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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit 4
Everyday Use for Your Grandmamma
Teaching Aims
1. Improving Reading Skills---- skills of understanding ungrammatical, and slangy language
2. Enriching Vocabulary--- enlarging vocabulary
cultivating students’ sense of word building
understanding that synonyms have fine shades
3. Improving Writing skills --- 1. essful portrayal of characters
2. using many elliptical and short, simple sentences to achieve certain effect
3. using languages which suit the background of characters
4. using images of animals to describe people or things
Teaching Activities
Vocabulary
1 hour
Text Analysis
4 hours
Discussion
3 hours
Practice
2 hours
Teaching Process
I .Warming up
to Additional Background Knowledge
III. Text Analysis
Introduction to the Passage
Effective Writing Skills
Rhetorical Devices
Special Difficulties
IV. Questions
Assignment
Compare the three women.
Reference Books
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
A Handbook of Writing
English Rhetoric & Writing
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
《英语修辞大全》
6. A Guide to Advanced English
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Text Book
《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit 4
Everyday Use for Your Grandmamma
Warming-up Activities
Elicit some animals from students and discuss whether they have their own images in English
Ask students work in pairs or group, and talk about their families and their relationship
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Text Book
《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit 4
Everyday Use for Your Grandmamma
Additional Background Information
About the author
Poet, novelist and essayist, was born into a poor family in Eatontoon, ia. Her parents made a living by growing cotton. When she went to Sarah Lawrence College in the early 60’s, the civil rights movement was in full swing. She was actively involved in the movement and upon graduation worked in Mississippi, center of the civil rights activities. After experiencing the poli