综合英语3unit1
Unit 1
Teaching Objectives
In this unit students are required to
1. know the background knowledge of the text;
2. grasp some new words and expressions and discriminate groups of synonyms
3. paraphrase some of the sentences and analyze some of the difficult sentence structures;
4. appreciate the two texts in this unit and learn some writing techniques and practice it along
with composition writing;
5. learn to write a note of invitation;
6. do some oral work such as pre-reading questions, role play etc. to help develop the
students’ oral communicative abilities;
distinct和distinctive7. have a good command of other knowledge in line with the text.
Time Allotment
The unit will be finished in 7 credit hours (periods of class).
Text 1: 3 credit hours
Exercises: 3 credit hours
Text2: 1 credit hour
Detailed Teaching Points & Procedures
TextⅠFresh Start (3 credit hours)
Ⅰ. Background Information
About the text and the author
The text, written by Evelyn Herald (contemporary), appeared in Nutshell magazine in 1989. Nutshell Magazine
It's a monthly, web-based magazine with an email newsletter component. Interested people sign up for the newsletter and thus they get a digest of the current month's content mailed to them.
The newsletter contains short, interesting stories while the website contains greater detail for you to dive into.
Some sentences concerning the title
1. Let's start from very beginning again.我们再从头开始吧。
2. Let's go back to square one.我们重新开始吧。
3. Let's go back to the drawing board.我们重新开始吧。
4. Let's start from scratch again.我们重新开始吧。
5. Let's do it all over again.我们重新来过吧。
6. Let's make a fresh start.我们重新开始吧。
7. Let's start from zero again.我们再从零开始吧。
8. Let's get back to the starting point.我们回到起点吧。
9. I'm afraid we'll have to scrap the plan and redo it completely.我们恐怕得放弃这个计划然后全部重来。
10. Let's roll it back to the beginning.我们回到起点吧。
Ⅱ. Introductory Questions
1. Remember the first day you came to Yantai University? The first class? The first day you
had military training? The first day you started the class?
2.Anything made you feel embarrassed?
3.Are you afraid of making mistakes that cause embarrassment?
Ⅲ. Questions related to the text
Para. 1
1. Wh at does ―first-gradish‖ mean?
2. Why did the author have the impression that ―everyone on campus was watching me‖?
3. What was her plan?
4. How did Evelyn feel on her first arrival at the college campus?
Paras. 2-9
4. Why did the author exclaim ―what confidence, what reserve, what muscles!‖ when saw the football player?
5. Where did Evelyn choose to sit in her first class? Why?
6. Why did a cold sweat break out on the back of her neck?
7. Why did she remain in the wrong room?
8. How many questions are used in paragraphs 3-5? Why does the author raise these questions?
9. How did the students react when she slipped and fell down? And how did the author feel about it?
10. Why did she dine on junk food for the next three days?
11. What happened in the cafeteria when she went there on the fourth day?
Paras. 10-14
12. What was the key lesson Evelyn Herald learned during her first few weeks in college?
Ⅳ. Structural analysis of the text
Unlike an expository writing, which usually expresses the main idea in a thesis statement, in a narrative writing, the point is shown through dialogues, actions or events. The three incidents that are treated expansively in this essay are related to one another by their implicit messages — the mistakes the author made and her reaction toward the mistakes. It was in this process that the author achieved significant insight into herself.
In this autobiographical essay, Evelyn Herald recounts her embarrassing moments during her first days of college. With a chronologically balanced pattern of narration, the author focuses on three incidents– sitting in the wrong class, falling down in the cafeteria and witnessing the upper-class football player having the same experience. Coupling narration with description, she gives us a detailed account of the process, the after-effect and the significant insight into herself.
Part 1 (Para.1): introductory paragraph story
Part 2 (Paras. 2-9): the author recalls a few incidents during her first days of college.
Part 3 (Paras. 10-14): the concluding part
Ⅴ. Paragraph Analysis
In narrating ―bitter‖ incidents during her first days in college, the author tries various methods to produce humorous effects. The apparently awkward episodes selected here are, to readers an enjoyable pleasure, for they provoke their laughter or evoke their smile. One major source of humor in the story is the extensive use of words or phrases which are most likely to impress readers with pictures, vivid, tangible or even funny. Here are two instnaces.

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