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1、1 Unit 2 Preview Do you ever have difficulty talking to your parents? You re not alone. Young people and their parents usually fail in their attempts to communicate with each other. As a result, their two different worlds can move in separate directions or collide head-on. This is what is known as t
2、he “ generation gap” . What can be done about this problem? The best solution is for both sides to practice better listening skills. Hearing what has been said and actually listening are entirely different matters. Listening means making the effort to truly understand and connect with what someone e
3、lse is trying to say, and it is the key to effective communication. Q1.What is ,generation gap?Young people and their parents fail in communicating with each other, moving in separate directions or colliding head-on. Q2. How to solve this problem? Practicing better listening skills. 1.have difficult
4、y (in) doing sth.做某事有困难e.g. Did you have any difficulty doing your homework? 2.fail in sth. / fail in doing sth. 在某方面失败了；e.g. fail in an exam（考试没通过）I failed in persuading him. （我没能说服他）fail to do sth. 不能，没有e.g. I fail to see why you find it so amusing. （我弄不懂你们为什么多这件事感到如此好笑）He never fails to phone his
5、 mother on her birthday. （每逢母亲过生日， 他都会打电话给她）3.attempt v attempt to do sth. = try to do sth. e.g. He attempted to lie. (他企图说谎。) n. an act of trying to do sth. make an attempt to do sth. e.g. They made no attempt to escape.(他们没有企图逃跑) 4.as a result 结果，因此（单独使用）as a result of 由于（ +名词、代词）e.g. He worked ha
6、rd at his study. As a result, he passed the exam easily. As a result of his hard work, he passed the exam easily. 5.separate ：The adjective and noun are pronounced /sep?r?t/. The verb is pronounced /sep?re?t/. adj. not joined to sth. else 独立的，分开的e.g.They are now making plans to form their own separa
7、te party. （他 们如今正 计划组建自己的独立政党。 ）adj. different 不同的，不相关的e.g. For the past three years they have been leading totally separate lives. v divide into different parts 使分开、分离separate sth. from sth. e.g. They want to separate teaching from research.(他们想把教学和研究分开。) 2 6.collide v crash into one another collid
8、e with sth. or sb. 碰撞e.g. The car and the van collided head-on in thick fog. (那辆小轿车和货车在浓雾中迎面相撞) As he fell, his head collided with the table. ( 他跌倒时头部撞上了桌子) v disagree, different from each other collide with sb. over sth. 冲突e.g. They regularly collide over policy decisions. (他们经常在政策决策上发生冲突) 7.head-o
9、n 迎面相撞e.g. The cars crashed head-on. 8.generation gap a difference in attitude and behaviour between older people and younger people, which may cause them to argue or may prevent them from understanding each other fully. 9.entirely:adv completely 完全地，彻底地e.g. That? s an entirely different matter. ( 那
10、完全是另一码事。) entire: adj. the whole of sth. 整个，全部e.g. The entire family was staring at him, waiting for him to speak. （全家人都盯着他，等着他说话。）He had spent his entire life in China as a doctor. （他一生都在中国当医生。）10. make the effort to do sth. 努力做某事e.g. We should make our effort to study hard. Section A Pre-reading A
11、ctivities Listen to a passage about an exchange between a daughter and her parents. You are about toread an early morning exchange between a daughter and her parents. From the exchange, you will find that they think about the same things in very different ways, you will also find how they misunderst
12、anding each other. They seem to be blind to what is important in each other?s lives. This creates the so-called,gap? between the older and the younger generations, yet, from another point of view , the exchange also shows the parents? deep concern for their daughter who doesn?t seem to know it. 1.ex
13、change n give sth. to sb. and receive sth. in return e.g. I buy you lunch and you fix my computer. Is that a fair exchange? exchange of fire ( 交火 ) n a conversation or an argument e.g. There was only time for a brief exchange. ( 只有简短的交谈时间) 2.be about to do sth. 将要，即将e.g. You can imagine that moment:
14、 realizing that your life might be about to end and you arent ready. （你可以想象那一刻：意识到自己的人生可能行将结束，而你还没准备好迎接死亡。）3.be blind to sth. 对视而不见e.g. We must not be blind to the suffering of others.( 我们不能对他人的痛苦视而不见。) He seems to be blind to his own faults. ( 他似乎无视自己的错误。) 3 4.so-called 所谓的，所说的e.g. She was one of t
15、he so-called Gang of Four. （她是所谓的“四人帮”之一。）5.from another point of view 从另一个方面来看（说）e.g.Youll have a different answer when you see it from another point of view. （当你自另一方面来看它，你将会有一个全然不同的解答。）Text 1.concern : U a feeling of worry 担心；忧虑e.g. In the story the parents show their great concern for their daugh
16、ter. (故事里，父母对他们的女儿表现出极大的担心。) C sth. that makes sb. worried 关心的事；担心的事e.g. Your private life is not my concern. ( 你的私生活与我无关。) vt. make sb. feel worried 使担心；使忧虑e.g. The baby? s poor health concerned his parents.(这孩子健康不佳使他的父母担忧) vt. be about sth. 涉及，与 .有关系e.g. This article concerns the problem of generation gap. ( 这篇文章讲的是代沟问题。) The radio clicked on. Rock music blasted forth.收音机 “咔嗒” 一声， 摇滚乐就大声地响开了。2.click vi. make a short, sharp sound 发出咔嗒声e.g. Her shoes cli
