
Unit 8 Being There
Unit 8 Being There

I.Teaching Aims: 1.To get students know the style of narrative writing. 2.To have students hold a discussion about their own travel experience. 3.To get students grasp the key words and sentence structures
I. Teaching Aims: ◼ 1. To get students know the style of narrative writing. ◼ 2. To have students hold a discussion about their own travel experience. ◼ 3. To get students grasp the key words and sentence structures

II.Teaching Importance and Difficulties: 1.Understand the author's main purpose of writing the essay. 2.Know the writing strategies of the text. 3.Grasp the key language points in the text. III.Teaching periods:6 periods
II. Teaching Importance and Difficulties: ◼ 1. Understand the author’s main purpose of writing the essay. ◼ 2. Know the writing strategies of the text. ◼ 3. Grasp the key language points in the text. III. Teaching periods: 6 periods

IV.Teaching steps: Warm-up Questions 1)What do you particularly want to see when you travel in other countries? 2)Share some of your exciting travel experience with the class. 3)What are the primary motivations for travelers and what is the unique approach held by some travelers today?
IV. Teaching steps: Warm-up Questions ◼ 1) What do you particularly want to see when you travel in other countries? ◼ 2) Share some of your exciting travel experience with the class. ◼ 3) What are the primary motivations for travelers and what is the unique approach held by some travelers today?

Detailed Study of Paragraph 1 Language Work ■6 adltery:one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. ■6 e.g:(1)Many people in public life have committed adultery. (2)He had an adulerous relationship with his wife's best friend
Detailed Study of Paragraph 1 Language Work ◼ adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. ◼ e.g.: (1) Many people in public life have committed adultery. ◼ (2) He had an adulterous relationship with his wife's best friend

Travel is like adultery. Travel is like infidelity between married people, but here one is always lured into going out to see other countries
◼ Travel is like adultery. ◼ Travel is like infidelity between married people, but here one is always lured into going out to see other countries

Detailed Study of Paragraphs 2-3 Language Work appreciate:to be filly conscious of,to be aware of eg:(1)I appreciate your problems. (2)I really appreciate your help. Only while traveling can we appreciate age. Only while traveling can we recognize the vale of age
Detailed Study of Paragraphs 2-3 Language Work ◼ appreciate: to be fully conscious of, to be aware of e.g.: (1) I appreciate your problems. (2) I really appreciate your help. ◼ Only while traveling can we appreciate age. Only while traveling can we recognize the value of age

■put aside: e.g,:(1)Can we pat that question aside for now,and come back to it later? (2)Let's put our disagreements aside and make a fresh start
◼ put aside: e.g.: (1) Can we put that question aside for now, and come back to it later? (2) Let's put our disagreements aside and make a fresh start

put aside our defenses,our anxiety,and invite regression."(Paragraph 3)- ■ve aren0 longer on our guard against "foreign"things and forget whatever might worry us today or tomorrow.Instead we show keen interest in what happened in the past. ■ cultivate our hysteria"(Paragraph 3) .release our desires that have long been suppressed
◼ " . put aside our defenses, our anxiety, and invite regression." (Paragraph 3)- . ◼ we are no longer on our guard against "foreign" things and forget whatever might worry us today or tomorrow. Instead we show keen interest in what happened in the past. ◼ cultivate our hysteria" (Paragraph 3) ◼ . release our desires that have long been suppressed

Detailed Study of Paragraphs 4-5 Discussion Questions What does the author mean by "roots"and "rootlessness"? By "roots"the author means the cultural or ethnic origin one can identify bimself with,or what one belongs to;by "rootlessness"he means one's psychological need to be free
Detailed Study of Paragraphs 4-5 Discussion Questions ◼ What does the author mean by "roots" and "rootlessness"? ◼ By "roots" the author means the cultural or ethnic origin one can identify himself with, or what one belongs to; by "rootlessness" he means one's psychological need to be free