China? What struck you most, then?,Professor Gardner: I was so struck by the differences between arts education in the United States and arts education in China ,Listening,Word Building,Lead-in,PartA,PartB,PartC,Arts Education,PartB_lead in3,Pre-listening,Background Information,Question 2:,M
40、any of the “young emperors” might not be so willing to learn all these “extra skills.” Whats your opinion on this?,Professor Gardner: China has thousands of years of history of encouraging talent development, so it is not at all a surprise that many kids are taking after-school arts classes ,Listeni
41、ng,Word Building,Lead-in,PartA,PartB,PartC,Arts Education,PartB_lead in3,Pre-listening,Background Information,Question 3:,How do you balance arts education in schools and arts education beyond school walls?,Professor Gardner: It is entirely to the good that students now have opportunities to learn a
42、bout the arts outside of class Optimally, there should be a division of labour between schools and informal educational settings ,Listening,Word Building,Lead-in,PartA,PartB,PartC,Arts Education,PartB_lead in4,PartB_ Word Building1,Match each of the words in the left column with its meaning in the r
43、ight.,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,doting2. requisite3. internationalization4. enrichment 5. calligraphy,A. the act of making (sth.) international B. (the art of producing) beautiful writing, often created with a special pen or brush C. needed for a particular purpose o
44、r result D. the act of improving the quality of (sth.), esp. by adding sth. else E. very or too loving,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Arts Education,PartB_ Word Building2,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,enrichment,Fill in the following blanks with the following words.,1) His
45、and indulgent mother would pay for anything he could not afford, including cars, petrol and insurance. 2) She expects to achieve the two-thirds majority for nomination. 3) In economics, has been viewed as a process of increasing involvement of enterprises in international markets. 4) Participating i
46、n a pre-health program is an excellent way to learn what its like to work in that field. 5) is considered to be a visual art in a lot of countries.,_,internationalization,_,Calligraphy,_,requisite,_,doting,_,Listening,PartA,PartB,PartC,Arts Education,requisite doting calligraphy enrichment internati
47、onalization,PartB_ Background Information1,Word Building,Lead-in,Background Information,Pre-listening,Calligraphy is the art of beautiful writing. In every literate culture, handwriting has been used to preserve sacred texts for future generations. Distinctive variations of calligraphy were develope
48、d in different regions and periods of time. The shapes of the letters depended on the tools that were used to make them. In Europe and the Near East, scribes wrote with quills and reeds cut to a chisel-like shape. Writing was done on prepared animal skins until paper was introduced from Asia. In later periods, manuscripts were adorned with decorated initials in gold and luminous colors, leading to the term “illuminated manuscript”.,
