Unit 8 Honesty:Is It Going out of Style I.Teaching Aims 1.Enlarge the students'vocabulary by leamning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises. 2.Help the studentsto get the general idea of the article 3.Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice,phrases and expression,grammar,writing,ete. II.Key and Difficult Points 1.New Words and Phrases Be faced with,be hard on,on the rise,corresponding,a case in point,in the case of, come to bad ends,reinforce,at one's best,ebb and flow,tend to,tempt,contagious 2.Sentences (1)It can be argued such a response may not mean much. (2)Colleges and universities across the nation have decided to do more than talk about the rise in student cheating (3)Students who said they'd left theirs in the dorm or at home had a mug shot taken. (4)Surprisingly.some efforts to prevent cheating may actually encourage cheating-a person feel"they don't trust me anyway,"and be tempted to"beat the system” III.Teaching Methods Discussion,explanation,ask and answe IV.Time:4 periods V.Teaching Procedures:
Unit 8 Honesty: Is It Going out of Style I. Teaching Aims 1. Enlarge the students’ vocabulary by learning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises. 2. Help the students to get the general idea of the article. 3. Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice, phrases and expression, grammar, writing, etc. II. Key and Difficult Points 1. New Words and Phrases Be faced with, be hard on, on the rise, corresponding, a case in point, in the case of, come to bad ends, reinforce, at one’s best, ebb and flow, tend to, tempt, contagious 2. Sentences （1） It can be argued such a response may not mean much. （2） Colleges and universities across the nation have decided to do more than talk about the rise in student cheating. （3） Students who said they’d left theirs in the dorm or at home had a mug shot taken. （4） Surprisingly, some efforts to prevent cheating may actually encourage cheating — a person feel “they don’t trust me anyway,” and be tempted to “beat the system”. III. Teaching Methods Discussion, explanation, ask and answer IV. Time: 4 periods V. Teaching Procedures:
Step one Introduction 1.Warm-up questions: Give the students the following topics to discuss and then ask them to answer these questions (1)Have you ever cheated on exams or thought of cheating on exams?What are the reasons? (2) What doyou think of cheating on exams? (3) Do you think honesty is going out of style?Why or Why not? 2.Background Information (1)Polls of public opinion A public opinion poll is a method of learning what people think and how they feel about a wide variety of subjects. The first poll of public opinion was conducted in 1824 in the US.In the early 20th century public opinion polls began using statistical sampling techniques.After the Second World War and particularly in the 1960s the popularity of the opinion polls grew.One of the best-known is the Gallup Poll-a poll of public opinion on a major political or social issue,developed by George H.Gallup,an American statistician. Two methods of sampling are practiced by the polls,random and quota sampling. The former consists in selecting persons to be interviewed at random.Quota sampling involves selecting a sample of people which is representative of the population in terms ofage,occupation,sex,region and so on. (2)State Regents'examinations In the state of New York,the Department of Education requires that high school students take year-end examinations in science,math,and language subjects.A regent is a member of a board appointed to govern educational institutions.In New York,the regents make out these required examinations.The regents'exam does not replace the final examination.It is a secure test,meaning that other than the regents themselves. no one,not even the teachers,is supposed to see the examinations prior to their
Step one Introduction 1. Warm-up questions: Give the students the following topics to discuss and then ask them to answer these questions. (1) Have you ever cheated on exams or thought of cheating on exams? What are the reasons? (2) What do you think of cheating on exams? (3) Do you think honesty is going out of style? Why or Why not? 2. Background Information (1) Polls of public opinion A public opinion poll is a method of learning what people think and how they feel about a wide variety of subjects. The first poll of public opinion was conducted in 1824 in the US. In the early 20th century public opinion polls began using statistical sampling techniques. After the Second World War and particularly in the 1960s the popularity of the opinion polls grew. One of the best-known is the Gallup Poll — a poll of public opinion on a major political or social issue, developed by George H. Gallup, an American statistician. Two methods of sampling are practiced by the polls, random and quota sampling. The former consists in selecting persons to be interviewed at random. Quota sampling involves selecting a sample of people which is representative of the population in terms of age, occupation, sex, region and so on. (2) State Regents’ examinations In the state of New York, the Department of Education requires that high school students take year-end examinations in science, math, and language subjects. A regent is a member of a board appointed to govern educational institutions. In New York, the regents make out these required examinations. The regents’ exam does not replace the final examination. It is a secure test, meaning that other than the regents themselves, no one, not even the teachers, is supposed to see the examinations prior to their
administration.The exams are mostly multiple choice questions,though students may be required to write a short essay or solve math problems.A score of 65 is required to pass theexam,the top score being 100. (3)Income taxes The US has had income tax laws since 1913.Income tax is a tax on the wages, salaries,profits,interest and rent received by a taxpayer within a definite period of time.In the US approximately one quarter of a middle class family's eamings goes to the goverment through the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)in the form of taxes;in Great Britain about one third ofa middle class family's income goes to taxes. (④Competency tests Competency tests are used to determine whether or not a person possesses a certain skill to do something.as opposed to a proficiency test which determines how well a person can do something.A competency test is a pass/fail test,the point being not to achieve an exceptional score.but merely to pass it.Usually a competency test is set in reading and basic math computations,not in all subject areas.Sometimes students must pass competency tests at the end of each academic year to let the school authorities determine whether they are capable of doing work at their grade level. Recently a growing number of states in the US are requiring students to pass a competency test before receiving a high school diploma;if one fails the test,one receives a high school certificate which amounts to little more than a statement that one attended school. Step Two Global reading Give the students 10 minutes to read the text as quickly as they can,and ask them to think about these questions in the process of reading. 1.Questions (1)What percentage of American high school students have confessed to cheating on exams according to a recent poll?Why does the author say such a response may not amount to much? (2)Why have the professor given up the traditional term paper requirement?
administration. The exams are mostly multiple choice questions, though students may be required to write a short essay or solve math problems. A score of 65 is required to pass the exam, the top score being 100. (3) Income taxes The US has had income tax laws since 1913. Income tax is a tax on the wages, salaries, profits, interest and rent received by a taxpayer within a definite period of time. In the US approximately one quarter of a middle class family’s earnings goes to the government through the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the form of taxes; in Great Britain about one third of a middle class family’s income goes to taxes. (4) Competency tests Competency tests are used to determine whether or not a person possesses a certain skill to do something, as opposed to a proficiency test which determines how well a person can do something. A competency test is a pass / fail test, the point being not to achieve an exceptional score, but merely to pass it. Usually a competency test is set in reading and basic math computations, not in all subject areas. Sometimes students must pass competency tests at the end of each academic year to let the school authorities determine whether they are capable of doing work at their grade level. Recently a growing number of states in the US are requiring students to pass a competency test before receiving a high school diploma; if one fails the test, one receives a high school certificate which amounts to little more than a statement that one attended school. Step Two Global reading Give the students 10 minutes to read the text as quickly as they can, and ask them to think about these questions in the process of reading. 1. Questions (1) What percentage of American high school students have confessed to cheating on exams according to a recent poll? Why does the author say such a response may not amount to much? (2) Why have the professor given up the traditional term paper requirement?
(3)What did the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland do to discourage cheating？ (4)How did the students a the University of Maryland respond to the measure taken by the Department of Psychology? (5)Are the stories about Lincoln and Washington true?Where does the author think lies the importance of both stories? (6)What is a watch-dog committee?How does the author explain why there are so many of them at all levels of society? (7)How,according to the author,is dishonesty linked to the economy? (8)Do you agree with the author that dishonesty has something to do with distrust? Give your reasons? 2.Introductory Remarks Tests,properly used,may serve to measure how good our academic performance is.But these days,tests seem to function as a measure of our test-taking ability, especially as far as standardized tests are concemed.This may be one of the reasons why students don't feel very comfortable when they are sitting for a test It is estimated that 61%of American high school students have admitted cheating on exams at least once,and cheating is also considered to be a major problem in colleges and universities.Likewise,signs of dishonesty in business and government seem much more numerous in recent years than before.Does all this go to prove tha honesty is going out of style in American society?Now let's take up this article to see how the author looks into this problem. Step Three Detailed study Explain the important and difficult points in the text,including the usage of new words and phrases,structure of complex sentences and relevant grammar. 1.It can be argued such a response may not mean much. (1)Meaning:Some people may have a good reason to say that such a response from high school students may not be significant
(3) What did the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland do to discourage cheating? (4) How did the students at the University of Maryland respond to the measure taken by the Department of Psychology? (5) Are the stories about Lincoln and Washington true? Where does the author think lies the importance of both stories? (6) What is a watch-dog committee? How does the author explain why there are so many of them at all levels of society? (7) How, according to the author, is dishonesty linked to the economy? (8) Do you agree with the author that dishonesty has something to do with distrust? Give your reasons? 2. Introductory Remarks Tests, properly used, may serve to measure how good our academic performance is. But these days, tests seem to function as a measure of our test-taking ability, especially as far as standardized tests are concerned. This may be one of the reasons why students don’t feel very comfortable when they are sitting for a test. It is estimated that 61%of American high school students have admitted cheating on exams at least once, and cheating is also considered to be a major problem in colleges and universities. Likewise, signs of dishonesty in business and government seem much more numerous in recent years than before. Does all this go to prove that honesty is going out of style in American society? Now let’s take up this article to see how the author looks into this problem. Step Three Detailed study Explain the important and difficult points in the text, including the usage of new words and phrases, structure of complex sentences and relevant grammar. 1. It can be argued such a response may not mean much. (1) Meaning: Some people may have a good reason to say that such a response from high school students may not be significant
(2)Structure: It can be argued(that)money may not bring your happiness. It can be argued(that)success in exams may not mean much. 2.After all,most students have been faced with the temptation to peek at a neighbor's test paper. Be face with:be confronted with,meet face to face e.g.Now we are faced with a very difficult situation Face with such a rival,he has little chance of winning. 3.And students can be hard on themselves in judging such behavior. be hard on:be stem or strict with;be an unjust or unlucky burden on对.过分严厉 e.g.Don't be too hard on the child. It's hard on John,having to work when the rest of us are vacationing. 4.However,there are other indications that high school cheating may be on the rise on the rise:increasing增加，增长 e.g.The number of students in our school is on the rise. The sales volume of the new products has been on the rise since the manager advertised them on TV. 5.And many educators fear that an increase in the use of state exams will lead toa corresponding rise in cheating. Corresponding:a.matching or connected with sth you have just mentioned符合的， 相应的，相关的 e.g.Profits have risen by15%compared with the corresponding period last year. When you delete this table,all corresponding relations will be deleted as well. 6.A case in point is students in New York State who faced criminal misdemeanor charges for possessing and selling advance copies of state Regents examinations. a case in point:a fit example恰当的例子 e.g.An average student can be a top student with additional work.Cathy is a case in point
(2) Structure: It can be argued (that) money may not bring your happiness. It can be argued (that) success in exams may not mean much. 2. After all, most students have been faced with the temptation to peek at a neighbor’s test paper. Be face with: be confronted with, meet face to face 面对 e.g. Now we are faced with a very difficult situation. Face with such a rival, he has little chance of winning. 3. And students can be hard on themselves in judging such behavior. be hard on: be stern or strict with; be an unjust or unlucky burden on 对…过分严厉 e.g. Don’t be too hard on the child. It’s hard on John, having to work when the rest of us are vacationing. 4. However, there are other indications that high school cheating may be on the rise. on the rise: increasing 增加，增长 e.g. The number of students in our school is on the rise. The sales volume of the new products has been on the rise since the manager advertised them on TV. 5. And many educators fear that an increase in the use of state exams will lead to a corresponding rise in cheating. Corresponding: a. matching or connected with sth you have just mentioned 符合的， 相应的，相关的 e.g. Profits have risen by15% compared with the corresponding period last year. When you delete this table, all corresponding relations will be deleted as well. 6. A case in point is students in New York State who faced criminal misdemeanor charges for possessing and selling advance copies of state Regents examinations. a case in point : a fit example 恰当的例子 e.g. An average student can be a top student with additional work. Cathy is a case in point