新视野2 跨国婚姻 Marriage Across Nations.ppt

Unit 3 Section A Marriage Across Nations Pre-reading Activity—Look and Talk Look at these photos of celebrities, can you recognize them? their families? Wei wei’s(韦唯) husband is a famous Swedish composer. Echo’s(三毛)husband is a Spanish professional diver Maggie’s(张曼玉) husband is a wealthy Frenchman. Jiang wen’s(姜文）wife is French too. Marriage across nations mixed marriage interracial marriage Characters This passage is a first-person narrative about the writers own experience of a mixed marriage in America. Gail and I decided to get married. But Gail’s father and mother … counseled Gail to be really sure she was doing the right thing. suspected that Marks motive to marry Gail mentioned the problems for the children of mixed marriages waiting wont hurt quoted statistics to show mixed coupleshigher divorce rates harbored reservation about a mixed marriage. tried to persuade Gail to change her mind. didn’t want Gail to marry for the wrong reasons Marriage Across Nations Marriage Across Nations Gail and I had experienced ___ and _____ in two years, now we come to _____, _________ and _________ each other. We confronted __________ and ________ of each other’s character. We have learnt to be ______, ____________ and _____. The source of our strength was our mutual ____ and _______. Major writing techniques in Para. 7: Para. 7 — How the mother presents her opinion Para. 8-9 In this passage, the writer tries to approach the same issue from different perspectives, as shown in the following chart: Their racial and cultural differences enhanced their relationship. Main Idea of Para 2 Para 3 have no illusions about…: don’t have unrealistic ideas about… 对…不抱任何幻想 I have no illusions about his ability. Practice: 他仍对他们的爱情前景抱有幻想。 ? He still has illusions about the prospects of their love. Gail and Mark had no illusions about what the future h