Unit 2
Ⅰ. Teaching Aims
By the end of this unit, students are supposed to
Grasp the author’s purpose of writing and make clear the structure of the whole passage through an intensive reading of Text 1 The Virtues of Growing Older.
Comprehend the topic sentences in Text1thoroughly and be able to paraphrase them.
Get a list of new words and structures and use them freely in conversation and writing.
ⅡTeaching Important Points
Text comprehension
Structural analysis of the text
Rhetorical features of the text
Vocabulary exercises
Grammar exercises
ⅢTeaching Difficult Points
Translation exercises
Exercises for integrated skills
Oral activities
Writing practice
Listening exercises
ⅣTeaching Methods
Student-oriented communicative teaching, free discussion and interaction.
ⅤAllocation of Teaching Hours
Part 1 Pre-reading questions (10 minutes)
Part 2 Text comprehension (50minutes)
Part 3 Vocabulary/Integrated exercises/Writing practice/Listening exercises (90 minutes)
Part 4 Text Two / Memorable quotes (50 minutes)
ⅥTeaching Aids
Multimedia software
ⅦAssignment
Do the exercises after class and some extra reading materials
ⅧTeaching Contents and Procedures
Step I. Pre-reading questions for discussion
Discuss and answer the following questions.
1.What ,in your opinion,are the disadvantages of growing older?
2. What do you think are the virtues of being young?
3.Most people are afraid of death and therefore afraid of getting older,but are there any virtues of old age that you can observe and appreciate?
Step II. An Integrated Analysis of Text 1 The Virtues of Growing Older.
Structural analysis of the text
1. The passage can be divided into three parts.
Part One: (Paragraph 1-2 ) this is the introductory paragraph
It tells that our society worships youth and being young is often pleasant ,but being older has distinct advantages.
    Part Two: (Paragraph 3-5) It describes the virtues of growing older in details:We no longer feel anxious about what others will think ;We have already made many of critical decisions;The greatest benefit of being older is knowing who i am.                 
Part Three:（Paragraph 6）this is a conclusion paragraph 
The writer winds up her discussion with a reference to her parents’ contentments in the last paragraph.
Step III. Comprehension questions
Analysis of Paragraghs1-2
1)Why do people want to hide their gray hair and delay the effect of aging?
They worship youth and are afraid of growing older, so they try every means to look young.
2)What does the writer mean when she says “it is un-American to say so”?
She means these questions seem contrary to the values commonly held by most American people. And the American people would do anything possible to delay aging.
3)Does the writer deny the virtues of being young?
No, she does not. The writer admits the virtues of being young, but what she really wants to talk about is those advantages of growing older, which are discussed in the subsequent paragraphs. So the last sentence of the second paragraph is both thematic and transitional
Paragraph 3
Analysis
The writer, in this paragraph, offers the first advantage of growing older －not being obsessed with one’s appearance. It can be noticed that the technique of contrast is used to project the difference between adolescents and people in their forties:
    “When my brother Dave and I were teens…”
    “When Dave and I were young…”
    “Now, however, Dave and I are beyond such adolescent agonies.”
    “Now my clothes are attractive yet easy to wear.”
    “We no longer feel anxious…”
These contrasts are focused on two aspects: the shape of their bodies and clothes. With her own experience, the writer drives home her point that adolescents “feel anxious about what others will think”, while older people are happy “as long as we feel good about how we look”.
The following question could be asked:
1) What is the change in people’s attitude towards their appearance from the writer’s own experience?
Old people no longer feel anxious about what others will think. As long as they feel good ab
out what they look, they are happy.
Paragraph 4
Analysis
The second advantage is discussed in this paragraph － people in their forties are less uncertain than adolescents. The last sentence pinpoints the writer’react to sths view: what truly worries the young people is not the problem of age, but the unknowns in the future.

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