Unit 2 A Class Act
Unit 2 A Class Act
I.Teaching Aims: To get the students know the style of an exposition. To have the students understand the satirical words and sentences used in the essay. To get students grasp the key words and sentences structures
I. Teaching Aims: ◼ To get the students know the style of an exposition. ◼ To have the students understand the satirical words and sentences used in the essay. ◼ To get students grasp the key words and sentences structures
II.Teaching Importance and Difficulties: Understand the author's main purpose of writing the essay. Know the writing strategies of the text. Grasp the key language points in the text. III.Teaching periods:6 periods
II. Teaching Importance and Difficulties: ◼ Understand the author’s main purpose of writing the essay. ◼ Know the writing strategies of the text. ◼ Grasp the key language points in the text. III. Teaching periods: 6 periods
1.Warming up Exercises 1.Share you high school experience with the class 2.Tell the story of a teacher who impressed you with his or her kindness
1. Warming up Exercises 1．Share you high school experience with the class 2. Tell the story of a teacher who impressed you with his or her kindness
2.Information related to the text: The whole text can be divided into 5 parts,with a subtopic for each. The first part is about the author's family and their life during the war;the second part describes the author's experience of humiliation in the school;the third part gives an account of how her excitement about a free photographic portrait sitting triggers her anticipation of the oncoming torment in the school;the fourth part describes what actually happened later,which was a turning point in the author's life-instead of being humiliated,she was warmly praised and encouraged by a sympathetic teacher;the last part describes the immediate impact of a "warm sentence"by the teacher and its everlasting influence on the author
2. Information related to the text: The whole text can be divided into 5 parts, with a subtopic for each. The first part is about the author’s family and their life during the war; the second part describes the author’s experience of humiliation in the school; the third part gives an account of how her excitement about a free photographic portrait sitting triggers her anticipation of the oncoming torment in the school; the fourth part describes what actually happened later, which was a turning point in the author’s life—instead of being humiliated, she was warmly praised and encouraged by a sympathetic teacher; the last part describes the immediate impact of a “ warm sentence ” by the teacher and its everlasting influence on the author
3.Detailed Study of the Text: Part I (Para.1-3): These three paragraphs give a brief description of the hard conditions during WWII,and how the author's parents manage to support the family and what they do for their children
3. Detailed Study of the Text: Part I (Para. 1-3): These three paragraphs give a brief description of the hard conditions during WWII, and how the author’s parents manage to support the family and what they do for their children
Language points 1.time were tough,money was short,anxiety was rife and the pawnshop was familiar destination for many familiar,including mine. Life was hard.Everyone was short of money.They were caught up in endless worries.Many families often went to the pawnsbop to pawn the things they had for a little money,and the family was no exception
Language points 1. . time were tough, money was short , anxiety was rife and the pawnshop was familiar destination for many familiar, including mine. Life was hard. Everyone was short of money. They were caught up in endless worries. Many families often went to the pawnshop to pawn the things they had for a little money, and the family was no exception
2.Yet I could not have asked for more enterprising and optimistic parents. However,I bad the most adaptable and optimistic parents in the world
2. Yet I could not have asked for more enterprising and optimistic parents. However, I had the most adaptable and optimistic parents in the world
3.While Mom had scrimped and saved to obtain most of the gear,I still didn't have the prescribed blue blazer and hat band. Though Mom bad tried to pend as little money as possible in order to buy some the clothes required by the school,she still couldn't afford the bhe blazer and bat band
3. While Mom had scrimped and saved to obtain most of the gear, I still didn’t have the prescribed blue blazer and hat band. Though Mom had tried to spend as little money as possible in order to buy some the clothes required by the school, she still couldn’t afford the blue blazer and hat band
4.meticulous adj.Extremely careful and precise; Extremely or excessively concerned with details. meticulous,careful,painstaking,scripulous, fastidious,punctilious These adjectives mean showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or details
4. meticulous adj. Extremely careful and precise; Extremely or excessively concerned with details. meticulous， careful， painstaking， scrupulous， fastidious， punctilious These adjectives mean showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or details