《精读A》教学大纲
英文名称：Intensive Reading A
一、课程目标 1.课程性质：《精读A》为英语专业学科基础课程，为英语专业本科一年级必修课程。精读是从最初的“综合英语”发展而来的，是培养英语专业学生的综合语言能力的主干课程，在多年的英语专业课程设置中一直贯穿始终。除了注重词汇、句法的讲解与练习， 培养学生的阅读能力和加强语法知识以外，该课程更加注重语言与文化的结合，努力提高学生的语言综合运用的能力和批判性的思维能力。随着我国进一步的改革开放和对外语人才的要求的不断提高，该课程不失时机地向学生传授大量的知识信息，力求与时俱进，突出鲜明的时代特征，培养大批合格的实用外语人才。
2.教学方法：课堂教学为主，课后练习和辅导为辅
3.课程学习目标和基本要求
《精读A》旨在系统传授英语语音、语调、语法、词汇、等基础语言知识并训练基本语言技能。在承接一年级第一学期学习基础的同时，该课程进一步培养学生的英语听、说、读、写的综合能力，提高文化素养。学生通过学习本课程，能初步运用英语进行社交并且具备独立学习和逻辑思维的能力。
课堂教学应以学生为主体，教师为主导，改变以教师为中心的教学模式。注重培养学生的学习能力，学习兴趣和语言应用能力。在教学中开展以任务为中心，形式多样的教学活动。教师应根据不同教学对象，教学内容选择相应教学方法。在加强基础训练的同时，采用启发式，讨论式，发现式和研究式等教学方法，充分调动学生的学习积极性和主动性。在精心组织课堂教学的同时，开展丰富多彩的课外实践活动，如英语讲演，辩论，专题讲座及各种竞赛。在利用传统教学手段的同时，积极探索利用现代化的语言教学手段如计算机辅助教学和网上阅读等。
4.课程学时：64学时 5.课程学分：4学分
6.课程类型：学科基础课
7.考核方式：考试
8.适用专业与年级：英语专业本科一年级
二、课程结构
Leon 1 Half a Day（学时数: 12）
知识点：1) Words : clutch; convince; vast; intricate; overlook; variety; revolve; present; trace; daze;
2) Phrases: throw sb.into/out of a place; make (a useful man) out of a boy; there is no good to be had in doing sth.; cling to; burst into; a matter of; fool around; bring about; give rise to; resort to; take advantage of; in vain; find one‟s way to; show off ; let up;
重点：
1) Grammar: the usage of “would”
2) Word Formation: pefix: uni-, over-; root: var(i)-;
难点： Writing Device: the employment of short sentence;
Leon 2 The Boy and the Bank Officer（学时数: 8）
知识点：1) Words: account; authority; damn; fortyish; interfere; mustache; neighborhood; shrug; withdraw;
2) Phrases: wear an expreion of; turn to; think twice; as to; move; zero in on sb./sth.; shake sb.down; be on the case; happen to do (be); more than; once bitter, twice shy;
重点：
1) Grammar: the past continuous tense;
2) Word Formation: suffix: -ish; prefix: inter-; 难点： Writing Device: hyperbole;
Leon 3 Meage of the Land（学时数: 10）
知识点：1) Words: forefather; infancy; afford; bully; insult; pierce; fertile; scarcity; lust; strip; heal; ripen; ripple; shimmer; bleed; replace; litter; fashionable; strike; shame; condemn;
2) Phrases: now and then; mind one‟s own...; in spite of; barter...for; spring up, tend to; give sb.a good beating; as for; occur to; a bag of bones; in rags; at peace with; tie...down; bird/etc....on the wing; pa...onto;
重点：
1) Grammar: usage of “as”; relative pronoun as the object of a preposition in relative clause;
2) Word Formation: prefix: fore-; root: -cur-; suffix: -able/ible;
难点：
Writing Device: simile, metaphor and personification;
Leon 4 Midnight Visitor（学时数: 8）
知识点：1) Words: blackly; blink; bore; chuckle; commanding; confounded; disillusioned; explanatorily; moodily;
2) Phrases: black with anger; down the corridor; except for; for one thing; instead of; block off; check out on; switch on; bite one‟s lip; save some trouble; take cheer; unlock the dorr;
重点：
1) Grammar: „as‟ used in time and reason clause; the paive voice (1)
2) Word Formation: prefix: dis-, un-, tele-; 难点： Writing Device: character analysis; Leon 5 The Green Banana （学时数: 8）
知识点：1) Words : encounter; strain; radiator; leak; scatter; spout; aure; ignorance; formation; pinnacle; tease; grasp; armful; once;
2) Phrases: consist of; pat sb.on the shoulder; work out; in turn; as if; make sure; call for; on one‟s part; in case; regard…as; reflect on; in relation to; at once; tend to; dawn upon/on;
重点：
1) Grammar: adverbial clauses of reason and time; grammatical functions of the infinitives;
2) Word Formation: prefix: re-; suffix: -ance (-ence); 难点： Writing Device: humor and symbolism; 难点： Writing Device: simile;
Leon 6 Mandela’s Garden（学时数: 8）
知识点： 1) Words: arrange; constant; construct; cultivate; decline; dump; eliminate; empty; enduring; eventually; failure; intellectual; iue; legal; manual; nourish; offer; organize; patch; pursue; remove; survive; tend; trial; warder; wither;
2) Phrases: at length; at heart; at the time; bring back to life/health; cut out; 重点：
1) Grammar: adverbial clause of manner;
2) Word Formation: suffix: -al; 难点： Writing Device: parallelism;
Leon 7 Maheegun My Brother （学时数: 10） 知识点：1) Words : alert; chase; crouch; detain; drift; howl; leap; mantle; mischievous; muzzle; poke; rifle; rumble; slash; smother; snarl; soaked; sob; squirrel; stillne; stir; thicken; toll; wiggle; wrap;
2) Phrases: as busine as a squirrel; at such times; blow oneself out; fan it to life; for life; in its place; late in coming; quiet down; sit up; slash off; tear off; wild with anger;
重点：
1) Grammar: the use of time conjunction: after, before, and when; inversion; infinitive of result;
2) Word Formation: prefix:un-; suffix: -en;
难点： Writing Device: smile; personification;
三、课程资料 教材： 杨立民，《现代大学英语精读1》 (第二版），外语教学与研究出版社，2010。 参考书： 国伟，《现代大学英语精读1（同步测试）》，外语教学与研究出版社，2011。 杨立民，《现代大学英语精读1（教师用书）》，外语教学与研究出版社，2011。
编制：英语专业教研室 审核人：杜昌忠 编写时间：2012年7月
