新进阶3综合unit4

New Progressive College English Book III

UNIT 4 Emerging Adulthood

全新版大学进阶英语

课程名称

大学英语（三）

使用教材

综合教程（

3

）

Text:

Is

30

the

New

20

for

Young

Adults

(

精

读

)

授课内容

Reading: When Are You Really an Adult (

泛

读）

授课学时

6

1. Have a thorough understanding of the text contextually and

linguistically;

2.

Build

up

an

active

vocabulary

to

talk

about

growing

up

and

adulthood

and know

how to

use

the

key words and expressions in

context properly;

教学

目的

3. Discuss the important aspects of becoming an adult;

4. Compare American and Chinese views on emerging adulthood;

5. Talk about changes in expectations of young adults and changes in

the

degree

of

independence

from

their

parents

young

adults

are

able

to

achieve in today’s world;

6. Write an essay about their views on emerging adulthood.

1. Analyze the structure and grasp the main idea of Text

教学

重点与

难点

2.

Master

the

key

language

points

and

grammatical

structures

in

the

text

3. Learn some techniques in writing

4. Critical thinking

1. Audio-visual method and audio- lingual method.

教学

2. Task-based language teaching method

方法

3. Communicative approach

与

手段

4. Using CAI, PPT

5. Smart teaching (using online tools or materials)

1. Lead-in Activities

Step 1. Warm-up activities

Step 2. Discussion about adulthood

2. Global Reading

Step 1. Approaching the theme

Step 2. Analyzing the text organization

3. Detailed Reading

Step 1. Understanding the text in a deeper level

Step 2. Learning useful expressions

教学

Step 3. Learning difficult sentences structures

过程

Step 4. Learning new words

4. Comprehending Reading 1

Step 1: Skimming the text

Step 2: Explaining the difficult sentences of the text

Step 3: Doing sentence translation

5. After Reading

Step 1. Viewing and Listening

Step 2. Speaking

Step 3. Assignment

Assignment

：

1. Read the text in Reading 2 and finish the exercises.

作业

2. Write a composition about your views on emerging adulthood.

3. Preview the next unit.

Unit 4 Emerging Adulthood

1. Teaching Objectives:

Students will be able to

A. have a thorough understanding of the text contextually and linguistically;

B.

build

up

an

active

vocabulary

to

talk

about

growing

up

and

adulthood

and

know

how to use the key words and expressions in context properly;

C. discuss the important aspects of becoming an adult;

D. compare American and Chinese views on emerging adulthood;

E.

talk

about

changes

in

expectations

of

young

adults

and

changes

in

the

degree

of

independence

from

their

parents

young

adults

are

able

to

achieve

in

today’s

world;

F. write an essay about their views on emerging adulthood.

2. Time Allotment:

1

Period: Lead-in

Activities

(Warm-up

activities;

Discussion

about

adulthood)

st

2

Period: Global Reading (Text: Approaching the theme; Analyzing the text

organization)

3

Period: Detailed

Reading

(Understanding

the

text

in

a

deeper

level;

Analyzing

difficult sentence structures)

4

Period: Detailed Reading Continued (Learning new words; Summarizing good

usage)

5

Period:

Comprehending

Reading

1

(Skimming

the

text;

Explaining

the

difficult sentences of the text; Doing sentence translation))

th

th

rd

nd

6

Period:

After Reading (Viewing and listening; Speaking; Assignment)

th

3. Teaching Procedures:

Lead-in Activities

Step 1. Warm-up activities

The teacher leads students to figure out the five stages of life (infancy,

childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age) and tells them a new life stage

“

emerging adulthood

”

has been proposed by psychologists to describe the period

of time between adolescence and adulthood..

Method:

PPT, communicative approach.

Step 2: Discussion about adulthood

The

teacher

has

students

work

in

pairs

and

discuss

the

questions

in

Opener

about

their own criteria for reaching adulthood. The teacher reminds students to refer

to the helpful words and expressions given below the pictures.

Method:

Using task-based language teaching method, communicative approach.

Global Reading

Step 1. Approaching the theme

The

teacher

has

students

know

the

background

information

about

the

term

“

emerging adulthood

”

in

Culture Notes

.

Emerging

Adulthood

:

Starting

in

1995,

psychologist

Jeffrey

Jensen

Arnett

interviewed 300 young people aged 18 to 29 in cities around the nation over five

years,

asking

them

questions

about

what

they

wanted

out

of

life.

Working

from

those

interviews

and

examining

broad

demographic

indicators,

Arnett

proposed

a

new

period

of life-span development he calls

“

emerging adulthood

”

.

1995

年开始，

历时

5

年，

心理学家杰弗里·

阿内特在美国许多城市访谈了

300

位

18-29

岁的年轻人，

就他们想从生活中得到什么 进行提问。

基于研究结果，

阿内特提出了人生发展

的一个新阶段，即“成年形成期”

。

Method:

PPT; communicative approach.

Analyzing the text organization

The teacher tells students that the text can be divided into four parts which

have been given in the

Text Organization

. Then students should summarize the main

idea of each part and compare notes with each other.

Parts

Paragraphs

Main Ideas

Today's twenty- somethings seem like a whole new breed.

Part One

Para. 1

Part Two

Paras. 2-7

Part

Paras. 8-10

Three

Five typical features of emerging adulthood

Advantages

and

disadvantages

of the rise

of emerging

adulthood

Suggestions for parents on how to deal with emerging

Part Four

Paras. 11-12

adults

Method:

skimming and scanning, communicative approach

Detailed Reading

Procedure

1)

Students

are

asked

to

read

the

passage

carefully

again

and

for

each

paragraph

(sometimes two- three paragraphs), invite students to answer questions related

to the details of the text and the difficult sentences.

2) Help Students find out the good usage in the text and underlined them.

3) Learn new words in details.

Purpose

:

Further

understand

the

text

and

train

scanning

ability

to

learn

difficult sentence structures as well as new words and expressions.

Method:

Reading the text together; Using task-based language teaching method,

reading approach, communicative approach, grammar-translation approach.

Step 1. Questions related to the details of the text

Para. 1

Q: What is the average age of entering marriage now in the .

A: Today the average age of getting married is 26 for women and 28 for men.

Para. 1

Q: Why do young Americans change jobs much more frequently than their parents did

A: Because they expect a lot more out of work. They want to find that work is

personally fulfilling and is itself an adventure.

Para. 2

Q: What do the authors refer to by “emerging adulthood”

A:

By

emerging

adulthood,

they

refer

to

a

new

life

period

which

runs

typically

from

age 18 to 25.

-7

Q: What are the five features typical of emerging adulthood

A: Identity explorations, instability, self-focus, feeling in-between and a sense

of possibilities.

Para. 9

Q: Why do the authors say the rise of this new life stage is a good thing

A: Because they think that young people can make use of the freedom of emerging

adulthood to have experiences, otherwise they couldn’t have no matter when they

were younger or older.

Para. 10

Q: What is the disadvantage of this new life stage according to the authors

A: Some emerging adults feel overwhelmed by the challenges of this life stage.

Para. 11

Q: What do the authors suggest parents do

A: Be patient with emerging adults.

Para. 12

Q: What is the benefit of seeing emerging adulthood as a normal stage of life

A:

It

can

help

ease

our

anxiety

and

may

allow

us

to

appreciate

their

energy,

optimism

and appetite for life.

Language Focus

3.3.2.1

Difficult sentences:

1)

… as they search for work that is personally fulfilling, no

t just a job but an

adventure. (Para. 1)

Paraphrase the sentence:

… as they look for work that can satisfy themselves and

be viewed as not only a job, but also an adventure.

Translate the sentence:

他们寻找的 是能使自身满足的工作，是一种带有风险的探索，而

不单单是一份工作。

2)

Your 18-year-old may head for college with pre-med in mind ... (Para. 3)

Paraphrase the sentence:

Your child may consider majoring in medicine when he/she

goes to college at 18 ...

Translate the sentence:< /p>

你那

18

岁的孩子上大学时，想的是念医 学预科……

3)

It’s important to them to carve out a space where t

hey can make their own

decisions. (Para. 5)

Paraphrase the sentence:

It’s important to the young people to strive to free

themselves from adult control in certain areas of their lives where they wish to

make their own decisions.

Translate the sentence:

重要的是要开拓能够由自己做决定的空间。

4)

And most are in no particular hurry, although nearly all get there eventually.

(Para. 6)

Paraphrase

the

sentence

:And

most

often

emerging

adults

are

not

very

anxious

to

become

an

adult,

though

they

will

certainly

grow

into

adulthood

one

day,

whether

they

like

it or not.

Translate the sentence< /p>

:

并且，多数人并不特别着急，尽管几乎所有的人最终都要进入成

人期。

5)

… something they regard with mixed feelings. (Para. 6)

Paraphrase the sentence

:

… something about which they feel uncertain because they

see both the good and bad in it.

Translate the sentence

:

……而在这一点上他们的心情很矛盾。

6)

But there’s a downside as well. (Para. 10)

Paraphrase the sentence

: But we can also see the disadvantage brought on by this

new life stage.

Translate the sentence

:

但也有不那么理想的一面。

7)

Sometimes parents are surprised and dismayed to find that the emotional and

financial responsibilities of parenting last for many years longer than they

had anticipated. (Para. 10)

Paraphrase the sentence

: Sometimes parents are surprised and alarmed to find that

they

have

to

support

their

children

emotionally

and

financially

for

more

years

than

they had expected.

Translate the sentence

:

上都比他们 预期的要多持续很多年，这让他们感到吃惊乃至沮丧。

8)

Encourage them and provide support when they seem open to it, but learn when

to step back and let them make their way on their own ... (Para. 11)