Unit Eight A Magician at Stretching a Dollar I.Teaching Aims 1.Enlarge the students'vocabulary by leamning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises. 2.Help the studentsto get the general ideas ofthe article. 3.Help the students know the great love of our parents 4.Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice,phrases and expression,grammar,writing,etc. II.Key and Difficult Points: 1.New Words stretch,approach,somehow,astonish,reveal,slap,acquire,count,snap,breed 2.Phrases in search of.something like.scrape together,rob of,come upon,think over,on cue do well by,hold back 3.Sentences 1.Standing against the wall was a big,black bicycle with balloon tires. 2.I had robbed her of the pleasure of seeing me astonished and delighted on Christmas day. 3....still coming upon it like this made me feel as though I'd struck a blow against her happiness 4.Maybe it would be better to say nothing but appear to be shocked into such deep pleasure that speech had escaped me. 5.he three of us-Doris,my mother,and I-were people bred to hold back emotional expressions of love,but I did something that startled both my mother and me. III.Teaching Methods Discussion,explanation,ask and answer IV.Time:3 periods Unit Eight A Magician at Stretching a Dollar I. Teaching Aims 1. Enlarge the students’ vocabulary by learning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises. 2. Help the students to get the general ideas of the article. 3. Help the students know the great love of our parents. 4. Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice, phrases and expression, grammar, writing, etc. II. Key and Difficult Points: 1. New Words stretch, approach, somehow, astonish, reveal, slap, acquire, count, snap, breed 2. Phrases in search of, something like, scrape together, rob of, come upon, think over, on cue, do well by, hold back 3. Sentences 1. Standing against the wall was a big, black bicycle with balloon tires. 2. I had robbed her of the pleasure of seeing me astonished and delighted on Christmas day. 3. …still coming upon it like this made me feel as though I’d struck a blow against her happiness. 4. Maybe it would be better to say nothing but appear to be shocked into such deep pleasure that speech had escaped me. 5. he three of us —Doris, my mother, and I —were people bred to hold back emotional expressions of love, but I did something that startled both my mother and me. III. Teaching Methods Discussion, explanation, ask and answer IV. Time: 3 periods