现代大学英语1 lesson 1 half a day.ppt

The discussion lasts three hours without a result. No construction has been made since 2006. The nouns: They haven’t got the admission to enter the building. People all over the world worry about the Pollution. * * Lesson 1 Half a Day Lecture 1 Understanding the text 1. Recall your first day at school? Describe the pictures In “Forty years on”: Hundreds of comparisons were made between I and him. The first is made when I began school. I had lain on the floor and wailed that I wanted to go home. Shortly after that my mother reported that Little John had started school on the same day and taken to it like a duck to water…. II. Paraphrase: 1.Para. 4: It’s a place that makes useful men out of boys. 2. Para. 11 We were formed into an intricate pattern in the great courtyard surrounded by high buildings; from each floor we were over- looked by a long balcony roofed in wood Para. 13: It seems that my misgivings had had no Basis. Para. 16: In addition, the time for changing one’s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. Para. 17: High building had taken over, the street was full of children, and disturbing noises shook the air. III. The structure of the text Part 1: Para. 1-7 The boy was not willing to go to school Part 2: para. 8-16 The little boy found the life at school was rich and colorful in many ways. Part 3: para 17-end The boy walked out of the school to find the outside world had changed beyond measure and that he had become an old man. 3. What does the words mean in the text? 1. clutch ( para. 1) 2. Alongside (para. 1) 3. progress (para. 2) 4. basis (para. 13) 5. fool around (para. 15) 6. gone (para. 16) 7. come to a startled halt (para. 17) 8. show off Lecture 2 The language knowledge 4. The language knowledge of the text 1. “I walked alongside my father, clutching his right hand” __All the students are seated quietly, wait