unit 8 fables.pptVIP

Unit 8 Coping with an educational problems Text A: Fable of the lazy teenager Warming up questions Do you have to make adjustment to university life? How do you make use of the class hours and spare time? What do you think of the facilities in this university? What is the purpose of University education? Video watching 新加坡国立大学2010新生开学典礼校长致辞 Pre-reading What are the typical features of fables? Short tales Not based on facts Intended to give a moral lesson Not stated directly but deduced be readers Do you know any fables? What are they? Listening to the recording about fables Pre-reading Famous sayings: (参考电子版) Sour grapes. Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. One good turn deserves another. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. Picture fable talking While reading Part I: (para 1-para10) Personal experience and his response comment on the phenomenon Part II(para 11-para 24) Weave a fable to offer a moral lesson Part I Ask questions to check the students’ understanding Interview: journalist author Part I:Paraphrase: No modestly educated adult can fail to be upset by such an experience. (line11) The ability to perform even the simplest calculations is only a memory among many students I see.(line17) There is a chilling indifference about all this ingorance.(line19) Part II: Skimming scanning(3’) Skim: reading fast for the main idea Scan: reading fast for the answers with some questions in the mind. How many Kevins? What are they? Mark the pictures in the courseware. Part II: understanding? live by his brain instead of his back. Americans have long since stopped demanding good education for their children. Hard work, education, saving and discipline can do everything. Style study: parallelism figure of speech 排比是由三个或三个以上结构相同或相似、内容相关、证据一致的短语或句子排列在一起，用来加强语势强调内容，加重感情的修辞方式。 (1)Planes will crash. Computers will jam. Cars will break down. (Line 28) (2)He is always hot, always hungry, always scared.(line54) He lives in a slum where (3)t