“高级英语(1)”教学大纲

2011年度秋学期

高级英语（1）教学大纲 单位：盐城工学院人文学院教师： 金范宇

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“高级英语（1）”课程教学大纲

课程代号：0030101070

学时数：64

适用专业：英语

一、课程的性质、目的和任务

1、课程的性质

高级英语是英语专业三、四年级学生基础课程,也是该专业学生的必修课。该课程是训练学生综合英语技能，尤其是阅读理解、词汇运用、语法修辞与写作技能的课程。

2、课程的目的

通过阅读和分析广泛的材料，包括政治、经济、社会、语言、文学、教育、哲学等多方面的名家作品，扩大学生的知识面，加深学生对社会和人生的理解。培养学生对名篇的分析和欣赏能力，逻辑思维和独立思考能力，巩固和提高学生英语语言技能。使学生的英语水平在质量上有较大的提高。

3、课程的任务

通过本课程的教学，培养和提高学生的英语综合运用能力，加深对文体、修辞及英美文学方面的知识的了解；扩大视野，熟悉与课文有关的自然科学、社会科学方面的基本知识，以及有关作家的作品及时代背景的必要知识。

二、课程教学内容和基本要求

总体要求

通过《高级英语》第一册的学习及其它途径，在词汇方面，能认知7，000-9，000个单词，且能正确而熟练的使用4，000-5，000个单词及其基本搭配。在阅读方面，能读懂难度相当于美国Times或 New York Times的社论和政论文章；能读懂相当于The Great Gatsby的文学原著，难度相当于 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 的历史传记。在写作方面，能写故事梗概、读书报告、课程论文以及正式的书信等。要求语言正确、表达得体并具有一定的思想深度。写作速度为30分钟250-300个单词。在翻译方面，能将中等难度的英语（汉语）篇章或段落进行英汉互译，速度为每小时250-300个单词。

通过《高级英语》第二册的学习及其它途径，在词汇方面，能认知10，000-12，000个单词，且能正确而熟练的使用其中的5，000-6，000个单词及其基本搭配。在阅读方面，能读懂一般英美报刊杂志上的社论和书评、英语国家出版的有一定难度的历史传记和文学作品。在写作方面，能写各种体裁的文章，做到内容充实，语言通顺，用词恰当，表达得体。写作速度为30分钟300-400个单词。在翻译方面，能将英美报刊上的文章以及文学原著译成汉语，或将我国报刊、杂志上的文章和一般文学作品译成英语，速度为每小时250-300 2

个英文单词。译文要求忠实原意，语言流畅。

教学内容

Unit 1 The Middle Eastern Bazaar

教学目的和要求

1、了解作家的基本情况。

2、掌握课文的释义方法。

3、掌握重点词汇和短语。

a. And of would-be purchasers

b. and the buyers…follow suit

c. shopkeepers dealing in the same kind of goods…collect in the same area

d. bargaining is the order of the day

e. In each shop sit the apprentices…hammering sway at copper vessels

f. The live coals glowing bright and them dimming

g. It is a vast, somber caver of a room

h. A trickle oil oozes down…into a used petrol can

思考与练习

1. Give brief answers to the questions on the text, using your own words as much as possible.

2. Paraphrase

3. Translation from English into Chinese

4. Translation from Chinese into English

5. Oral and Written assignments

Unit 2 Hiroshima---the “Liveliest”City in Japan

教学目的和要求

1. 了解二战时期广岛遭原子弹袭击的背景。

2、掌握课文的释义方法。

3、掌握重点词汇和短语。

a. Because I had a lump in my throat

b. To have the same preoccupations

c. To rub shoulders with

d. Bobbed up and down repeatedly in little bows

e. Ritual formula of gratitude and respect

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f. The rear-view mirror

g. this intermezzo came to an end

h. a porcelain-faced woman

i. There are two different schools of thought.

思考与练习

1. Give brief answers to the questions on the text, using your own

words as much as possible.

2. Paraphrase

3. Translation from English into Chinese

4. Translation from Chinese into English

5. Oral and Written assignments

Unit 4 Everyday Use for your Grandmama

教学目的和要求

1、了解作家的基本情况。

2、掌握课文的释义方法。

3、掌握重点词汇和短语。

a. It is like an extended living room.

b. Where the child who has ?made it? is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father.

c. She thinks orchids are tacky flowers

d. Minutes after it comes steaming from the hog

e. Has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue

f. With nicer hair and a fuller figure

g. Black pumps to match a green suit

h. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts.

i. Who has mossy teeth in an earnest face

j. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes

k. She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there

l. “And I want the dasher, too.”

思考与练习

1. Give brief answers to the questions on the text, using your own words as much as possible.

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2. Paraphrase

3. Translation from English into Chinese

4. Translation from Chinese into English

5. Oral and Written assignments

Unit 5 Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R.

教学目的和要求

1、了解Winston S. Churchill的生平及第二次大战的历史。

2、掌握课文的释义方法。

3、掌握重点词汇和短语。

a. had surprised a large portion of the Soviet Air Force grounded on the air-fields.

b. They will be rounded up in hordes

c. Hitler was counting on enlisting

d. Devoid of all theme and principle

e. Before the spectacle which is now unfolding

f. Fresh from the cowing of

g. Behind all this glare

h. We have but one aim

i. The hate

j. The hateful appetites

k. The scene will be clear for the final act

l. For his hearth and home

m. In every quarter of the globe

思考与练习

1. Give brief answers to the questions on the text, using your own words as much as possible.

2. Paraphrase

3. Translation from English into Chinese

4. Translation from Chinese into English

5. Oral and Written assignments

Unit 6 Blackmail

教学目的和要求

1、了解作家的基本情况及课文的背景知识。

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