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PAGE  PAGE 6 Unit Six Overcoming Difficulties Name of Course: College English Grade Level: First-year non-English majors Name of Unit: Overcoming difficulties Topics to be considered within the unit: 1. “overcoming difficulties”, why and how? (what we are doing to achieve the goal and what the successful people in this unit are doing their job?) 2. What is a successful personal description in your mind? Talk about writing skills used in texts in this unit. What are you going to learn from them? General objective for the lesson: Encourage the students to learn how to overcome difficulties in their lives and study, and learn from major character in this unit. Also learn to write a personal description as one of the major writing skills. Specific objective for the lesson: By working on Text A “True Height”, students will be able to: grasp the main idea (people will face difficulties in realizing their dreams, but overcoming difficulties will help them gain more from life) and basic skills about how to write a personal description appreciate the character sketches skills displayed in text A (save the very most important detail of the character to the closing paragraph); master the key language points and grammatical structure in the text; conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. Content to be considered: Main idea of the text. Structure of the text. Cultural background. Language points. Grammatical structures. Writing strategy. Methods to be used: Lecture and group discussion Skills to be developed: How to write a successful personal description and convey the author’s idea’s about the character. Key points: vocabulary difficulties sentence structure Evaluation: vocabulary drills and writing a short essay on the class Teaching Process: Period 13 (135 minutes) Step 1 Preview and checking. (Dictation, recitation, reading or testing etc.) (10--15 minutes) Ask the students the following questions