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1、Unit1,Unit 1 Fresh Start,Watch the video clip and answer the following questions.,Why doesnt the mother want her daughter to be a professional athlete? 2. Why does Casey insist on becoming an ice-skater?,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 1,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Be
2、cause the shelf life of a professional athlete is short.,Because she loves it.,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 2,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Casey: Mom, I just want to compete at regionals. Mother: Why? What do you have to gain by this? Casey: Im good. Mother: So, wha
3、t are you saying? You wanna just blow off our whole plan for you, chuck the scholarship and become a professional athlete? Case, what was the shelf life on an ice-skater? Eight years? And then a few years touring with Has-Beens on Ice. And thats it? Thats the end of your life? Casey: I love it, Mom.
4、 Mother: Case, theres no shelf life on your mind. If Id learned how to use mine a little sooner, if Id gone to college when I was your age, maybe we wouldnt be living like this. Casey: Theres nothing wrong with the way we live.,Video Script1,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Video Script2,
5、Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Mother: Ive not been able to give you a quarter of the things that I wanted to. Casey: Youve given me everything. Mother: Then you need to give me something now.,“Face” is a sense of worth that comes from knowing ones status and reflects concern with the c
6、ongruency between ones performance or appearance and ones real worth. “Face” stands for a very important sociological concept in Chinese culture. The concept of “face” roughly translates as honour, good reputation or respect. The essence of “face” lies in the drive for acceptance and approval of oth
7、er people other than ones real worth.,1. The importance of “face”,Cultural information 1,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,2. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde Being yourself is celebrating you, as an individual learning to express yourself and be happy with who you
8、are. For some people, its learning to love yourself. For others, its not hiding who you are or changing things about you to fit in.,Cultural information 2,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,3. Steps to be yourself define yourself stop worrying about how people perceive you be honest and ope
9、n relax develop and express your individuality believe in who you are follow your own style,Cultural information 2,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,This text is a piece of narrative writing, in which the author tells about her experience during the first year at university, which at first
10、 seems to be very awkward but turns out to be on the right track at last.,Global Reading - Structural analysis,Rhetorical Features,Structural Analysis,This text is a piece of narrative writing, in which the author tells about her experience during the first year at university, which at first seems t
11、o be very awkward but turns out to be on the right track at last.,Global Reading - Structural analysis,Rhetorical Features,Structural Analysis,Paragraphs,A few incidents during my first days of college,The introductory paragraph Who? What? When? Where?,1,2-9,The concluding part Reflections on the in
12、cidents,10-14,Main idea,Structural analysis,the first is about her going into the wrong classroom;,the second is about her falling down in the cafeteria;,the last is about her witnessing the same embarrassing fall happening to someone admired by her.,In the text, three incidents are narrated by the
13、author:,Despite the differences between these three incidents, they actually revolve around one theme:,The growth of the author, who is able to draw lessons from the mistakes she has made and finally succeeds in adjusting herself to the college life.,Rhetorical Features,Structural Analysis,Rhetorica
14、l Features 1,Detailed descriptions of events are everywhere to be seen in this text, which is a dominant feature of narrative writing. Since the description of an event will involve a lot of movements or actions, compound sentences and compound-complex sentences have been used frequently in the text
15、.,I first began to wonder what I was doing on a college campus anyway when my parents drove off, leaving me standing pitifully in a parking lot, wanting nothing more than to find my way safely to my dorm room. (Paragraph 1),Rhetorical Features,Structural Analysis,e.g.,Rhetorical Features 2,I settled
16、 into my chair and tried to assume the scientific pose of a biology major, bending slightly forward, tensing my arms in preparation for furious note-taking, and cursing under my breath. (Paragraph 5),Rhetorical Features,Structural Analysis,e.g.,Detailed reading 1,Detailed Reading,Fresh Start Evelyn Herald 1 I first began to wonder what I was doing on a college campus anyway when my parents drove off, leaving me standing pitifully in a pa
