新编英语教程4 Unit 12.pptVIP

Contents Detailed study of Text I II Oral work: Role-play: An Interview by a Foreign Newspaper Reporter with a Chinese University Student Interaction activities: A discussion on the aim of a university education Guided writing: Basic writing techniques—Normal and Inverted Order of Sentences (2) Composition writing—narration and expansion Letter writing—Answering a Friend’s Letter, Suggesting Places to Visit ? ? Text Il???????? Pre-reading activities a. Group discussion: My Remarks on University Life It is interesting, colorful, but challenging and competitive If you cherish it, you will be blessed with a rich life University is a stage where you are able to show off. University is a small society without which you can learn to survive University is a gold mine in which you dig out the most precious stone if you work hard enough University is a communications network where you are not lonely b. Individual work: an impromptu speech: my expectations of university education. c. What’s the text about? --This is a story from Thurber’s My Life and Hard Times(1933). The main purpose which the writer has in mind is to share with the reader some experiences that he had as a student at Ohio State University through narration intertwined with description. He wishes to make the reader see, feel and hear as vividly as possible what he saw, felt, and heard in his university days and to share with the reader the events that had happened to him. He also uses this story to show how professors behaved and perhaps also to imply how they ought to have behaved. ? l???????? While-reading activities -????????? Listen to the tape for general info -????????? Study the text in detail 1)A summary of the main ideas There are main episodes. Each episodes may be summed up in one or two sentences as follows: ? a. Writer disliked the botany laboratory classes in which he could not see any flower cells under a microscope, for that