实用英语-U-TextA说课讲解.pptVIP

Pre-Reading Task While-Reading Task After-Reading Task ;Pre-Reading Task;Louisville, Ky Mead, Margaret (1901-78) Dartmouth College;Text-related Information;Text-related Information;Text-related Information;Text-related Information;Pre-reading Activity;Unit 1: Text A;Text A A Payment Greater Than Money 1 When I was 14, I earned money in the summer by mowing lawns, and I got to know people by the flowers I had to remember not to cut down, by the things stuck in the ground on purpose or by the things lost in the grass. I also learned something about my neighbors in Louisville, Ky., by their preferred method of payment: by the job, the month — or not at all.;2 Mr. Ballou fell into the last category, and he always had a reason. One day he had nothing smaller than a fifty. On another he was flat-out of checks; on another he was simply not home when I knocked on his door. Still, except for the money, he was a nice enough old guy, always waving or tipping his hat when he’d seen me from a distance. I figured him for a thin retirement check, maybe an injury that kept him from doing his own yardwork. I kept a running total, but didn’t worry about the amount too much. Grass was grass, and the little that was Mr. Ballou’s didn’t take long to trim.;While-Reading Task;7 He gestured toward the walls, and I saw books stacked everywhere. It was like a library, except with no order to the arrangement. 8 “Take your time,” Mr. Ballou encouraged. “Read, borrow, keep. Find something you like. What do you read?” 9 “I don’t know.” And I didn’t. I generally read what I could get from the paperback rack at the drugstore or what I found at home — magazines, the backs of cereal boxes, comics. The idea of consciously seeking out a special title was new to me, but not without appeal — so I browsed through the piles of books and asked, “ You actually read all of these?”;While-Reading Task;15 I started after supper, sitting outdoors