Book3 Unit1 I Fresh Start.ppt

Unit 1 Text 1 Fresh Start Teaching Plan Total duration: 6 periods Text 1 Background information +Textual analysis: 1 period Language points: 3 periods Discussion and exercise: 2 periods Objectives Objective 1 To introduce to the students major features of descriptive and narrative writings Objective 2 To introduce to the students rhetorical features in the text: foreshadowing, echoing, metaphor, humor… Objective 3 To help students to grasp key words and phrases: distinct/distinctive, reserve, tip…off, flail, slink, whereabouts, malicious, shackle 1st Session (three periods) 1. Duty- Report Comment and discussion (15 minutes) 2. Pre-reading Questions Your experience: What does university mean to you? Do you remember your first days at college? Did anything special happen then? Have you ever made mistakes that cause embarrassment? How do you react to them? Text A: What is the nationality of the narrator? How do you tell? Was the narrator a boy or a girl? Cultural Notes (I) Ivy League An association of eight universities and colleges in the northeast United States, comprising Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. Cultural Notes (II) College football player College football is American football played by teams of students fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States. College football remains extremely popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport. cheer leaders Cultural Notes (III) A college cafeteria is a term in the United States that denotes a cafeteria that is designed to serve college students at the university. Like normal cafeterias, a person will have a tray to select the food that they want, but instead of paying money, they pay beforehand by purchasing a meal plan. The method of payment for college cafeterias is commonly in the form of a meal pl