文档介绍：Unit 11
Letter to a B Student
Teaching Objectives
1. To get students have the right attitude towards grades.
2. To understand the purpose of writing and practice writing a public letter.
3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises.
I. About the text
1. Why does the professor write this letter?
Think Over
1. How do you think of college pressures?
2. How do you understand the university life? Shall we attach more importance to activities than to academic achievement?
II. Structural Analysis
1. Paragraph 1: Introduction
2. Paragraph 2-5
Key word(s): Disappointment
Main Idea: Grades do not mean everything.
3. Paragraph 6-8
Key word(s): The student as performer; the students as human being.
Main Idea: Getting a B in class does not mean not will always be a B performer in life.
4. Paragraph 9-10
Key word(s): Perspective
Main Idea: In plex society like ours, labels are necessary but they should be kept in perspective.
III. Some difficult words, phrases and sentences
1. To lose, to fail, to go under, to go broke—these are deadly sins in a world where prosperity in the present is seen as a sure sign of salvation in the future.
Explain:
Being essful in one’s life and career and financially disadvantaged is regarded as shameful or even sinful because in this world people tend to think that only those who are essful now can be saved from evil in the future.
III. Some difficult words, phrases and sentences
2. It is important to recognize that human beings, despite differences in class and educational labeling, are fundamentally hewn from the same material and knit together mon bonds of fear and joy, suffering and achievement. Warfare, sickness, disasters, public and private—these are the larger coordinates of life.
Explain:
It is important to see the fact that although they differ in their class status and educational background, human beings are essentially the same. First of all, they are, biologically speakin