Unit One:This Year It's Going to Be Different Teaching objectives: To make students understand what a narrative is and how a narrative is organized according to a time sequence. To help students master the general techniques of narrative writing: To help students develop a general awareness of different styles of different writers and understand the rhetorical devices (such as exaggeration and irony) emploved in the text ◆ To acquaint the students with basic knowledge of register: colloquial expressions(colloquialism)in conversation and formal expressions found in the writer's lists of resolutions on self-improvement; To supply students with opportunities to practice their basic language skills. Time allocation and Teaching procedure: About 4 sessions(8 class hours)are needed for this unit. 1st session 1.Pre-reading questions: Test students on the background reading materials and see if they have a general idea of a narrative;ask students to explain the title of Text I:This Year It's Going to Be Different. Clarify the meanings of the word"narrative",and introduce what a narrative is. 2.Study of Text I: Analyzing the structure of the text:involving the students in summing up the techniques of narrative writing. Ask students to sum up the main idea of the text. 3.Assignment ·Review Text I. ◆Preview Text i ◆Read Text II 2nd session 1.Continuation of the study of Textl Allow students some time to estions on the text. Focus on language points of the text. Call students'attention to the differences between colloquial expressions and formal expressions in the text. 2.Assignment Student's Book:P4-5 Vocabulary,P9-10 Questions Workbook:P10-11 Translation 3rdsession Study of Text on Text II tohelp students better understand Text II 3.Workbook with opportunities to talk on the topic"My Resolutions P10-11 Translation Unit One: This Year It’s Going to Be Different Teaching objectives:  To make students understand what a narrative is and how a narrative is organized according to a time sequence;  To help students master the general techniques of narrative writing;  To help students develop a general awareness of different styles of different writers and understand the rhetorical devices (such as exaggeration and irony) employed in the text;  To acquaint the students with basic knowledge of register: colloquial expressions(colloquialism) in conversation and formal expressions found in the writer’s lists of resolutions on self-improvement;  To supply students with opportunities to practice their basic language skills. Time Allocation and Teaching Procedure: About 4 sessions (8 class hours) are needed for this unit. 1 st session 1. Pre-reading questions: Test students on the background reading materials and see if they have a general idea of a narrative; ask students to explain the title of Text I: This Year It’s Going to Be Different. Clarify the meanings of the word “narrative’’, and introduce what a narrative is. 2. Study of Text I: Analyzing the structure of the text: involving the students in summing up the techniques of narrative writing. Ask students to sum up the main idea of the text. 3.Assignment  Review Text I.  Preview Text II.  Read Text III. 2 nd session 1. Continuation of the study of Text I: Allow students some time to ask questions on the text. Focus on language points of the text. Call students’ attention to the differences between colloquial expressions and formal expressions in the text. 2.Assignment  Student’s Book: P4—5 Vocabulary, P9—10 Questions;  Workbook: P10—11 Translation. 3 rd session 1. Study of Text II Ask questions on Text II to help students better understand Text II. 2 Oral Work Supply students with opportunities to talk on the topic “My Resolutions”. 3. Workbook: P10—11 Translation