内容正文:
Unit 3 Family matters
Like Father, Like son
Starting out
Which family do you relate to most?
What kind of family matters are we faced with?
What do you usually argue with your parents? Why? How do you solve the disagreement?
school studies
the problem of campus love
choosing arts or science
joining an after-school club
getting a new hairstyle
shopping for new clothes and shoes
choosing your future area of study
Settings(背景)
Characters (人物)
plot (情节)
What’s the type of this passage?
Play
actions(动作)
ending(结尾)
dialogue(对话)
Learning to learn:
A play is a story performed (表演) on a stage. It has a plot (情节), settings (背景), characters (人物) and actions (动作), as well as dialogue (对话) between characters.
Fast reading
Read the passage quickly and fill in the form.
Friday night
The living room
Grandfather,Father,Son
Pay Attention:
non-dialogue text
to explain the time, place, characters, actions, emotions and so on
The living room.Friday night.A table and two chairs at front centre.Grandfather and father,seated at the table ,are plying chess.
Son enters room.
nervously approaching the table.
Raising his voice in surprise.
Ignoring Grandfather’s words.
Stepping between father and son and raising his voice.
laughing
turning to son
with a sigh
Careful Reading
Task 1 Read the play and choose the best choice
1.How did the father think of the job as a lawyer?
A.Respectable and well paid.
B.Famous but tiring.
C.Important but boring.
D.Demanding and challenging.
2.Which of the following is similar to “jump in with both feet?”
A.give up
B.begin something
C.focus one's attention on
D.a kind of sport
Careful Reading
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A.The son would give up music.
B.The son would become a lawyer.
C.The son may try to go to university and play
music at the same time.
D.The boy and the father agreed with each
other at last.
Careful Reading
Task 2 True(T) or False(F) .
1. The son was very nervous when he told his father his decision. ( )
2. The grandfather used to be a lawyer. ( )
3. The grandfather wanted the father to be an engineer when the father was young. ( )
4. The father became a professional football player at last. ( )
T
F
T
F
Post-reading
Fill in the blanks and have a summary.
The father and grandfather are playing chess 1.______ the boy comes in. The son 2.__________ (nervous) approaches the table and tells his father he has decided not 3. ______ (go) to university. He wants to focus 4. _____ his band and has a career in music when he leaves school. The father thinks 5. ________ (play) in a band is not a job and he wants 6. ______ (he) son to be a lawyer because he thinks people show respect for lawyers. 7. _________, the son is not interested in law. Hearing their conversation, the grandfather 8. ________ (suggest) the boy should think carefully before 9. ________ (jump) in with both feet. The grandfather says if the son goes to university and plays music at the same time, he 10. ________ (have) two options for his future.
when
nervously
to go
on
playing
his
However
suggests
jumping
will have
Fact 1:The father now works as a ______. So he wants his son to do so. However, his son decides to have a career in ______.
lawyer
music
Fact 2:When the father was young, he planned to be a professional _______ ______. His father wanted him to be an ________.
football
player
engineer
Think & Share
Why is the play titled “Like Father, Like Son”?
They have same characters, and
stick to their colours.(坚持自己的立场)
有其父必有其子
Think & Share
In the play, what factors are valued when “parents” and “children” make career choices/suggestions?
Parents Children
salary, social status, job stability, marriage, fatigue strength...
interest, salary, school location, campus conditions, local food...
The old and the young in the family usually hold different opinions about the same topic. Faced with such family matters, what should we do? (Critical Thinking批判性思维)
It is obvious that the generation gap is quite common and it is hard to show/distinguish who is right and who is wrong. The best way to deal with that problem is to communicate with each other face to face. Stating opinions freely with family members will result in the suitable solution.
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Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst!
Long sentence analysis
1. I remember when you were his age, you said that you wanted to be a professional football player.
2. You have found the career that suits your talents.
3. I'm sure playing in a band will help you make lots of new friends at university.
本句是复合句, when引导的时间状语从句, that引导的宾语从句。
when......player做remember的宾语,省略了that
that引导的定语从句。
宾语从句,sure之后省略了that
4. Grandfather and father, seated at the table, are playing chess.
seat是及物动词,比较正式,常以被动形式表示主动意义
sit通常作不及物动词用,比较口语化
The students are sitting at their desks.
The students are seated at their desks.
Key sentence structures
1. Playing in a band (be) not a job.
2. Making music _____ (be) a job.
3. Listening to loud music at rock concert (leave) a negative impact on some teenagers' hearing.
4. Reading English loudly in the morning (help) you memorize the words/text easily.
is
leaves
helps
V-ing (动名词) 作___语,谓语动词用 数
主
单
is
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