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1、UNIT ONEText 1 This Year Its Going to Be DifferentObjectives1. In this unit, the students continue to learn the essential elements of narration, such as “time sequence, suspense, tone and style” etc.2. Help the students to appreciate the use of various rhetorical devices that create the comic effect
2、 in the story. 3. Let the students grasp the basic language points in this article.Teaching steps1. Pre-reading activities:Starting from the Interaction Activities on page 16, ask the students to talk about their new terms resolutions. Conclusion: Its often easier to make resolutions than to carry t
3、hem out. 2. The main idea (timed reading)Ask the students to go over the text once without worrying about the new words and phrases, the n discus the main idea of it. 3. Vocabulary4. A topic outline of Text 1I. Anxious to carry out his new years resolutionsII. Disappointed by the result in every eff
4、ortIII. The ironic end5. Explanation of language points and Analysis of the text6. Exercise in the workbookBackground knowledge1. Hippie member of a youth movement of the late 1960s that was characterized by nonviolent anarchy, concern for the environment, and rejection of Western materialism. Also
5、known as flower power, the hippie movement originated in San Francisco, California. The hippies formed a politically outspoken, antiwar, artistically prolific counterculture in North America and Europe. Their colorful psychedelic style was inspired by drugs such as the hallucinogen Lysergic Acid Die
6、thylamid (LSD). This style emerged in fashion, graphic art, and music by bands such as Love, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Pink Floyd.2. Popular Music, music produced for and sold to a broad audience. Types of popular music include jazz, music from motion pictures and musical comedies,
7、country-and-western music, soul music, and rock music. Shaped by social, economic, and technological forces, popular music is closely linked to the social identity of its performers and audiences. Early musical styles were also very influential in shaping popular music.The late 1960s was a period of
8、 corporate expansion and stylistic diversification in the American record industry. A new youth-oriented popular market was defined by a broad category of rock music that included the influential studio experiments of the Beatles, San Francisco psychedelia, guitar heroes such as Jimi Hendrix and Eri
9、c Clapton, Southern rock, hard rock, jazz rock, folk rock, and other styles. Soul music, the successor to rhythm and blues, covered a wide range of styles, including the gospel-based performances of Aretha Franklin, the deep funk and virtuosic stage techniques of James Brown, and the soulful croonin
10、g of Marvin Gaye. Country and western musicnow firmly centered in Nashville, Tennesseehad a new generation of stars who combined elements of old country-and-western music standards with rock and roll and mainstream popular song. Country singers Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Dolly Parton helped c
11、ontribute to the rising popularity of country-and-western music.In the 1970s the music industry further consolidated its power and once again sought to mass-produce music styles that had originally been highly individualistic. Corporate rock, the singer-songwriter genre, and slick varieties of soul
12、and country-and-western music featuring glamorous superstars playing to massive crowds in sports arenas defined a new mainstream. Although a number of distinctive stylesdisco, glam rock, punk rock, new wave, reggae, and funkwere pioneered by independent labels and marginalized musicians, the music o
13、f the 1970s is generally viewed as less individualized. The music industry became cautious due to a drop in sales of recorded music by almost $1 billion between 1978 and 1982 and a similarly precipitous decline in income from live concerts.A number of factors contributed to an economic revival in th
14、e music industry during the mid-1980s. The advent of the music videomarked by the debut in 1981 of Music Television (MTV), a 24-hour music video channeland the introduction of the digitally recorded compact disc (see Sound Recording and Reproduction) in 1983 stimulated demand for popular music. The
15、Album Thriller (1982) by Michael Jackson became the biggest-selling record in history up to that time, and it established a pattern by which record companies relied upon a few big hits to generate profits. The other big hits of the 1980s came from a new set of charismatic personalities, each of whom
16、 appealed to mass audiences by extending across traditional social boundaries. Popular musicians of this period include Bruce Springsteen, the working-class bar-band hero; the artist formerly known as Prince, whose 1984 single “When Doves Cry” was the first song in more than 20 years to top both the mainstream pop charts and the black music charts; and Madonna, the ambitious performer from a working-class background who remade herself as a pop icon.The long-standing struggle b
