Text A StudyAll the Cabbie Had was a Letter.ppt

Text A StudyAll the Cabbie Had was a Letter Unit 2 Book 1 Teaching Plan Objectives Background Knowledge Text Organization Abstract (Main Idea of Text A) Introduction Remarks Text A Study Summary of Text A (Homework) Objectives Grasp the main idea (never delay expressing your true feelings to a friend) and structure of the text (developing a story around a letter); Appreciate that spoken English is much more informal than written English; Master 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. Background information Halloween It’s a festival celebrated annually. It’s on the night of 31 October. People once believed that ghosts could be seen on that night. 4. Now, in Britain and America, it is a time when children have parties, dress up as witches, make lanterns out of pumpkins and play “trick or treat”. Trick or treat is a traditional activity at Halloween. A traditional activity at Halloween Children dress in costumes and visit houses. At each house they say “trick or treat”. This means that they will play a “trick”, or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given a “treat”, e.g. sweets or money. Most people prefer to give treats rather than having tricks played on them. Text Organization P. 40(developing a story around a letter) Part 1: Paras 1-20 From a conversation with the cab driver the author learned how much he regretted failing to keep up corresponding with his old friend Ed. Text Organization Part 2: Paras 21-35 Reading the letter by himself, the author learned more about the lifelong friendship between the driver and Old Ed. Part 3: Para 36 The driver’s experience urged the author to reach for his pen. Abstract of Text A The passage develops the story around a letter. The author wanted to take a taxi while the taxi driver was reading a letter, so the conversation began. The first impression readers will get is that t