and ate a piece of toast while standing by the sink At that time, her mother came in, gave her a lot of instructions on how to eat, what to put on and when to brush teeth and even asked her to wash off her makeup. Sandy argued that she was old enough to wear makeup and explained that some girls at school had tattoos and pierced ears, and noses and tongues. As she ran to catch the school bus, Sandy thought off her older brother Bill who could share problems with her, but she hadnt heard from him for a while. In fact, she was bugged more than before by her mother and the argument between them was a lot more than usual After reading Discussion Work in small groups and d iscuss the following questions 1. What have you learned from the end of the story? 2. What do you think we can do to bridge the generation gap? 2. Structured writing Write one short paragraph with a series of actions organized accord ing to the order of the sequence. Use time markers whenever possible. There are a few topics to choose from. One of them has more details that you can follow if you want to Detailed outline (When foreigners first go to the States, there are lots of things that they need to learn, for example, how to buy a phone card. Here's a list of the steps in time order Write one paragraph using these steps. make sure that you have 20 dollars on hand; learn to say"phone card"in English walk to the post office, repeating the English words to yourself say the right words to the clerk; smile hopefully pay for the card and find a pay phone Other topics a brief story of how I began my interest in online learning The story of my middle school The story of how I n e progress in English lea aning Homework 1. Finish the exercises in Section a 2. Prepare for Section B Sectionb Parent Talk Objectives Students will be able to 1. grasp the main idea(the essence of writing is to explore the generation gap 2. master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text 3. grasp the reading skill----distinguish between facts and opinions Reading skill---- Distinguishing Between Facts andopinions Facts and opinionsand ate a piece of toast while standing by the sink. At that time, her mother came in, gave her a lot of instructions on how to eat, what to put on and when to brush teeth and even asked her to wash off her makeup. Sandy argued that she was old enough to wear makeup and explained that some girls at school had tattoos and pierced ears, and noses and tongues. As she ran to catch the school bus, Sandy thought off her older brother Bill who could share problems with her, but she hadn’t heard from him for a while. In fact, she was bugged more than before by her mother and the argument between them was a lot more than usual. After Reading 1. Discussion Work in small groups and discuss the following questions. 1. What have you learned from the end of the story? 2. What do you think we can do to bridge the generation gap? 2. Structured Writing Write one short paragraph with a series of actions organized according to the order of the sequence. Use time markers whenever possible. There are a few topics to choose from. One of them has more details that you can follow if you want to. Detailed outline: (When foreigners first go to the States, there are lots of things that they need to learn, for example, how to buy a phone card. Here's a list of the steps in “time order”. Write one paragraph using these steps.) · make sure that you have 20 dollars on hand; learn to say "phone card" in English · walk to the post office, repeating the English words to yourself · say the right words to the clerk; smile hopefully · pay for the card and find a pay phone Other topics · A brief story of how I began my interest in online learning · The story of my middle school · The story of how I made progress in English learning Homework 1. Finish the exercises in Section A. 2. Prepare for Section B. Section B Parent Talk Objectives Students will be able to: 1. grasp the main idea (the essence of writing is to explore the generation gap ) 2. master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text; 3. grasp the reading skill---- distinguish between facts and opinions Reading Skill ---- Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions Facts and Opinions