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Unit 2 Starting College
I. Lesson objectives
In this unit, the students are expected to
Revise words and ideas treated in Comprehensive English
Practice faster reading skills
Read extracts from a book about life and schooling in the US
Learn more about how to learn effectively
---grade 9-12--- are more popularly called "high school".
2) Roman Catholic
A Roman Catholic is a person who is a member of the Roman Catholic
Church, which is the part of the Christian religion ruled by the Pope in
Rome.
3) As American as apple pie
Apple pie is a typical American food. " as American as apple pie"
means typically American.
4) He now earns almost $ 40,000 a year ---enough to afford a comfortable
home, but barely enough to keep a daughter in College, too: The money he
earns is enough to cover the daily expenditure of the family, but not
enough to pay for the daughter's college expense.
barely: by the smallest amout, almost not, hardly
5) Cindy has a brother, Jimmy, who is sixteen.
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6) He now earn almost $ 40,000 a year---enough to afford a comfortable
home, but barely enough to keep a daughter in college, too.
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Part 2 Cindy: the all-American girl (2)
I. Notes and sentence structures.
1) yellow school bus
American school buses are usually painted yellow.
2) She graduated in the second 20% (second quintile) os her class.
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3) get driver's education at school
Courses in American high schools are divided into required core
courses and elective courses. Students are guided by school counselor in
choosing elective subjects, bearing in mind the relevant credit
requirement.
4) Music accompanies her social event, and often is the event.
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event". ?????? "is".
5) American teachers can evaluate students' work with a letter grade, a
percentage , or a point value ranging from zero to four. The following
shows the various measurements correspond:
LETTER/ % / POINT EVALUATION
A / 91-100 / 4 Excellent
B / 81-90 / 3 Good
C / 71-80 / 2 Average
D / 61-70 / 1 Poor
F / 0-60 / 0 Failing
III. Key to exercises in Students' Book
Faster reading: Quick comprehension check
1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. T
6. F 7. F 8. T 9. F 10. T
Multiple choice questions
1. B 2. C 3. C 4. D 5. A
Discussion
1. What in Cindy's opinion are the most important problems facing
America today?
Cindy feels that inflation is the greatest domestic problem.
Pollution, overuse of nonrenewable resources such as oil, and the courts,
leniency towards criminals are also serious problems
2. In what was is Cindy similar to a young woman
starting College in China, and in ways is she different?
Similarities
--- goes to college directly out of high school
--- shows concern about politics
---loves watching TV
Differences:
---Cindy can get a federal Guaranteed Loan to help pay her university
expense. But in Chinas, universities largely rely on government funding.
For the part of that students should pay, the burden is usually on parent's
shoulders. Recently some forms of bank loans are being introduced and will
come into wider use in the near future. But there is no government
guarantee with the loans. Borrowers should be able to meet the guarantee
requirements themselves.
--- Chinese university girls will not watch TV several hours everyday
as many of them don't have a TV in the dorm and they usually too busy to do
that.
---Few Chinese University girls are religious.
--- Mathematics is a compulsory core subject in Chinese high school;
no student can drop it.
Part 2 Cindy: the all American girl (2)
Faster reading: Quick comprehension questions
1. T 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. F
6. T 7. F 8. T 9. T 10. F
Short answer questions
1. Why did Cindy go to so many school?
Because her parents were mobile and moved around from job to job.
2. What sometimes happened after she turned seventeen?
Her parents sometimes allowed her to drive to school.
3. When she graduated, was she average, above average or below
average?
She was above average because she was in the second 20% of her
class with a solid B average.
4. What are Cindy's three main interests in life?
Driving, music and social life
5. What did Cindy and her parents "fight" about?
They fight about the volume of music. They would like her to turn
th stereo down as they always found it too loud.
6. What sort of music is her favorite?
Rock and roll
7. What is one advantage she now has in college?
She can play her music as loud as she likes in the dorm.
Discussion
In group, discuss the following questions:
1. Do you think that young people in the U.s. seem to be allowed too
much freedom?
Positive answer:
Yes. Young people in the U.S. seem to be allowed too much freedom
because:
--- many American parents believe that schools tolerate too much
rudeness and incivility, such as the amount of swearing and other "uncivil"
behaviors; appropriate standards of behavior are neither modeled nor
monitored;
--- a certain number of young people have a wak sense of law, causing
social disorder with drug-taking, gun-keeping and an increasing number of
campus violence.
Negative answer:
---No. young people in the U.S. are only enjoying a kind of relative
freedom. Compared with the Chinese young people, they are allowed much more
freedom, but we can't say it is "too much" freedom:
---Their educational system allows them the freedom to think for
themselves and make their own decisions.
---They are encouraged to use their initiative to lr\earn to study and
work independently, and to develop imagination to be creative.
---They are taught to argue and challenge.
---But everybody has to behave within the limits. There are limits for
smoking, drinking and car driving. And there are all kinds of riles and
laws.
---Their school disciplines are not as strict as ours and the study
load of the students is not as heavy.
---Campus violence is quite shocking, but does not happen very often.
2. Many people think that there are too many cars on the roads,
causing pollution, and not enough public transport, like buses. What do you
think?
Positive answer:
Yes. I agree with the view because:
---Tail gas is an important contributor to air pollution. The
increasing number of cars in cities is making urban air pollution more and
more serious.
---the lack of a convenient public transport system is one of the
reason for people to buy cars.
---Public transport, like buses or underground railway, has a large
capacity in carrying more people.
---With a large population, especially in urban areas, the development
of public transport system will naturally slow down the increasing rate of
car ownership
negatives answer:
No. I don't agree with the view because:
---It is not fair to blame cars so much for urban pollution. The
development of cars is a natural step in the development of economy and our
car industry is of vital important to our national economic reform.
---Cars are fast, convenient and comfortable whereas buses are slow,
crowded, dirty and nowadays not very safe. Many people go to work in their
own cars not because there is not enough public ttransport but because they
are either too busy or too trich to take buses.
---As far as pollution is concerned, more and more new ways of solving
the problem of pollution should be
worked out instead of reducing the number of cars.
3. What is your favorite kind of music?
Classic, or pop, rock and roll, jazz, folk, opera. Unit 3 Language and culture
Lesson objectives
Revise words and ideas treated in Comprehensive English
Practice faster reading skills
Read article about words, and food in the US
Learn about "throw-away words", and practice word inference skills
practice scanning for information
II. Notes and sentence structures
Sinbad (???also Sinbad the Sailor)
The rich merchant of Bag bad in ancient Arabian folk tale collection
the Arabian nights, who, according to the tales, made 7 naval expeditions.
In fact, this character was based on the story of Ma Samba, who was renamed
Cheng Ho.
2) Situation Comedy (????)
A comedy drama, esp. a television series involving discreet episodes
about the same group of people, family members, ect.
3) A company that recruited you for a new job last year may, this, year,
"decruit" you---no prizes for guessing
what that means!
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5) It might be a change in technology...
It might be a change in the job-market
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6) More difficult to understand is the American car factory
tried to "sell" the idea of 5000 workers being laid off work by using
the expressi