Unit 1 Growing up Starting out & Understanding ideas 学案- 2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 1 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 【学习目标】 Learning Objectives 1 To get the conception and meaning of adult by watching the video and reading the poem 2 To get the main idea of the passage, find out what expectations Bethany, Lin Ning and Morgan has or had for turning 18 and what the reality is, then share your idea about being adult 【学习过程】 Learning activities 目标一: To get the conception and meaning of adult by watching the video and reading the poem Activity 1: Watch the video and answer the questions. 1 What is a coming-of-age ceremony? 2 How do people celebrate in the video? 3 Which celebration makes the greatest impression on you? Why? Answers: 1 A coming-of-age ceremony is an event that marks the time when a young person moves from childhood to adulthood. 2 In Ancient China, people held a traditional “capping ceremony” for a man at the age of 20 and a “hair-pinning ceremony” for a woman around her 15th birthday. On the South Pacific island of Pentecost, a ceremony of land diving takes place only for boys. In the US, a particularly modern celebration takes place for a girl or a boy at the age of 16. 3 I think the celebration on the South Pacific island of Pentecost makes the greatest impression on me, because the ceremony is so special for a boy of only ten. Activity 2: Listen and read the poem. Answer the questions. If- If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of