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starting a family. (Para. 5)

Meaning: People born before the 1960s or 1970s were likely to define the term adulthood according to certain accomplishments, such as moving away from home, having financial independence, and starting a family with a good husband or wife. 14. But that emphasis on stability did not remain static. Today, young people are unlikely to do the same. (Para. 5)

Meaning: However, stability didn’t stay the same forever since young people today are doing things differently from their parents.

15. During the odyssey years, a high proportion of young people are delaying marriage, childbearing, and even employment. (Para. 5)

Meaning: Many young people postpone getting married, having children and taking a job during their odyssey years.

16. The odyssey years can saddle young people with enormous pressure to move forward quickly. (Para. 6)

Meaning: The odyssey years can make young people feel much stressed to move ahead quickly.

17. As the sole heir and focus of their parents’ expectations, hopes and dreams,some react with rebellious and prideful attitudes and behavior toward their parents.(Para. 6) Meaning: Being the only heir and focus of their parents’ expectations, hopes and dreams, some young people behaved rebelliously and proudly toward their parents. 18. They often resent the pressure they’re feeling and keep a distance from their parents or even run away from home. (Para. 6)

Meaning: They often feel upset about the stress they have and stay away from their parents or even secretly leave home.

19. Their confusion comes from the difficulties to make parents understand them and the fluid journey of discovery they need in this phase of their lives. (Para. 6)

Meaning: They get confused because it’s hard to communicate with their parents and also because the journey of self-discovery they need in this particular life stage is full of uncertainty.

20. To get away from this confusion and upset, many young people resort to computer games, iPod, iPhone, or iPad to help distract them from their pain and stress. (Para. 6) Meaning: In order not to be bothered by this confusion and frustration and to forget about their pain and stress, many young people turn to computer games, iPods, iPhones or iPads. .Meaning: Their parents become more restless as well.

Meaning beyond words: As their grown children would not listen to their advice, parents are getting more worried about what direction their children may move to. 22. They may make allowances for a transition phase from student life to adult life, but they get upset when they see the transition of their grown children’s lives moving away from their expectations and stretching five years to seven years, and beyond. (Para. 7)

Meaning: Parents may accept their grown children to delay the transition period from life to adult life, but they are frustrated when they find their children moving away from what they expected and when they extend the period to too many years.

23. The parents don’t even detect a clear sense of direction in their children’s lives.

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They look at them and see the things that are being delayed. (Para. 7)

Meaning: The parents even lose track of their children’s lives, so they just look at them and see how the things that should be done are being postponed.

Meaning beyond words: Parents are very worried about their grown children’s future but don’t know what to do to help.

Step 4 Question discussing

1. What are the most important factors that encourage students to learn English?

2. Do you think English grammar helps you a lot in learning English? Why or why not?

3. In what ways can teacher improve the technique of teaching grammar? 4. How can students more effectively enlarge their vocabulary?

Step 5 Review & Exercises 1.Review

2.Oral presentation --- Reproduction 3.. Exercises 4. Exercises 3,4,5,6,7

(Ss give answers and raise questions they may have and T explains the difficulties) 5.Exercises 8,9--- writing and translation. 6. Assignments: 1) review Section A;

2) Exercises in Section B; 3) speed reading

Step 6 Listening practice Assignments:

1) Story retelling in Unit 3;

2) Pair work --- practice model dialog in unit 3 in the Listening and Speaking Book; 3) Preview the new words in unit 4;

―――――――――――――――自我评价问题――――――――――― ―― Questions for Self-evaluation: 1. Can I understand the text fully?

2. Have I memorized the new vocabulary and can I put them into use? 15. Do I understand better how to become a successful language learner?

Resources and Materials:

全新版大学英语长篇阅读2，上海外语教育出版社，李荫华 新视野大学英语读写教程（第三版），外语教学与研究出版社，郑树棠 大学英语语法，外语教学与研究出版社大学英语，袁懋梓 大学实用英语写作教程，北京理工大学出版社，汪宏 教参 References

新视野大学英语教师用书, 郑树棠, 外语教学与研究出版社，2015年 Motivating Students to Learn.Brophy Jere.East Normal University Press.2004

新视野大学英语第二册（第三版）教案

Classroom Decision-making.Breen Michael P.Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.2005

Unit 4 Dance with love

课型 :□ 理论课 √ 理论、实践课 课时分配:6

教学环境 :多媒体教室 教学目标 :

Teaching Aims:

After studying this unit, the students are expected to be able to:

1. understand the main idea and structure of Section A and Section B； 2. master the key language points and grammatical structures in the texts

3. talk about romance love and express their opinions about modern dating practice; 4. read with the skill how the story develops with the details; 5. write a narrative with a rough draft.

Key Issues 1. Vocabulary

expel cautious romance ambitious pessimistic honey-mood gaze weird tempt semester consequently deserve propose confess come over sb. 2. Skills

● Learn to read how the story develops with the details; ● Write a narrative with a rough draft.

Potential Problems and Difficulties: ●To talk about romance love

●To master the essay writing skill ●To apply the phrases and patterns

Methodology:

A combination of traditional teaching methods with the communicative approach will be adopted. Special attention should be paid to classroom interaction like questioning and answers. Small group works are always needed while discussing the questions and the difficult translation practice. More encouragement is needed and more guidance will be given in their extracurricular study.

Teaching Aids: Visual aids, projector, stereo and microphone

Group work and pair work Conduct of Tasks and Activities

（师生互动方式Mode of Interaction; 学习策略Learning Strategies） Students-centered, Task-based teaching and learning

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Teaching Procedures Step 1 Lead-in

I. Greeting and warming-up questions discussion. 1. What’s your opinion about the modern dating practice? 2. Do you have any experience in dating? 3. What’s your understanding of true love? II. Listening and discussing. 1. Listening practice.

2. Do you think it’s a good idea to date someone at college? Why or why not? III. Listening to a passage and fill in the missing words.

Step 2 Section A I. New words

expel, cautious, romance, ambitious, pessimistic, propose, gaze, weird, tempt, semester, consequently, deserve, confess, come over sb. II. Useful expressions and Practical Phrases 1. head for 朝??前进，向??去 2. love at first sight 一见钟情

3. with no component of fun 没有一丝新鲜感 4. whisper sweet words in the ear 在耳边甜言蜜语 5. sure enough 果然、果真

6. propose marriage 求婚

III. Functional Patterns and Functions & Usages 1. sth. (a feeling) comes over sb. When sb. does sth.

用于表达“某人在特定情境下突然受到某种情感的影响”。 2. True, ?, but sb. does sth. /the truth is?

用于通过让步的方式，表达“某人与某种普遍认同观点相异的情况”。 3. Despite sth., at one’s core, sb. is ? 用于表达“某人最本质的一面”。

IV. Structure Analysis:

Main idea of section A: this text is a narrative that tells romantic story about the author herself.

Part I (Para. 1) This part is the introduction which prepares for the topic of love. The narrator now has two daughters who are at the age of dating. They believe that their parents had a romantic story heading for marriage from the very beginning. However, It’s not completely true. She started dating Butch not for love but for fun because she wanted to get away from her boring college life.

Part II (Paras.2-10) This is the major part of the narrative. It is interspersed with flashbacks of the narrator’s dating experiences. The story records the long journey of love in a time sequence and describes in detail how she felt about Butch and how they

together went through ups and downs for seven years before they finally got married. Part III (Para. 11) This part echoes the beginning of the narration to reiterate that