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南通大学附属中学2013-2014年度《高中英语》模块一 Unit 2学案
Unit 2 Growing pains
Aims and requirements:
l Read a play about an American family and an article about growing pains
l Listen to a radio talk show
l Talk about problems common to teenagers
l Write a letter of advice
l Write a report on growing pains

Lesson 1 Welcome to this unit
Teaching objectives:
1. To introduce and develop the theme of growing pains
2. To develop speaking ability by talking about families and problems that happen between teenagers and parents
3. To know more about classmates and their families
Important and difficult points:
1. To get students to understand what growing pains means
2. To make students know the relationship between parents and their teenage children in the USA
3. To help students to form a positive attitude towards relationships between their parents and them
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
Present family albums: (In this part, Ss are encouraged to say something about their families by showing the class pictures with their parents. )
Qs: Who may have growing pains?
What are growing pains?
When do they probably have growing pains?
How do you solve this problem?
Growing pains aren't a disease. You probably won't have to go to the doctor for them. But they can hurt. Usually they happen when kids are between the ages of 3 and 5 or 8 and 12. Growing pains stop when kids stop growing. By the teen years, most kids don't get growing pains any more.
Growing pains also mean the troubles and difficulties that teenagers meet when they grow up.
Step 2 Brainstorming
Qs: Do you love your parents?
Do you always show respect for your parents?
Have you ever quarrelled with your parents?
What is your quarrel about?
Step 3 Picture discussion
Ask Ss to look at the pictures and discuss each picture in groups of four.
Picture 1
What does the boy do?
What is the mother doing? How is she probably feeling?
What feelings may the boy have?
Picture 2
What happens to the girl with a bag?
What did her parents ask her to do?
Can you guess what might have happened to her?
What will she do?
Picture 3
Why are the boys and girls around the pretty lady?
What does the boy want to do? Is he allowed to do so? Why or why not?
What feelings may the boy have?
Picture 4
What is the boy probably doing?
Did the boy do well in his exams?
How does his mother feel about the score?
What feelings may the boy have?
Step 4 Picture description
1. Imagine the situations and try to describe each picture as fully as possible with their own words. Make sure that Ss have “when”, “where”, “who”, “what” in their descriptions.
2 Invite some Ss to report back their descriptions.
Step 5 Further Discussion
Discuss the following questions in groups of four.
What do you do when you have family arguments with your parents?
Do you think there is a generation gap between you and your parents? If so, what is the best way to solve the problem?
Step 6 Assignments
1 Preview the Reading part.
2 Describe an unpleasant experience with your friends/teachers.
Lesson 2 Reading I

Teaching objectives:
u To develop students’ ability of reading a play
u To know about American family life and problems that happen between American teenagers and their parents
u To form a positive attitude towards solving problems between teenagers and parents
Teaching Procedures
Step 1. Brainstorming
1. List as many words as possible to describe the relationship between you and your parents.
2. Picture Talking.
(1) Do you love your parents? What do you do when you have family arguments with your parents?
(2) Do you have a happy family? Do you think there is a generation gap between you and your parents? If so, what is the best way to solve the problem?
Make sure that Ss have “when”, “where”, “who”, “what” in their descriptions.
Step 2: Reading comprehension
1. Reading strategy
Guide students to read the Reading strategy for the article and understand how to read a play.
2. Fast reading
Scan the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the questions in part A.
3. Careful reading
▲Listening without the book and judge whether the following statements are true or false.
(1)Mom and Dad were back from their holiday a week earlier.
(2)Eric was happy when seeing his mother.
(3) Parents left Daniel in charge.
(4)The boys spent the money seeing the vet for Spot.
(5)The room was very clean and tidy when their parents came back.
(6)Daniel didn’t have a chance to explain what had happened.
(7)Mom felt regretful for what they said to Daniel.
(8)Boys didn’t use up the money from their parents.
F F T T F T T T
▲Multiple Choice
(1).The passage is mainly about ______.
A. how the family manage to be on good terms B. why the room is in a mess
C. why there is a misunderstanding between the parents and sons
D. what happens to Daniel and Eric after their parents get home
(2).Which of the following is a cause of the quarrel ?_________
A. Spot was seriously ill. B. The couple returned earlier than expected .
C. The boys play football all day long. D. The brothers’ laziness(懒惰).
(3).Eric says hello to his parents in a frightened voice because_____
A. Dad often punishes him.
B. he is afraid that Dad will see the messy room and punish him
C. Dad will beat him and his brother.
D. he is always timid(胆小的).
(4). The phrase “deserve to” in line 42 means________
A. have to B. want to
C. need to D. to be good enough to have something
(5). What would probably happen in the following act ?
A. Dad and Daniel will quarrel again.
B. Mom and Eric will help Dad and Daniel to get rid of the misunderstanding .
C. Eric will not play football any longer
D. Daniel will desert the dog.
DABDB
▲Scan the story and try to finish the chart
Acts
Places
2_____
3_________

Act one

The living room
Mom
Mom and Dad returned from vacation a day 4________. They 5_________Spot was tired and hungry but the money they left to buy dog food was gone. The room was a 6_________. Dad was so angry that he shouted at Daniel. Daniel got angry too and ran into his bedroom.
Dad
Eric
Daniel
Spot

Act two

Scene one

The boys’ 1_______

Daniel
Daniel stopped Eric from 7___________ their parents their truth that they used the money to take Spot to the vet and spent the day before waiting for him so that they had no time to clean the room. He thought their parents didn’t trust him and that his 8__________was no use.
Eric

Scene two
Mom
Mom 9_________ being hard on Daniel but Dad thought the boy was so rude to them that he should be 10__________.
Dad
1. bedroom 2. characters 3. Details 4. earlier 5.found
6.mess 7.telling 8.explanation 9.regretted 10.punished
Step 3 Consolidation （Role-play ）
Divide students into groups of five and one is the narrator and the others are the main characters. Role-play Act One and Act Two.

Step 4 Discussion
1. Suppose you were Daniel, what would you do?
2. How do you think good parents should treat their children?
3. Do you think there is a generation gap between you and your family?
4. In your opinion, how to narrow(缩减) the gap? Or what would you do to bridge the generation gap?
Step 5 Assignments
1 Fill in the blanks
Mom and Dad arrive back from (1)v________ a day earlier than (2)e_________. They can’t wait to (3)s________ the boys. Suddenly a soccer ball flies (4)t_______ the room. Eric runs in after it, (5)f_______ by a big dog. The dog was tired and (6)h______. Dad sees there is trash all over the place. Daniel runs into room and wants to explain it. But they shout at him before he can (7)e________. Daniel is very angry. He runs into his bedroom and (8)s_______ the door. Eric comforts Daniel and tells him not to hate their parents. They want to tell Dad and Mom the truth. Mom is very sorry. She thinks they should ask the boys what happened (9)i________ of shouting at them. However, Dad insists on punishing them because they are so (10)r_____ to them.
1.vacation 2.expected 3.surprise 4.through 5.followed
6.hungry 7.explain 8.slams 9.instead 10.rude
2. Role-play the dialogue in groups of five .and write an end to the play.

Lesson 3 Reading II
Teaching aims and demands:
1. To learn new words and expressions and learn how to use them.
2. To grasp following good sentences
1) Mom and Dad arrived back from vacation a day earlier than expected.
2) I can’t wait to surprise the boys!
3) Eric runs in after it, followed by a big dog, walking very slowly.
4) The money with which you were to buy dog food is gone, but Spot looks so angry!
5) The room is a mess, with pizza boxes on the floor and dirty dishes in the sink.
6) …you shouldn’t have run out of the room and slammed the door like that.
7) Now that he has been so rude to us, I feel like we have to punish him or he won’t respect us.
8) We didn’t think you would let the house get so dirty.
Language points study:
1. 仔细审读下列句子，注意surprise的用法并作归纳：
What he said at the meeting surprised us very much.
We were surprised at his not passing the exam.
To our great surprise, he didn’t pass the exam.
The heavy snowfall took us all by surprise.
The news that Bush was taken away by the police came as a surprise to everyone.
We were surprised to see our head teacher at that time.
【归纳】
1) surprise vt._____ n._______________
adj. (感到)惊奇的，惊讶的_______________
adj. 令人吃惊的__________________
surprise vt. 使惊奇，使惊讶 n. 惊奇, 令人惊奇的事
adj. (感到)惊奇的，惊讶的surprisedà adj. 令人吃惊的 surprising
2) surprise 的常见结构：
令人吃惊 __________________(～ sb)
对……感到吃惊(动+不定式) __________________(be ～ed to do sth)
对……感到吃惊（动+介词）__________________ (be ～ed at sth)
惊奇地（作状语）___________________________(in surprise)
使某人吃惊的是_____________________________(to one’s surprise)
2. explain vt. ____________________ n.__________________
【explain 的常见结构为：】
▲explain sth to sb / explain to sb sth
▲explain (to sb)+ that clause
▲explain + why / how 等特殊疑问句引导的名词性从句。
请根据上面结构翻译下列句子：
1、请向我们解释一下这个问题。（Please ~ this problem to us.）
__________________________________________________________________________
2、她向孩子们说明了关闭学校的原因。
__________________________________________________________________________
(She ~ed to the children that the school had been closed.)
3、你能否解释一下你为什么一声不吭就走了呢？
__________________________________________________________________________
(Could you ~ why you left without saying anything?)
4、数学老师想学生们解释了解决这个问题的方法。
_____________________________________________________________________
(The math teacher explained to the students how to solve the problem.)

3. ▲找出课文中含有charge的句子并写出charge的相关词性和意义：
______________；_____________；______________________。
▲仔细学习下列有关charge的习惯搭配：

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～ some money 收费
～ sb some money 收某人的费
～ sb with sth 控告犯有……
～ for sb/sth 朝……冲去
free of charge 免费
in charge (of) 主管，掌管；负责
in the charge of
take charge of 担任，照
▲完成下列句子：
1）The class is__________________.（由杨老师负责）【 in Miss Yang’s charge】.
2）Gas ___________(收费)【charges】 will rise in February
3）How much did they ___________________________(收取你的服务费) ?
【charge you for the service】
4）The young man is ______________________(被指控犯有谋杀罪) 【charged with murder】.
4. 仔细阅读下列含有deserve的句子并翻译，归纳deserve的搭配：
These views deserve our attention._________________________________________________
You deserve a rest after all that hard work. __________________________________________
I think they deserve to be congratulated.____________________________________________
Your suggestion deserves considering. =Your suggestion deserves to be considered.
_________________________________________
【归纳deserve的常见结构】
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
【deserve sth】
【deserve to do sth 值得做，应该做】
【deserve doing sth. = deserve to be done值得做……， (含有被动的意思)
5. now that 既然；由于（引导时间状语从句，一般放在句首；有时就只用now，而省略that。）
Now (that) you’ve got the chance, you should value it.
既然你已经得到了这个机会，你就要珍惜它。
【高考真题演练】
（全国卷）＿＿＿＿＿you've got a chance. you might as well make full use of it.
A. Now that     B. After     C. Although    D. AS soon as
[解析] 答案：A。根据句意“既然你得到了机会，就要充分利用它”可推出用now that。
【翻译下面句子】
Now that so many people haven’t come, let’s put off the meeting.
______________________________________________________________________________
Now that you are ill, you’d better stay at home.
________________________________________________________________
6. 仔细体会do with （处理，处置，对待）的用法完成任务：
I didn’t know what to do with the old tree.
The new teacher didn’t know what to do with the class.
I cannot do with loud noise.
do with /deal with :
do with与what 连用 deal with 与how 连用
How will you deal with the money？
＝what will you do with the money?

【即学即用】
It is said in Australia there is more land than the government knows .
A .it what to do with B. what to do it with
C. what to do with it D. to do that with it
The little boy is naughty. His parents don’t know what to him.
A. do with B. care about C. deal with D. talk with
7. 认真学习下列句子并翻译，注意leave后面的搭配：
Jack’s father died, leaving him an orphan. ________________________________________
Who was it that left the door open? ______________________________________________
The boys ran out, leaving all the lights on.___________________
He left his son in charge of the shop. _____________________________________________
The poor farmer died, leaving his wife and three children in poorer conditions.
___________________________________________________________________________
She left me waiting in the rain.
He went to bed early yesterday evening, leaving his homework unfinished.
___________________________________________________________________________
Don’t leave the water running while you brush your teeth.
______________________________________
【归纳写出leave后作补语的形式】
“leave + O+OC”结构: leave动词，表示“使某人/某物继续处于某种状态，听任，让……做……”，其后可以接名词、形容词、副词、介词短语、现在分词、过去分词、不定式等作宾语的补足语。
【短语拓展】

ask for leave 请假
leave about 乱放
leave alone 放任不管，不干涉，听任
leave a message 捎口信
leave behind 留下，忘带
leave for 动身前往
leave… in the air 搁置，悬而未决
leave out 省去，遗漏，忽视
leave room for 为……留下余地
leave sth as it is 听其自然
leave sth undone 把事情放着不做

8. 写出与turn相关的短语：

旋大，开大；出现，露面，被发现______________
转身 _________________
不理，打发走 _________________
上交 _________________
结果是，生产 _________________