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Unit4 Never too old to learn
Extended Reading
My university life
1. What is your target school?
2. What do you expect to learn from your university life?
Warm-up: Free talk
Professional knowledge;
Communication skills;
Develop critical thinking skills;
Self management;
Better job prospects;
Now let’s read a journal entry written by a university student.
2
Read for the Structure
graduation
University life
The first day
on campus
The first assignment
Group
projects
My favourite professor
3
My university life
Part 1 (Para. 1)
The _________ceremony
Part 2 (Paras. 2–5)
____________
(Para. 2) ________________________
(Para. 3) ________________________
(Para. 4) ________________________
(Para. 5) ______________________
Part 3 (Para. 6)
The preparation for the future
Can you rearrange the three parts according to the order of time?
Part 2
Part 1
Part 3
Part 1 (Para .1)
Part 2 (Paras. 2-5)
Part 3 (Para. 6)
flashback
What’s the writing technique?
Read for the Structure
Use flashback to vividly demonstrate her feelings about graduating from university as well as her review of the past four years. It helps readers better understand her thoughts and emotions during her university life.
Read for the structure
past
present
I stood with my certificate in hand and reflected on those four years.
I heard my parents’ voice calling me and I returned to the moment.
Transitional sentences
flashback
Read for the structure
Topic sentences in para2-5
parallelism
排比
I remembered arriving at university on my very first day.
I remembered working on my first assignment.
I remembered cooperating with my classmates on group projects.
I remembered visiting my favourite professor.
A parallelism (排比) is a figure of speech that uses similar structures in separate sentences to express related ideas.
In this way, the sentences are emphasized and forceful.
Read for details
Para1:
What was the author’s feeling at the graduation ceremony? Why?
happy and relieved :
launch her into a whole