内容正文:
Unit 3
Could you please clean your room?
Section B 2a-2e
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Teaching aims
1. Analyze the argumentative methods(论证方法) of the two letters; 2. Summarize the structure;3. Express your ideas about whether kids should do chores at home.
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Discuss the questions with your partner:
( also in your textbook)
1. What do you often do to help your parents at home?
2. Do you think kids should help out with chores at home?
Scan, choose and answer
1. What’s the type of the passage?
A. A story. B. A letter.
2. Who wrote the them?
Ms. Miller and Mr. Smith.
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Salutation
Body
Signature
Fast-reading
They are probably about whether kids should________.
A. spend time on schoolwork
B. help out with chores at home
C. learn to be independent(独立的)
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The Sunday Mail magazine invited parents to write about whether they think young people should do chores at home. Skim the letters.
Look, read and predict (预测)
The title and the picture in the passage can help you predict what you will read about.
题目(要求)和文章中的图片能够帮助你预测要读的内容。
请学生拿出答题器作答。
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disagree
agree
Topic sentence主旨句
Topic sentence主旨句
Should kids help out with
chores at home?
Mr. Smith
Ms. Miller
Kids shouldn’t
do chores.
Kids should
do chores.
opinion
Topic Sentences:
主题句,直接体现作者的观点(摆观点),经常居于段首,以便读者浏览主题句就可掌握文章的概要。
Read and answer
Letter 1
1) Skim the first letter for Ms. Miller’s general opinion. You can mark it in your book. 2) Read the letter again and find out how she argues for her opinion. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3) Read and finds out what supportive reasons Ms. Miller gives. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
一级标题:黑体,
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Dear Sir,
I don’t understand why some parents make their kids help with housework and chores at home. Kids these d