第三册英语专业综合英语课件unit_1.ppt

Unit One  Fresh Start Evelyn Herald military training dormitory canteen I Pre-reading Questions Do you remember your first days at college? Did anything special happen then? Did you have a plan when you first entered college? Has it changed now? Part One Preparation Activity 1: A Freshman’s Alphabet---description-and-guess game Direction: Some students will be given slips of paper, on which the word starting with a specific letter like a, b, c or anyone from the alphabet is printed. The students are required describe the word in sentences. The content must be related to college life and the exact word mustnt be mentioned. The other students are required to guess out the exact word with the hint of the first letter and what’s more to express their attitude towards the life aspect related to the word. Example: assignment. It can be described as: this word starts with the letter “A”. it’s the job left by the teacher to us. We have to hand in on time. The answer is assignment. T he attitude may be as following: it’s useful for us to review and to prepare. Yet too many assignments are a real burden. The teacher has better leave us some space and time to arrange our study. Preparation Excerpt from “Dead Poets Society” I went to the woods, because I wanted to live deliberately; I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life！ To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. What’s the message the poem is delivering? Does it help you to realize how to live through your college life? II Text About the text In this autobiographical essay, the writer recounts her embarrassing moments during her first days of college. The text, written by Evelyn Herald (contemporary), appeared in Nutshell magazine in 1989. Nutshell magazine Its a monthly, web-based magazine with an email newsletter component which contains short, interesting stories . II Text Anal