文档介绍：新视野大学英语读写教程
Unit Five
Stop Spoiling Your Children
New Horizon College English
Contents
Pre-teaching Activities
While-teaching Activities
After-teaching Activities
Nowadays, most Chinese families are one-child ones. So many parents love their children. But, if they love their children with excessive possessions, then they are ______ their children.
spoiling
Please look at the title—Stop Spoiling Your Children. Who are the intended readers of this passage and why?
What do you think this passage should include and what writing techniques will be used in the passage to make it persuasive and convincing?
Structure Analysis & Writing Devices
Expressions &
Sentence Structures
Summary of the Passage
Read Para. 1 to see what it is about and how it is developed.
main idea:
mon phenomenon—children are showered with lots of material possessions, that is, children are spoiled.
writing device:
with the author’s own observations
Structure Analysis & Writing Devices
Read Para. 2 to see what it is about.
main idea:
Showering children with too many material possessions—mon in the USA, not only makes e to take their parents’ generosity for granted, but can be harmful to children.
Read Para. 3 to predict what the following paragraphs will talk about.
Reasons why parents spoil their children
Scan Para. 4-6 to find out what reasons for spoiling children are mentioned and what main writing technique is used in the part of Para. 3-6.
Reasons for parents to spoiling their children
wanting children to have everything
fearing their children may feel unloved
or be made fun of without such material
possessions.
fluctuation due to inability to stand up to
children’s unreasonable demands.
out of a sense of guilt
Main writing technique
General statement
I believe there are several reasons (for parents to spoiling their children). ()
Details
deduction
wanting children to have everything and
fearing their children may feel unloved
or be made fun of