全新版第一册unit one.ppt

Unit One Growing Up Understand the main idea and be able to talk about the topic; Grasp useful words and expressions and structures in this unit; Appreciate the narrative skills demonstrated in the text(selection of details, repetition,coherence); Pre-reading activities Background notes Warming up discussion Warming-up questions: When you were young, were you eager to be grown-ups? Why or why not? Hints: responsibility, burden, freedom, privilege; 2.What is your most memorable experience in the process of growing up? Hints: praise, punishment, college entrance examination The pop singer, songwriter and the most influential political artist. American Journalist and writer. An AmericanPulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical,commentary and self-critical prose. This text is taken from his autobiography Growing Up, which won him Pulitzer Prize. Elementary schools: kindergarten to 5th or 6th grade; Middle schools: grades6-8; Junior high schools: grades 7-9; High schools: grades 9-12 or 10-12. people love to dress casually. U.S. teachers wear fairly formal clothes to school, but not necessarily suits and ties. Spaghetti is the Italian-style thin noodle, cooked by boiling and served with sauce. while-reading activities Language points Text analysis Words possibility bore associate assign anticipate tedious inspire formal rigid severe tackle Words distribute scan extrodinary recall violate compose avoid career essence phrases off and on face up to out of date hold back take hold put down what’s more the eleventh hour possibility (impossibility) bore bore associate associate associate assign assign