New Horizon College English Book 1

Unit Two

Teaching objectives:

  1. Understand the relationship between parents and children from the parents’ perspective and the children’s perspective.
  2. Understand and learn the “the narrative present” or “the dramatic present”.
  3. Learn how to compare different things, such as different attitudes, things or events before and after a specific time, finding out signals for the turning point.
  4. Grasp the important words and phrases presented in section A, section B, and exercises.

Time allotment (6 periods):

  1. 1st and 2nd period: Text A study：

background information; cultural notes; text organization;

words and structures

  1. 3rd and 4th period: Text A study：

Review key language points; exercises after text A; essay writing;

  1. 5th and 6th period: Text B study:

cultural notes; words and structures

Answering questions after finishing reading Text A:

  1. What makes the mother change her attitude towards her daughter?

2. If you were the daughter, what response would you have when you read the article?

Key words in Text A:

Key words / Examples
1. await / await his father’s return; await the birth of her child; await hearing more information.
2. impersonal / personal; impersonal places; impersonal imagination.
3. mismatch / match; mismatched.
4. historical / Historic; historical event; historical figure; places of historical interest.
5. stuff / to stuff sth. with sth; stuff(n.) feeding stuff; kid stuff
6. stack / stack the dishes on the counter; a stack (n.)of papers.
7.plague / a plague of locusts/ rats; a world free of plagues.
8.charity / [U]charity school; in charity; charity work; out of charity;[C] set up a charity.
9. donation / [U] the blood donation site; [C] a donation of medical equipment.
10. strip / strip off the sheet; strip off his sweater
11.clip / Vt. Clip the ads from the newspaper; clip the documents together; (n.) a clip of a film.
12. reverse / Vt. Reverse one’s mind; reverse oneself (n.) quite the reverse; (a.)a reverse trend

Key phrases and expressions in Text A:

1.make it / 2. free of/ from / 3. catch oneself doing sth.
4.a plague of / 5. stuffed animals / 6. earn sb. sth.
7.strip off / 8.feed sth. into sth. / 9. for free
10. every single / 11. after all / 12.reverse oneself
13. make the/ one’s bed / 14. straighten up / 15. keep back
16. with open arms

Key structures in Text A:

1. “my teeth ached” is used to show extreme annoyance, comparable to the sharp pain of an aching tooth.

I hate the scrape of chalk on the blackboard; it makes my teeth ache.

  1. she left the bedroom a ridiculous mess, the comforter on the floor, the sheets tosses aside.

划线部分为独立主格结构。独立主格结构一般由“名词+形容词/分词/介词短语”构成。如：He left the room, his nose bleeding, his hands shaking.

The teacher came into the classroom, a book in his hand.

  1. Token of her childhood will await her. So will we, with open arms. “so+be/have/do/will/其他助动词+sb./sth/”结构主要用来说明前面所说的人或物的情况同样也适用于后面的其他人或物， 意为“...也一样”。此句型为英语倒装句的一种。如：

Next week, he will fly to NewYorkand attend a meeting there. So will I.

如果前面第否定句， 则可以用“nor+be/have/do/will/其他助动词+sb./sth/”结构。如：

‘I don’t know who objects to the plan. Nor does anybody else.

Key phrases in Exercises:

Part V. (P.40)
1. make efforts to / 2.keep a balance between A and B / 3.drop out of school
Part VI. (P.41)
4. shut…out of / 5.be being taken seriously
Part VII. (P.41)
6.full-time training / 7. have problems with / 8. be messy for

Key phrases and expressions in Text B

1. slow down / 2. make sense
3. at least / 4.lay sth. out
5. hang up / 6. time flies
7.be supposed to do / 8. once in a while
9. the small of one’s back / 10.not care for sb./sth.
11. out of sth. / 12. for safekeeping
13.take a sip of

Topic for writing:

Directions: You are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition with on the topic On the Generation Gap. You should write at least 130 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:

  1. 有的人认为代沟是不可避免的，父母和长辈对晚辈的监管过苛；
  2. 有的人认为代沟被社会过分放大了，其实没那么严重；
  3. 我对代沟的看法。

Additional work:

  1. Recite the 6th, 7th, 21th and 22thparagraph in Text A.
  2. Discuss : what will you do to help your parents begin to see you as an adult?
  3. Think about your own parents and the love you share.

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