文档介绍：Unit 12
She’s Leaving Home
Purposes
1. To get students know the greatness of parents.
2. To understand the purpose of writing and the writing skills of the text.
3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises.
Listen to a passage: Dating with My Mother
(大学英语听说教程3,P5-9)
Think over:
1. what do you think of the story?
you admire Peggy and her husband for what they have done?
You may include the following points in your discussion.
---the moral responsibility of children to their parents
---what parents in their old age need most
---importance to know about family history---part of children’s own history
would you describe your relationship with your parents?
4. Is there a generation gap between you and your parents ?How do you resolve your differences?
Some sentences and structures that you might find useful in discussing:
’ love for their child is selfless/forever strong/never changing.
is no love like a mother’s love for her child.
bond is stronger than that between parent and child.
parents always tell me that I’m special/always find time for me when I forting and encouragement.
think of my parents whenever I find that I’ve mead some progress in my studies/when I win an award.
my parents’ birthdays, I usually buy them some gifts with my pocket money/send them cards/visit them or call them no matter how busy I am/tell them how special they are to me/do something creative to try to express my love for them in a special way.
love my parents because they give me life/ have sacrificed a lot in bringing me up/ are always there for me whenever I need them.
respect my parents because they have taught me to be honest, generous, open-minded,…/because they are role models for me.
know I can always turn to my parents for help when I have problems , but I don’t want to make them worry about me/ but I don’t want to upset them unnecessarily.
parents make it a point to sp