新视野英语综合Book2Unit2详解.ppt

New Horizon English Book 2 Unit 2 Trends and Fads Content Pre-class assignment Leading-in Exploring Reading through Background information Studying through After-reading questions Assignments Reading More Questions Practical writing Pre-class assignments 1. Ask your grandparents and you parents what kind of music they like and what their pastimes are. 2. Ask them what the four luxuries of a family in 1970s, 1980s and the late 1990s were. 3. Take a look at the pictures of their youth. 4. Compare yours with theirs in the above two items. Leading-in Listen to the music. Which one is familiar to you? Which do you like most? Look at these pictures. What feelings do you have about their hair styles? Reference words It looks funny/traditional. It’s out of date. It’s in fashion. The girl looks elegant. She’s modern/fashionable/stylish. The old four luxuries in 1970s sewing machine (upper left) How happy I am to wear a watch! (right) The four luxuries in 1980s The four luxuries in late 1990s The four luxuries were/are also differs in cities and countryside. Exploring Do you think fashion is good or not? Useful expressions: make life different from time to time helps people make choices while shopping promote business and the economy waste money takes up too much of people’s attention and time make everyone look the same or do the same thing Why do people like to follow the latest fashions? be afraid to be considered out-of-date. show they are different from others be interested in anything that is new Reading through Background information Except those covered in the Leading-in section, things like exercise, language, names are also greatly influenced of fashion. Name: Someone called Jianguo, Geming, Hongwei and Guoqing were highly marked by the time of their birth. Language: People in 1950s ~1980s liked to address another person, esp. a sales person, comrade. Some elder