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unit oneSection A Time-conscious Americans Teaching Objectives 1. Enlarge vocabulary 2. Talk about time consciousness of Americans 3. Learn to read for main ideas 4. Learn to write about different approaches to something Background Information 1.Time Consciousness The precious resource that Americans value and save is time. Time is highly valued and treated as something real in American culture because it conveys different meanings to American people. In their eyes, “Time and tide wait for no man” and “Time lost is never regained”. As a result, they want every minute to be important and meaningful, and they firmly believe that no time should be wasted. Background Information Not surprisingly, the new comers to America find the Americans seem always in a hurry and do everything at a running pace. So what makes the new comers embarrassed is to have no opportunity to smile, converse or have a short talk with their American strangers because the Americans regard such practices as a waste of time. Background Information Discussion What is your opinion about time? What should we do with time? What does time mean to us? Background Information Proverbs and Sayings about Time Time works wonders. 时间创造奇迹。 Time tries truth. 时间检验真理。  Sorrow calls no time that’s gone. 悲伤唤不回已逝的光阴。 One cannot put back the lock. 往者不可追。 Background Information Time means life, time means speed, time means strength. 时间就是生命，时间就是速度， 时间就是力量。 Time cannot be lengthened by man’s subjective will, but it can be shortened by his wasting it. 时间不因人们的主观意志而延长， 却可因其浪费而缩短。 Warming-up Activities Questions Answers 1. What attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching, experimenting and exploring? 2. How is time treated in America? And why? 3. What is likely to be a foreigner’s first impression of the US? And how does the writer describe city people? 4. Wha