Unit 2 Section A A Busy Weekday morning Teaching plan (4 periods Obiectives 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. conduct a serious of reading, listening, speaking and writing activ ities related to the theme of the unit Lesson procedure Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Warm-up exercises Detailed reading After reading Section B Cultural notes Global read ing Warm-up exercises 1. What are some of the things you think the children and the parents might have d ifferent ideas about? --- Children and their parents might have different ideas about many things, like dressing, food, music, etc 2. How can the older and the younger generation have real communication with and understand each other? The older and the younger generation should not be blind to what is important in each others worlds. They should never ignore each other, but admit the differences, and try to establish a real communication and understand ing between them Cultural notes 1. Green Waves is a fictional name for a musical group made up by the writer for use in this story 2. French Lilac Blue is a fictional name for eye-liner make-up made up by the writer for use in this story Global Reading 1. TextAnalysis 1). The author presents what Sandy did on a weekday morning through a time order, describing a series of actions accord ing to a sequenced order. to describe something according to the order of time is especially common with narrative writing. From the reading passage we can find that the presentation of details clearly follows the progress of time, as is apparent from the following words or sentences 2). The beginning sentence of the story tells us about the time The radio clicked on This is a very strong reminder of the time. From the passage we find that it was 6: 1. A M, time for getting up. After a couple of events, we find that after her shower, theUnit 2 Section A A Busy Weekday Morning Teaching Plan (4 periods) 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. conduct a serious of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. Lesson procedure Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Warm-up exercises Cultural notes Global reading Detailed reading After reading Section B Warm-up exercises 1. What are some of the things you think the children and the parents might have different ideas about? ---- Children and their parents might have different ideas about many things, like dressing, food, music, etc. 2. How can the older and the younger generation have real communication with and understand each other? ---- The older and the younger generation should not be blind to what is important in each other’s worlds. They should never ignore each other, but admit the differences, and try to establish a real communication and understanding between them. Cultural Notes 1. Green Waves is a fictional name for a musical group made up by the writer for use in this story. 2. French Lilac Blue is a fictional name for eye-liner make-up made up by the writer for use in this story. Global Reading 1. Text Analysis 1). The author presents what Sandy did on a weekday morning through a time order, describing a series of actions according to a sequenced order. To describe something according to the order of time is especially common with narrative writing. From the reading passage we can find that the presentation of details clearly follows the progress of time, as is apparent from the following words or sentences. 2). The beginning sentence of the story tells us about the time: The radio clicked on. This is a very strong reminder of the time. From the passage we find that it was 6:15 A.M., time for getting up. After a couple of events, we find that after her shower, the