Unit 3 The Generation Gap(英语ppt).pptVIP

Unit 3 The Generation Gap Text A Father Knows Better This comedy centers around a proud father’s attempts to help his children, attempts which somehow or other always end up embarrassing them. For the sake of fun it carries things to extremes, but nearly everyone can recognize something of themselves and their parents in it. I. Teaching Objectives II. Before Reading III. Global Reading IV. Detailed Reading V. After Reading Ⅰ. Teaching ObjectivesStudents will be able to: understand the main idea (Father meddled in children’s affairs with good intentions, but only to find his efforts unwelcome) and structure (three settings, three scenes) of the text; appreciate the basic elements of a play; grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text; conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. Ⅱ. Before ReadingEnglish Song – The Times They Are A-changin’Bob Dylan 1. Bob Dylan, born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota in the USA, is widely regarded as perhaps America’s greatest popular songwriter born in the twentieth century. Much of his best work is from the 1960s when his musical shadow was so large that he took on political influence. The civil rights movement had no more moving anthem than his song Blowin’ in the Wind. Millions of young people embraced his song The Times They Are A-Changin’ during that era of extreme change. The radical political group The Weathermen named themselves after a lyric in Dylan’s song Subterranean Homesick Blues – “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” The Times They Are A-changin’ (song) 2. Comedy Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the missing words. Comedy is a universal form of expression and a major dramatic genre that is intended to amuse. Comedy is associated with humorous behavior, wordplay, pleasurable feeling, release of tension, and laughter. Imbued with a playful spirit, comic entertainment frequentl