Text AMy Daughter, My FriendPatricia Lorenz.ppt

Text AMy Daughter, My FriendPatricia Lorenz Unit 4 The Generation Gap My Daughter, My Friend Useful expressions Text interpretation Word family Sentence structure Translation Homework Useful expressions 机器故障 仙境 重新温习 繁体中文 股票交易所 文化交流 交换意见 Useful expressions 道歉信 棋逢对手 不可挽回的损失 有点发烧 亲密的关系 挪用公款 对…负责 Useful expressions 涂化妆品 申请一份工作 一盒香烟 一项艰巨的任务 一场激烈的讨论 试用期 不用说 Text interpretation Warm-up questions Have you ever written letters to your family? How have you tried to bridge the generation gap? What will you do if your parent forbids you to do something? Text interpretation Answer the questions Speaking Activity 3 on p.48 What type is the text? A. narration B. exposition C. description D. argumentation Text interpretation This story is generally organized in order of . A. time B. space C. logic Find out signal words of time. Then put sentences containing the signal words together, and try to work out the main idea and structure. (Next page) Text interpretation When my daughter Julie was six years old,… By the time Julie was in fourth grade,… Over the next few years,… On Julie’s first day of high school, My daughter left home for college a few years ago. Text interpretation Main idea This text tells us about a mother and her daughter who have managed to bridge the gap by writing to each other about the problems they faced . How would you organize a text of this type? See Part Division (next page) Part division Text interpretation What can we learn from the mother and daughter? Your answers: 1. 2. 3. Text interpretation I wrote back, telling her… By the time …, she had figured out that handwritten notes could do more than welcome the tooth fairy. Once, after a heated discussion we’d had about why she couldn’t buy a pair of clogs… Here are the reasons (why) I want clogs… Over the next few years, Julie and I exchanged notes about… Others are just happy thoughts spilling onto paper. Text interpretation …no matter what kind of mood I’m i