文档介绍：College English Reading Course Book I Nov. 2002 Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press
Extensive Reading
(for students of 2006):
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Extensive Reading-- Units 3 & 4, Book 1
Unit 3 Text 7 The Fun They Had (15 minutes)
1. prehension of the text
1) What kind of school did Margie attend?
2) What are the reasons Margie admired her grandfather’s grandfather?
3) Do you prefer the present school or the future school described in the text?
4) Do you puters pletely take the place of teachers in the future?
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Extensive Reading-- Units 3 & 4, Book 1
2. Writing Style of the Text: Science Fiction
What is fiction?
Fiction is a story created from an author’s imagination. Fiction differs from biographies, histories, and other nonfiction, which are created entirely from facts.
Forms of fiction:
novels, short stories, dramas and narrative poems
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Extensive Reading-- Units 3 & 4, Book 1
Key Elements of Fiction:
Setting
Characters the literal meaning
Plots
Theme the deeper meaning
The Fun They Had
The author Issac Asimov describes children’s education in the next century which is quite different from what it is today. But is this type of education desirable in every way? That’s what he makes us think about.
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Extensive Reading-- Units 3 & 4, Book 1
3. Reading Skills
1) Using Word Part clues to guess word meanings: Recognizing more prefixes and suffixes.
See textbook (pages 48~49) and do the exercises (pages 49~50)
2) How to read a text
It is advisable to read a text at least twice: the first time, to obtain a general impression of the text, and then a second time to concentrate on the important details. Sometimes a third reading is necessary – to check items that caused difficulty.
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Extensive Reading-- Units 3 & 4, Book 1
3) Reading for major details
In Units 1 and 2, we discussed how to identify topics and main ideas.
But the main idea does not give you all the information you need. Facts and details appear within the paragraphs you read and help dev