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Unit11 Letter to a B student
I. Lead-in (Group work）：
1. What do you usually do on weekend? (Shopping/ watchin he can do to remove the feeling of disappointment.)
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Main idea: The 1st paragraph serves as an introduction.
2).Part II: Paragraphs 2-5 constitute the first main part of the letter.
Language work:
1. off set→to counterbalance
2. You’ve grown up in a society where winning is not the most important thing ---- it’s the only thing.
→P154
3. “sins”…”salvation” →
According to the Bible, people are born with sins, if you want to get salvation / be rescued; you have to believe in God and obey it, and do many goods. But in modern society, being failure is a sin, and only success can rescue you. [Problems?]
4 Where does the author state his purpose of writing the letter? What is that purpose?
(Para 3, to put your disappointment in perspective)
→ put sth. in perspective→to judge the importance of something correctly. So what the author wants to do is to show the students how they should regard/view disappointment correctly.
5 Then how to put your disappoint in perspective?
→ By considering exactly what your grade means and doesn’t mean. Do people correctly consider this problem?
→ No. People’s understanding of grade is misled.
6 Pay attention to the phrase “taken at face value”, →which means to accepts something for what it appears t