1、Syllabus For Twenty-first Century College English Book III Preface Twenty-first Century College English is based on Teaching Program of College English (Revised Edition) , which is promulgated newly by the Ministry of Education. Reading and Writing Course consists of ten chapters. Each chapter is ma

2、de up of three articles sharing the same topic. In each chapter, Text A is for intensive reading while Text B and Text C is for extensive reading. This course, which covers intensive and extensive reading, emphasizes the development of students reading ability, writing ability and the ability of tra

3、nslation. Contents Unit 1 Text A How I Got Smart . 2 Text B Coming of Age 23 Text C Romance and Reality .30 Unit Two Text A Text B Text C The Titanic Puzzle 36 Unjust Desserts 55 Will You Go Out with Me? .62 Unit Three Text A The Sense of Wonder 68 Text B The Innocent Eye .86 Text C If I Were 21 .94

4、 Unit Four Text A Text B Text C Unit Five Text A Text B Text C College Pressures .98 College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening ? .116 What Is College for? 124 The ABCs of the U.S.A.: America Seen with European Eyes 130 American Values and Assumptions 149 A Foreign Anthropologist s Observation of Americ

5、ans .159 Unit Six Text A Text B Text C Unit Seven Text A Text B Text C Every 23 Minutes .164 Needed: A License to Drink .181 My Daughter Smokes .190 So What s So Bad About Being So-So? .196 Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 215 Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 223 Unit Eight Text A The Highs o

6、f Low Technology 228 Text B Why I m Not Going to Buy a Computer 2 45 Text C Obsolete Technology 252 Unit Nine Text A Space Politics 258 Text B Message to the Unknown 275 Text C Your Future in Space .283 Unit Ten Text A Plain Talk About Handling Stress 290 Text B Energy Walks 3 07 Text C Five Methods

7、 I Have Used to Banish Worry 316 Teaching Contents UNIT ONE TEXT A How I Got Smart 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents : 1) Brief introducti

8、on to the text. 2) Word formation: (1) prince-princess (2) quick-quicken (3) romance-romantic 3) Some useful expressions: Out of focus While the fish were biting Intellectual gulf 4) Grammar focus: Rather than Make+ noun/pronoun + past participle 5) Writing Skill: Introducing a concept in order to s

9、how that its wrong is a very common way to begin an essay. TEXT B Coming of Age 1. Teaching Aims: 1) To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2) To enable Ss to master the language points. 2. Contents : 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Appreciating Figurative Languag

10、e 2) Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 3) Some useful expressions: Sit behind the wheel Be towed off to the junkyard Talk about everything and nothing TEXT C Romance and Reality1.Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master

11、 the language points. 2.Contents : 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 2)Some useful expressions: Romance The mood is complete The attraction need not be electric. UNIT TWO TEXT A The Titanic Puzzle1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills u

12、sed in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents: 1) Brief introduction to the text. 2) Word formation: Feminist-feminine Charm-charming Use-usage 3)Some useful expressions: The Titanic Puzzle As last time Be entitled to 4) Grammar

13、 focus: The word given used as a preposition 5) Writing Skill: presenting a possible explanation for the attitude the author is discussing, and then showing why he disagrees with it. TEXT B Unjust Desserts 1. Teaching Aims: 1) To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2) To enable Ss t

14、o master the language points. 2.Contents : 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Identifying the Writers Purpose2)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 3)Some useful expressions: Unjust desserts On a date In question TEXT C Will You Go Out with Me? 1. Teaching Aims:

15、1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents : 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 2)Some useful expressions: I ve learned otherwise Get together with sb. Slide UNIT THREE TEXT A The Sense of Wonder 1. Teac

16、hing Aims : 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents : 1)Brief introduction to the text. 2) Word formation (1) fortune-misfortune (2) sincere-sincerely (3) select-

17、selection 3)Some useful expressions: Influence with sb. Preside over Pave the way for 4)Grammar focus: The if thenstructure 5) Writing Skill: the author places most of the possible objections in “ even if ” and “ wherever ” clauses and argues against them or responds directly and immediately . TEXT

18、B The Innocent Eye 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Understanding Idiomatic Expressions 2)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related.

19、3)Some useful expressions: We begin to lose touch Striking TEXT C If I Were 21 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2.Contents: 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 2)Some useful expressions:

20、Disdain a job Weigh UNIT FOUR TEXT A College Pressures 1. Teaching Aims : 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents: 1)Brief introduction to the text. 2)Word format

21、ion (1)pierce-piercing (2)grave-gravity (3)fear-fearful 3)Some useful expressions: Master The end of the world potent 4)Grammar focus: Independent elements 5)Writing Skill: listing. TEXT B College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening? 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension sk

22、ill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Predicting an Authors Ideas2)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 3)Some useful expressions: Too seldom challenged overdue TEXT C Whats College for?1. Teaching Aims:

23、 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 2)Some useful expressions: Take it easy Hear about A quality education UNIT FIVE TEXT A The ABCs of the U.S.A. 1. Teaching

24、Aims : 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents: 1)Brief introduction to the text. 2)Word formation (1) journal-journalist (2)confuse-confusing (3)amuse-amusing 3)

25、Some useful expressions: Stand for On ground that/of A car dealer 4)Grammar focus: The only +to infinitive clause 5)Writing Skill: listing. TEXT B American Values and Assumptions 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points.

26、 2.Contents: 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: s Purpose (II) Identifying the Writer 2)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 3)Some useful expressions: Be distinctive in So much so that TEXT C A Foreign Anthropologists Observation of Americans1. Teaching Aims: 1)

27、To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 2)Some useful expressions: Each entry in the list Time walks UNIT SIX TEXT A Every 23 Minutes 1. Teaching Aims : 1)To enable S

28、s to understand and master the writing skills used in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents : 1)Brief introduction to the text. 2)Word formation (1) pain-painful (2)defy-defiance (3)injure-injury 3)Some useful expressions: The

29、man honored Out of control Comment on 4)Grammar focus: The verb wish followed by a that-clause 5)Writing Skill: different techniques to create an emotional response in readers. TEXT B Needed: A License to Drink 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable S

30、s to master the language points. 2.Contents : 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions 2)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 3)Some useful expressions: Blood relatives Auto fatalities TEXT C My Daughter Smokes 1. Teaching Aims

31、: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 2)Some useful expressions: Click out answers Ready-made Rare times UNIT SEVEN TEXT A So Whats So Bad About Being So- So? 1

32、. Teaching Aims : 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents : 1)Brief introduction to the text. 2)Word formation: (1) limit-limited (2)grace-graceful (3)affection-a

33、ffectionate 3)Some useful expressions: A mark of class Pull on Take up 4)Grammar focus: The phrase it s time and it s high time 5)Writing Skill: start from a specific example, moves to a general statement and then leads to a general thesis. TEXT B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 1. Teaching Aims: 1

34、)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2.Contents : 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Understanding Idiomatic Expressions 2)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 3)Some useful expressions: Bare happi

35、ness A two-career couple TEXT C Quality of Life Is Much More than a Job 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 2)Some useful expressions: It is w

36、asted on the young Balance sheet Confines UNIT EIGHT TEXT A The Highs of Low Technology 1. Teaching Aims:in the text. 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents : 1)Brief introdu

37、ction to the text. 2)Word formation. (1)Lingual-bilingual (2)climate-microclimate 3)Some useful expressions: Garage sale Junk I cherish its simplicity 4)Grammar focus: The noun/pron. +of which structure 5)Writing Skill: present a puzzle of your own, then use question/speculation/answer format to pon

38、der it. TEXT B Why I m Not going to Buy a Computer1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents : 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Predicting an Authors Ideas2)Ss read through the article and do

39、the exercises related. 3)Some useful expressions: Cottage industry Economic justice TEXT C Obsolete Technology 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises rela

40、ted. 2)Some useful expressions: Negative stories Write in UNIT NINE TEXT A Space Politics 1. Teaching Aims : 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents : 1)Brief int

41、roduction to the text. 2)Word formation . (1)ordinary-extraordinary (2)solve-solvent (3)preside-president 3)Some useful expressions: Be driven by Press ahead Coupled with 4)Grammar focus: Attributive clause with sentential antecedent 5)Writing Skill: how to use time markers. TEXT B Message To the Un

42、known 1. Teaching Aims: 1) To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Scanning for Specific Information 2)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 3)Some useful

43、expressions: Agree on The aliens TEXT C Your Future in Space 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents: 1)Ss read through the article and do the exercises related. 2)Some useful expressions: Go even farther in

44、 space The pioneer spirit UNIT TEN TEXT A Plain Talk About Handling Stress 1. Teaching Aims : 1)To enable Ss to understand and master the writing skills used in the text. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 3)To enable Ss to master the grammar focus. 2.Contents: 1)Brief introduction to the

45、 text. 2)Word formation. (1)stress-stressful (2)irritate-irritable 3)Some useful expressions: Plain talk A recognized expert Go through 4)Grammar focus: Use of without to express a condition 5)Writing Skill: a definition or a famous saying followed by a process supported by examples that clarify it. TEXT B Energy Walks 1. Teaching Aims: 1)To enable Ss to master the reading comprehension skill. 2)To enable Ss to master the language points. 2.Contents : 1)Introduction to the reading comprehension skill: Understanding Idiomatic Expressions