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Let’s talk teens
UNIT
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Extended reading & Project
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1. What is your ideal family like ?
Free talk
2. Did your family ever meet any financial problems? What did your family do with the problem?
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Prediction
Can you predict what may be talked about in the passage according to the title?
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Reading for structure
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Listen to the record and read the short story about a mother’s love for her children.
Try to divide the whole passage into four parts and summarize each part.
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Part 1 (1-5)
Part 2 (6-13)
Part 3 (14-15)
Part4 (16-22)
Mama ensured we didn’t have to go to the Bank by making plans for using money wisely.
Everyone in the family would do something to help Nels go on to high school, so we didn’t have to draw money out of Mama’s Bank Account.
Whatever happened, we still had the Bank Account to depend upon.
There wasn’t a real bank account and Mama just wanted us to feel secure.
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Reading for information
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The genre is ________.
a story
Tip
Understanding a short story
A short story has some basic elements: setting, characters, plot and theme. To understand a short story well, the reader needs to analyse all these elements.
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In pairs, find information about each of the following elements of the short story and complete the table below.
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Setting
Characters
Plot
Theme
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Setting
Characters
Plot
Theme
The US in the early 1900s
Mama, Papa, Nels, Katrin, Christine, Dagmar
In Katrin’s childhood, her family worked hard and supported each other so that they never needed to get money from Mama’s Bank Account. When she was older, Katrin found out that the Bank Account did not exist. Mama made it up to make the children feel secure.
A mother has deep love for her children and does whatever she can to protect them.
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Retell the story.
Retelling the story
Every Saturday night ...
When Nels graduated from grammar school ...
That was twenty years ago…
Last year I sold my first story…
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Reading for analyses
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Discussion
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