外研版英语 选择性必须必修第二册
Unit 1 Growing up
Period 1 Staring out & Undertanding ideas
traditional coming-of-age ceremony
modern celebration of coming of age
Watch the vidoe
1
What?
2
How?
3
Why?
coming-of-age ceremony
Listen, read and answer
If-
If you can trust yourself...
If you can wait and not be tired by wiating...
don't deal in lies
don't give way to hating
... nor talk too wise
If you...and keep your virtue
...nor lose the common touch
If all men count with you, but none too much
If you can fill the unforgetting minute...
...you'll be a Man, my son!
self-belief
confidence
patience
kindness
modesty
integrity
pride
The first thing to do is to know yourself!
1. What is the poem about?
2. Which of these qualities are most important to you as growing up?
Talk about the peom
The qualits that a boy needs to be a man
self-belief confidence
patience kindness
modesty integrity pride
Reading
Introduction to the text-- The Age of Majority
Have a quiz
1. If you want to get the right to vote, what age should you be?
2. If you want to get a driver's licence, what age should you be?
3. If you want to get a full-time job, what age should you be?
A key milestone in life--The Age of Majority
1. Be completely in charge of your own life?
2. Be able to express yourself in new and exciting ways?
3. Be responsible for youself and others?
4. Enjoy more freedom?
Reading
The Age of Majority
Skimming the text
1. How old are the three young persons mentioned in the text?
2. When Bethany turns 18, what will she do?
3. What does Lin Niang do at present?
4. What does Morgan think of his present job?
Bethany is 16 years old, Lin Niang 19, and Morgan 20.
She will be taking a driving test.
He is a uniiversity student.
His salary is not high enough and he find it hard to save money.
The strucutre of the text
The meaning of The Age of Majority
Bethany's understanding of adulthood
Lin Ning's understanding of adulthood
Morgan's understanding of adulthood
Bethany 16, Victoria, Autralia
I think its' strange that I can take
yet I still can't vote--I don't think that's fair, given that
I should have a say on
I'm mature enough to
Para 1: ___________________
driving lessons
I'm old enough to earn a wage and pay taxed.
how the govenment spends them.
understand that driving a car also means taking responsibility for my life and the lives of other people.
Para 2: ___________________
Lin Ning 19, Shanghai, China
At 18, I can do things like getting a credit card. More importantly, I can act on my desire to help others, for example, by
But although a lot of doors have opened for me, there are still
signing an organ donation agreement.
rules to obey and lessons to attend.
Para 3: ___________________
Morgan 20, Florida, the USA
I thought that once I was 18 and in a full-time job I'd be able to
but my salary is not high enough. I also find it hard to save money because of and high commuting cost.
move into a rented apartment.
the household bills
Reading comprehension
Decide each of the following statements isTure (T)or False (F).
1. In all the countries, turning 18 marks the start of adulthood. ( )
2. The age of majorty only means new resposibilities as well as the freedom to express yourself. ( )
3. Bethany thinks that she is already mature enough to work like her mother as an ambulance driver. ( )
4. Lin Ning feels like he had stepped completely into a new adult world with a bit more responsibities. ( )
5. As a librarian, Morgan's working salary can meet all his needs. ( )
F
F
F
F
F
Reading comprehension
Decide the following sentences are facts (F) or opinion (O)
1. Surely, if you're old enogh to earn a wage and pay texes, you should be allowed to have a say on how the government spends them! ( )
2. I will be taking my driving test on the very day I turn 18. ( )
3. When I woke up the next day, there still rules to obey and lessons to attend. ( )
4. I guess that some responsibilities are more about attidute than age. ( )
O
F
F
O
1. The word underlined “majority” as in the phrase “the age of majority”means _____________.
A. reaching childhood B. the young people
C. more than half D. legally being an adult. ( )
2. Which of the following statements is another suitable title for the passage?
A. Eighteen- the Age of Indecision
B. Teenagers' Hopes for the Future
C. The Right to Vote-Your Views
D. Turning Eightteen-What Does It Mean? ( )
Reading comprehension
D
D
Post reading
Think and Share
1. What do you think of the minimun age limits in the pasage?
2. What right are you most looking forward to having as an adult?
3. What do you think it means to be a responsible adult?
Suggested answer: The minimum age limits are sensible. Adults have to take many responsilities. Being too young means that he or she no ability to face troubles and difficultes in life.
Suggested answer: The right to be educated and to work. Only by being educated will be a person have the ability to be indenpendent and only by working can a person support himself.
Suggested answer: I t means taking on more responsibilities in the family and society.
Language appreciation
1. Here, three young people tell us what turning 18 means, or meant, to them.
?[句式分析] what turning 18 means, or meant, to them 为what引导的宾语从句,what 在从句中充当mean的宾语;其中从句由动名词短语turning 18作其主语。
?[尝试翻译] 在此,三个年轻人告诉我们年满18岁对他们意味着或者曾经意味着什么。
Language appreciation
2. My mum worries about me being behind the wheel.
?[句式分析] “me being behind the wheel” 为动名词的复合结构,构成“宾格代词+动名词”形式。又如“How about me doing it for you?”;“behind the wheel” 意思为“在开车”
?[尝试翻译] 我妈妈常常担心我开车。
Language appreciation
3. When I woke up the next day, there were still rules to obey and lessons to attend.
?[句式分析] “rules to obey and lessons to attend”结构中“to obey 和to attend 两个不定式短语作名词的后置定语,分别修饰rules 和lessons”. 又如: 名词+to do作定语,常用主动ability, chance, decision, freedom, opportunity, plan, promise, responsibility, the first, way等。
?[尝试翻译] 当我第二天醒来的时候,仍然有规则要遵守,有课要上。
Language appreciation
4. Turning 18 also changed the way that society viewed me.
?[句式分析] “Turning 18” 动名词短语作句子的主语。 定语从句的先行词是way “方式、方法”,在从句中充当方式状语,引导从句的关系词可以使用“that/in which 或者省略”。
?[尝试翻译] 年满18岁也改变了社会对我的看法。
Language points
1. keep one's head
6. behind the wheel
2. make allowances for
7. take responsibility for
3. in charge of
8. approve of
4. ever since
9. no doubt
5. have a say
10. can't wait to do sth
Assignments for this period
1. Review the vocabulary and the language ponits of the text.
2. Listen to and read the text again.
3. Write a short passage about the sense of responsibility.