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Unit 2
A child’s clutter awaits
an adult’s return
Ⅰ
Objectives:
1.
To talk about the love between the parents and
children;
2. To
understand the love between the mother and the
daughter in the text;
3. To apply the phrases and patterns;
4. To write an
essay creatively based on the understanding of the
text.
Ⅱ
Teaching Focus and Difficulties
1. understand the structure
of the text
2.
apply the writing skills to organizing a paragraph
Ⅲ
Teaching aids
Multimedia, chalk and blackboard
Warming up activities
Ⅳ
Teaching
Procedure
Step
1:
Warm-up activities
1.
Do a quick
survey: How close are you and your parents?
2.
Watch and Talk
1)
What happened to the father and the
son?
enjoy the baseball game / dance to
one’s favorite music / be too loud for one to put
up with … / go upstairs /
shout to sb.
that … / rather than do as sb. tells / bring one’s
things into sb.’s room / play the
elect
ric guitar /
at the top
of the speaker’s volume / make one’s blood
boil
2). Is there any
conflict or disagreement between you and your
parents? And what should we do to settle the
conflict or disagreement?
1) Keep our minds open to our parents;
2) Treat our parents the way we want
them to treat us;
3) Make friends with
our parents;
4) Learn to be responsible
for our actions;
5) Be sure to show
love to our parents in different forms.
3.
Compound
Dictation
Step
2.
Structure of the text
The text depicts a mother’s
responses to her daughter’s fight for independence
through detailed description
of the
mess left behind by the daughter.
Part 1 (1-3):
The daughter is leaving home for
independence and the mother feels glad on the one
hand and
expresses her concern/doubt on
the other.
Part 2 (5-12):
The daughter leaves a mess in her rooms
and the mother straightens up the rooms.
Part 3 (13-22)
After the
mother finds a large envelope with all the
memorable things the parents gave to the
daughter, the mother’s attitude
changes/reverses completely.
Step3. Details for each
part
(1) Questions for part
1
1. Why did the daughter
buy a large and expensive vehicle according to the
mother?
1
Because her mother advised
her to buy a practical and gas-efficient car. The
daughter did this on purpose
because at
this age, she was being rebellious.
2. What does the mother want to tell
through the fact that her daughter has bought a
truck instead of a car and
that she is
still watching cartoons?
The
mother wants to show that although her daughter
tries to show she is an adult, actually she is
not.
3.
How does the mother feel towards her
daughter’s leaving hom
e?
The mother is happy that her daughter
is independent now, but on the other hand, she
feels doubtful
whether her daughter
could take good care of herself.
Language points for part 1
1. await
V .
wait for
等候；等待
Very little was said as we awaited the
arrival of the chairman.
我们等候主席到来的时候都没怎么说话。
V
.
即将发生于；将降临到
…
身上
A nasty surprise awaited them in
Rosemary Lane.
在罗斯玛丽巷，一起严重的意外事件正等待着他
wait, await
这两个动词均含“等，等待
”
之意。
1).
wait for the bus
/
await trial
2).
一般来说，
await
的宾语大多为抽象名称，
如
decision, reply, arrival, announcement
, return,
等，
而
wait
for
后的宾语一般为人或事物
3).
我们等待他们进一步的消息。
?
We
shall await _________ further from them.
?
We
shall wait
_________
further from them.
2.
efficient,
effective
这组词都有“有效的
”
< br>的意思，其区别是：
efficient
“
效率高
的”
，
“
有能力的”
< br>，
用以指人或物，
着重有效地利用时间、
精力并取得预期效果。
如：
The German telephone system
is highly efficient.
德国的电话系统效率很高。
effective
常用以指物，强调能产生某种预期的效果。如：
effective
medicine, effective method
3
…so often that
my teeth
ached.
to show
extreme annoyance, comparable to the sharp of an
aching tooth.
eg. I hate the scrape of
chalk on the blackboard; it makes my teeth ache.
it
成功；准时到达
fight it out
决一雌雄
foot it
走着去
funk it (
因害怕而
)
逃避
(2) Questions for part 2
does the
mother decide to deal with her daughter’s
books?
?
The mother puts her daughter's books
onto a single shelf to deal with later.
2. Why does the
mother
describe in great detail the mess in her
daughter’s room?
?
The mother
wants to show that her daughter is not ready to be
an adult yet.
Language
Points for part 2
ic
与
historical
（
1
）
historic
有历史意义的、历史上有名的（
important in history
）
;
古老的
historic strike
具有历史意义的大罢工
historic building
历史
/
古老的建筑
（
2
）
historical
历史上有过的，关于历史的
historical period
（
story
）历史时期（小说）
classic
与
classical
（
1
）
classic
典型的，经典的，最优秀的
It is a classic example.
这是一个典型的例子。
（
2
）
classical
古希腊、罗马的文学、艺术，意为
“
古典（
文学或艺术）的
”
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