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Lesson one Half a Day
Teaching Aims and demands:
1. Grasp a strategy commonly used in fiction writing---the protagonist returns after being absent for a short time
to find everything changed beyond recognition.
2. Review the usage of present participle and past participle, and the word "as".
3. Grasp the following words and phrases: convince, glance, revolve, various, make---out of, bring about, give
rise to, resort to, in addition, take advantage of, in vain, on one's own, come to a halt, irritate etc.
4. Learn a kind of word formation by adding affix---affixation.
5. Practice oral English with the topic "My first day' experience at primary school/university"?
Teaching Content: Text A; Text B: Exercises (from Vocabulary to Writing)
Teaching Key points and difficult points:
1. a kind of word formation by adding affix---affixation.
2. convince, glance, revolve, various, give rise to, resort to, in addition, take advantage of, in vain, on one's own,
irritate etc.
Teaching Periods: 6 periods
Teaching Procedures:
Period 1-2:
I. Introduction to the text by asking some questions.
Questions:
1. Do you still remember your first day at college?
2. Was it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life?
3. Who saw you off at the railway station?
4. Who came to school with you?
5. What did your parents say to you on the way to school?
6. Did you find the university just as you imagined?
7. What do you expect to learn here?
II. Ask students to go through the text and finish the pre-class work to get the main idea of the text. Then analyze the text the structure and the writing skill.
The structure of the text:
Para. 1-7: the boy's misgivings about school; he found it hard to be away form home and his mom and
thought school was a punishment.
Para. 8-16: It describes how the boy felt about school. He found life at school was rich and colorful in many ways, although it also required discipline and hard work.
Para. 17-20: the boy walked out of the school to find that the outside world had changed beyond measure and that he had become an old man.
The writing skill: a strategy commonly used in fiction writing--- the protagonist returns after being absent for a short time to find everything changed beyond recognition. The technique is often used to emphasize rapid changes in society.
III. Explain the text in details.
1. I walked alongside my father, clutching his right hand(Para. 1).
I turned towards her from time to time, hoping she would help(Para. 2).
---a street lined with gardens(Para. 2)
A lady came along, followed by a group of men(Para.11).
We ate delicious food,---playing and learning(Para.14). Extremely irritated, I wondered---(Para.18).
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The usage of Present participle and Past participle:
1).As subjects:
e.g. Seeing is believing.
The wounded were rushed to hospitals.
2).As objects:
e.g. He denied having done wrong.
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They anticipated that he would get much pleasure from the reading of the that book. Medical workers were sent there to heal the injured.
3). As subject compliments:
e.g. Our duty is serving people heart and soul.
He looked frightened at the sight of the monster .
4). As object compliments:
e.g. I didn't notice him waiting there.
Everyone thought the battle lost.
5). As Adverbial:
e.g. Opening the door, I saw nobody in.
Breaking the window on purpose, he was punished. Heated, water changes into steam.
6). As noun modifier:
e.g. The ground was covered with fallen leaves.
The fighting students in the class were criticized by the headmaster. 2. as conj.
1).during the time when; while
e.g. As he grew older he lost interest in everything except gardening.
2). since, because (usu placed at the beginning of the sentence)
e.g. As you ere not there I left a message.
3).although (used after an adj. or adv. to introduce a clause of concession)
e.g. Young as I am, I already know what career I want to follow.
Child as he was, he's already mastered the three foreign languages.
4).in the way in which
e.g. Do as I say and sit down.
Leave the table as it is (ie do not disturb the things on it.)
5) a fact which
e.g. Beijing, as we all know, will hold 2008 Olympic Game.
3. Don't you want to be useful like your brother? (a rhetorical question)
e.g. Can't you see I'm busy? (Don't disturb me!)
What good is a promise to unemployed worker? (an empty promise is useless to unemployed worker)
4. convince v. ~ sb. (of sth ): make sb feel certain; cause sb to realize
e.g. How can I convince you of her honesty?
What she said convinced me that I was mistaken.
Convinced adj. firm in one's belief
Convincing adj. that convinces
e.g. a convinced Christian
a convincing speech
5. make --- out of: make sb. /sth become ---
e.g. The army made a man of him.
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Hardship help make a man out of a boy.
I don't think you can make a football star out of John.
6. glance: v. take a quick look
e.g. She glanced at her watch during the talk.
After the breakfast he is used to glancing at the newspaper headlines .
n. ~ at sb. : quick look : take/ have /cast a ~ at sth.
e.g. Before the end of the programme, let's take a glance at the sports news.
at a glance: with one look
at first glance/sight: when seen or examined for the first time
*stare: to look directly and fixedly ,often with wide-eyed gaze ~ at
glare: stare angrily and fiercely ~ at
7. revolve:~ around/round (on sth): move in a circular orbit
e.g. The earth revolves round the sun on its axis.
~ around/ round/ on sth
e.g. A wheel revolves on its axis.
~ around sth/sb.: have sth./sb. as its chief concern; centre on sb./sth.
e.g. My life revolves around my job.
** solve: to find a solution to e.g. solve a riddle
8. various adj. of several kinds, unlike one another
e.g. tents in various shapes and sizes
Your hobbies are many and various.
[attrib.] more than one; individual; separate
e.g. for various reasons
at various times
vary v. ~ in e.g. These fishes vary in weight from 3 lb. to 5 lb..
variety n. a ~ of
varied adj. of different sorts; diverse
9. word-formation---affixation
The suffisx -ion form Latin, is added to a verb to form a noun that refers to the act, state or result of doing sth.
It had two variant forms: -ation and -ition.
Verb
Act
Admit
Construct
Operate
Noun
action
admission
construction
operation
Verb
Educate Explain Pollute Prepare
Noun
education
explanation
pollution
preparation
Celebrate celebration Pronounce pronunciation
Decide decision organize organization
Determine determination introduce introduction
The suffix -ly ,from Middle English, is added to adjectives to form adverbs.
Adjective
Clear
Physical
Favorable
Angry
adverb
clearly
physically favorably
angrily
Adjective
Rough Simple Terrible
Easy
adverb
roughly
simply terribly
easily
10. give rise to: to cause sth. to happen or exist, e.g.
e.g. Poor living conditions give rise to many diseases.
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